Dadasaheb Phalke cast his own daughter, Mandakini Phalke, in ‘Lanka Dahan’ and ‘Shri Krishna Janma’ when the very idea of women in films was anathema to society.
The jury unanimously recommended that the superstar be conferred with the award and the govt accepted, said Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar.
On his 151st birth anniversary, ThePrint takes a look at the Bombay photographer who in 1899 made The Wrestlers, considered to be India's first motion picture.
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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