Tesjaswini Pandit, who has been nominated for Best Performance by an Actress. She delivers a deeply moving performance in the Marathi language film I am Sindhutai Sakpal By Neeru Saluja The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) has entered its fourth year and Indian films have received five nominations. As an initiative of the […]
The TV channel wars over bagging the best guests, offering more money to certain key analysts to remain available the entire day thereby undercutting a rival channel, all seem to have paid off. On Sunday, Obama specials on various channels did net TV channels a lot of viewership. A flash analysis by Audience Measurement and […]
By Rekha Bhattacharjee Nelson Mandela has released a new book on 12 October 2010 on his life in which he urges the world not to view him as a saint. He says he has suffered “weaknesses, errors and indiscretions”. “Conversations With Myself” brings together personal papers and hours of recordings with an unfinished autobiography to […]
By Rekha Bhattacharjee Attending the Gandhi Jayanti celebrations on October 2 at the NSW University Library lawn where a bust of Gandhiji has been recently installed brought back memories of a similar function I had attended in the US some years ago. At that time in Manhattan Phillip Glass’s internationally acclaimed Opera “Satyagraha” was to […]
Dreaming of a career in film? The Indian Film Festival (IFF) is delighted to announce that the Western Union Short Film Competition is now calling for entries for the 2011 Festival. Launched in 2010 and with Western Union confirmed as the 2011 naming rights competition sponsor, this exciting competition is aimed at discovering the future […]
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ISLAMABAD: The symbolism, trade deals and fine words of Barack Obama’s courtship of India should be Pakistan’s wake-up call to fix its economy and eradicate militancy to ward off isolation, analysts say. The US president declared India a world power, the India-US alliance “one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century” and unveiled deals […]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani government has condemned the US backing for a permanent seat for arch-rival India on the UN Security Council as “incomprehensible”. A federal cabinet resolution “expressed its serious concern and strong disappointment on the decision of the United States to support a permanent seat for India on the UN Security Council,” a foreign […]
On Sunday, a 20-year-old student cornered US President Barack Obama into addressing the Pakistan issue, which he kept away from on the first day of his visit to India. At the Gothic quadrangle of St Xavier’s College, Afsheen Irani, from Mumbai’s HR College of Commerce, without mincing words asked, “Why is Pakistan so […]
