Author: Seba Fathima

The record label T-series Bhushan and Reliance Entertainment have signed a deal to collaborate on ten upcoming films. The leaders of the production houses, Bhushan Kumar and Shibasish Sarkar informed that they would collaborate to produce ten feature films with a budget of 1000 crore Indian rupees (135 million US dollars). The movies range from big-budget blockbusters to low and small budget content-oriented films.             T-Series, led by its chairman and marketing director Bhushan Kumar, is the largest music record label in the country. It started as a music label in 1984 and subsequently transformed itself…

A 37-year-old man named Vipin Lal was stabbed to death by a group of men last Sunday in Poochakkal in the Alappuzha district of Kerala. The murder allegedly occurred from a fight over an inappropriate WhatsApp voice message sent to Vipin’s friend’s sister. The FIR names five men as accused, according to a police officer from the local station. Vipin Lal, a resident of Thyakkatussery, Poochakkal, was the owner of a lorry used to transport sewage waste. The fight involved a vulgar voice note sent to the sister of the murdered person’s friend over WhatsApp. The friend was working as…

The United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry is set to visit India today, according to the US State Department. US and India to launch climate action and finance mobilisation dialogue during John Kerry’s 3-day visit to India Indian Prime Minister announced during the Leader’s Summit on Climate hosted by Joe Biden last April that the leaders from both countries will engage in a dialogue on the US-India Agenda 2030 partnership. The Climate Action and Finance Mobilization dialogue will facilitate India to mobilise investments and finances and enable green collaborations. During his last visit to India in April 2021, John Kerry met with important government officials of the country. He informed them about the US’ interest…

The inclusion of excerpts from works of RSS ideologues Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and M. S Golwalkar, MSF And KSU in the revised syllabus of a post-graduation course in Kannur University has triggered controversy in the state of Kerala. Students Unions led protest marches to the campus this Thursday and burned copies of the syllabus, accusing the expert committee of saffronizing the academic syllabus. The Syllabus The syllabus drafting committee recently renamed a core subject in the third-year semester syllabus of the newly introduced Masters course in Public Administration from ‘contemporary Political Theory’ to ‘Debates in Indian Politics’. The paper includes…

The world’s fashion sector contributes significantly to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and wastewater generation due to the resource-intensive nature of the cloth production process. The industry accounts for nearly 20% of the global wastewater generation and 10% of the GHG emissions from human activity. Both production and consumption have to be regulated to tackle the environmental impacts of the fashion industry. Fast-Fashion And Consumer Ethics Fast fashion culture is typical of the consumerist world in which we live. Trends change daily, and people are on the run to keep with the pace. But are there enough people (or enough time…

Kay Cannon’s much-awaited musical adaptation of the Cinderella story was released last Friday. The movie raised expectations owing to its Cuban-Mexican American Cinderella and its feminist re-working of the story. But contrary to this, the amazon studios’ jukebox musical is not doing well among its audience, as is evident from the negative reviews. Cinderella 2021 opens with Billy Porter’s voiceover comment, “Little did they [the people of the country] know that their world was about to change”. But sitting through the whole course of the movie raises doubts in the viewer’s mind about the superficiality of this statement. Did their…

Chinese and Afghan governments signed the first Memorandum of Understanding of the Belt and Road Initiative in 2016. The previous Ghani Government’s distrust of Pakistan and China’s scepticism regarding the spillover of militancy into their territory prevented both the parties from developing and expanding the deal. But the recent manoeuvring of both Chinese and Taliban heads in the press prove that they are about to join hands-on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. China is one of the first few countries in the world to acknowledge its willingness to deal with the Taliban after its lightning recapture of Afghanistan on August…

With 353.1 million and 1 billion monthly active users (MAUs), respectively, Twitter and Instagram have carved out a distinct space in the social media universe. Notwithstanding Facebook, with a massive following of 2.60 billion active users, they are the latest favourite social media for users belonging to the 18-34 demographic. Instagram and Twitter differ as well as overlap in terms of their purposes, but both focus on the same demographic of young people. Instagram, a photo-sharing app, is known for its ability to grab the user’s attention. It does not allow provisions for hyperlinks that can redirect the user to a different website. The app thus captures 100% of the user’s attention. It focuses more on…