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Delhi riots: How cops lost the plot at the outset

It appears that erroneous judgements, inadequate deployment and absence of swift decisions on the part of police led to northeast Delhi spinning out of control and 42 people being killed in a span of 36 hours. TOI spoke to several police officers whose accounts seemed to suggest this was what happened when riots broke out last Sunday. from Times of India https://ift.tt/2viUuCv
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Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Novel Doesn’t Include Ben’s Force Ghost Either

The new novelization of  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker   sheds some light on many important subjects about the last entry in the saga, but there’s still no Ben Solo Force Ghost at the end. When  Star Wars  films receive the novelization treatment, they usually give us a lot of insight into intricate plot details that the theatrical cut didn’t manage to include. Unfortunately for Episode IX , though, not even a series of books could hope to cover all the unexplained narrative threads and plot holes . Three months after its release,  The Rise of Skywalker  is currently one of the most divisive movies in the saga and the fact that it’s failed to live up to box office expectations doesn’t help matters, either . Most of the critics bashed Abrams’ concluding act of the Sequel Trilogy for its shallow resolutions and fan-service moments that go against what Rian Johnson set up in The Last Jedi , though some genuinely think that the film was rushed and incompl...
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Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Novel Confirms Palpatine Was A Clone

Though the upcoming novelization of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker isn’t officially on sale for a couple more weeks, advanced copies of Rae Carson’s book were sold at this weekend’s C2E2 in Chicago. And already, passages from the novel are beginning to emerge online, including an excerpt recently shared by ScreenRant that confirms a popular fan theory about Emperor Palpatine. Despite being the most hyped-up development of the Sequel Trilogy finale, Palpatine’s comeback gets only the briefest and vaguest of justifications in the film itself. Fans have therefore had to rely on the movie’s spinoff material to learn more about how the villain survived his fate in Return of the Jedi , and in the space of two paragraphs, the novelization offers perhaps the most developed explanation yet: “All the vials were empty of liquid save one, which was nearly depleted. Kylo peered closer. He’d seen this apparatus before, too, when he’d studied the Clone Wars as a boy. The liquid flowing into th...
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