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Lost Ladies) has got me thinking once again about Salaar, Animal, Pushpa, the KGF franchise and their ilk. Kiran Rao's sophomore directorial venture was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2023 and will be in Indian theatres in March. For those who have watched it, it may seem blasphemous to mention Rao's quiet study of human nature in the same breath as these other films with their loud, celebratory parades of aggressive masculinity that are all the rage at the Indian box-office these days. But hear me out. Two brides in rural north India who accidentally swap places after their respective weddings are the central figures in LL. Both are lost, not merely in the physical sense after this inadvertent switch, but also in terms of larger existential questions. As their grooms search for them, the women end up finding themselves. A lot has been written over the years about the male gaze in cinema. This is not a term to be used literally. 'The male gaze' is not merely 'the gaze of a man'. It is the gaze of a man who lacks empathy. It is a gaze that may appear to serve the cause of patriarchy and its collaborations with other forms of supremacism, but in fact does a disservice to women and men.

Modi 3.0 would be a reality. “In the full budget in July, our government will present a detailed roadmap for our pursuit of Viksit Bharat,” she said, her emphasis falling precisely on two words — “our government”. This is possibly the first time a finance minister has exuded such confidence in presenting a vote-on-account, saying on record that the same regime would present the full budget after the elections. ALSO READ: Agenda of Modi 3.0: It will be driven by aspirations like $7 trillion GDP by 2027 The question is, if the Narendra Modi government indeed gets installed for the third time in May, and with a resounding mandate, will it embark on bold and pathbreaking economic reforms? Will the new regime be able to navigate the complexities of pending reforms requiring widespread consensus? Will it unveil radical and unexpected economic overhauls in food, fertiliser and petroleum subsidies? Will it, perhaps, discard all income-tax exemptions?

young writer is to write every day. I have always believed one should wait for an image or memory to kickstart the process. The image could be obscure — like, say, the collapsed half of an iron gate, and you squeeze through the gap, and walk down an overgrown garden to a dilapidated bungalow. One does not know why the image is pressing upon your memory. And yet, for days on end, you can't shake it off. You notice the dark, crumbly soil, moist after rain, and then you notice the feet walking upon them, wearing green and white canvas plimsolls. It is the plimsolls that stop me from procrastinating. I take out a notebook and start to write. I recognise the cautious, unsteady gait. It is me at the age of 4. I have to start writing to know where I am going. And a short story begins — one which, perhaps, could turn into a chapter for a novel. But for now, I must follow those tiny feet to see what awaits them. In a novelist or poet's life, months — in many cases, years — go by before a significant image takes hold of his or her mind. And as he or she starts to write, the aperture-setting and focal length of the image shifts, and it becomes clearer and clearer. By the end of a year or two, he or she has a newly minted poem or novel.

Paris St.-Germain, his hometown team, might have carried with them an unmistakable sense of deja vu. They might, uniformly, have carried not a single direct quote from anyone involved, ensuring that all sides have precious room to maneuver should the situation change in the weeks ahead. They might have been copied and pasted, almost verbatim, from the last time this happened, and the time before that. But this is different. This is not a negotiating ploy. This is not a power struggle. He's going. No, really. On the count of five. Given the background, of course, the cynical response is also the sensible one. Mbappé has form here, after all. It is less than two years since he and PSG last came to the brink, his boxes packed, his desk emptied, his goodbye card signed.

BSE Sensex logging a marginal weekly gain as investors shift their focus to fundamentals and macroeconomic indicators. The frontline indices remained resilient in the face of fading expectations of early rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve. On the stock-specific front, Jubilant Industries, Force Motors, Sandhar Technologies, MRPL, Tips Industries, Borosil Renewables, 63 Moons Tech, Apollo Pipes, Novartis, HPL Electric & Power, Dilip Buildcon, Anuh Pharma, ASM Technologies, Strides Pharma Science and others are among the smallcaps that logged a double-digit rise in their share prices last week.

₹21,740.77 crore from the Income Tax Department. The country's largest insurer had received refund orders for Assessment Years 2012- 13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20, according to a report by Economic Times. The total amount of refund was ₹25,464.46 crore.

NARCL), the country's so-called 'bad bank', has offered Rs 260 crore to acquire Rs 3,040-crore debt of Metenere Ltd, equating to 8.5% recovery for lenders, said people aware of the development. A consortium of 10 lenders led by the State Bank of India accepted the offer under a 15:85 structure and has invited counter offers from other asset reconstruction companies, the people cited earlier said. Lenders will now hold a Swiss challenge auction on March 6, and have invited counter offers with a markup of Rs 15 crore over the anchor offer. NARCL, set up by government to acquire bad loans, will have the first right to match any counter offer.

BJP Chief JP Nadda appealed to the rank and file not to lose its focus from the goal of crossing the 370-seat mark in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections and expressed confidence that the party will not only achieve a hat-trick of wins this time but also do so with a record margin. He credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for bringing the party to this position, the country has made notable achievements in the last ten years- from the Ram temple at Ayodhya to the abrogation of Article 370 and reservation for women. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was given a standing ovation during the inaugural session of the BJP national council here on Saturday when party chief JP Nadda thanked him for the consecration of the Ram temple at Ayodhya. Nadda also slammed the Opposition on the caste census issue, saying while it wants to divide the nation into several castes Modi has focussed on four groups- women, youth, farmers and the poor. In a speech that covered several achievements of the BJP and hailed Modi’s guidance and leadership, Nadda said the party has “won a century of elections” from the bottom up since 2014. He expressed confidence that BJP will meet the target of 370 seats in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Melbourne Cricket Grounds for their favorite singer Taylor Swift, with thousands more continuing the Eras party outside the Melbourne stadium. Swifties have lined up the solid walls, filing the outside lawn's each part building a micro-community surrounding hand heart signs and friendship bracelets.

Oscars 2024 hot-favourite 'Oppenheimer' by Christopher Nolan, Jennifer Lopez's new movie «This is Me…Now: A Love Story», «Young Sheldon» season 7 are among the popular movies and shows that are releasing this weekend. Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' is on Peacock now. The film is up for 13 awards including best picture, best director for Christopher Nolan and best actor for Cillian Murphy in Oscars 2024.

Chandrayaan-4 mission and was involved in developing a 'novel design' and 'high-end technology' in this connection, a top official said on Saturday. After successfully launching the Chandrayaan-3 rocket on the south pole of the Moon in August 2023, ISRO has drawn up a more «complex» mission of bringing back the soil from the surface of the Moon to the Earth. On Saturday, after the successful launch of GSLV-F14/INSAT-3DS satellite, ISRO Chairman S Somanath said the Bengaluru-headquartered space agency wanted to send Chandrayaan 4, 5, 6 and 7 missions, in future, following the success of Chandrayaan-3 mission. «We are working on what Chandrayaan-4 spacecraft should contain. The first question is what Chandrayaan-4 should be having (as the payload).; this is the question we are asking,» Somanath said.

BERLIN (Reuters) — German defence company Rheinmetall plans to open an ammunition factory in Ukraine as part of a joint venture with a Ukrainian partner, it said on Saturday.

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Fire Country returns with a blaze in Season 2, premiering tonight, February 16, at 9 p.m. ET on CBS. The series, co-created by Max Theriot, promises a riveting continuation, picking up six months after the dramatic Season 1 finale that left Bode back in prison. With characters scattered in different life situations, expect shocking twists as the storyline unfolds.

Quiver Quantitative — In a new disclosure filed today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville reported the sale of $1,001 — $15,000 of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) Common Stock, in a trade that took place on January 03. Since that trade was made, the stock has fallen approximately 5.74%.

Earlier this week, Edmonton MLA Rakhi Pancholi said that buying a membership in the party she hopes to lead — the Alberta NDP — should not automatically bring a membership in the party Jagmeet Singh leads — the federal NDP — as it does now.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said that U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration stood ready to support Ukraine in its war with Russia for “as long as it takes” and would push for Russia to pay damages to Ukraine following the end of the war.

As Israel-Hamas cease-fire talks flounder, Israel is vowing to press ahead with its offensive in the southern Gaza Strip despite warnings from the US to work harder to protect civilians. Violence spiked across the volatile Israel-Lebanon border. This is what happened in the Middle East this week.

simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies but not with local body polls. The party has told the high-level committee on 'one nation, one election' that it supports holding Lok Sabha and state assembly polls together. It also said all local body polls — municipalities and panchayats — should be held together. However, the local body polls should not be held alongside elections to Lok Sabha and state assemblies, it underlined.

Maharashtra Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar was asked if his faction of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will put up a candidate from the Lok Sabha constituency of Baramati, the pocket borough of the Pawar clan, against his the cousin Sharad Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule, who is the sitting MP, he said, «Being the president of the party, I have the right to announce the candidates of my party, but I cannot comment on who will be contesting against them. I will announce the names of the candidates at the right time.» The name hasn't been announced yet but the buzz is Ajit Pawar's wife Sunetra Pawar will be contesting against Sule. The fight, if it happens, will take the divide in the Pawar clan down to the family stronghold from where Sharad Pawar, Ajit Pawar and Supriya Pawar have won several assembly and Lok Sabha elections. Early this month, the Election Commission of India declared Ajit Pawar's faction, which had split away last year from patriarch Pawar and joined hands with the BJP, as the real Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).