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On July 17, Ravi Kishan turned 57, a milestone that crowns one of the most remarkable careers in Indian entertainment. Actor, producer, television personality and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament from Gorakhpur, Ravi Kishan has reinvented himself repeatedly over more than three decades.

NEW YORK: What would be the likely effects of massive introduction of artificial intelligence in the economy from the Marxist point of view?

School attendance problems (SAP) are no longer a marginal issue. They have become a challenge affecting classrooms in nearly every country. The problem has far reaching consequences – both on individuals and society, but has never been properly addressed.

There are sporting legends, and then there are sporting phenomena. At 45, Mahendra Singh Dhoni belongs firmly in the second category. Time has dimmed neither his aura nor his popularity. Every time he walks onto a cricket field wearing the unmistakable yellow of the Chennai Super Kings, the roar from the stands resembles less a welcome for a cricketer than an ovation for a beloved monarch.

People often do not find the profession they are suited to. But when eminent theatre director, Ebrahim Alkazi spotted a young girl essaying the role of Desdemona in a stage adaptation of Othello, he asked the upcoming actress to join his drama group, Theatre Group. From this moment Vijaya Jaywant's life and career moved away far from square pegs finding themselves into round holes.

Hollywood has conditioned audiences to expect diminishing returns from franchises. The first film dazzles, the second tries to outdo it, and by the third the series usually runs out of ideas. Jeethu Joseph's Drishyam trilogy breaks that rule with remarkable confidence. If anything, Drishyam 3 demonstrates that a sequel need not merely repeat a successful formula; it can reinvent itself while remaining faithful to the world audiences have invested in for over a decade.

For more than two decades, Christopher Nolan has remained cinema's most elusive magician—a filmmaker who transforms philosophy into spectacle, science into emotion, and blockbuster entertainment into intellectual inquiry. This July, the Oscar-winning director will bring that rare cinematic mystique to India when he arrives in Mumbai for the premiere of his latest epic, The Odyssey, marking the first time a Christopher Nolan film has ever had an official premiere in the country.

NEW YORK: Beatrice Shapiro Lumpkin came roaring into the world on August 3, 1918, and she went out of it just after midnight on June 14, 2026, hailed by labour and progressive leaders around the country as a “matriarch of the movement.” Dying just weeks shy of her 108th birthday, she was an activist, organizer, and teacher who had an impact on countless people and struggles across the 20th and 21st centuries.

NEW YORK: There’s admittedly a little thrill of nostalgia involved in going to see Disclosure Day for those old enough to remember what it felt like to go see a big Steven Spielberg movie in June. It can be argued that with the colossal, groundbreaking success of Jaws, which opened fifty-one years ago this month, Spielberg became the director most responsible for the phenomenon of the summer blockbuster.

KOLKATA: The swinging '60s which revolutionized music in Europe and America did not leave India untouched. If there were the Beatles, Queen, The Rolling Stone, nearer home there came up Mohiner Ghoraguli in Calcutta together with Indian Ocean in Delhi and not to forget The Local Train; but arguably the most eminent import from the West in this period was pioneer of jazz saxophone, Sonny Rollins.