Topic: Bombay
Taxi Driver — one of India’s first ‘cabbie films’, which sealed Dev Anand’s romantic hero image
On Dev Anand's 98th birth anniversary, ThePrint revisits a film close to his heart — a complete Anand family production, whose heroine he married.
Mumbai court remands Raj Kundra to 14-day judicial custody in pornographic films case
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The police had told the court that Kundra set up Armsprime Media, which bought 'Hotshots' app to upload objectionable videos on social media and also planned to sell 119 adult films.
Stop ‘prabhat pheris’, the British told Gandhi. It’s a vulgar nuisance, threatens civic order
In 'Singing Gandhi's India', Lakshmi Subramanian writes about why Gandhi insisted on supporting musical processions despite the controversy over them in 1930s.
On Camera
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Chinese economy is feeling the heat. Blame Xi’s political Lysenkoism, vaccination policy
Smarting from the failures of his Great Leap Forward campaign, which hit the economy hard, Mao launched the 1962 war with India to rally the nation behind him.
As inflation breaks records, Modi govt plans to counter criticism ahead of anniversary & polls
While retail inflation hit an 8-year high of 7.8% in April, wholesale inflation surged to a 9-year high of 15.08% on the back of elevated food and energy prices in the same month.
Defence
China building ‘bigger, broader’ 2nd bridge at Pangong Tso that can carry armoured columns
China's People's Liberation Army aims for multiple routes to counter any possible operations by the Indian forces on the southern banks of the Pangong Tso in the future.
How Congress is like the Ambassador & why Indian politics needs a brand new set of wheels
Like the car, nothing the party has done to reinvent itself has worked. Only way forward is to offer something looking towards the future, not in image of glorious past.