LOS ANGELES: The Sundance Film Festival, forced online this year by the pandemic, quietly opened to a virtual standing ovation for deaf family drama CODA Thursday.
Taking its title from an acronym for child of deaf adult, CODA follows high-school teen Ruby (Emilia Jones) as she juggles her musical ambitions with her fisherman family s dependence on her to communicate with the hearing world.
The first in-competition film to stream for remote attendees of the prestigious indie festival, it drew immediate rave reviews, with Variety calling it tender, lively, funny, and beautifully stirring, and Deadline praising a breakout performance from Jones ( Locke & Key .)
Street library outside Kasba school The idea is to make books available to those who don t have, from people who don t need them anymore
A school in Kasba has installed a bookshelf outside the campus, beside the gate, for residents of the locality to pick up books and read, an initiative aimed at encouraging reading.
The idea is to make books available to those who don t have, from people who don t need them anymore.
The street library, as it is called, is an initiative of Silver Point School and iLEAD, a private institute that offers a host of professional courses. The library was opened on Friday with an initial collection of 500 books.
18 book covers in Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize longlist
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New Delhi, Jan 24 : The Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize has announced its longlist for the sixth edition at the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2021.
The nominated books in the longlist include: Sarojini s Mother; Magical Woman; Girl in White Cotton; Women of Prey; Calcutta Nights; The Courtesan, The Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin; One hell of a lover; The CEO Factory; Gun Island; Bein Gandhi; Two Plays; Suralakshmi Villa; The Camel Merchant of Philadelphia; Afsaane; Dastaan-e-Mughal-e-Azam; MOOM; White as Milk and Rice and The Amils of Sindh.
Utsaah organizes virtual event to promote concept of Drabble in India ANI | Updated: Jan 21, 2021 13:14 IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 21 (ANI/NewsVoir): A book on Our World: A Symphony of Drabbles by Three Generations is a compilation of eighty-six drabbles from a family of three generations - the grandfather, the mother and the daughter.
A live chat on Facebook on Utsaah #SpreadingHapiness a channel promoted by Durga Jasraj, Founder of Art and Artistes was conducted on January 19, 2021, along with Arnab Banerjee.
The initiative was to promote the concept of drabble - a work of fiction, a story written in exactly a hundred words, not a word more, not a word less. This is a relatively new form of writing, not yet very popular in India. The concept of drabbles is said to have originated in the 1980 s in the UK.
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