India at Oscar 2023!
- January 25, 2023
India at Oscar 2023!
- January 25, 2023
It was a big day for Indian cinema on 24 January, 2023, as the nation secured not one but three Oscar nominations this year. Indian movie RRR’s song, ‘Naatu Naatu’, which recently won the Golden Globe award, scored an Oscar nomination in the Best Original Song category. Two Indian documentaries, ‘All That Breathes’ and ‘The Elephant Whisperers’, have also been nominated in the Documentary Feature Film category and Documentary Short Film category respectively.
Comic of The Month
Lokmanya Tilak
Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it' -- this clarion call was given by Bal Gangadhar Tilak. He was a towering figure in the Indian Independence movement. A nationalist to the core, he believed strongly that modern education would inculcate patriotism and self-respect in the people. His inspiring speeches and writing landed Tilak in jail several times. But this did not dampen his spirit or will to cast off the yoke of foreign rule from his motherland.