This year, Jawan and The Kerala Story both won National Awards. The irony was impossible to miss. One critiqued the system, the other endorsed its narratives. The dichotomy says more about India’s cultural schizophrenia than any film review ever could.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
Love this paragraph:
“Yet, to pretend the war was fought to build democracy is a self-serving fiction. The Soviet Union dismantled German death camps but ran its own system of Gulags that claimed millions of lives. The US was an Apartheid nation, and Britain’s Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was an unrepentant defender of imperialism. These truths, though, are not allowed to intrude on the invention of Normandy as a war for freedom.”
Love this paragraph:
“Yet, to pretend the war was fought to build democracy is a self-serving fiction. The Soviet Union dismantled German death camps but ran its own system of Gulags that claimed millions of lives. The US was an Apartheid nation, and Britain’s Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was an unrepentant defender of imperialism. These truths, though, are not allowed to intrude on the invention of Normandy as a war for freedom.”