Category: Arts, Culture & Entertainment

** PM Modi inaugurates museum to honour all Prime Ministers of country

Museum has been built at Teen Murti Estate, which was Nehru’s home for 16 years

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 14 inaugurated the Prime Ministers’ Museum at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) complex here.

Mr. Modi said every government after Independence had contributed to reaching the heights the country had achieved so far. Every Prime Minister had tried to take the country forward, he added.

The museum built at Teen Murti Estate, which was Nehru’s home for 16 years, is spread over 10,491 sq. m. and cost ₹306 crore, according to a statement. Work on the museum started in October 2018 and no trees were felled or transplanted from the site, it said.

The building includes over 40 galleries on the lives and tenures of all former Prime Ministers, except Jawaharlal Nehru, as well as a sound and light show. Entry to the museum will require a ticket of ₹100 through online booking for Indians over the age of 12 years and ₹110 for offline. Foreigners will be charged ₹750 for a ticket.

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** In West Bengal’s Birbhum, a unique community museum that archives Santal history and culture

The museum at Bishnubati village was put together by sourcing artefacts from Birbhum and Bankura districts and some from Santhal Pargana in Jharkhand. It is managed by Bishnubati Adibasi Marshal Sangha, a registered society founded by the villagers.

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** One Nation-One Product stall launched at Guntur Railway Station

Mangalagiri textiles, Tenali jute products and banana fibre products are being sold here

‘One station One Product’ – aimed at making a railway station a promotional hub for local products – was launched at the Guntur Railway Division on Saturday . 

The initiative, announced in the Union Budget 2022-23, would be implemented for 30 days (in two spells of 15 days each), from April 9 to May 7.

A fully-functional stall is earmarked for promoting and selling the product at select stations, to give a boost to the livelihood opportunities to local artisans, potters, weavers/handloom weavers, etc.

Guntur is famous for Mangalagiri textiles and handlooms and handicrafts. To give a fillip to artisans here, the Guntur railway station has been identified for the ‘One Station One Product’ initiative.

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** New book traces journey of Manipuri cinema

Work by Meghachandra Kongbam is an authoritative account

Nobody would imagine that Manipur, whose territory is much smaller than any district of Assam or U.P. and with a population of hardly 20 lakh in those days, brought laurels for the country at several national and international film events.

The first Manipuri feature film Matamgi Manipur directed by Debkumar Bose was released on April 9, 1972, and won the national award. This film won the President’s silver medal at the 20th National Film awards.

In 1982, Imagi Ningthem directed by A. Shyam Sharma won the Grand Prix award at the festival of three continents held in Nantes, France, to become the first Indian film to win the prestigious award.

It was the only Indian film invited to the festival. Ishanou (The Chosen One) produced in 1990 and directed by Shyam Sharma was the only official selection for the Cannes Film Festival of 1991.

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** Veteran Bengali writer wins coveted O. Henry Award for 1977 story

Sahitya Akademi awardee Amar Mitra wrote Gaonburo when he was 26 years old

Amar Mitra wrote the story back in 1977, when he was only 26; today, it has fetched him the 1919-founded O. Henry Award, whose past winners include William Faulkner, Saul Bellow and Raymond Carver.

The award has reinforced Mr. Mitra’s belief that the short story — titled Gaonburo in Bangla and The Old Man of Kusumpur in English — must have some “internal force” for even the Western audience to find it relevant after 45 long years.

“It has often been hailed, at various times, as a ‘wonderful story’. Maybe it really is a wonderful story. I don’t remember the last time an Indian writing in an Indian language getting such a recognition,” Mr. Mitra, recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and several other prestigious honours at home, told The Hindu.

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** Governor inaugurates Indian Art History Congress

Governor R.N. Ravi on Monday inaugurated the 29th session of the annual Indian Art History Congress (IAHC) on “Indian Iconography with Special Emphasis on Regional Developments” jointly organised by the Indian Art History Congress, Guwahati, and the C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Institute of Indological Research (CPRIIR) at the C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation, Alwarpet.

** India’s Rickey Kej and Falguni Shah win big at 2022 Grammy Awards

Rickey Kej earned his second coveted gramophone trophy in the best new album category for Divine Tides. Falguni Shah, a New York-based Indian singer known by her stage name Falu, won her first Grammy Award for A Colorful World in the best children’s album category.

A Mumbai-born singer went to the US and made her career in music, while the other, born in the US, moved back to India, the country of his parents’ birth. The ‘crossover’ stars Falguni Shah and Rickey Kej have now won their respective Grammy Awards.

At the 64th Annual Grammy Awards held on Sunday night in Las Vegas, Kej earned his second coveted gramophone trophy in the best new album category for Divine Tides, his collaboration with The Police drummer Stewart Copeland.

Shah, a New York-based Indian singer known by her stage name Falu, won her first Grammy Award for A Colorful World in the best children’s album category.

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** Special postal cover on Tholpavakkoothu

The Department of Posts will honour the traditional art form Tholpavakkootthu by bringing out a special cover on Saturday.

V.K. Sreekandan, MP, will inaugurate the honouring function to be held at Puthur Sree Thirupuraikkal Temple here on Saturday afternoon. North zone post master general T. Nirmala Devi will release the special cover. Tholpavakkoothu exponents Ramachandra Pulavar and Sadananda Pulavar will be felicitated at the function.

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** Beulah Ruth Pinto Performs at EXPO 2020 Dubai

UAE Golden Visa nominee and the renowned English singer nicknamed as ‘The Queen of the Stage’ performs in EXPO 2020 on March 11.

Beulah’s performance witnesses a huge crowd at the Australian pavilion, incredible moments as audience members join in singing along with her and rejoicing in dancing.

I will Survive – (Gloria Gaynor)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=n3RcFIliO38&feature=share

Someone likes you – (Adele) https://youtube.com/watch?v=aT_EL_d63QY&feature=share

On December 16, 2021 Beulah Ruth Pinto performed at the Fashion Show among national and international models at Fashion Week 2021 in Dubai at Arena IMG Worlds of Adventure and was organised to showcase the national and international designers sharing the stage at this unique event in Dubai.

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