Kolkata: The timing could not have been better when Prakash Javadekar, the Union Information and Broadcasting Minister, announced at a meet-and-greet session with the Who’s Who of Bengali film industry on Monday that a national level film award would be instituted in the name of the iconic director Satyajit Ray.
While no further details on the award were available, it is believed that it would be somewhat in the lines of the Dada Saheb Phalke award - hitherto considered as the highest honour in Indian cinema. This being the birth centenary year of Ray, the Oscar-winning director who is considered to be Bengal’s biggest cultural icon after the Nobel laureate bard Rabindranath Tagore, there are no prizes for guessing that the mileage in bestowing this honour on him on the threshold of the West Bengal elections is too lucrative to let go.
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On this week’s 51%, hear from the author of a book highlighting stories of ordinary girls around the world, and then an animated film features a girl superhero to help children relate to COVID times.
Masuma Ahuja spent the last three years reporting on gender around the world, and the stories she uncovered about girls’ lives were almost always about sexualization, victimization or despair. She wondered what accounts of girlhood would be like if girls wrote them themselves, so she started reaching out to global development and community organizations who could connect her with local girls, as well as finding girls through sports clubs, writing workshops and a network of friends and journalists.
KLM to go online on January 29 If you are missing the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet, there is something in store for you this month The Telegraph | | Published 15.01.21, 10:07 PM
It’s that time of the year when Calcutta flocks to Victoria Memorial Hall to catch a glimpse of their favourite authors from around the world, discussing all things literature and art, at the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet in association with The Telegraph. The pandemic may have compelled the city’s favourite literary event to be postponed indefinitely, but KLM has ensured that you don’t miss this event too much. To keep the spirit of KLM alive, there will be a slew of exclusive sessions held on social channels as well as Victoria Memorial grounds, live-streamed to you. This three-da
Death of American exceptionalism? Views from abroad on Capitol attack. By Shirin Jaafari © Patrick Semansky/AP
A protester walks past the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Jan. 8, 2021.
American democracy had a very bad day on Wednesday.
As images of rioters ransacking Capitol Hill shot across the globe, foreign leaders were quick to comment.
“A ground rule of democracy is that after elections there are winners and losers. Both have their role to play with decency and responsibility so that democracy itself remains the winner. German Chancellor Angela Merkel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the images out of Washington made her furious and sad.
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