MUMBAI: The promo for the podcast features the pick of the legal pantheon – Justice Sujata Manohar, Justices Rohinton Nariman, BN Srikrishna, Shahrukh Kathawala, Ramesh Dhanuka and Shiavax Vazifdar. “The principal idea was to capture stories of personal and professional lives of those who were practicing at the Bar and then became judges,” explains Advocate Ankita Singhania, member of the …
The Mistress of Bhatia House by Sujata Massey, the latest book in the Perveen Mistry Investigates series, is set in pre-Independence India, has a clutch of interesting women characters, and draws the reader into a world that is enjoyably brush-stroked and focused at the same time. Massey is the author of 14 novels, two novellas and many short stories, and …
Mainstreaming of Dalit Cinema Has Only Begun Even on the few occasions where Dalit characters are depicted on screen, they are portrayed through degraded stereotypical roles, mainly as poor or wretched people with no agency and power to change their precarious conditions. The early Hindi cinema, in particular, presented Dalit characters as humble and docile, physically challenged and drunkard or …
Clashes broke out between TMC and BJP workers in Arambagh of West Bengal on Tuesday as the area voted in the third phase of assembly elections. TMC candidate Sujata Mondal was allegedly attacked by mask-clad men who threw bricks at her. Goons of BJP threatened and tortured the women voters last night," said TMC candidate Sujata Mondal. An officer attached …
A three-cornered battle for 31 Assembly seats went to polls on Tuesday for the third phase of Bengal elections, with the BJP seeking to breach TMC fortresses, and Left Front-ISF-Congress alliance hoping to make a mark in areas, where identity politics has gained ground. - PTI 3 pm Watch | Woman being threatened against going to polling booth in West …