Lighting the lives of school drop-outs

Lighting the lives of school drop-outs New Delhi: Nalini Gangadharan, who started her work on empowering the youth through education in Andhra Pradesh in 2005, has now educated more than 10,000 students across the country. Lighting the lives of drop-out kids, Nalini Gangadharan is awakening the society. She is raising a ray of hope in dark lives of pupils who were unfortunate to get formal education. Youngsters who dropped out of school owing to family and...
10:50 AM, Feb 01, 2012

For Kolkata of past, watch films: Aparna Sen

For Kolkata of past, watch films: Aparna Sen Kolkata: National Award winning director Aparna Sen says filmmakers wanting to portray the Kolkata of the past have a ready reckoner in the films of the 1960s and 1970s. "Let me talk about some of the problems one encounters when trying to shoot in Kolkata," Sen said at a seminar organised at the 17th Kolkata Film Festival. "There are times when we need to portray the city of yesteryears. There...
12:34 PM, Nov 15, 2011

Rajiv Gandhi's assassin Nalini meets husband

Rajiv Gandhi's assassin Nalini meets husband Vellore: Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassins Nalini Sriharan met her husband Murugan at Vellore jail on Saturday morning. This is Nalini's first meeting with Murugan after the President rejected his mercy plea in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. Nalini was shifted to Vellore Jail a few days ago and had not met her husband for over a year. The Madras High Court had ordered a stay on the hanging...
09:12 AM, Sep 10, 2011
I am no one to forgive Nalini: Priyanka Gandhi

I am no one to forgive Nalini: Priyanka Gandhi

Priyanka Gandhi talks about why she made a visit to Nalini, one of the accused in Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, and if she has forgiven her father's assassin. ...
10:43 PM, Aug 29, 2011

The deaths in 'Iti Mrinalini'

The deaths in 'Iti Mrinalini' Death is a paradox " it announces an absence yet it is profound and revered in religions. It is a bonding which marks a distance " between us and within us. This relativism of death makes it an abstraction of separation " intrigues longing and masquerades as permanence. Death therefore essentially links memories to absolutism and in turn rejects itself. In Hindu philosophy of re-birth and the circle (and cycle)...
01:37 PM, Aug 24, 2011

Mother of Rajiv's assassin demands fresh trial

Mother of Rajiv's assassin demands fresh trial Chennai: With President Pratibha Patil rejecting the clemency petitions of three killers of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the mother of one of them on Friday demanded a 'fresh and transparent trial' and claimed her son was not at all connected with it. "While A1 (prime accused) Nalini's punishment was reduced to life imprisonment from death, why can't the same be applied to my son (Perarivalan) who is only 18th...
07:31 PM, Aug 12, 2011

Mercy plea of Rajiv Gandhi's killers rejected

Mercy plea of Rajiv Gandhi's killers rejected New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil has rejected the clemency petitions of three killers of Rajiv Gandhi whose death sentences were confirmed by the Supreme Court in 2000. The apex court had sentenced members of the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) Murugan, Santhan, Perarivalan and Nalini to death in 1999 for the assassination of the former prime minister in Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991. A Rasthrapati Bhavan spokesperson said...
03:53 PM, Aug 11, 2011

Bengali Review: 'Iti Mrinalini' is disappointing

Bengali Review: 'Iti Mrinalini' is disappointing Cast: Aparna Sen, Konkona Sen Sharma, Rajat Kapoor, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Koushik Sen, Saheb Bhattacharjee Director: Aparna Sen Aparna Sen's 'Iti Mrinalini' is not so much of a bad film as it is a disappointing film, coming as it does after the exquisite 'The Japanese Wife.' The story is about Mrinalini, an actress well past her prime. On the night of the premiere of her latest movie, she realizes that her...
10:49 AM, Aug 02, 2011

Cong leader to implead in Nalini petition

Cong leader to implead  in Nalini  petition Chennai: Senior Congress leader Era Anbarasu today filed a petition in the Madras High Court, seeking to implead himself in the review petition by Nalini, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, pleading for her premature release. In his petition, he said the Supreme Court had stated in a number of cases that 'life imprisonment' means sentence of imprisonment for whole of remaining period of the convicted person's...
04:14 PM, Nov 29, 2010

Problem of plenty in 'Sinking, Not Swimming'

Problem of plenty in 'Sinking, Not Swimming' Nalini Rajan's literary effort is plagued by too many characters and a convoluted storyline. ...
06:08 PM, Jul 19, 2010

Rajiv killer Nalini shifted from Vellore jail

Rajiv killer Nalini shifted from Vellore jail She had alleged that prison rules regarding rights of prisoners were being violated by Vellore jail authorities. ...
12:10 PM, Jun 28, 2010

Nalini fears for life, TN govt sets up probe

Nalini fears for life, TN govt sets up probe The committee to look into the allegations by Nalini, that her life was under threat in jail. ...
12:26 PM, May 13, 2010

Mobile phone found in Rajiv killer's cell

Mobile phone found in Rajiv killer's cell Police say the phone was "active" when it was recovered and authorities are going into the details of call records. ...
03:35 PM, Apr 20, 2010
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