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Topic: Chamkila

Imtiaz Ali’s ‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ bags International Emmy nomination, Diljit nominated for Best Actor

ANI -
Film receives nomination in Best TV Movie/Mini-Series category. Other Best Actor nominees include David Mitchell, Oriol Pla & Diego Vasquez.

Surinder Sonia, woman who made Chamkila famous, gets mere 8-10 mins screen time in Imtiaz Ali’s film

ThePrint Team -
A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Imtiaz Ali’s film doesn’t capture Chamkila’s real energy. It puts the Dalit singer in a box

Dilip Mandal -
Anyone who has seen him perform would agree that the real Chamkila was more vibrant and aggressive on stage than Diljit Dosanjh portrays him to be.

3 IPS trainees crack top 5 in civil services

ThePrint Team -
A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Surinder Sonia made Chamkila famous but Imtiaz Ali’s film reduces her to a footnote

+TFP Tina Das -
Amar Singh Chamkila glosses over the fact that Surinder Sonia was a powerful figure in Punjab’s pop culture milieu in the 1980s.

Chamkila died over 3 decades ago but in his Punjab village bitterness, regret linger

Tina Das -
In Chamkila’s village there is an undercurrent of bitterness, regret — Mehsampur has the reputation of being a killing field.

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Opinion

India can face multi-front conflicts with hostile Dhaka. New Delhi missed chance to engage BNP

Seshadri Chari -
India's projects related to BIMSTEC, Look-East-Act-East and Indian Ocean Rim Association could suffer a setback, impacting trade with South Asia and the South-South Cooperation agenda.

As a Pasmanda Muslim woman, it pains me that India took 70 years to question talaq-e-hasan

Europe’s sanctions are not the moral compass it paints to be. Look at the EU’s own data

Economy

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

Mrinalini Dhyani -
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.

Defence

IAF’s leased KC-135 lands in Agra, American firm’s pilots to man mid-air refueller

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India’s refueller fleet comprises six Russian Ilushin-78 tankers, first inducted in 2003, which are facing huge maintenance and serviceability issues.

National Interest

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Shekhar Gupta -
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.

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