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Business, Countryside

Project-IT: Reimagining Rural India

BY NICK PEARCE Project-IT: Reimagining Rural India through the lens of Visual Education/Films/Cinema With 65% of India’s population residing in rural areas and smartphone penetration reaching 90%, the infrastructure for digital connectivity exists. However, access to transformative content remains limited. Project-IT addresses this gap by leveraging cinema as a tool for education and empowerment. Shrirang Deshmukh, co-founder of Project-IT (pictured below) with a background in … Continue reading Project-IT: Reimagining Rural India

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Music

Preserving Tagore’s Musical Legacy for Posterity

BY RUCHIRA GHOSH Once upon a time, there was a little boy who was passionate about music; in fact, music ran in his veins. His late father, a flautist, had been a close associate of the legendary Sachin Dev Burman. Throughout his childhood and formative years, this young boy took music seriously. He learned to play the piano and briefly studied the sarod under the … Continue reading Preserving Tagore’s Musical Legacy for Posterity

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English

Ingliss

BY RUCHIRA GHOSH As She is ‘Spoke’ on  the Subcontinent The British Colonials departed the Subcontinent several decades ago. The cultural legacy they left behind includes, most importantly—yes, you’ve guessed it right—the English language! In spite of being jostled around by Hindi, the lingua franca of millions of desi patriotic citizens, English still remains the official (and business) language of the country for all practical … Continue reading Ingliss

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