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The Long Song Is a Brilliant Tale of Slavery’s End in Jamaica, Frustratingly Told Time 1/29/2021 © Heyday Television/Carlos Rodriguez Tamara Lawrance in 'The Long Song' On Christmas Day, 1831, the Baptist deacon Samuel Sharpe organized a strike on the Jamaica sugar plantation where he was enslaved. When the strikers’ demands for pay went unmet, their work stoppage escalated into a full-on uprising that spread across the island’s sugar plantations for 11 days and involved tens of thousands of enslaved people, in what is widely believed to be the largest slave rebellion in the histor...

Actor Seth Rogen turns author, first book to hit the shelves in May SECTIONS Last Updated: Jan 29, 2021, 05:20 PM IST Share Getty Images Related Rogen, 38, shared the news on Twitter on Wednesday night. "I wrote a book called 'Yearbook'. It's true stories and essays and stuff that I hope you think are funny. It comes out in May, but if you like you can order it now. Yay!" the multi-hyphenate personality wrote as he shared the link to the book. I wrote a book called Yearbook. It’s true stories and essays and stuff that I hope you think are funny. It comes ou… https://t.co/YJWK1g77He— S...

(The Conversation) — Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, the Bharatiya Janata Party government has put forward several anti-Muslim policies. The latest is a clampdown on what it sees as “love jihad,” the belief that Muslims are seeking to deceive Hindu women through marriage and convert them to Islam. More recently, one of India’s most populous states has assumed the right to intervene in matters of marriage – particularly between a Hindu woman and a Muslim man. Other states are planning to follow suit. A new law on marriage As a political scientist, I see the rapid g...

Mira Nair, director of A Suitable Boy, shares why Lata ends up with that suitor and how Indian culture views love differently than American culture.

Acorn TV's A Suitable Boy director Mira Nair explains why the series has so many language when the novel by Vikram Seth is entirely in English.