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‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’ Film Has Many Qualities But Weak On History
By Jenny Farrell Oscar nominations of films are not always a final indication of the super quality of a film.. This applies to The Banshees of Inisherinas .wel which has ben nominated for Oscar awards for 2023 to be announced on March 12 at Los Engeles. The film had...
Ambitious K Chandrasekhar Rao Is Now Serious In Building A Third Front
By Kalyani Shankar A Third Front again! Before every Lok Sabha poll, this Third Front idea is floated, and the 2024 polls are no exception. Political pundits predict there is space for the entire Opposition against BJP but not a Third Front, as it will splinter the anti- BJP...
Brazil And Argentina Jointly Move To Develop A Common South American Currency
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Brazilian President Lula, after strongly rebuffing the attempts of the former right wing president Jair Bolsonaro to foment riots to unseat the left wing incumbent, has taken a major step to consolidate the economic cooperation of the left leaning ruling governments of the Latin America....
Narendra Modi’s Muslim Outreach To Get More Seats Is A Pipe Dream
By Sushil Kutty At 72, Prime Minister Narendra Modi thinks Muslims have a better opinion of him in 2023 than in 2014, and in 2019. With that in his political calculation, Modi believes the BJP will win 2024 Lok Sabha polls with 400-plus seats with communal-engineering. This is sheer...
Union Budget 2023-24 Entrapped In Lower Growth Prospect
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Budget 2023-24 has fallen into the trap of lower growth prospect that has been estimated downwardly for the current fiscal 2022-23 ending on March 31, 2023, and also for the financial year 2023-24. Union Finance Ministry is under acute pressure of resource mobilization to...
BJP Is No Match Against Trinamool In Booth Preparedness For Panchayat Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra Even after praise for the BJP functionaries in West Bengal from Prime Minister Narendra Modi together with the party’s national president JP Nadda choosing this state as his first port of call at the beginning of his second term, prospects of the saffron camp in the...
Madhya Pradesh Civic Bodies Poll Results Give A Slight Edge To BJP As Against Congress
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: An analysis of the results of the polls of civic bodies in Madhya Pradesh shows that they cannot be described as victory or defeat either the BJP or Congress. Polls were held for 19 civic bodies in various districts of the state. Out of...
Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Futurism Is Just Plutocracy With Space Travel
By Daniel Goulden In 2015, the blog Wait But Why began publishing a series on Elon Musk and his various exploits. More hagiography than examination, writer Tim Urban’s witty blog posts portrayed Musk as a visionary genius deeply concerned with the future of humanity and adept at tapping technological...
Union Budget 2023-24 Should Focus On Jobs
By Nantoo Banerjee The best thing the Narendra Modi government’s last full budget before the next Lok Sabha election can do is to focus primarily on job creation and provide attractive incentives to large industrial investments to help push quality employment. The government has done reasonably well in the...
Damning BBC Documentary Brings Back PM Modi’s Airbrushed Past
By Sushil Kutty How is it that the United States President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DoJ) can search Biden’s private residence and confiscate classified documents, and start an investigation? Ditto for the United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who gets hauled up by a British ‘Bobby’ for not...
