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India.com
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India.com
Meet actress who was known for her bold attitude, had a failed marriage, faced casting couch, heroes asked her to…, she is now…
Meet actress who was known for her bold attitude, had a failed marriage, faced casting couch, heroes asked her to…, she is now… In the glitzy and glamorous industry of showbiz, where people are obsessed with vanity, people do judge the book by its cover. Superficial appearance, boldness often grab the eyeballs of the audience and raise some celebrities to fame. One such star grabbed headlines not just for her films but also for her bold on-screen performance. Hailed as one of the hottest actresses of Bollywood, she has an unapologetic attitude and outspoken nature, which sometimes also landed her in many controversies. The person we are talking about is none other than Mallika Sherawat. She made her debut in the film industry with the film Jeena Sirf Merre Liye in the year 2002. However, the movie that rose her to fame was the film Khwahish and Murder . Soon her fearless performance made her a fan favourite, and she became a household name. Coming from a small village of Moth in Hisar, Mallika was born as Reema Lamba. Belonging to a conservative family, who weren't happy with Sherwat decision of coming to Bollywood, she proved them wrong them wrong and came a long way in her career as she even made her mark globally when she appeared alongside Jackie Chan in the film Myth (2005) and then in the Hollywood film Hiss in the year 2010. Besides getting the much needed attention in Bollywood, Maliaka's life hasn't been smooth sailing. In an interview, she openly revealed about facing harassment, casting couch, and being typecast. 'There were so many accusations and judgments on me. If you wear short skirts, kiss on screen, then you're a fallen woman with no morals. Men tend to take liberties with you. This happened with me too,' she shared, opening up about how male co-stars would try to take her liberty, misbehave with her, 'Why can't you be intimate with me? You can do it on screen, what's the problem in doing that with me in private?.' When she refused to give in to their demands, she was sidelined from the industry. Despite facing such challenges, Mallika hasn't shied away from holding her ground and speaking her truth. Being away from the limelight for years, she tried to make her comeback with Raaj Shaandilyaa's Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video, alongside Rajkummar Rao and Triptii Dimri, which was released on October 11, 2024. Speaking of her personal life, Sherawat married in 1997 in a hush-hush to a Delhi-based pilot, Karan Sing. She kept her marriage a secret to not hamper her Bollywood career. However, the wedding only lasted for a year. The Murder actress now lives a luxurious life in LA. Her tale speaks about courage, boldness, and determination and also shows that for setback, there is a bigger and larger comeback.
India Gazette
11-05-2025
- Politics
- India Gazette
"India's political leadership failed to secure lasting strategic gains": Assam CM on 1971 military victory
Guhawati (Assam) [India] May 11 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday expressed concerns about India's handling of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, questioning whether the country's political leadership fully capitalised on the strategic opportunities presented by the military victory. While the war resulted in the creation of Bangladesh, Sarma argued that India failed to secure lasting gains in several key areas. In his X post, he said, 'The Myth of Bangladesh's Creation: A Strategic Triumph, A Diplomatic Folly. India's 1971 military victory was decisive and historic. It broke Pakistan in two and gave birth to Bangladesh. But while our soldiers delivered a stunning battlefield success, India's political leadership failed to secure lasting strategic creation of Bangladesh is often hailed as a diplomatic triumph -- but history tells a different story.' Sarma noted that while India supported a secular Bangladesh, the country has since become increasingly Islamised, with Islam being declared the state religion in 1988. This shift has undermined the values India fought to protect. 'Secular Promise, Islamic Reality: India supported a secular Bangladesh. Yet by 1988, Islam was declared the state religion. Today, political Islam thrives in Dhaka, undermining the very values India fought to protect,' Sarma posted on X. He highlighted significant decline in the Hindu population in Bangladesh, from 20% to under 8%, attributed to systematic discrimination and violence. 'Persecution of Hindus. Hindus, once 20% of Bangladesh's population, have dwindled to under 8%. Systematic discrimination and violence continue -- a shameful reality that India has largely ignored,' the Assam CM said. Sarma criticized the then Indian leadership for largely ignoring the vulnerability of the Siliguri Corridor, migrant crisis, no access to Chittagong Port and insurgents finding refuge. Despite military dominance, India failed to secure a land corridor through northern Bangladesh, leaving the Siliguri Corridor (Chicken's Neck) exposed and hindering the integration of the Northeast. 'The Chicken's Neck Left Exposed Despite military dominance, India failed to resolve the vulnerability of the Siliguri Corridor. A secure land corridor through northern Bangladesh could have integrated the Northeast -- but no such arrangement was ever pursued,' he said on X. The lack of an agreement mandating the return of illegal Bangladeshi migrants has led to unchecked demographic changes in Assam, Bengal, and the Northeast, sparking social unrest and political instability. 'Migrant Crisis Ignored. No agreement mandated the return of illegal Bangladeshi migrants. As a result, Assam, Bengal, and the Northeast face unchecked demographic change, sparking social unrest and political instability,' added Sarma. India did not secure access to the strategic Chittagong Port, leaving the Northeast landlocked and limiting its economic potential. Moreover, Bangladesh served as a base for anti-India insurgents, exploiting the vacuum India failed to close in 1971. 'No Access to Chittagong Port India did not secure access to the strategic Chittagong Port. Five decades later, the Northeast remains landlocked, despite having birthed a nation through blood and sacrifice. Insurgents Found Refuge For decades, Bangladesh served as a base for anti-India insurgents. Groups exploited the vacuum India failed to close in 1971,' said the Assam CM. Sarma concluded that India's military triumph in 1971 was not matched by strategic foresight, resulting in a lost opportunity to shape a new regional order. He suggested that the creation of Bangladesh was not fully leveraged to India's advantage, with the country's political leadership failing to secure lasting gains in key areas. He added that had former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi been alive today, the nation would have questioned her for mishandling the victory won by the armed forces. 'Conclusion: A Victory Undone by Silence India's military triumph in 1971 was not matched by strategic foresight. What could have been a new regional order was reduced to a one-sided act of generosity. Had Mrs. Indira Gandhi been alive today, the nation would have questioned her for mishandling the decisive victory won by our armed forces. The creation of Bangladesh was not a bargain -- it was a historic opportunity lost,' he said. (ANI)
Winnipeg Free Press
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Stanzas for SPRING
This year's National Poetry Month marks the 10th anniversary of Writes of Spring, an annual gathering of poems edited by Ariel Gordon and, this year, Charlene Diehl, director of Plume Winnipeg. Of the 500-plus poems submitted, Gordon and Diehl selected 13 from established and emerging Winnipeg poets, including Rosanna Deerchild, the only returning writer of the group, Marjorie Poor, Spenser Smith and others, which can be found in the 49.8 section of today's Free Press. (Pages F2 through F4 in the print edition.) A reading to launch and celebrate these poems will take place at McNally Robinson Booksellers' Grant Park location at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Re:Wild Her ● ● ● Rewilding, an intervention into the natural world to restore ecosystems, is the structuring conceit in Shannon Webb-Campbell's latest collection, Re:Wild Her (Book*Hug, 112 pages, $23). These poems follow the speaker from Iceland to France to California through art, tarot and deep time, gathering tenderness and claiming pleasure and expansiveness. The collection is propelled by a subtle, incantatory rhythm that evokes the ebb and flow of the tide: 'Water rushes over cracked earth/ you retrace tides through clay/ grounding mud with reversing rhythms/ (… .)// what flows in/ must flow out.' In How Do I Reach for the Wild/ (Three Graces), Webb-Campbell uses the life cycle of a girl, woman, crone to trace a process of reclaiming a self that's been worn away. The poem moves from a position of alienation from the world and the self — 'how do I reach for the wild?/ circle the womb/ how can I grasp the wind?/ motherlines ring a cosmic spin' — toward reconnection: 'become a fish-woman/ emerge from the water's offering/ after a trinity of swims all in one day/ baptism by sea.' Buy on Myth ● ● ● Terese Mason Pierre's much-anticipated debut, Myth (House of Anansi, 120 pages, $23), is a startling, transformative collection. Using a series of speculative logics and images, Pierre transcends the boundaries between earth, ocean and cosmos and past and future. In Momentum, the speaker considers the conditions of belongingness: 'My family takes a second helping of love —/ my father, from the church parking lot.' From this opening, Pierre weaves images that create friction between the speaker's family and true belonging before she invokes a myth to change the story: 'I draft// a new mythology, of sand and shells/ and touching every other creature// that has breathed an air of full faith/ beyond a warped chain —// a taught beld, the scuttling of crabs/ underfoot, the rising tithes.' Here, Pierre's intricate use of line and language shine. She ties this new mythology of water and interconnection to the opening image of the church parking lot with 'the rising tithes,' which at the same time calls back the strictures of religious rules — and, with its phrasing and near-rhyme, evokes the ocean. These poems enact a myriad of small and monumental shifts away from disconnection and injustice into a web of belonging and justice. In Aliens Visit the Islands, Pierre envisions a possible future that centres and celebrates Black people, as well as an ideal model of cultural exchange: 'they give us teleportation (the key is to ignore/ philosophy when you push the button) and we/ give them white sand, yellow roti, a container/ of sorrel.' While the background of this poem is the meeting of two cultures, the poem ends with a several-lines-long meditation on grief and longing, which is rooted in the Aliens' physical difficulty inhabiting the world: 'When they leave, they promise/ to tell their people Earth was warm, was Black,/ and cradles its pain in the sea.' Unmet Buy on ● ● ● In Unmet (Biblioasis, 124 pages, $22), stephanie roberts uses surrealism and ekphrastic poems to explore the way one's imagination shapes one's experience of the world. The poems in this collection demonstrate a vivid use of image and a versatile use of line and technique. In the first of four poems titled Unmet, roberts conjures Marilyn Monroe as a child, who 'during services (…) sat/ on her hands, bit her lip, & for a minute,/ forced a smaller self against the world.' Here, the past and the spiritual world are made concrete with a visceral bodily sensation, of an addressee for whom 'silence stiffens your neck,' of a girl whose adult self will become iconic forcing 'a smaller self against the world.' In Einige Kreise (Several Circles), an ekphrastic poem responding to Wassily Kandinsky's painting of the same title, roberts explores the relation between viewing a painting and painting it. The poem opens and closes with the same image pattern. In the opening, the speaker imagines cold, and in the closing stanza, after the speaker has moved backward and forward in time, 'the imagination's ouroboros' returns to cold and 'Love waits at the end of line;/ mind seizes line, draws it/ end to end, kisses it to canvas.' Elegy for Opportunity Buy on ● ● ● Natalie Lim's debut, Elegy for Opportunity (Wolsak & Wynn, 96 pages, $20), opens with an argument against writing to feed the voyeuristic hunger for trauma: 'what if I'm done with diasporic trauma. done imagining what people want to read,' she writes. What follows is a dynamic collection, lively and moving with curiosity. During Elections Get campaign news, insight, analysis and commentary delivered to your inbox during Canada's 2025 election. In On Biology, the speaker considers the way the pandemic altered their relation to the world and their bodily experience. Notably, the speaker does not look away from the ways in which they are made helpless in the face of overwhelming conditions: 'gotten bored/ and felt guilty about it, because what a privilege it is/ to be bored instead of desperate or sick. I try to do/ the small things I can, for myself and the world —/ go on walks, sign petitions, take baths, donate./ all of it feels like failure.' The collection is anchored by five elegies for the NASA Opportunity Rover. In the last of these, which closes the collection, 'things are bad right now./ really bad.// the world feels unrepairable.' Here, the short, end-stopped lines weigh the poem down — for good reason, because, as in On Biology, the problems Lim faces aren't solvable with individual action, whatever good intentions fuel them: 'unchecked greed and exploitation./ heat domes and cold snaps./ bombs, disease, starvation, genocide —/ 40,000 dead in Gaza.// 40,000.' The strength of these poems lies in their clear-sightedness and their bravery. Time and again, Lim faces devastation in the same way she continues to address the dead rover, the same way she continues to imagine a future, persistently, curiously, lovingly: 'I would love that kid so much,/ like no one has ever loved a kid before,' she says of the question of motherhood, 'and it wouldn't be enough/ but I would try, I would try so hard.' Buy on Poetry columnist melanie brannagan frederiksen is a Winnipeg writer and critic.
CBC
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Myth by Terese Mason Pierre
Myth, the much-anticipated debut collection from the multi-talented Terese Mason Pierre, weaves between worlds ('real' and 'imaginary') unearthing the unsettling: our jaded and joyful relationships to land, ancestry, trauma, self, and future. In three movements and two interludes, the poems in Myth move symphonically from tropical islands to barren cities, from lucid dreams to the mysteries of reality, from the sea to the cosmos. A dynamic mix of speculative poetry and ecstatic lyricism, the otherworldly and the sublime, Pierre's poems never stray too long or too far from the spell of unspoiled nature: "The palm trees nod / at the ocean / the ocean does / what it always does / trusts the moon completely." Friends 'with benefits' tour the wonders of Grenada's landscapes; extraterrestrials visit the Caribbean and the locals don't seem phased; red birds "saunter airily like tourists," La Diablesse lures helpless suitors to their dooms. This collection asks: How can myths manifest themselves in our daily lives? What do we actually mean when we say we love ourselves and others? And how do we pursue/create futures that honour our truths, histories and legacies? (From House of Anansi Press) Myth is available in April 2025.
Yahoo
22-03-2025
- Yahoo
John ‘Black Jack' Kehoe remembered by great-great-granddaughter
POTTSVILLE — John 'Black Jack' Kehoe was not the leader of the so-called Molly Maguires, and was innocent of the crime for which he was hanged in 1878, a direct descendant said recently at a program at the Schuylkill County Historical Society. Anne Flaherty, Kehoe's great-great-granddaughter, outlined her argument during a discussion of her new book, 'The Passion of John Kehoe: And the Myth of the Molly Maguires.' The result of 20 years of research, the book challenges the image of Kehoe and the Molly Maguires as portrayed in 'The Molly Maguires,' a 1970 movie starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris, as well as numerous articles and books. 'Kehoe was portrayed as a terrorist miner in the movie,' she said. 'And as the 'King of the Mollies' in a book by Allan Pinkerton.' Not only was he not a terrorist, she argued, Kehoe was not a miner. Kehoe was Girardville's high constable, the equivalent of police chief. He owned and operated the Hibernian House pub, and ran for state representative in 1870. Similarly, others among the 21 Irish Catholics hanged in Schuylkill, Carbon and surrounding counties between 1877 and 1879 were also not miners. Flaherty's research puts a new face to the condemned men who went to the gallows in one of the largest mass hangings in American history. 'If they had been miners,' Flaherty said, 'they worked their way out to become area businessmen, tavern operators, tax collectors and political delegates to the Democratic Party.' Five of those hanged were school directors, she said, and all were members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish Catholic fraternal organization. Four of the condemned were members of the Workingmen's Benevolent Association. Founded in 1868 by John Siney, of Saint Clair, the WBA was one of the first labor unions in the United States. It was active in strikes against coal operators in Schuylkill County. 'These Irishmen were not thugs, and they were not oppressed mine workers,' Flaherty said. 'So we need a new explanation for what went on.' * Anne Flaherty, left, and William J. Kirwan, descendants of John Kehoe, at a lecture on Flaherty's book, 'The Passion of John Kehoe: And the Myth of the Molly Maguires' at the Schuylkill County Historical Society on March 19, 2025. (RON DEVLIN/STAFF PHOTO) * John 'Black Jack' Kehoe (SCHUYLKILL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY) * The gravesite of John 'Black Jack' Kehoe at St. Jerome's Cemetery along Mahanoy Street in Tamaqua. (FILE PHOTO) Show Caption 1 of 3 Anne Flaherty, left, and William J. Kirwan, descendants of John Kehoe, at a lecture on Flaherty's book, 'The Passion of John Kehoe: And the Myth of the Molly Maguires' at the Schuylkill County Historical Society on March 19, 2025. (RON DEVLIN/STAFF PHOTO) Expand Flaherty's 512-page treatise lays the blame largely at the doorstep of Franklin Gowen, president of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. in Pottsville. She outlines in detail Gowen's connection to New York newspapers, which characterized the condemned men as terrorists. Responding to a question by William J. Kirwan, of Mar-Lin — Kehoe's great-great-grandson — Flaherty said a letter by Archbishop James F. Wood of Philadelphia did irreparable damage to the accused men's ability to receive a fair trial. The letter was circulated nationally and internationally. 'Bad men are a terror anywhere, but now particularly so in the coal region,' said the letter, first read by Fr. O'Connor in Mahanoy Plane on Dec. 15, 1875. 'Beware of the Molly Maguires.' Joseph Wayne, Kehoe's great-grandson and the author's cousin, was among the 75 or so persons who filled the historical society conference room to capacity. For years, Wayne has steadfastly maintained that his great-grandfather was not the so-called King of the Mollies. The trials were basically a sham, he said, where defendants were not allowed to testify, some of the jurors didn't speak English well and the prosecutor was head of the coal company. 'They could have saved time by just taking them over and hanging them,' he said, sarcastically. 'This was all about breaking up labor unions.' Wayne continues to operate the Hibernian House, which is temporarily closed, more than 150 years after it was founded. Plans are to develop part of it as a coal miner's museum. Kehoe professed his innocence in a letter written from the 'Pottsville Prison,' in which he appealed for support from friends shortly before he went to the gallows in the courtyard of the Schuylkill County Prison on Nov. 18, 1878. 'Thinking over the cruelties that have befallen me by bribery, perjury and prejudice, I am under a sentence of death for a crime I never committed,' he wrote. 'I am convicted of the beating death of Frank Langdon that was committed in Audenreid nearly 16 years ago.' Saying he did not get justice, despite evidence that provided his innocence, Kehoe added, 'It was all jug-handled justice.' Due in large part to Wayne's determination, Gov. Milton Shapp pardoned John Kehoe in January 1979. The pardon was granted after an investigation by the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons. David Moore, the Board of Pardons agent who investigated the proposed pardon, attended the program in the historical society. He graduated from Pottsville High School in 1962. 'After reading through the case file, I reported there's nothing here,' said Moore, who recommended Kehoe be pardoned. 'The Passion of John Kehoe: And The Myth of the Molly Maguires' is available online and in the Schuylkill County Historical Society.
