The Beyond Borders Feminist Film Festival screened 50 films over a week. ‘The screenings made me think about how marriage is violence for most women,’ said an audience member.
Roy’s film, Songs of Forgotten Trees, is about two women, a call centre employee and a sex worker, who share an apartment in Mumbai and slowly fall for each other.
Several groups, including political parties and CPI(M)-affiliated writers and artists body, had urged Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation, the organiser, to call off the event.
As early states developed in the Iranian plateau and northern India, ideas continued to circulate between the steppe and the settlements of the Iranian plateau and the Punjab plains.
WEF report flags growing erosion of multilateralism, long considered stabilising force. 'Declining trust, heightened protectionism are threatening trade, investment.'
Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
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