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Review: The Tashkent files

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On the night of 10th January, 1966, independent India’s 2nd prime minister shri lal bahadur shastri dies in Tashkent USSR. Not everyone was convinced that it was a natural death. Many theories surround his death and the one that floats up the most is the conspiracy that he had been poisoned that night, poison administered in his regular milk by cook ‘Jaan Mohommad’ who wouldn’t regularly serve him. Plot : Staring Naseerudin Shah (as PKR Natrajan) and Mithun Chakraborty (as Shyam Sundar Tripathi) in key roles as current day politicians. Shweta Prasad (Ragini Phule) is a young journalist who fakes news and is given the last opportunity to find a scoop for the media firm she works. Desperate to redeem herself, she gets into a game set by a caller who urges her to find out ‘Who Killed Shastri’ and sends her piles of research documentation on the mysterious death of Shastri. When her article hits the news-stands, she is approached by Shyam Sundar Tripathi who then talks to PKR Natra...

Champaner: The pillars where Sarang and Hussena found love

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 The end of 18th century and heading towards 19th century, kinship hegemony is declining in India. Invasion of britishers and the period of dismantling of monarchy for trade and capital exchange. ‘Shivrajpur’ a small taluka in panchmahal district, Gujarat state of India, where lived a newly married couple Sarang and Hussena, who are about to lead a life sharing an unsettling equation with their respective communities in shivrajpur. They flee to Champaner, a town 11kms away from shivrajpur, named after the flowers of ‘champaka’ found in the forest of pavagadh. By 15th century, the khichi Chauhan Rajputs held Pavagadh fort above the town of champaner. ‘Muhammed Begda’ in 1484 captured champaner, rebuilding and embellishing it. The town flourished in his reign with the grand establishment of Jama masjid and many other mosques. It’s been a year, Sarang and Hussena are both living a peaceful life together in champaner with their daily work, embracing each other with love. Huss...

Let's become kind, to the kind!

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"Kindness to animals" from simply choosing this theme as a part of our subject 'development Communication' in the fourth semester of bachelor's in journalism and mass communication. We were given two options, one was 'awareness for cycling' and 'kindness to animals' and drafting an answer to what I choose and why I choose, I chose kindness to animals owing to three reasons: 1. My flamboyant fascination towards animals though being afraid of most of them 2. I always wished to have a cat but my mom not allowing me, stating 'You aren't even responsible to take care for yourself, ofcourse you  are not going to care for the little animal' 3. Because​ there is an ongoing debate about Animal welfare, slaughter and choice in the ongoing political scenario with reference to 'PETA' I chose kindness to animals. But with the theme sounding flowery and so called 'cute', it is a real serious issue for which we need to sensit...