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The Hindu
29-06-2025
- The Hindu
Beach-2 stretch of Tannirbhavi Beach bags Blue Flag tag
A stretch of the Tannirbhavi Beach, locally known as Beach-2, has been recognised as a Blue Flag beach. The Dakshina Kannada district administration has called the tender for maintaining the other stretch, known as Beach-1. The tender process for Beach-2, off Fatima Church, was recently completed and construction firm Northern Sky got the contract. In-charge Assistant Director of Tourism Dileep said the new agency has been tasked with maintaining the Beach-2 in accordance with Blue Flag beach norms. The ecology on this nearly one-km-long stretch of beach should not be disturbed. It is for the agency to hold water sports and other activities on the stretch, he told The Hindu. The tender process for Beach-1 is on. As many as four agencies, including Yojaka (India) Private Limited, which maintained both the stretches till January 2025, have applied. Mr. Dileep said the tender would be finalised shortly. The Union Ministry for Environment, Forest, and Climate Change has granted ₹7.59 crore for Beach-2 through its project for the development of Blue Flag beaches. Similarly, Mangaluru Smart City Limited granted ₹7 crore for the development of the beach. Facilities, including restrooms, washrooms, a shop, shacks, and walkways, have been established at the beach, and two shops selling snacks have already been operating at the location. Charges The parking fee for visitors' vehicles parked on the Fatima Church Ground is ₹20, and the entry fee for Beach-2 is ₹20 per person. Additionally, a charge of ₹100 per hour applies for using the shacks, and an extra ₹10 is charged for using the washrooms. The ferry ride from Sultan Battery to Fatima Church costs ₹10.
New York Times
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘The Penguin Lessons' Review: A Unique Approach to Teaching
A movie aspiring to be a droll animal-led comedy and an examination of a dictatorship has an intimidating number of needles to thread. The director of 'The Penguin Lessons,' Peter Cattaneo, also made 'The Full Monty,' so he has some experience with crowd-pleasing films, at the same time being deft with unusual subject matter. The movie begins with a familiar disclaimer that it's based on true events. The actor Steve Coogan plays Tom Michell, a teacher from southern England who is unhappily assigned to an upper-class boy's school in 1970s Argentina. (Jeff Pope's script is based on Michell's memoir of the same title.) On an idle day at the beach in nearby Uruguay, Tom encounters a penguin emerging from an oil spill. Hoping to impress a woman he's met there, Tom brings the creature back to his hotel, cleans it off and tries to return it to the ocean. No luck. The penguin believes he's made a friend. Once Tom returns to Argentina, he contrives to make the penguin he has named Juan Salvador a teaching tool, and his English class becomes wildly successful. (While Juan Salvador is supposedly a creature of the wild, he executes all sorts of cute bits that only a trained performer can pull off.) Things get serious when one of Tom's housekeepers is swept up in the military dictatorship. Tom opts to abandon his apolitical facade because the penguin has taught him how to care about others. While Juan Salvador is a shameless exhibitionist, Coogan's performance is understated; he conveys Tom's softening without nudging the viewer too much. On the other hand, the misuse of Nick Drake's 'Northern Sky' on the soundtrack is egregious. The rest of the picture is largely winsome and inoffensive.
