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What People Say About 3QD "I look at your site every day. It's where the two cultures meet." — Suketu Mehta, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Maximum City, winner of the O. Henry Prize, and frequent contributor to various newspapers and magazines. "It is a great honor to be mentioned in one of my two ONLY portals to the internet—and the world, since I do not read newspapers. My discipline, to avoid drowning in information, is not to cruise the web outside of these two points. I tried many sites; yours has CHARM." — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Sw...

The St Kitts Nevis Observer Guardian (UK) They will be remembered as India’s lost months: the stretch between September and February when Covid-19 cases in the country defied global trends, falling sharply throughout the coldest months of the year until they reached four-figure daily totals. It was inexplicable. Was it the Indian climate? A protection conferred by childhood immunisations? Some speculated India may have naturally reached herd immunity. It was a tantalising idea that took hold in India’s highest circles of policymaking, media and science – even a government-commissioned...

‘Terrible days ahead’: Afghan women fear the return of the Taliban After 20 years of liberty, female education is once again threatened by hardline Islamists By Akhtar Mohammad Makoii in Herat and Michael Safi Outside a college from which their mothers were banned, the women waited for friends finishing exams they fear will be some of the last they can take. “The Americans are leaving,” said Basireh Heydari, a Herat University student. “We have terrible days ahead with the Taliban. I’m worried they won’t let me leave the house, let alone what I’m doing now.” The Biden admini...

‘Warm, kind, wise and brilliant’: Guardian writers remember Kakoli Bhattacharya Our Delhi correspondents pay tribute to the Indian journalist and Guardian news assistant, who has died of Covid Kakoli Bhattacharya, who has died aged 51, had worked as an assistant, translator and fixer for the Guardian since 2009. Kakoli Bhattacharya, who has died aged 51, had worked as an assistant, translator and fixer for the Guardian since 2009. Guardianstaff Tue 27 Apr 2021 11.04 EDT Last modified on Tue 27 Apr 2021 12.02 EDT Every Guardian south Asia correspondent over the past decade can rememb...

Indian journalist Kakoli Bhattacharya. Photograph: //No Credit Guardianstaff Mon 26 Apr 2021 11.46 EDT Last modified on Mon 26 Apr 2021 11.48 EDT Kakoli Bhattacharya, an Indian journalist who was a researcher, translator, news assistant and friend to Guardian correspondents for more than a decade, has died from Covid-19 in Delhi. She died on 23 April after being admitted to hospital earlier in the week during a catastrophic second wave of the virus in India that has claimed tens of thousands of lives since it took off in March. Bhattacharya, 51, worked with every Guardian correspondent in sou...