The film, Selfie, Please, received Honourable Jury Mention at the Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2025 and won the Best Screenplay at the Bangalore Short Film Festival 2025.
The film follows Anand, an educated, city-raised gay man, returns to his ancestral home to mourn his father’s death. There, he meets a local farmer who has kept his queerness hidden.
The graduation ceremony for Jadunath Sarkar fellows took place at Delhi’s IIC. It was attended by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and economist Dr. Shamika Ravi.
The discussion on Patricia Mukhim’s book, From Isolation to Integration, brought together authors, journalists, and public intellectuals, including ThePrint Editor-in Chief Shekhar Gupta and former Union Home Secretary GK Pillai.
The last 30 seconds of the trailer, showing a glimpse of Shah Rukh Khan, have taken the internet by storm. ‘The real Badshah,’ a fan wrote in the comments.
Author Sumitra Mehrol emphasised the need for translators to belong to the same social or cultural space and to deeply understand the subject they are translating.
Director Suraj Prakash manages to hoodwink his audience till the very end, with a new red herring at every turn. Sharmila Tagore and Shashi Kapoor hold the film together.
At the roundtable hosted by The Book Review Literary Trust, professor Rukmini Bhaya Nair said while the space given to book reviews has shrunk, the need for them hasn’t.
Imposition of formal rights and digital compliance mechanisms introduces new expectations for both employers and workers. This transition will require sustained awareness efforts.
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.
Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.
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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