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Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook believes “India is at a tipping point for the tech giant with a lot of people coming into the middle class”. Apple sees great business potential in the country, he said during the company’s post-earnings call on Friday.India was a key talking point during the call as several analysts asked questions about Apple’s business, strategy, and monetisation trends in India, with some drawing parallels with a similar outlook seen in China a decade ago.“Looking at the business in India, we did…

It has been almost a decade since Rolf de Heer’s last film, but the Dutch-Australian director has returned to the big screen with a renewed sense of urgency. The Survival of Kindness, a dystopian journey through hinterlands and cityscapes disfigured by a catastrophic event (probably plague) shows that the 71-year-old film-maker’s narrative powers are undiminished: the film won the top jury prize at this year’s Berlin international film festival.Set against the beautiful backdrops of Australian desert and mountain…

An outstanding performance from Aline Küppenheim is the driving force in this engrossing suspense drama-thriller about an elegant and prosperous woman being drawn into Chile’s anti-Pinochet resistance in 1976. It is a terrific feature debut from performer turned director Manuela Martelli, who herself acted opposite Küppenheim in the film Machuca, which was set in Chile in 1973, the time of the Allende overthrow. But this film has more bite.Küppenheim plays Carmen, the stylish wife of a Santiago hospital doctor, currently…

Church Wedding in the Eastern Cape, 1920. Credit: Monica and Godfrey Wilson Collection BC880/African Studies Library/University of Cape Town A new book, "Convening Black Intimacy," explores the history of Christianity, gender and precolonial marriage and sex traditions in South Africa in the late 1800s and early 1900s. To conduct…

As inflation spiked, Americans in the middle class were particularly hard hit.For them, prices increased faster than their income, according to a September report by the Congressional Budget Office. Households in the lowest and highest income groups saw their income grow faster than prices over the same time period, the report found.Even though middle-class wage growth is high by historical standards, it isn’t keeping up with the increased cost of living, which in December was up 6.5% from the prior year — making it…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeKate Winslet has revealed why she felt it was “really important” for I Am Ruth to be set in “a middle-class world”.Winslet stars as concerned mother Ruth, in Channel 4’s newest instalment of director Dominic Savage’s I Am anthology series, whose daughter Freya slowly retreats into herself as the pressures of social media begin to weigh on her.Freya’s played by Winslet’s real-life…

Dhaka Bangladesh. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Very few people have been completely unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the developing world, where a burgeoning middle-class was hauling itself out of the poverty trap of its ancestors, we might expect the detrimental effects of the pandemic to have been felt more harshly than for the well-off in the developed world.…

These are the top cryptocurrencies that Indian investors can buy and hold this year The current phase of digital assets is popularly denoted as the great crypto market meltdown, and this phenomenon is not just restricted to a particular geographical area. As global economies continue to suffer at the hands of inflation, the market value of the broader crypto market is also going downhill. Besides facing financial losses and risks due to the declining values of cryptocurrencies, Indian crypto investors are also hit hard…

A picture provide by the Pompeii Archeological site press office, showing the latest discoveries in the ancient city of Pompeii which is enriching knowledge about the everyday lives of middle-class households. The director of the archaeological site, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, said on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, that excavations of rooms in a home first unearthed in 2018, revealed the environment of ordinary citizens of the city, which was flourishing before…