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Adrija Bose

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Journalist | Alum @news18dotcom @HuffPostIndia @firstpost | Some awards | Pitch to: adrija @boomlive .in Follow @decodeinternet

Joined August 2010
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Adrija Bose
3 months
I spent the last month engaging with Telegram channels that are selling child sex abuse videos. I found out how Instagram accounts use sexualised images of children leading them to Telegram where one can buy such content for 40 bucks. There's more.
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These are students. They are protesting against Muslim women wearing Hijab to college by screaming ‘Jai Shri Raam’. Shot by @BombayBombil Reminder: This is the young population of India.
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Someone in the next building has tested positive, so a bunch of neighbours have GATHERED to scream and yell from downstairs, asking the family to take the patient elsewhere. Now everyone is screaming at each other. There's one cop, standing and watching. This is peak Delhi.
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Have you ever asked a Sikh man who wears a turban whether they wear it out of choice? You assume they do. Because they are men. But you will assume all Muslim women wear the Hijab because they are forced to. Do you see the hypocrisy?
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2 months
Why are you seeing so many rape cases on your feed? Because, SEO. Rape cases have not gone up suddenly, it remains as worse as it used to be. The media has just decided that it will report and publish more stories because the audience is suddenly interested. This is sad.
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3 years
So someone on a dating app unmatched me after I fact-checked him for saying smoking keeps Covid away. He was a doctor from AIIMS. I have seen everything.
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Delhi peeps, protect yourself from Coronavirus. Wear masks, wash hands— do whatever it takes. But please, please don’t forget 49 people were killed in the city, not by a virus, but people. Don’t move on.
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My friend’s 70-year-old mother is being asked to visit @airtelindia showroom to give her biometrics for a number she has been using since 2005. She can’t use her number till she physically goes to Airtel. I want to understand what is the purpose of this? Any other co doing this?
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2 months
Yesterday a woman who works with UrbanCompany was admiring my tattoo while she was at my home. I asked her if she has a tattoo and she said she finally got it. First her parents wouldn’t let her, and then it was her husband. She got talking about her abusive husband.
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2 years
“Then they came for me…”
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#Delhi | "My name is Ganesh Kumar Gupta, I have been living in this DDA apartment since 1977. I have all the papers for it. But they are demolishing it. I didn't receive any orders on demolition." Shot by @Runjay6
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3 years
But where is 1.?
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Urge @australian to publish the rejoinder to set the record straight on the covid management in India and also refrain from publishing such baseless articles in future. @cgisydney @CGIPerth @cgimelbourne @MEAIndia
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My 60-year-old mother has just received her driving license. I am v excited daughter today.
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While granting bail to Zubair, the court called Bajrang Muni a “respected religious leader”. This is what the religious leader had said: “…I will pick your daughters from your homes and rape them” Here’s what the other “religious leaders” had said.
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A Twitter user threatened Virat Kohli’s daughter. Immediately people called it a Pakistani account. @boomlive_in dug out tweets & found out the acc is by a Telugu-speaking Indian right-wing user, who used to go by the handle @ramanheist
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There's a lot happening in this country and the capital city, but please don't stop asking what happened to the 9-year-old girl who had gone to drink cold water and never came back home.
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A lot of journalists I sort of look up to are tweeting on Kashmir without quite knowing anything about it, by their own admission. So here's a thread of books/articles on the history of #Article370 and what it meant for Kashmir. Read, maybe?
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5 years
This is how #ShaheenBagh greeted @BhimArmyChief this evening.
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1 year
So yesterday I found out News18 has deleted all the immersive stories- this included some award-winning work. My story from Meghalaya that won the RedInk Award, story from Varanasi that won the Laadli Award, the Hindutva Pop story that I did in 2018- It's all gone.
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Huge protest at ITO, Dehi. Activists, lawyers outside Kalkaji PS as news spread about the detained students of Jamia. Habeas Corpus drafted sitting on the footpath. Lawyers reaching NFC police station where more students detained. This is democracy. This is also India
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Calcutta makes the best clouds. Prove me wrong.
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5 years
Ouch. @iamsrk giving us major burns at #SRKwithLettermanOnNetfilx
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5 years
The walk from Jaffrabad to Maujpur wasn’t one bit easy. We were heckled and abused. Men with sticks are roaming around. Shops have been burnt. A mention of ‘media’ is enough to get you attacked. Despite all this, journalists are there. And they are doing their job.
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She told me she is saving up for her lawyers to fight the custody battle. This is not a one off story. I have witnessed and heard stories of abuse on women’s bodies since I can remember.
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She told me her husband would beat her, lock her up and threaten her with rape every time he got angry. After 8 years of abuse, she finally left him. But her son lives with her husband and he doesn’t let het meet him.
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3 years
Your 30s are for watching (and finding out) people who hit on you 2 days ago are already married.
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Your 20s are for watching people who hit on you 2 months ago get married on Instagram
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2 years
Monu Manesar, accused of killing two Muslim men, popular for his violent videos on social media has a Twitter blue subscription. And if Elon Musk is to be believed, that would mean a lot more reach than other accounts.
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4 years
Protests at India Gate, seeking justice for the Dalit girl who was gang raped by four upper caste men in Hathras.
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3 years
Hi. My friend's husband is undergoing ECMO for his lung infection due to Covid. He is at the National Heart Institute, Delhi. He is critical. If your blood group is A+ and if you are willing to donate, can you please DM me with your contact? #DelhiSOS
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2 months
Women everywhere, around you, your mother, sister, friend, aunt, the woman who helps you live in a clean house, the woman who cooks for you, that elderly neighbour - everybody has a story. Only some fight back.
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3 years
A 22-year-old Muslim man died in police custody in Kasganj in #UttarPradesh . His parents claim they were forced to sign on 'blank paper' and given Rs 5 lakh. They want justice. Cops deny, call it 'open and shut case'. @saurabhsherry reports
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2 months
My heart breaks for the young Kolkata doctor. Perhaps she couldn’t even put up a fight. But the graphic details in the papers don’t make it more brutal than it already is. Monsters are everywhere. I don’t even know how women trust and love when it’s so hard to even exist.
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2 months
The more gruesome ones make it to the news. There are candle light marches for only a few. But the one thing that remains common in all these stories is the violence that women face at work, in their home, on the way to the market, when they are out watching a movie or resting.
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A few days ago a graphic video of two Kuki men was made viral by a militant group. @chowarchis and I went to Manipur to find out about the influence of Arambai Tenggol and then we discovered their online activity. Our ground report
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Hello, here to remind that I am always looking for pitches on all things internet. Gender, culture, scams, heartwarming stories, human rights - everything that has a sharp internet angle. I am at adrija @boomlive .in Our rates start at 10k and goes up acc to the story.
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3 years
The Indian government has demolished at least 43,600 homes and forcibly evicted about 2.5 lakh people between March 2020 and July 2021, according to a report by Housing and Land Rights Network. People were forced to leave homes while we were asked to stay home.
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India's fastest woman, Dutee Chand, is not racing against the world anymore. "This is how God has made me, I can't be returned," she told me. My interview with Dutee Chand, on falling in love with a woman
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3 years
How do men go from ‘I have had a crush on you for 3 years but could never speak to you’ to ‘look at my d*** pic’ after one polite Hi? Why are men?
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3 years
These are the findings from being interviewed by top editors over many years. (Inspired by a viral thread) 1. All of them are top editors of big media houses, none of them have any original ideas.
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5 years
It seems the father has discovered TikTok and is now sending me videos on how to protect myself, not from #Coronavirus , but creepy boys. 🤷🏽‍♀️
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2 years
"All of us are bound by one thing - our love for Shah Rukh Khan". From Bihar to Maldives, thousands of SRK fans took over boycott Pathaan trends & turned them into love notes for their hero. Do read @BombayBombil story for @DecodeInternet
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1 year
I do not know how media organisations can just simply delete your work, but this is wrong on so many levels. This is my work, it's in the public domain - those articles have been quoted elsewhere. And now the links will take you to 'relationship advice'. I am furious.
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I know there are many ways to look at the rising unemployment in India but I have been closely tracking the rising online scams, and I can tell you that it reveals the job crisis very clearly. Compiling our #jobscams reportage on @DecodeInternet . #Thread
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5 years
“My wife Rukmini is taking care of everything. She took the entire responsibility of the wedding preparations while I was busy at work.” But of course man gets to be newspaper headline because he didn’t do any wedding prep for his daughter?
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Karnataka chief secretary takes only a day’s leave for daughter’s wedding
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Uber driver: You have the perfect name for these times. Me: How? Him: No one can tell whether you are Hindu, Christian or Muslim. Me: Ok. What’s your name? Him: Yashpal Ambedkar. Me: Ambedkar? Him: Yes, because I stand for equality. Well. There’s hope.
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Remember BJP's 'Dulha Kaun' ad campaign? It was made by Varahe Analytics. @BombayBombil found out that the company runs multiple troll pages and uses young influencers to make reels. Spreading hate and misinfo is their job. Must read story
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3 years
Remember that video where a photographer jumped around a dead man - who was shot in police firing in Assam? And remember the defense of the CM? A fact-finding team found out the lies. Also, residents are not 'illegal'- they have documents to prove.
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1 year
This shouldn't be happening to any journalist. But lesson learned: Archive your stories, kids.
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3 years
Make waking up early cool.
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The only person who invites me for Eid celebrations every year is this lady who used to cook for me when I had moved to Delhi. It’s been 4 years since she stopped cooking for me. Today, she called me to say she’s making choley this year and that I must come. My heart is full.
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4 years
Sex with someone you don't live with is illegal in UK from today. Thankfully India won't have any rules on sex because who is going to write that word in the MHA guideline?!
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3 years
I got a call from someone informing me I am among the 10 lucky ones who have won a holiday package (yaay) that I can go on with my husband (umm?). I asked if I can take someone else other than my husband. He hung up on me.
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4 years
I am exhausted. Every second person (not journalists) have opinions on how media should run. ‘It shouldn’t be a business’ is the text I just got. Bhai, if you want to make a difference, CHOOSE what news you are reading and PAY FOR NEWS!
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Adrija Bose
2 years
Two Muslim men were arrested for mocking the 'shivling' allegedly found in Gyanvapi mosque. Meanwhile, Trads are filling social media with fake videos and memes that call for demolition of mosques. @alishan_jafri reports for @boomlive_in
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5 years
Rains for two minutes Delhi: Floods Instagram with photos. Calls Mumbai friends to say their city is the best. Posts more photos of trees and cloudy, polluted skies. Quotes Faiz to caption those photos.
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5 years
While these peeps carried on their anti-CAA protest by writing ‘Secular India’ on the pavements of Connaught Place, someone came and erased ‘India’. “Let then erase, we will keep writing,” one of the protestors said. #CAA_NRC_Protests
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Delhi had the most colourful day. But the one slogan that was on everyone’s lips: ‘Trans bill, haye haye’ #DelhiPride
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3 years
Misinformation has moved from WhatsApp to dating apps BTW.
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5 years
So honoured to have won the #RedInk Award in the Environment-Print category for my piece on Meghalaya coal miners. Thank you, @mumbaipressclub Here’s the link to the story:
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15-year-old Manashi was married off because her father wanted to reduce the number of mouths to feed. Pinky's father stole the gas cylinder to buy alcohol. They won't go back to school. I report on what the pandemic means for India's girl children.
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3 years
@cmclymer I wish to boycott all women’s clothing that doesn’t come with pockets. It’s 2021. We need and deserve pockets. I mean forgets wallets (which apparently women don’t need) but WHERE DO WE KEEP OUR SANITISER?
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Irfan Pathan fangirl 4 lyf.
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Even I was part of #IndvsPak battles on the field where we have lost but never been told to go to Pakistan! I’m talking about 🇮🇳 of few years back. THIS CRAP NEEDS TO STOP. #Shami
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When the violence in Manipur began, it didn't take much time for fake news to begin. Three months on, Manipur is divided by misinformation and polarisation. The truth is hazy. I went to Manipur and this is what I found. #Thread
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3 years
I used to call my father once a week and my mother once a day (most days). I now call them five times in a day. They have been vaccinated but the anxiety just doesn’t lessen.
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4 years
At Harvard Law School, the dean asked the 9 female students to justify taking a seat that could have been filled by a man. One of those students were Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Years later, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I can’t stop thinking about this and what a fiery woman she was.
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99% of those who were raised as Hindu were still found to be Hindu. 97 per cent of those raised as Muslims were still Muslims — Pew's survey finds religious conversion in India is rare.
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5 years
#CoupleGoals : Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo winning the damn Nobel together.
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We need/needed a feminist approach in the vaccination process. Why? Women have been systematically kept away from Education, jobs etc. Now, the system is keeping them away from the Covid19 vaccination. Why do I say so? A #Thread
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Her parents cremated her today. Cremated a part of her body that wasn't burnt. Her limbs. Think about that. And once you do, think about that again.
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5 years
For the last five nights, the residents of Shaheen Bagh have been gathering at night to protest against #CAA . The cops have asked them not to protest anymore, so they have gathered in larger numbers.
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It started with a Twitter poll- much before we heard of #SulliDeals . "Make Asifa out of them, chop off their heads to decorate walls," a reply read. They were abused, their photos morphed. @SaniaAhmad1111 and @Ssaniya_ shared their stories with me.
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Some personal news (as they say): I have joined @boomlive_in as Senior Editor (communities). Thrilled to work with @govindethiraj @jencyjac @hrvenkatesh and the fantastic team! Send me hearts/memes/tips. P.S. Don’t add me to your family WhatsApp groups to bust fake news.
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1 year
"Don't leave a single love jihadi alive in Maharashtra..." An FIR was filed against T Raja Singh, a suspended BJP MLA from Telangana for this speech. But the speech is available everywhere on the Internet. He was spearheading the Maharashtra rallies by Hindutva groups.
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5 years
Fake whatsapp forwards will kill more people than Coronavirus can.
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36 Iranians die of alcohol poisoning following "rumours that drinking alcohol would prevent the coronavirus infection"
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No, this is not a prank. This is not something that just happens with 'advent of social media' etc. This is not for you to tell women that they should stop posting their photos. This is a crime targeted against Muslim women. SAY THAT ALOUD.
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4 years
Has someone found a Durga idol whose eyebrows are not done? Shouldn’t that have been a theme this year?
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3 years
Everyone should eat fish. That’s my takeaway from the election results.
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My timeline is full of photos from the #NotInMyName protests--across Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata. I have chosen the right kind of friends.
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Protestors at Shaheen Bagh have been asked to vacate by tomorrow morning. This is what their roads look like now. #CAA_NRC_Protest
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4 years
It has happened. Someone from Bumble has messaged me on LinkedIn. What is not dating app anymore?
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The police is now saying 34 students have been detained. #JamiaProtest
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USA, UK, Germany, France among others—in Jan and Feb gave immediate notice (to their nationals) to leave. Indian embassy said "You MAY leave" - a student stranded in Ukraine said. But of course blame the kid’s parents. The kid who is now dead
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And they've started blaming Naveen and his family. #RIPNaveen
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Can’t decide which ‘cow’ to hug on 14 February.
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@chhuti_is Where did the swimmers disappear? They drowned?
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".. Then I clicked on it again, then a friend of mine comes up," @girlpilot_ told @boomlive_in . She then found her photo. "And then it dawned on me - we are the sulli of the day. It sent shock waves down my spine".
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The random WhatsApp calls that we have been getting? The fake OLX ads? It's happening from Mewat. I spoke to some of the scammers to understand how and why they scam.
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Who can legit ask for biometrics? Private companies too?
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5 years
There are hundreds of people who are living in makeshift camps now, their homes burnt and destroyed. There are children who have been sick for days. They don’t have masks, or hand sanitizers.
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