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.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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