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United States of America’s largest documentary film festival, DOC NYC, has begun its 2021 edition from November 10-18 in-person and online at www.docnyc.net. This 12th year of DOC NYC has a wealth of relevant films for progressive viewers. Some of the highly recommended docs include Listening to Kenny G about how we listen to and define music as good or bad, Attica, a revisit to the tragic 1972 prisoner uprising, Summer of Soul (…Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) featuring the less publicized “Black” Woodstock, and Option Zero, the saga of Cubans stuck on their way to what they thought would be a better life in America.

Recently, the Kerala High Court expressed its dismay that a petitioner sought the removal of the Prime Minister’s photograph from the COVID vaccination certificate and termed it as a “dangerous proposition”.

It was MGNREGA, the flagship rural employment scheme that had provided succour to starving migrant labour when the economic crisis was galvanising the entire production process. Choices were extremely scanty. It was either to go hungry and face the ultimate or to get infected with the deadly disease and die unsung, unlamented since the entire populace was facing the challenge. The urban labour had been retrenched and the available jobs were all contractual, with unlimited hours of slogging.

New Delhi: The Rs 2.2- crore domestic badminton season under new format will commence from next month.

Former Commissioner to India, Muazzem Ali and 1971 war hero Colonel Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahil were the first two Bangladeshi citizens honoured with one of India’s civilian awards, the Padma Sri.

Former President of India, K.R. Narayanan passed away on November 9, 2005, three years after he demitted office on July 25, 2002. On the solemn occasion of the 16th anniversary of his demise, his rich legacy in defending the Constitution, constitutional morality and secularism assumes enormous significance at a time when the powers that be and their allied formations beyond the electoral domain have put at stake the Constitution and the very idea of India.

Last month Turkey made it into the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog headquartered in Paris. Turkey now joins its close ally Pakistan in FATF’s crosshairs. Surprisingly Turkey becomes the largest economy to be included in this list.

While the world is moving at a fast pace to embrace electric vehicles, India seems to have lowered a gear or two down, with the result that the country does not even figure in the growth estimates of major EV markets around the world.

So, they will have a ball across the Wagah Border and all we will have this side will be TV screens painted in Pakistani green! Gather the import? Well, all of Pakistan will be on its knees praying for a Pakistan win in the semis against Australia. The other semi is between England and New Zealand.

Pollution in Yamuna in Delhi has always been highlighted every year as is currently being done. We witness some trading of charges and then everyone becomes calm. Pollution remains as usual. The reason is the very low and narrow mindset of the ruling political parties, who do allow legally, and illegally to pollute, but deny access to clean water as basic human right. Modi government even abstained from the United Nations Human Rights Council that recognized access to clean environment a basic human right recently.