Mai Ghat: Crime No 103/2005 is India s entry at SAARC International film fest
Thu, Apr 22 2021 06:29:14 PM
Mumbai, Apr 22 (IANS): Ananth Mahadevan s Marathi directorial Mai Ghat: Crime No 103/2005 has been nominated as India s entry at SAARC International Film Festival. The film is based on the true story of a woman in Kerala who fought for justice for her son over 13 years, following his death owing to police torture in custody. The guilty policemen were sentenced to death by a special CBI court.
Mahadevan believes his film holds relevance at an international film festival, at a time when judgement was passed in the George Floyd case in the US on Wednesday. The verdict declared a former Minneapolis policeman, Derek Chauvin, guilty of killing African-American Floyd, by pinning him to the pavement with his knee on May 25 last year for over nine minutes, which led to the latter s death. The incident triggered the Black Lives Matter campaign.
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Poet Mohini Gupta reads from Dorothy Bonarjee s Eisteddfod-winning poem
Poet Mohini Gupta reads from Dorothy Bonarjee s Eisteddfod-winning poem
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Indian student Dorothy Bonarjeee won the University College of Wales Eisteddfod in 1914 with a poem on the subject of the Welsh soldier, Owain Lawgoch.
The poem had to be written according to a prescribed metre and length. Dorothy Bonarjee wrote in English rather than Welsh, which was permissible in 1914.
Here, the Indian poet Mohini Gupta reads the 10th stanza of the winning poem, and the final lines:
He told him of the lonely rock-strewn shore,
The dark, brown sea-weed lying on the sand.