Author: Tirthankar Mitra
These range from ministerial visits to revival of direct flights and pilgrimages. To call a spade by no other name, necessity rather than mutual goodwill seems to be at work.
Talk of organising a retrospective of films Vasantkumar Shivshankar Padukone and it would fall on deaf ears. But the audience would be all ears, at a proposal to make a show of films of Guru Dutt.
And there is good reason for it as here was a man who turned melancholia into art. He turned his camera to the painful realities of life.
Shubman Gill’s double hundred and a century in two innings of Edgbaston test marks a new high in his career after he took over from Virat Kohli as the captain Indian test team.
Indian cricket team is in uncharted territory as the first Test against England starts today. The new look team is led by Shubhman Gill is both a leap of faith by selectors as well as a big generational jump.
srael and Iran can hardly said to have an amicable relation. But one needs to take a close look into the recent belligerence to pin down its cause.
His first love was reporting. And while on the job in locations as diverse as Paris and Biafra, Frederick Forsythe who passed away recently dug out the nuggets of lives unknown which would later be the material of his best selling fiction.
Known to enthuse the party rank and file to a higher energitic pitch before elections, Union home minister Amit Shah’s words seemed to lack its usual fervour when he toured West Bengal recently. Indeed his public address was a departure from his earlier speeches when he set a target for the poll nominees of BJP.
Bihar seems to have a penchant of being in the news be it owing to JP’s call of total revolution or the Bhagalpur blindings or the fodder scam. The state may.find itself in the news again soon post a new leader whose political party is part of the NDA coalition has thrown his hat in the ring for the chief minister’s post even as the state inches closer to election.
A stern message to mend their ways have been sent to the party activists by state CPI (M) leadership. Reports of intra-party squabbles have alerted the party leadership.
There are some legendary individuals, but very few become legends in their lifetime. The latest to join the ranks of living legends is Kerala chief minister, Pinayari Vijayan if the title of a documentary film made on him “Pinayari the Legend” is anything to go by.
Kerala chief minister, Pinayari Vijayan who leads the LDF ministry has been in politics for decades. And the ideology which he and CPI(M) , the party he belongs to believe in does not encourage personality cult.