Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan made a real political statement when he watched Empuraan with his family, despite the film taking potshots at the Left and Vijayan’s cult of personality.
The movie shows a Muslim-majority village being attacked by a Hindu mob, and a pregnant Muslim woman being raped by a Hindu man. This seems to be a reference to the Bilkis Bano case.
Rather than presenting the full spectrum of Indian culture at once, a more strategic approach would be to identify one globally intelligible cultural lane & invest in it consistently.
Issued amid a West Asia war-induced energy crunch, the order now legally binds all entities controlling land, roads and housing societies to facilitate laying of pipelines.
The countries signed a memorandum for co-development of UNICORN masts in November 2024. India has been second Asian nation to have such an agreement with Tokyo, after Philippines.
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