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For the past weeks, successful 30-year-old Irish author Sally Rooney has been in the headlines. Following her refusal to grant the translation rights of her new novel Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021) to the Israeli Modan publishing house, 70 prominent authors have now backed her decision in a statement.

Reds is a grand-scale historical drama based around the life and career of John Reed, a North American journalist who travelled to Russia to chronicle the Revolution. Based on his firsthand observations, Reed wrote Ten Days That Shook the World, his 1919 classic account of the events of the Revolution which took place two years prior.

LOS ANGELES: My favorite film at AFI Festival from November 14 to 21I this year was The Real Charlie Chaplin, co-directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney, who co-wrote the almost 2-hour biopic with Oliver Kindeberg. The highest compliment I can pay this documentary that traces the rise and fall and rise of the eponymous screen comic is that it is worthy of its subject who, of course, was one of motion pictures’ great pioneers.

Rituparno Ghosh’s premature demise in May 2013 cost contemporary Bengali cinema much. In fact, it precipitated a particularly debilitating imaginative drought that was felt by many but convincingly articulated by few. The reign of Srijit Mukherjee in this period has been doubly disastrous for Bengali film industry, given his commercial success and general popularity among the Bengali film-going audience. Occasionally, works by Kaushik Ganguly and Aparna Sen soothed somewhat, but hardly ever inspired.

The early stage of computerisation, computers were dreaded for their capacity to kill jobs. And this had shaped the approach of labour unions, social scientists and even some governments on the threat perception over computers. But as the computerisation took hold, it became apparent that computers, instead of devouring jobs, were actually facilitating the jobs. Also, it opened up a new world of employment.

In the entire history of post-independence India, no single economic measure has been as devastating for the people and as utterly futile in achieving its stated objectives, as the demonetisation of currency notes, of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denomination, decreed by the Modi government on November 8, 2016.The fact that it did not achieve its stated objectives was not unforeseen; on the contrary, it was obvious to every economist that demonetisation was the height of folly even as it was announced, which is why it was opposed by all, except a handful of “climbers” keen to please the government.

This is really an adventure into the unknown realms of Delhi that led the author of the book 'Delhi: City of Yoginis' into a new world of magical symbolism and the mystical realm of Yogamaya, the mother and life giver to all. This is perhaps one of the most ignored heritage that we, the people and the power, are unaware of.