How a Bengaluru bookseller weathered the ecommerce storm and opened his second used books store

Edit The Times of India 09 Oct 2016
Stratospheric rents, competition from the online ecommerce giants and the passing on of that knowledgeable, idiosyncratic owner are the usual suspects for the downing of shutters ... The timing is interesting ... the credo of customer obsession ... THE BOOKSELLER. Mayi Gowda. Age ... Area ... Unlike the old store, the new one will stock school and college textbooks, merchandise, stationery and gifting options, though puritans might shudder at the thought....

Trump's Words Are Not 'Explicit Sex Talk'

Edit The Atlantic 08 Oct 2016
The Republican presidential nominee has been caught on tape referring to grabbing women, positing that “you can do anything” when you’re “a star.” ... The thing about the Republican’s words isn't that they’re explicit or graphic. It's that they're misogynistic, coercive, abusive, and dehumanizing. And as my colleague David Graham notes, illegal ... Trump’s comments are something else ... Show that decency need not be puritanical ... ....

‘Salem’ Teases More Death, Sex, And Magic [Video]

Edit Inquisitr 07 Oct 2016
The previous season of Salem left off with a finale that might have left fans wondering if a third season was even possible, but as the show picks up with season 3, it seems there’s no shortage of material to keep the tale of witches versus puritans as enthralling as any love spell cast by Mary Sibley (Janet Mongomery)....

HC slams West Bengal for curbs on immersion

Edit The Hindu 07 Oct 2016
Deadline extended ...Immersion on Bijoya Dashami is such a ritual for puritan Hindus that the same cannot be postponed to a day beyond Bijoya Dashami or preponed at the whims and caprices of the State government.” The judgment also noted that even in the past such situations emerged when “Muharram was observed on the day following Bijoya Dashami but no restriction of the nature impugned herein was imposed.” ... ....

White Mountain Chronicles: The Academy and Daniel Webster

Edit Conway Daily Sun 07 Oct 2016
Editor's note ... The Ear was bought by Salmon Press in 2005, and the last edition was published in 2014 ... It appeared in the Nov ... Fryeburg was still a remote village steeped in the Puritan traditions of the time, and for an ambitious young man with worldly intentions, Webster's time there probably seemed to him just a brief pause in his pursuit of the law in order to help his younger brother Ezekiel attend Dartmouth ... He went on to write ... ....

A peek into past glory

Edit The Hindu 06 Oct 2016
The Parampara fest, in its 20th edition, offered a dramatic legacy in the. form of Bhagavadajjukeeyam, a dance drama choreographed by Guru Raja Reddy, revisiting it after a hiatus of more than two decades ... So it was with this crisp dance drama ... The story in a nutshell ... Hyd Brothers in concert ... Established as puritanic vocalists whose pitch and rhythm are not prone to swerve, Hyderabad Brothers’ recital leaves nothing wanting ... D.S.R....

Six Decades In, Warren Beatty Is Still Seducing Hollywood

Edit Vanity Fair 06 Oct 2016
Warren Rules ... Beatty plays Howard Hughes in a supporting role. “There’s this misapprehension that it’s a biopic,” Beatty explains, “which it’s not, although Howard is an important character in it ... One doesn’t immediately associate Beatty with puritanical guilt and repression, but that is the world he grew up in, in conservative Virginia in the 1940s and 50s, and the one he has rebelled against his entire life ... John F ... . ... Tabloids ... “Mr ... “No....

Condom bill 'criminalizing pornography': Porn star Tasha Reign

Edit Toronto Sun 05 Oct 2016
“This will allow random civilians to have personal access to my home address if they want to sue because of their puritanical agenda,” Reign said, adding that the bill would drive the adult industry out of California ...   ....

‘Salem’ Season 3 Behind-the-Scenes Teaser Promises Horror, Romance (Video)

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 05 Oct 2016
[...] the devil is a liar, and instead of a New World free from murderous Puritan hypocrisy, his own plan will bring nothing but death and slavery with the ultimate aim of leading humanity to ......

We are witnessing nothing less than a Tory reformation

Edit The Guardian 05 Oct 2016
All this Tory delirium – it’s like stumbling into a Ukip meeting . Ian Birrell. Read more ... It doesn’t matter that May backed the losing side in the referendum ... Theresa May ... Zoe Williams. Read more ... They play the role of what the historian J E Neale dubbed “the puritan choir” in Elizabeth’s parliament, urging an extirpation of every last residue of papish corruption from the body politic ... As one former minister says of the puritan choristers....

Salem Season 3 New York Comic Con Sneak Peek

Edit Coming Soon 05 Oct 2016
Salem Season 3 New York Comic Con sneak peek ... Check out the Salem Season 3 clip below!. Season three of Salem will debut Halloween Week, Wednesday, November 2 at 9pm ET/PT ... But the devil is a liar, and instead of a New World free from murderous Puritan hypocrisy, his own plan will bring nothing but death and slavery with the ultimate aim of leading humanity to destroy itself ... The only problem is—she’s dead. Or is she? ... Salem. Salem ... ....

The message of Brexit was mixed. Now we are told it was simply a referendum on immigration

Edit The Guardian 05 Oct 2016
In an asymmetrical neckline, Theresa May declares her asymmetrical vision. Asymmetrical because there is no balance between so many of her pronouncements; indeed, some are quite contradictory ... Nor is it the economy, stupid. it’s about identity ... ‘Change has got to come’ ... This means hatred of difference, spreading fear, inflexible uniformity, the assertion of one kind of citizenship over another, a puritanical stifling of joy ... ....

Theresa May has the party’s adoration for now. That won’t last

Edit The Guardian 05 Oct 2016
Theresa May’s task as prime minister is simple. The good ship Brexit has left harbour. Storms of unknown ferocity lie ahead. Hatches must be battened and crew encouraged. The Tory faithful, pro-Brexit but suspicious of endless backsliding by their leaders, need reassuring. Nothing else of substance matters, only reassurance ... Jonathan Freedland, Polly Toynbee, Anne McElvoy, Joseph Harker, Giles Fraser ... We are told of her supposed puritanism....
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