Jammu Kashmir’s Post-2019 Reservation System The article delves into the narrative of the government's decision to allocate a separate 10 per cent reservation for the recently included Pahari community. Nasir, deeply invested in his civil ... 03/27/2024 - 6:58 pm | View Link
One Way to End an Engagement? Uncommon Honesty and Matching Fonts. Anjali Chakra and Sufi Malik, partners in content creation and in love, were vulnerable about their relationship online. They were vulnerable about their breakup, too. 03/27/2024 - 7:00 am | View Link
'Bharat Mata ki Jai coined by a Muslim,' says Pinarayi Vijayan, faces BJP attack Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the patriotic slogan "Bharat Mata ki Jai was coined by a Muslim, Azimullah Khan". The BJP attacked Vijayan on the issue. Azimullah Khan, a key figure in the ... 03/26/2024 - 1:34 am | View Link
Monday briefing: Why Vladimir Putin won’t link Islamic State to Moscow terror attack As Russia mourns, the president is ignoring evidence of Islamic State’s responsibility – and instead hinting at a link to Ukraine ... 03/24/2024 - 9:22 pm | View Link
Houthis Reported To Possess Hypersonic Missiles Which Can Spike Red Sea Crisis On Thursday, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the Houthis’ secretive supreme leader ... pressure on Israel after a cease-fire deal failed to take hold in Gaza before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Earlier in ... 03/14/2024 - 10:45 pm | View Link
Among the many misperceptions about the Holocaust that well-meaning Hollywood creators have unwittingly perpetuated, the most damaging has been the idea that Jews were passive victims, complacently herded into airless train cars to be exterminated at death camps. Bloody revenge fantasies like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds aside, realistic accounts of Jewish self-defense in the face of Nazi annihilation have been few and far between.
On March 16, 1983, the Country Music Association (CMA) celebrated its 25th anniversary, and I was invited. Buddy Killen, the song publisher who pitched “Heartbreak Hotel” to Elvis Presley, thought “the Black girl from Harvard” might just be the second coming of that hit’s songwriter, Mae Boren Axton. He put me on the guest list and paid for the tickets.
It was a complicated night.
ASIAN CINEMA CELEBRATION Veteran Chinese director Zhang Yimou will be presented with a lifetime achievement award at the upcoming edition of the Festival of Far East Film in Italy’s Udine (April 24 – May 2). The lineup will include three films by Zhang: his 2023 political thriller “Under the Light” in its competition section; as […]
The Busan International Film Festival has postponed the appointment of a permanent festival director. A new leader may be appointed after this year’s edition in October. Pak Dosin, a former senior programmer, has been appointed as co-deputy director in a dual-leadership structure, alongside co-deputy director Kang Seung-ah. That means that this year’s festival will be […]
Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival is set to celebrate the centennial of Columbia Pictures with a retrospective featuring classic titles spawned by the Hollywood studio between the dawn of sound and the late 1950s. The Locarno retro, titled “The Lady With the Torch –– The Centenary of Columbia Pictures,” is being curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht, co-director […]
Just 48 hours after a show in San Diego and less than 24 hours before he is set to perform at San Francisco’s Chase Center, Bruce Springsteen logged some serious (private) air miles for a surprise performance at country superstar Zach Bryan’s concert at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Wednesday night.