As per the EOI document, the idea is to “build a global presence for Doordarshan and to establish an international voice for India”.
This comes against the backdrop of growing criticism in the international media about the Narendra Modi government’’s handling of the pandemic.
The EOI says the channel will present India’s point of view on contemporary issues of both global and domestic significance.
At home in films across languages, the actor talks about working in LA, Chennai and Mumbai, and her biggest project yet — Zack Snyder’s ‘Army of The Dead’
This is her first brush with Hollywood and the experience, according to the 34-year-old, was everything she had hoped for.
There was one thing though, that did initially throw her off. “In India, we are used to working on multiple projects at the same time. For this film, they blocked two-and-a-half months of my time,” says Qureshi, who eventually came to realise the importance of focussing on one job and doing it well.
Peter the Great welcomed the idea of Indian traders living within the boundaries of the Russian Empire, and the city of Astrakhan had a small but thriving community of Indians from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, visited India, where he was disgusted with the sight of “redcoats.”
Going against European convention, he also had a very close friendship with King Rama V of Siam.
Russia managed to get one of its best glimpses of India when Prince Alexey Saltykov, a former diplomat, visited the country twice in the 1840s.
He wrote a book in French titled Voyages dans L’Inde (Journeys in India), which is a compilation of his letters and notes, accompanied by his drawings.
May 2021
Lispo would never forget his tedious high school days. The 20-year-old is indeed indebted to the drab lecture sessions that chiselled out his creativity and paved the way for scripting history in the pages of Asia Book of Records using pencils and chalks.
Kerala
Arian K, a Class XII student, entered the Indian Book of Records for making stencil drawings of 50 film stars in 70 minutes.
Indu Jain was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the third highest civilian honour in the country, in 2016.
She set up The Times Foundation in 2000, with sustainable development and transformational change as its key goals. One of India’s most respected non-profits, it provides community services and runs the Times Relief Fund to offer assistance during cyclones, earthquakes, floods, epidemics and other crises.
She was the founder president of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO), established in 1983 to promote entrepreneurship and professional excellence among women in India. From 1999, she also served as chairperson of Bharatiya Jnanpith Trust, founded in 1944 by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain, her father-in-law, to promote literature in Indian languages.
Two little boys were engrossed in a game of badminton: their slippers served as racquets. Nearby, two other kids played atop broken sewer pipes. This sight made Pooja Rai think: “Playgrounds should not be a luxury. It is something every child should have access to for free.”
And that is when the then 23-year-old student of architecture in IIT-Kharagpur made her first playground for children within her institution’s campus, using colourful tyres from cars and two wheelers re-purposed as play equipment.
The film, which premiered on Neestream in January, featured Nimisha Sajayan as a housewife enduring, and eventually liberating herself, from the torment of patriarchal conventions.
Eminent sculptor and Rajya Sabha member Padma Vibhushan Raghunath Mohapatra passed away while undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at the AIIMS-Bhubaneswar on Sunday.
Odisha