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  • Founder Sanjoy Sachdev leans against the blue-painted wall of the back room of their headquarters, a small house tucked away among a warren of backstreets in the heart of old Delhi, retelling Kripa's story.

    Honour killings: Saved from India's caste system by the Love Commandos Gethin Chamberlain 2010

  •   In the room behind them another album stepped into rotation and made itself heard, drumbeats ricocheting off the blue-painted apartment walls.

    Caitlin in the Y2K Museum 2010

  • After crossing the ending line, runners were surprised by blue-painted "runners" performing an act that suggested a "new start" by practicing and calling up people with the message that, after all, the ending line had been only the beginning.

    Samsung Red 2008

  • After crossing the ending line, runners were surprised by blue-painted "runners" performing an act that suggested a "new start" by practicing and calling up people with the message that, after all, the ending line had been only the beginning.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Red 2008

  • And then she breaks the champagne bottle on the hull of a new oil tanker ( "the SS Trig"), jumps on a red, white and blue-painted Quad Runner and does a few donuts in the sand, spraying tarballs and gooey sand on a nearby team of scientists trying to save a nest of endangered sea turtle eggs.

    Robbie Gennet: Is the Mainstream the Middle? 2010

  • In the boys 'classrooms, against a backdrop of blue-painted walls and cold blue lighting, teachers (both male and female) speak loudly and authoritatively to hold the attention of their students.

    The New Segregation Battle: Boys Vs. Girls 2010

  • And then she breaks the champagne bottle on the hull of a new oil tanker ( "the SS Trig"), jumps on a red, white and blue-painted Quad Runner and does a few donuts in the sand, spraying tarballs and gooey sand on a nearby team of scientists trying to save a nest of endangered sea turtle eggs.

    Robbie Gennet: Is the Mainstream the Middle? 2010

  • A pull-out pantry cupboard adjacent to the fridge is cleverly hidden by the same blue-painted X-pattern paneling used for the cabinets.

    Whitmore Farm's kitchen mixes rustic and modern 2010

  • A common complaint is that cars simply don't respect the blue-painted lanes (which are controversial in some quarters for other reasons) and that the highways are a half-measure that could even cause more harm than they do good.

    Cycles at dawn 2010

  • A pull-out pantry cupboard adjacent to the fridge is cleverly hidden by the same blue-painted X-pattern paneling used for the cabinets.

    Whitmore Farm's kitchen mixes rustic and modern Domenica Marchetti 2010

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