Category: Arts, Culture & Entertainment

** Ali Fazal bags Best Actor nomination at Asia Content Awards by Busan International Film Festival

As per a statement, Ali bagged the nomination for his role of Ispit Nair in ‘Forget Me Not’, one of the four films in the ‘Ray’ anthology on Netflix.

** Techie couple leave IT business in US to help stray animals in India

Peepal Farm, multidimensional enterprise, houses stray animals and also runs a clinic to treat them. It also helps people of different countries to adopt animals from India and rescue strays.

 A women-driven small scale social enterprise in Dhanotu village of Kangra district.

Peepal Farm, multidimensional enterprise, houses stray animals and also runs a clinic to treat them. It also helps people of different countries to adopt animals from India and works to rescue stray animals. Besides, the organisation also makes indigenous products by employing locals.

“We established this NGO in 2014 with a view to look after stray animals and give them shelter,” says CEO Robin Singh.

** Kerala sisters from Australia recite national anthems of 193 countries, win hearts, world record

Standing at the St John’s Cathedral in Australia’s Brisbane on World Peace Day (September 21), Teresa, 21, and Augnes, 18, set a world record.

The sisters, hailing from Thycattussery village of Cherthala taluk in Kerala, entered the Australian Book of Records and won a certificate from the Universal Records Forum by performing an incredible feat — they recited the national anthems of 193 countries, one after another, all from memory.  

** Fahadh Faasil-starrer ‘Joji’ wins top honour at Swedish International film fest

“Joji”, which released on Amazon Prime Video, is inspired by Shakespeare’s tragedy “Macbeth” and presents a “twisted version” of the plot.

** NRI claims Kerala lottery bumper prize of Rs 12 crore

Sayedalavi, a native of Wayanad in Kerala, who is now working as a hotel employee in Dubai, told a section of media that he had the habit of taking lottery tickets and this ticket was taken by his friends in Kozhikode district in Kerala.

** Veerappa Moily, Arundhathi Subramaniam, other winners receive Sahitya Akademi Award

While Moily received the prestigious award for his epic poetry ‘Sri Bahubali Ahimsadigvijayam’ in Kannada, Subramaniam won the award for her poetry collection, “When God is a Traveller”, in English.

The other winners in poetry include Harish Meenakshi (Gujarati), Anamika (Hindi), RS Bhaskar (Konkani), Irungbam Deven (Manipuri), Rupchand Hansda (Santali), and Nikhileswar (Telugu).

Nanda Khare (Marathi), Maheshchandra Sharma Gautam (Sanskrit), Imaiyam (Tamil) and Sri Hussain-ul-Haque bagged the award for their novels.

Apurba Kumar Saikia (Assamese), (late) Dharanidhar Owari (Bodo), (late) Hiday Koul Bharti (Kashmiri), Kamalkant Jha (Maithili) and Gurdev Singh Rupana (Punjabi) have received the award for short stories.

The Akademi has named Gian Singh (Dogri) and Jetho Lalwani (Sindhi) the winners for their plays, while Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay, popularly known as Shankar received the award for memoir (Bengali).

** World-famous physicist Thanu Padmanabhan dies of a heart attack in Pune

A distinguished professor at Pune’s Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics and a cosmologist, Professor Padmanabhan was selected for ‘Kerala Shastra Puraskaram’ 2021 last month.

** Doha: Voice of World – Season 1 winners declared

he most awaited trending and entertaining Doha Music Lovers ‘Voice of World’ Online singing competition ended on September 10, 2021 by finding its three winners of both Hindi and Telugu languages simultaneously.

The three winners announced in Hindi were Tejaswi from California, USA, Jyotisha Santosh from Doha, Qatar and Shruthi Prabhala from Bilaspur, India. For Telugu the three winners were Medha Anantuni from Texas, USA, Geeta Lakshmi from Pennsylvania, USA and Mavuru Sravani from Vishakhapatnam, India. Many contestants are left in the show to entertain the viewers.