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A man devoted to digging out the glory of India and showing it to the world on film, the founder of Krishnaswamy Associates boasts an oeuvre whose scope and depth can educate as well as boggle the inquisitive mind.
In 1931, K. Subramaniam, albeit trained professionally as a lawyer, took to the immensely powerful medium cinema to experiment with and used it as a tool to spread social awareness.
Seva Sadanam, a picture produced by him as soon he entered the field, was to be the vehicle to carry the message about the state of women and their dismal position in society. Based on a novel by Munshi Premchand, it highlighted the plight of a young girl married to an gentleman old enough to be her father. Scenes and dialogues unprecedented in this medium were posited in the film, and it propelled Subramaniam into the arena as a champion of social causes. When the freedom movement started by Gandhiji gained momentum, Subramaniam jumped into the fray and released his much
Book Review | Worlds within worlds in Dhumketu’s best classic short stories
Updated Mar 14, 2021, 2:16 am IST
In this collection of stories, you go back in time to the age of Bimbisaar, move to Darjeeling just before and after a world war, and more
Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu, translated by Jenny Bhatt.
The title story of
Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu, translated from the Gujarati by Jenny Bhatt, is by no means the only one in the book that grabbed my attention and kept it.
In fact, I liked the opening story in the collection the best, though less because it’s better than the rest than because it was my introduction to Dhumketu (Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi), a writer I had never heard of before, though he was a contemporary of Munshi Premchand, Rabindranath Tagore and Saadat Hasan Manto.
Why Meghan s Interview Doesn t Move India - Nalini Singh Why Meghan s Interview Doesn t Move India - Nalini Singh
Updated: March 10, 2021 11:50 pm IST
Why has the Harry-Meghan 2-hour interview to Oprah Winfrey not evoked gut-wrenching sympathy in India for this biracial royal couple? Why haven t the descriptions of racism and Meghan s suicidal thoughts stirred white-hot loyalty for the Prince and his Duchess here in India?
Meghan has described the British royals as a cold, unwelcoming coterie who cruelly isolated her after she married Harry. She has alleged that her deliberate desolation by the Family and the suffocating feudal traditions caused her to lose interest in staying alive. She turned to the royal frame for help, but was denied relief.
DNA Special: What is a Deepfake and why this technology may be dangerous?
Deepfake technology manipulates real photos or videos with the help of Artificial Intelligence, turning them into fake photos and videos.
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Updated: Mar 4, 2021, 06:08 AM IST
In today s show, we will tell you about a threat, which can pose a bigger challenge to the world than terrorism, and this threat is from the Deepfake video - a technique that can be used to discredit anyone by making a fake video in a few hours.
To understand this, first, you will have to watch some fake videos, which are quite viral on social media. Some people are enjoying these fake videos, but there are many people who are worried. And to understand what these people are worried about, you have to watch these videos first.
MyHeritage’s new artificial intelligence (AI) tool is here to bring on nostalgia by turning photos of the dead into eerie videos. “Some people love the Deep Nostalgia, who call it magical, but others find it creepy and dislike it,” MyHeritage says on its website. Check out some uncanny animations of historical figures. Kind of surreal to take a photo of the singularly inspiring Bhagat Singh a revolutionary voice in 1920s India, who was hung by the British in 1931, at the age of 24 run it through the Heritage AI algorithm, and see him reanimated. pic.twitter.com/CfC0Gu6Gxk Keerthik Sasidharan (@KS1729) February 28, 2021 A young Kasturba Gandhi again, high quality pho.