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The DecibelEverybody’s a food critic. Is anybody good at it?At all but a handful of publications, restaurant critics are a relic of bygone days. In their place, the food influencer has risen up in popularity. Seen mostly on platforms like Instagram and Tik Tok, influencers take their audience along for the ride at all sorts of restaurants, from high-end to casual dining… but unlike old school critics, they don’t necessarily adhere to standards like paying for their meal or remaining anonymous, which helped critics paint a full – and sometimes critical – picture of an establishment. Dakshana Bascaramurty is the Globe’s food culture reporter. She’s on the show t...2024-10-0924 min
Canadian DisastersAfricvilleIn the 1960's, the City of Halifax decided to remove an area that they had determined to be a "slum." By 1970, the vibrant thriving community of Africville would be gone, and many of its citizens would not recover.
Sources:
Jennifer Nelson: Razing Africville
Dakshana Bascaramurty: On Africville, the razing and the racism (link: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-africville-canada-news-coverage/)
Albert Rose: Report of a Visit to Halifax with Particular Respect to Africville
Shelagh Mackenzie: Remember Africville
2024-02-2928 min
The Tideline, with Tara ThorneEpisode 4: Dakshana BascaramurtGlobe and Mail reporter Dakshana Bascaramurty is Tara’s guest this week, discussing how she came to document a Halifax man’s cancer diagnosis, treatment, and need to create a legacy for his young son in This Is Not the End of Me. Bascaramurty’s first book describes, in intimate detail, Layton Reid’s diagnosis, treatment, and the steps he and his family took to extend his life. Plus: It’s holiday market time already.2020-11-2942 min
SickboyThis Is Not the End of Me: Lessons on Living from a Dying ManThis week is a heartfelt blast from the past. We spend our time chatting with Dakshana Bascaramurty, journalist and author of This Is Not the End of Me: Lessons on Living from a Dying Man - a book all about the life and death of our dear friend and OG Sickboy alum Layton Reid. The gang reminisces on his final years as he prepared his family & himself for his death from cancer. This is a special one.2020-10-191h 02
Writers Festival Radio04 Living With Dying Part 1 with Dakshana Bascaramurty and Anita LaheyWe seem to avoid thinking about mortality, or talking about loss, but it is an unavoidable fact that we all face the loss of a loved one, and will each confront that truth in different ways. If grief is unavoidable, what is the best way to make peace with it?
Part One of Living With Dying features Dakshana Bascaramurty in conversation with CBC’s Idill Mussa, and Anita Lahey in conversation with Ellen Chang-Richardson.
This is Not the End of Me by Dakshana Bascaramurty is the moving, inspiring story of a young husband and father who, when diagnosed with terminal ca...2020-09-111h 00
Embrace Your Day With A Breakthrough Full Audiobook.This Is Not the End of Me: Lessons on Living from a Dying Man by Dakshana BascaramurtyPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393922to listen full audiobooks.
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Author: Dakshana Bascaramurty
Narrator: Farah Merani, A. K. Wilson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Release date: August 18, 2020
Genres: Memoirs
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Title: This Is Not the End of Me: Lessons on Living from a Dying Man
Author: Dakshana Bascaramurty
Narrator: A. K. Wilson, Farah Merani
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8:03:00
Language: English
Release date: 08-18-20
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, History & Culture, Death & Bereavement
Summary:
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The Globe and Mail’s Globe 100: Our Favourite Books of 2020
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For readers of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air and Will...2020-08-188h 03
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Title: This Is Not the End of Me: Lessons on Living from a Dying Man
Author: Dakshana Bascaramurty
Narrator: Farah Merani, A. K. Wilson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Release date: August 18, 2020
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF 2020 CBC – The Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2020 The Globe and Mail’s Globe 100: Our Favourite Books of 2020 Chatelaine’s 10 Best Books of 2020 The Walrus’s Favourite Books of 2020 For readers of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air and Will Schwalbe, the moving, inspiring story of a young husband and fath...2020-08-188h 03
Do You Still Like This Movie? Hosted by WordburglarDo You Still Like This Movie? Ep. 3 - THE BABYSITTERS CLUB w/ DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTYThis month SJ and special guest Dakshana Bascaramurty (Globe & Mail) find out if Daks still likes the 1995 Scholastic classic The Babysitters Club! For more podcast action check out our cousin podcast "Weekend At Burgie's" on all pod-platforms. 2019-02-131h 20