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Women Oriented Bollywood Films: In Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Deepika Padukone’s character Naina tells Bunny (played by Ranbir Kapoor) that she cannot leave her clinic and her parents and that she will have to let him go. Flushed with love, Bunny doesn’t want to lose Naina again after eight years and he chooses her over a job offer in Paris. …

IWD Special: These empowered women challenged conventions Shoot At Sight: Nisha Pahuja – Empowered women [1] Documentary filmmaker Nisha Pahuja got relentless support from Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap for her docu-film, The World Before Her. Why? Because she challenged the conventions of women empowerment and regression on screen. Always socially conscious, Nisha took on the changing idea of women liberation …

International Women’s Day Special: I skulked home one afternoon from school in a particularly muggy hot Delhi summer month and spent the day cursing fate that I was born a girl. I was 14 years old, in class ninth and had just discovered that my period, the first two awful days (!), were going to coincide with the two days …

Sushant Singh Rajput Case: On 14 June 2020, Indian actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead at his home in Bandra, Mumbai, with the cause ruled as suicide. The official postmortem reports concluded that he died of asphyxia due to hanging. The Mumbai Police launched an investigation into the death, which was surrounded by rumours and speculation. Rhea Chakraborty Rhea …

Most Saturday nights, you’ll catch businessman Jairaj Singh chilling with friends at a neighborhood lounge, drinking and passing on the hookah. “Hookah smoking is all about style,” says the 25-year-old Singh. At another lounge, engineering student Rishabh Singh, 22, is equally hooked on as he takes a long puff. “I love the smooth taste,” he says. One of the cardinal …

Moozhikkal Pankajakshi is Kerala’s last surviving link with Nokkuvidya Pavakkali – a unique form of puppetry that is centuries old. She is also a recipient of the Padma Shri Award – India‘s fourth highest civilian honour – this year in the category of arts. According to Kerala Tourism, Nokkuvidya Pavakkali demands strenuous training. “This puppetry form requires the performer to balance …

Usha Chaumar now works as the President of Sulabh International Social Service Organisation. Once a manual scavenger, Usha Chaumar from Alwar (District in Rajasthan, India) has won the Padma Shri award this year, inspiring one and all with her journey full of adversity, where she emerged as a winner. Speaking to reporters, Ms Chaumar, one of the 118 winners of …

The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, on January 30, 1948, brought Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel, differing on various issues, together. On Nehru’s 60th birthday, 14 November 1948, Patel praised Nehru for leading the nation safely out of the crisis that faced the country during the year and for enhancing India’s image abroad. Nehru responded by describing Patel as a tower …

एयरफोर्ड डे 8 अक्तूबर: भारतीय वायु सेना की स्थापना 8 अक्तूबर, 1932 को अविभाजित भारत में की गई थी जो ब्रिटिश शासन के अधीन था। इसे द्वितीय विश्व युद्ध के दौरान किंग जॉर्ज षष्ठम द्वारा ‘रॉयल इंडिय एयरफोर्स’ नाम दिया गया था। बाद में ‘रॉयल’ 1950 में हटा दिया गया जब भारत एक गणतंत्र बन गया। सैनिकों तथा विमानों के …

भारत सोमवार (22 जुलाई, 2019) को अपने महत्वाकांक्षी स्पेश मिशन चन्द्रयान-2 को लॉन्च करने जा रहा है। भारतीय अंतरिक्ष अनुसंधान संगठन (ISRO) के चेयरमैन डॉक्टर के. सिवन ने शनिवार को बताया कि हम 22 जुलाई को दोपहर 2:43 बजे अपने सबसे प्रतिष्ठित मिशन चन्द्रयान-2 को लॉन्च करने जा रहे हैं। हाइलाइट्स भारत 22 July, 2019 (Monday) को अपने महत्वाकांक्षी स्पेश …