Young musicians amaze audience 13/07/2015 10:01 am Rupanjana Dutta A group of young talented musicians left the audience in astonishment at their graduation recital after the completion of a four year scholarship programme.
Indian Navy Sail Training Ship to participate in the annual Tall Ship Races off the coast of UK 13/07/2015 11:46 am Rupanjana Dutta INS Tarangini, the Sail Training Ship of Indian Navy, has commenced an eight month voyage to participate in the annual Tall Ship Races, off the coast of UK and other events at Europe, organised under the aegis of Sail Training International. During these eight months (04 May - 03 Dec 15), the ship will travel approximately 17,000 miles under sails.
Slave owners were given compensation after the abolition of slavery 13/07/2015 12:22 pm Reshma Trilochun Although slavery may have been abolished in the 19th century, historians from University College London (UCL) have methodised the 46,000 British subjects who were compensated by the British government for losing 800,000 slaves, due the abolition of slavery.
Amit Gupta: A Director’s Design 13/07/2015 8:08 am Sunetra Senior Gupta’s first feature film ‘Resistance’ (2011) boasted such British talent as Birdman’s Angela Riseborough, his second ‘Jadoo’ (2013) opened at the Berlin Film Festival and new release ‘One Crazy Thing’ will play at the London Indian Film Festival, kicking off this July 16th. More than the prestige of these accolades however, the film-maker stressed the reward of being able “to move psychologically to a point where focus can be put entirely on the filming”. As we discussed his screenplays, his creative process both on and off the set and the impact of the digital age, it was clear that those with the vision are the ones who master the screen: “too often people think it’s about some grand strategy,” he continued, “ but you just sit down and write that screenplay”:
