How India-Set Nepal-Shot ‘The Shameless’ Transitioned From Documentary to Adult Animation to Cannes Un Certain Regard Fiction Feature

variety.com Bulgarian-American filmmaker Konstantin Bojanov‘s Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard selection “The Shameless” has taken 14 years to come to fruition. Bojanov previously…

India's butter chicken battle heats up with new court evidence

yahoo.com FILE PHOTO: A freshly prepared butter chicken dish is placed on a table inside the Moti Mahal Delux restaurant in New Delhi NEW DELHI (Reuters) - With new photographic and…

India’s court battle over origins of butter chicken heats up with new evidence

theglobeandmail.com With new photographic and video evidence, an Indian court battle over the origins of the world famous butter chicken is set to get spicier. Two Indian restaurant chains have…

Women Lead Indian Summer at Cannes

variety.com This year marks a milestone for India at the Cannes Film Festival, with nine films from the country across its various strands. The majority of the Indian films on the…

Modi's strongman rule raises questions about India's 'democratic decline' as he seeks a third term

cnbc.com A decade into power, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears set to secure a rare third term, with the general elections now underway. Under his rule, India's economic…

Reopen the NYC-Dublin livestreaming portal, you cowards! It was an example of tech bringing humans together

aol.com None A video portal between New York City and Dublin was shut down this week after "inappropriate" behavior and chaos. • None The portal was a rare and pure instance of…

How Taiwan Is Helping Filmmakers Explore the Boundaries of Cinema

hollywoodreporter.com Diversity, both in content and in terms of the characters explored, appears to be the driving force behind a number of Taiwan-backed productions spread out across this…

How Modi and the BJP turned WhatsApp into an election-winning machine

restofworld.org This story is published in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network and Princeton University’s Digital Witness Lab. On January 22, India’s prime…

Industrialising India

eastasiaforum.org India’s economic growth rate was 7.7 per cent per annum from 2004 to 2014 but has slowed to 5.7 per cent per annum over the last decade. The number of non-farm jobs created…

‘The next decade belongs to India’: Meet the winners of rising power’s economic boom

aol.com As Indians head to the polls in a massive ongoing nationwide election, much attention has focused on the country’s explosive growth under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…

‘Farming the Revolution’ Review: A Poetic Documentary About India’s Largest Protest

variety.com Nishtha Jain‘s “Farming the Revolution” — winner of the best international feature documentary prize at Hot Docs — captures the vast emotional scope of revolutionary…

The Danger of Lumping China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran Together

newsweek.com There is a growing consensus that China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran are aligning into a modern Tripartite Pact, prompting calls for the United States to formulate a grand…

Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men

techcrunch.com Bias in AI image generators is a well-studied and well-reported phenomenon, but consumer tools continue to exhibit glaring cultural biases. The latest culprit in this area…

A machine learning engineer shares the résumé template that got him his first job and his senior role at Google

businessinsider.com Sahil Dua said that speaking at conferences like QCon, KubeCon, PyCon and MLConference have played an important role in his career. Donat Kekesi and Sahil Dua Sahil Dua…