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Apply for Youth Empowerment and Sports Back Services, Karnataka

October 25, 2024
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This services help to the Youth Empowerment and Sports Back, Karnataka Source link

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Ahead of Her Times: Freedom and Feminism As Seen Through Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay’s Eyes

October 25, 2024
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Autumn 1947, New Delhi. British rule in India had ended. Cyril Radcliffe had drawn a line dividing the subcontinent into two. In the violent Partition riots that ensued, half a million people died and 10 million fled. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay arrived at the newly created Relief and Rehabilitation Secretariat in New

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Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT)

October 25, 2024
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The CCRT revitalizes the education system by promoting awareness of India’s diverse regional cultures among teachers, students, and administrators. It offers diverse training programs nationwide, including for special needs children, aiming to integrate cultural understanding into education effectively. Source link

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Filmmakers Vikramaditya Motwane and Dibakar Banerjee are Playing a Tricky Game of Hide-And-Seek with Their Messages

October 25, 2024
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A subtle film is also a misunderstood film. While speaking to the director Vikramaditya Motwane at a Q&A session after a screening of Indi(r)a’s Emergency—his documentary on Indira Gandhi and the clamping of both freedom and sperm ducts under her and her son Sanjay Gandhi’s forceful thumb between 1975 and

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Baba, Bollywood, Bishnoi and Brand Mumbai: How a Politician’s Murder Shook Mumbai’s Power Corridors

October 25, 2024
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In this photograph taken in July 2013, then Congress leader Baba Siddique is flanked by actors Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan at an Iftar party in Mumbai. | Photo Credit: PTI This story has all the elements of a crime thriller. Former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique (66) was killed

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Museums of India National Portal and Digital Repository

October 25, 2024
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Museums are a repository of a nation’s culture as they contain explicit examples of the proof of the development of a country’s culture and heritage over a period of time. The strengthening of the country’s museums is thereby an important activity covered under the ambit of the Ministry of Culture.

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The restless traveller: A vignette | A Bengali Story in Translation

October 25, 2024
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He was walking through an impassable thorny way. At one stage he turned back and saw millions of steadfast gazes fixed upon him. An incandescent lustre of seething excitement and expectation radiated from those gazes. It filled the traveller’s heart with an intoxicating pride. With a smile of profound satisfaction,

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Join with National Culture Fund

October 25, 2024
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National Culture Fund Encourages and Invites Participation and Collaboration in furthering the cause of preserving the rich and varied intangible heritage of our country. Let Us Join Hands to Preserve Our Ancient Glory for Posterity. Source link

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Register for Pension to Indigent Sports Persons, Odisha

October 25, 2024
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The Odisha state government’s Department for Sports and Youth Services offers a pension registration program for financially challenged athletes, allowing players to access support and benefits in recognition of their contributions to sports. Source link

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Ranjit Hoskote’s Translation of Mir Taqi Mir: An Attempt of Failure

October 25, 2024
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Mir Taqi Mir in 1786. | Photo Credit: Wiki Commons Let me admit that I am a votary of the following falsifiable proposition that is almost a cliché among those who follow Urdu poetry: A great poet creates a new idiom for the language. This proposition yields the following corollary

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