With the kind of money and talent that has gone into making this movie, a really good biopic of a personality like Savarkar could be made.But this film is lost in polemics, as is the case with almost every biopic and period drama today, observes Utkarsh Mishra.

Rajkummar Rao does the best with what he is given and he ably elevates the generic story-telling. Too bad that his performance remains the only takeaway from such an inspiring real-life story, notes Mayur Sanap.

It introduces random characters, goes on several wild goose chases and is incapable of holding onto any thread of the plot, sighs Deepa Gahlot.

Neil McKenzie’s playing career highlights included sharing a 415-run stand with Graeme Smith against Bangladesh in 2008

Arjun Deshwal scored 19 points for the two-time PKL champions, with the second-highest scorer for the Jaipur Pink Panthers being Lucky Sharma

Nearly 15,000 students will participate in 249 competitive events at fete that will be held from January 4 to 8

Thousands of youth are protesting outside the UPPSC headquarters in Prayagraj against the conduct of Civil Services (preliminary), Review Officer/Assistant Review Officer examination in multiple shifts and against normalisation of score. UPPSC argues when exams are held on multiple days or shifts for a single recruitment notification, the score normalisation process is essential in evaluating the results as the difficulty level of the paper in each shift/day varies.

In his lectures at Patna University in 1964, Sastri quotes J. Burrow, Professor of Oxford University, who had suggested that “Vedic speech was influenced not by the Dravidian languages of history as we know them, but by an earlier form, a sort of proto-Dravidian, which has long preceded them as well as Aryan advent into India”

Recent incidents highlight the importance of official channels in resolving issues

She called the book a “space pastoral” about six astronauts circling the Earth, which she began writing during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns

BJD leader N. Bhaskar Rao and five others are linked to the murder of a tribal leader in 2010

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'Basuda hardly spoke, but he had a sense of humour and that showed in his films.'

'You were looking for perfection in an incurably imperfect world,' mourns Subhash K Jha who knew Sushant Singh Rajput well.

Sushant finished off his innings in style by scoring high on his last theatrical release, Chichhore, a film that was ironically about suicide not being a solution.

'I once thought Shah Rukh Khan to be the most knowledgeable actor in our industry,' Paresh Rawal once told me.'But Sushant was just as well-informed on any topic under the sun.'Subhash K Jha recalls his many conversations with the actor.

'Isn't 11.3 million Instagram followers and 1.9 million Twitter followers enough to make you feel wanted and loved as a successful star?' 'Can a huge bank balance, a fleet of fancy cars, and a big house assure you happiness and contentment in life?' 'For Sushant, it did not.'

Subhash K Jha remembers a decent, kind, gentle person, who didn't quite get his due.

American has had only one black president so far. And only one on-screen black superhero as well.Subhash K Jha salutes Chadwick Boseman, who passed into the ages on Friday.

'This is not a bolt from the blue.'

Two men smiling, eyeing each other as they briefly let their guard down, with no care of what the world around them is thinking, that has almost never been shown in a Bollywood film, notes Aseem Chhabra.

Be it Kabir Singh or Ranvijay Singh, alpha males are nothing but grown men in diapers, observes Durba Dhyani.

While the country is gripped by Ram Mandir frenzy, Danish Husain -- without shouting from the rooftops -- silently staged his opinion with this play on one of India's best-known poets, observes Neeta Kolhatkar.

Much can be said about this song’s sacred and secular connotations. At first glance, one might assume that the song speaks to its religious roots; however, given the environment in which the song was created, the song can be taken literally. Taken from The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s enhanced CD, From Ear to Ear, and adapted from field recordings by John and Alan Lomax, this song was known to have been sung by the 1871 Fisk University Jubilee Singers.

Selected performances from nine of Colonial Williamsburg's recordings, including fife and drum marches, chamber music, slave chants, and tavern songs.

If brought into the new drug bracket, manufacturing, marketing and sale of antibiotics will be documented; patients will be able to buy antibiotics on prescription only

Although the comet was closest to Earth on October 12, the inclement weather in Thiruvananthapuram hindered observations on that day

Climate models forecast cyclones indirectly, based on metrics that indicate cyclonic activity and its potential intensity

The meteorite would have delivered a large amount of phosphorous, a nutrient for microbes crucial for the molecules central to storing and conveying genetic information.

All available data suggest human infections caused by the reassortant virus are attributed to direct poultry-to-human transmission, with no evidence of human-to-human spread

The committee's report, submitted recently to the HRD Ministry, says the UGC has been unable to effectively implement its regulations.

Hemanth Iyappa Guddanda writes about his exciting stints at the university's Malaysia and the U.K. campuses.

French Minister Catherine Colonna stressed that gender balance was a necessity in the field of education

UGC Chairman Jagadesh Kumar emphasises that board exams are not likely to be made irrelevant in light of the decline in pass percentage in CBSE class 12 exams this year

Co-working is the new watchword of the creative young. An affordable lifestyle and low rents make Berlin their preferred destination.Shonali Muthalaly

Suryawanshi in Bengaluru is the second restaurant in the country to have started accepting bitcoins.

The Union Cabinet today approved the first step towards the Bharatiya Antariksh Station.

Important episodes from the Ramayana were presented at a three-day Kathakali festival in Ambalappuzha.