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Timeless story of Goopy Gyne and Kanu Kyne

According to the Bengali calendar, 8 May 1969, was the 25th day of Baishakh. It was the 108th birthday of Tagore. However, it is recognised as the day that Satyajit Ray’s iconic fantasy film, Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, which was based on the story by his grandfather Upendrakishore Roy Chowdhury, was released.

Foreign Control

India’s proposed move to tighten foreign investment norms by formally recognising “Foreign-Owned and Controlled Entities” (FOCE) is not just a bureaucratic tweak ~ it is a decisive step toward aligning FDI oversight with economic reality.

Illusions of Peace

In the latest twist in the long and brutal war in Ukraine, US President Donald Trump has once again injected himself into the peace process ~ this time, after a twohour phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Caste and Census

The Union Government has finally yielded to the demands of various pressure groups for conducting a caste census side by side with the next normal census operation (2021) as and when it is held.

Portrait of an intense struggle

Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years during apartheid and went on to become the country’s first democratic president. For her part Madikizela-Mandela was persecuted relentlessly by the white minority government as she organised the resistance.

Fighting terror

A proxy group of the Jaish-eMohammed claimed responsibility for the attack. On 5 May, terrorists detonated an IED during an encounter in a forested area of Rajouri in which another five soldiers were martyred.

Fighting back

India's women wrestlers, protesting in the national Capital against alleged sexual exploitation by Brij Bhusan Sharan Singh

Views on History~II

The Nehruvian government wanted to teach the countrymen history that would inculcate secular and socially progressive values. In this scenario, the left-liberal group of historians got official patronage. In 1961 the NCERT was established to promote high standard school education. The history text books commissioned by it were to offer secular and rational explanations of the past instead of unnecessary glorification of the bygone age