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"As I travelled looking for the film's lead actor, I realised that we are filled with talent. The non-actors were so good and exactly what I had imagined.
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#MakingIndiaProud #FeatureFilm #BhavinRabari #Gujarat #IndianCinema

60 of them were shortlisted, 6 were taken, and the roles they were to play were decided.", says writer-director #PanNalin on the recently #Oscars2023 nominated #ChellowShow.

Set in rural Gujarat, the film is the story of a 9-year-old boy who begins a lifelong love affair with cinema when he bribes his way into a rundown movie palace and spends a summer watching movies from the projection booth.

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Dec 22

"'All That Breathes' is an ecological film that deals with the relationship between man and bird and the internal emotional struggle between the brothers.

#Proud #Oscars #AcademyAwards2023 #Nominations #Documentary #IndianCinema

The minute I met them with industrial decay on one side and these regal-looking birds on the other, I immediately sensed it was an inherently cinematic place.

After that, was 3 years of the rigorous long-winded shoot.", says #ShaunakSen about his #Oscars2023 shortlist documentary, #AllThatBreathes.

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Dec 22

"Earlier, men worked as 'raj mistris', and it was challenging to convince them to construct toilets since they said it was a small job that would not pay them much.
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#Inspiration #WomanMason #BreakingStereotypes #ODF #Award #WomenEmpowerment

So, when the district officials contacted our Gram Panchayat and asked for volunteers, I stepped in.", says Sunita Devi, who embarked on a #ranimistri (woman mason) career to build toilets urging other women to join in.⁠
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Sunita is a postgraduate in political science and lives in Udaypura village in the Latehar district of #Jharkhand with her husband and two children.⁠
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Dec 22

(1/5) #Gurugram-based Abhilasha Purwar and her brother Kshitij are laying the foundation to build a Bloomberg-style data analytics firm for the #environment.

(2/5) Founded in 2018, their #startup Blue Sky Analytics created Zuri, an #AI platform to measure and monitor #farmfires and #stubbleburning in India.

Zuri can predict high-risk zones as well as expected volume and calorific value of crop waste.

(3/5) It also includes information on marketplaces to enable farmers to sell stubble rather than burn it.

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Dec 22

#NationalMathematicsDay2022 #Heritage ⁠
We have often marvelled over the grandeur of these Indian monuments. But did you know about the mathematics in their stunning architecture?
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Dec 22

In 1904, Ramanujan left high school; his future looked promising: he had won the school’s mathematics prize.

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And, more importantly, a scholarship allowing him to study at the Government Arts College in the town of Kumbakonam.

Despite being a mathematical prodigy, Ramanujan's career did not begin well.

He received a college scholarship in 1904, but he quickly lost it by failing in non-mathematical subjects because of his strong inclination towards mathematics.

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