Hyderabad’s studios, from Ramoji Film City to Annapurna and Ramanaidu, are pulling big projects from Chennai to Mumbai. They want Hyderabad to be crowned as the country’s filmmaking capital.
Zubair’s heroic effort on the frontlines of Pakistan’s disinformation war is being showered with praise. This is new for a journalist who is perennially in the Right wing’s line of fire.
Many heroic Hindu rulers have had a rebirth of sorts. Folk tales are being dusted off and they’re now celebrated as cultural icons in Rajasthan, UP, MP, Maharashtra, Delhi, and Haryana.
Despite prohibition, Gujarat sees a steady rise in alcohol-fuelled crashes. Luxury SUVs are mowing down families while survivors are pushed into perpetual nightmares.
The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences is situated right next to the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology where an alleged suicide of a student from Nepal and the mishandling of the resulting protest led to a diplomatic row.
SUPVA is Haryana’s quietly radical experiment in cinema. Tucked away in Rohtak, it’s the only university in Asia offering full-time bachelor's degrees in core filmmaking disciplines.
Using icons and speech, AI-enabled voice apps like Hello Ujjivan and Bhashini are building a new bridge to banking for India’s 18 crore low-literate citizens.
Khushbu Pandey built a following with viral Hindutva videos and fiery speeches. Out after 48 days in jail over a rioting case, she’s planning a comeback and mentoring other “shernis”.
The PCB’s closure notices to waste-burning units in Khori Khurd village have failed to stop the practice. A PIL now seeks to find out what’s being burned in these open-air incinerators.
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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