By Sujoy Dhar #USDiplomat, #HenryKissinger, #Geopolitics, #ColdWar IBNS-CMEDIA: Henry Kissinger, the former US Secretary of State and a master of realpolitik known for his crucial yet polarising role in American foreign policy during the period of the Cold War, has died at the age of 100. He is survived by…

#MichaelDouglas, #IFFI, #Goa, #SatyajitRayLifetimeAchievementAward IBNS-CMEDIA: Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas was conferred with the prestigious Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Cinema at the 54th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa on Tuesday (November 28, 2023). Douglas, accompanied by his spouse, the BAFTA Award-winning eminent…

by TUSHAR UNADKAT We’ve seen them even if we haven’t really noticed them. The long-running trend of titling a Bollywood film with some English language flavour. You know what we mean, Jab We Met, 3 Idiots, Once Upon A Time In Mumbai, Goa Goa Gone and more. What’s the reasoning…

#CanadianHinduCulturalCenter; #TheLevitateDiwali CMEDIA: Diwali, the Festival of Lights was celebrated last week jointly by the Canadian Hindu Cultural Center and The Levitate Diwali successfully bridging generational and cultural gaps by bringing together many seniors, children, youths and new international students from all faiths and all nationalities.

#MimiChakraborty, #ShastryVirudhShastry, #Posto, #Bollywood, #BollywoodDebut IBNS: Actress-parliamentarian Mimi Chakraborty, a premier member of the Bengali film industry, made her Bollywood debut with Nandita Roy-Shiboprosad Mukherjee’s Shastry Virudh Shastry, the Hindi remake of the director duo’s 2017 Bengali movie Posto. In an interview with IBNS correspondent Souvik Ghosh, Mimi shares her…

#SamManekshaw, #VickyKaushal, #SamBahadur, #MeghnaGulzar IBNS: Bollywood actor Vicky Kaushal, who has featured in a number of patriotic films over the years, reunited with filmmaker Meghna Gulzar five years after Raazi to play Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, who was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the…

by Sujoy Dhar IBNS: Securing a vantage seat in the upper deck of a hop-on-hop-off bus (read Big Bus Tours), you can feel like just another average visitor to Washington DC doing some touristy things. But trust me, to discover the sprawling, green canvas of the US capital that is…

#DiwaliMela; #FestivalOfLights; #AryaSamajMandir; #Markham; BollywoodKiDhun CMEDIA: Diwali Mela, known as the Festival of Lights, was hosted by Arya Samaj Mandir, Markham on 28th, 2023, from 3:30 pm — 8:00 pm and was attended by a crowd of 400!

#HumanitiesPerspectives; #ArtificialIntelligence; #NEH; #R&D; #CollaborativeResearch Washington, DC/CMEDIA: Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence, a major new research initiative, was reportedly announced earlier this week by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). With the aim of supporting research projects that seek to understand and address the ethical, legal, and societal implications…