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Young Rapper Karab Surya Challenges Caste Inequality in Debut Track ‘Kelra’

Karab Surya, Bengaluru-based Tamil rapper | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Think teenage angst. Think anger commingled with an urge to lash out at caste. Think primal drum beats heralding a lyricist’s spit on a dry-boned mic. Seventeen-year-old Karab Surya’s Tamil rap track, ‘Kelra,’ meaning both ‘listen up’ and ‘question them’, does just that: it questions…

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Young Rapper Karab Surya Challenges Caste Inequality in Debut Track ‘Kelra’

Karab Surya, Bengaluru-based Tamil rapper | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Think teenage angst. Think anger commingled with an urge to lash out at caste. Think primal drum beats heralding a lyricist’s spit on a dry-boned mic. Seventeen-year-old Karab Surya’s Tamil rap track, ‘Kelra,’ meaning both ‘listen up’ and ‘question them’, does just that: it questions…

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Typhoon Fung-wong leaves Philippines with 10 dead, 1.4 million displaced | Climate Crisis News

The super typhoon has left devastation in the Philippines just days after another typhoon killed 232 people. Typhoon Fung-wong has moved away from the northwestern Philippines after carving out a trail of devastation, leaving at least 10 people dead and 1.4 million displaced. Known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Uwan, the intense tropical storm was forecast…

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A quip that stings but also inspires

Many have now formed their opinions about the 2025 Nobel Economics Prize and how its focus signals to the world, the criticality of the economics of innovation and growth. However, what was also curious was the quip by the 2025 Laureate Joel Mokyr (one of the three winners) that ‘economic historians don’t win the prize’….

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