Diwali celebrations in Kollukudipatti are marked only by oil lamps and sweets distributed by district officials—a gesture to honour the villagers’ silent guardianship of the birds.
Mrinal Pande was the keynote speaker for the Festival of Arts at Delhi's India International Centre. Her address, titled ‘Depth Sounding Our Unseen Histories’, unravelled the history of inequality.
‘We have used technology which allows us to isolate his voice from the music. We have not used generative AI,' says composer Shamir Tandon, creator of the show ‘Ek Aur Baar Kishore Kumar’.
Tere Jaisa Yaar Kahan—a Kishore Kumar classic—not just echoed the friendship between the characters in the movie, but also how the duo stood by each other in real life.
The three legends of Bollywood echoed the same sentiment — fame and stardom lie in humility, and all artists should be grateful for the audience’s loyalty.
PR and communications professional Dilip Cherian said Diwali ads are often kept short because the screen time is costly, making brands wary of going all out.
Liberty without accountability is the freedom of the fool. Our concept of freedom will remain impoverished until it is deepened by liberal education, wrote Nani A Palkhivala in 1995.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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