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Call for diversity
Hollywood has realised the value — and profitability — of diversity in stories, cast and crew. India is not far behind Bollywood might be inspired by Hollywood in multiple ways — from movie plots to the industry’s name itself — but when it comes to social diversity, Bollywood is oddly sparing. Diversity is not a […]
Fiction, not fact
How India’s most widely read newspaper, Dainik Jagran, published a highly misleading and inflammatory article On September 19, readers of Dainik Jagran, the most widely read newspaper in the country, woke up to a disconcerting headline: “Having lost one daughter to love jihad, second one now in danger”. This appeared in the city section of […]
Park your money well
Here are some personal finance lessons you can draw from the PMC bank crisis Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank, a bank with more than Rs 11,500 crore of deposits, is in trouble. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has limited deposit withdrawals to Rs 10,000 per account. This obviously has depositors up in arms. […]
Goodbye, polybags
The ban on single-use plastic is already showing an impact among Delhi’s vegetable and fruit vendors. If supply dries up, the ban will be effective The nation-wide ban on single-use plastic ban, a pilot project taken up by the BJP-led NDA government, will be implemented on October 2, when India will commemorate the 150th birth […]
Fading footsteps
Whatever happened to the Son et Lumiere at Red Fort and Old Fort? One is in suspended animation and the other plays to thin audiences. tourism suffers In the city of monuments, one may marvel at different architectural styles but it is the back stories which are more intriguing. At Red Fort and Old Fort, […]
Don’t blame the victim
Netflix’s series Unbelievable is a lesson for journalists and police on how to report and investigate rape In 2016, the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting was awarded to An Unbelievable Story of a Rape by T Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project “for a startling examination and exposé of law […]
Dubious freebie
WITH A promise to make India’s capital city entirely digital, the Delhi government led by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had announced in its manifesto before coming to power that it will provide free wi-fi service across the city. But that is still a work in progress and the wi-fi which Delhiites receive is via New […]
About time traffic violators felt the pain!
The amended Motor Vehicle Act that imposes hefty fines of traffic violators is an absolute necessity in Delhi. But infrastructure in the form of proper signages, smooth roads, functional street lights and correctly designed zebra crossings must also be put in place On June 2, 5:30 in the morning, like every Sunday, 86-year-old Jasmeet Singh […]