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The hate dogged our Oscar entry: Why must India persist in sending the wrong films to the Academy Awards?
Subhash • 3 years agoShoojit Sircar's film isn't perfect, but the political correctness of not showcasing our unhealed wounds on the world stage is another jarring piece in a wrong pattern
Shoojit Sircar, Vicky Kaushal's Sardar Udham to release directly on Amazon Prime in October
Fp Staff • 3 years agoShoojit Sircar's previous film Gulabo Sitabo also skipped theatircal release to premiere directly on Amazon Prime Video India last year.
Karan Johar announces film based on life of lawyer-activist C Sankaran Nair; Karan Singh Tyagi to direct
Fp Staff • 4 years agoTitled The Untold Story of C Sankaran Nair, the film is inspired from real life events and adapted from the book The Case That Shook the Empire, written by Raghu Palat and Pushpa Palat.
102 Years of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Narendra Modi, Harsimrat Kaur Badal pay tribute to martyrs
Trendingdesk • 4 years agoGeneral Dyer entered the premises of Amritsar's Jallianwala Bagh and ordered the British Army to open fire on innocent civilians
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Narendra Modi, Amarinder Singh, Kejriwal pay tribute to martyrs on tragedy's 101st anniversary
Trendingdesk • 5 years agoOn 13 April, 1919, British soldiers, under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer, opened fire at a crowd of unarmed protesters and pilgrims who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar on Baisakhi
Watch: Dastangoi Collective's performance marking centenary of Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, in solidarity with Shaheen Bagh
Dastangoi Collective • 5 years agoDastangoi Collective's Dastan-e-Jallian draws from various writings across genres — protest poetry in Urdu and Punjabi (some of which were earlier banned); writings of Saadat Hasan Manto and Krishan Chander; speeches of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Rabindranath Tagore, and official reports such as the Hunter Commission report.
A new book chronicles the role of the man who ensured atrocities of Jallianwala Bagh massacre are known
Lgo • 5 years agoSir C Sankaran Nair's book Gandhi and Anarchy presented an unfiltered view about Jallianwala Bagh, which earned the ire of Michael O’Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, who sued him. Today, we know of the extent of the atrocities because of the subsequent court case, the reportage it received and the light it shed on the Empire’s shoddy handling of the massacre
Northern Army commander Ranbir Singh interacts with J&K students in Udhampur, urges them to contribute in nation building process
• 5 years agoLieutenant General Ranbir Singh interacted with a group of students at the force's Udhampur headquarters.
'Profound shame': Archbishop Of Canterbury Justin Welby lays prostrate at Jallianwala Bagh Memorial, apologises for massacre
• 5 years agoArchbishop of Canterbury Reverend Justin Welby on Tuesday visited Jallianwala Bagh, the site of British colonial era massacre, and said it was a "deeply humbling" experience and provoked "feelings of profound shame".
On last day of Parliament session, Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Bill deferred in Rajya Sabha over absence of broad consensus
• 6 years agoThe Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill, which seeks to remove the Congress president as a trustee, could not be passed in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday in the absence of a broad consensus on the legislation