Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
The Chinese are said to have hired ex-fighter pilots & air force operators from NATO countries over the past several years to help them fine-tune their operational & flying capabilities.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
As a freelance film critic in the seventies and eighties I had the opportunity to interview Balu Mahendra on several occasions. I have always found him to be full of beans and though there were accusing fingers pointed towards him for filching subjects from Hollywood movies his brand of cinema had many takers. Cinematography was child’s play for him and his frames in his films like ‘Moondram Pirai’ would reveal that he had mastered the craft. It is a fitting tribute to the late director ( who also wrote the screenplay and dialogues for the films that he helmed) that the top auteurs of today like Bala, Vetrimaran, Ameer, Seenu Ramaswamy all picked up the nuances of film direction by being his understudies.
As a freelance film critic in the seventies and eighties I had the opportunity to interview Balu Mahendra on several occasions. I have always found him to be full of beans and though there were accusing fingers pointed towards him for filching subjects from Hollywood movies his brand of cinema had many takers. Cinematography was child’s play for him and his frames in his films like ‘Moondram Pirai’ would reveal that he had mastered the craft. It is a fitting tribute to the late director ( who also wrote the screenplay and dialogues for the films that he helmed) that the top auteurs of today like Bala, Vetrimaran, Ameer, Seenu Ramaswamy all picked up the nuances of film direction by being his understudies.