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Rhythm in His Soul
The Times of India 22 Mar 2025
Puritans too fall for it.Standing at five feet, the energy he puts in while leading melams is incredible and the vibrancy he creates is infectious. The eedu (weight) that goes into his nerkole (straight beat) can be thunderous ... Dedication is paramount.
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Once in limelight for meeting PM Modi over Muslim issues, Hamid Engineer now held for Nagpur violence
Financial Express 22 Mar 2025
Mohammad Hamid Engineer, founder of the Minorities Democratic Party (MDP), has had a career marked by dramatic twists and turns ... Wahhabism is a conservative and puritanical interpretation of Sunni Islam that originated in the 18th century ... .
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110 years ago a US president refused to go to war. Is Trump following his lead?
The Daily Telegraph 21 Mar 2025
“About 13,000,000 American citizens are speaking a foreign language and look on the old inhabitants of this country much as the Puritans regarded the Indians with at best a superior sort of pity.
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Trump’s talk about American exceptionalism is dangerous
Chicago Sun-Times 21 Mar 2025
President Donald Trump loves to tell us how great America is ... One reason for the persistence of that conviction is the endless repetition of Puritan John Winthrop’s 17th century sermon from which JFK — and later Ronald Reagan — drew this image ... ... ....
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Want to learn about women of the Revolutionary War? Take a tour on the Freedom Trail
Cape Cod Times 20 Mar 2025
What spots are featured on the Freedom Trail tours? ... They include the site of the Great Elm on Boston Common, "where women paid the ultimate price for refusing to conform to puritanical values," according to a release from the Freedom Foundation.
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Letter to the editor: Niemoller’s lessons apply today more than ever
Addison County Independent 20 Mar 2025
In 1934 he discovered that his phone was being tapped ... those who voted “left,” those who voted “right;” those on the left tired of what Rebecca Solnit has called the ‘perpetual puritanical unwelcoming committee’” of many progressives (i.e ... ....
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The grave of Aurangzeb: What it tells us about the man, his life
Financial Express 20 Mar 2025
Khuldabad was earlier known as Ruaza as it housed the shrines of many Sufi saints.\u201d The many stories the grave tells Aurangzeb is known as a religious bigot, whom historian William Dalrymple called \u201ca depressingly puritanical figure\u201d.
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Fatuous Moral Humility
Quillette 20 Mar 2025
... and foes to be fought” does not make him some kind of conservative throwback; it makes him a zealous puritan, profoundly ill-suited to the political arena, to say nothing of the geopolitical jungle.
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Theater review: 'Shucked' an escapist, corny romp at Proctors
Times Union 19 Mar 2025
It’s a mythical rural stretch not previously owned by Native Americans and settled by surprisingly diverse Puritans (like most of the show, it’s best not to think too hard about the facts) ... Again, don’t think too hard. It will be spoon fed ... .
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French male film stars tell #MeToo inquiry about 'clumsy' remarks
Knoxville Daily Sun 19 Mar 2025
Dujardin welcomed the #MeToo movement to denounce sexual violence, which has led to a series of scandals in the French industry but which was initially resisted as a puritan American import by some senior figures, including actress Catherine Deneuve.
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‘We put all of life into the mincer’: These New Puritans on their kaleidoscopic new album
The Guardian 18 Mar 2025
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Saudi sets up unit to combat 'immoral' begging and sex work
The New Arab 18 Mar 2025
The news comes amid a loosening of once-puritanical social norms and laws, which saw music and gender mixing banned, and women forbidden from travelling without a male guardian ... ....
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The oldest park in Massachusetts was the first in the country. How to visit this spring
The Herald News 18 Mar 2025
Winter offers its own advantages ... According to the website for The Freedom Trail, Boston Common was established in 1634 when Puritan colonists purchased the land from the first European settler of the area, Anglican minister William Blackstone.
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