by Amrita Priya | Mar 17, 2023
(March 17, 2023) Call Me Dancer, a documentary feature adaptation of real life-story of Manish Chauhan, Mumbai’s street dancer, had its world premiere at Santa Barbara International Film Festival in USA. The 84-minute-long documentary marks the directorial debut of...
by Amrita Priya | Mar 12, 2023
We cannot always build the future for our youth but we can build our youth for the future. – Franklin Roosevelt (March 12, 2023) In 2017, during the December 31 episode of his radio programme, Mann Ki Baat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his desire to...
by Amrita Priya | Mar 8, 2023
(March 8, 2023) In her address at the Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2023 felicitation ceremony Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, president Droupadi Murmu showered praises on this year’s eleven recipients. The Rashtriya Bal Puraskar, also known as the National Child Awards, is...
by Amrita Priya | Mar 3, 2023
(March 3, 2023) Whether it’s India’s former defence secretary, Ajay Kumar, Professor Gerardo Ceballos, Mexico’s ‘guardian of the jaguar’, oceanographer Hannah Whitby, entrepreneur Bhargav Sri Prakash who is known for the Digital Vaccine Project or Kargil war...
by Amrita Priya | Feb 17, 2023
(February 17, 2023) Sejal Akerkar had attended poetry camps in middle school and continued to write but hadn’t really thought about doing it as a profession. That changed when she found inspiration in the Canadian-Indian poet, artist and performer, Rupi Kaur. Rupi’s...