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A still from the folk play ‘Jas Ki Tas’ at the META festival 2025 in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Many novelists have explored the interplay between the performing arts and life to illuminate their themes. A recent example that comes to mind is Irish author Anne Enright’s 2020 novel Actress, which is set against the world of theatre and film and delves into a fraught mother-daughter relationship. Annie Zaidi’s The Comeback uses the same world to explore ideas of friendship and self-realisation.The narrator of Zaidi’s novel is an actor who has changed his name from Jaun Kazim to John K.…
“Our customers, shareholders, and business will be well-served by our investing aggressively now,” he said [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy on Thursday justified the company’s billions of dollars in outlays for artificial intelligence development, saying the investment was necessary to remain competitive.”If your mission is to make customers’ lives better and easier every day, and you believe every customer experience will be reinvented by AI, you’re going to invest deeply and broadly in AI,” Jassy wrote in his letter to shareholders, an annual rite of passage for the top boss at the Seattle retailer.He said…
A currency trader reacts near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), top left, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea on April 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Asian shares sank Friday (April 11, 2025) after U.S. stocks reversed much of their historic gains from the day before. The deepening worries over U.S. President Donald Trump’ s trade war initially helped pull Japan’s Nikkei 225 share index down 5.6%. By mid-morning in Tokyo, it was…
Painting by Francis Newton Souza | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement As Passion Week looms near beginning April 12, one recalls India’s enfant terrible Francis Newton Souza, one of artist Krishen Khanna’s greatest friends and founder of the Progressive Arts Group now known as India Moderns. Why does one remember Souza, and how does he connect to Holy Week? While he was critical of the Church, he was a lover of church music and hymns. When in the city of Delhi during the 1990s he would come to the Church of the Redemption at President’s Estate to listen to the Christmas concert…
Parmod Mann with one of his sculptures. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT It takes courage, devotion, and an instinctive understanding of the human condition to carve vulnerability into black marble or paint evocative symbolism onto canvas. Parmod Mann does it with grace and his artworks haunt and heal at the same time. Inside Triveni Kala Sangam, where Mann’s sculptures of three decades are on display, his works go beyond the visual appeal. The pieces unfold like a memory, like an ache that one has felt but never been able to name. His art is arresting as it allows the viewer to…
Sunny Deol comes out of memes this week, demanding an apology from naysayers. Taking a break from the western front, the original one-man army fires a salvo on the Coromandel coast. When Bollywood takes a break from Muslim terrorists, it reincarnates Ravan to take on the hero. A decade after Shah Rukh Khan rode on Chennai Express, Sunny gets on to a saffronised Ayodhya Express with the thumping chants of Jai Shri Ram playing in the background to take on Ranatunga, a fierce antagonist from Sri Lanka who is ruling a landmass in coastal Andhra with the help of a corrupt system.Sunny’s…
Drugmaker Sun Pharma on Thursday said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has vacated a preliminary injunction effective immediately that thus far restricted the company from launching severe alopecia areata drug Leqselvi (deuruxolitinib) in the U.S. While the litigation, in a patent infringement case, with Incyte Corporation continues, the preliminary injunction granted by the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey’s is no longer in effect. Consequently, the company is no longer under a court order that delays or restricts it from launching Leqselvi. It will disclose Leqselvi launch plans in due course of time,…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, April 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. stocks on Thursday (April 10, 2025) are giving back a chunk of their historic gains from the day before as Wall Street weighs a global trade war that has cooled in temperature but is still threatening the economy. The S&P 500 was down 3.2% in midday trading, a day after surging 9.5% following President Donald Trump’s decision to pause many of his tariffs worldwide. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 1,079 points, or 2.7%, as of 11 a.m. Eastern…
The weighted average launch price of homes in India’s top nine cities rose by 9% in FY2024-25 to ₹13,197 per sq. ft as compared with ₹12,569 per sq. ft. in FY2023-24, according to a study by data analytics firm PropEquity.These cities include Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane and Pune.As per the study in the last one year, while housing prices rose the most in Kolkata by 29%, followed by Thane (17%), Bengaluru (15%), Pune (10%), Delhi-NCR (5%), Hyderabad (5%) and Chennai (4%), the prices fell by 3% each in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai., “Housing prices have…
Funds managed by BlackRock, the global investment behemoth, emerged as the largest subscribers of the $750-million private bond issuance by the Adani Group. The U.S.-based asset manager, overseeing $12 trillion in assets, has taken on one-third of the $750 million issuance, which carries a tenure of 3-5 years, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. This investment comes at a time when Adani Group officials are under scrutiny following a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment in a bribery case in November last year. BlackRock’s move marks its first private placement in India’s infrastructure sector— a segment the firm…