Largest art museum in US to showcase works of Indian sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee

The exhibition is made possible by Nita Ambani, her husband Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and the Reliance Foundation. Born in Mumbai in 1949, Mukherjee studied painting, printmaking, and mural making at the M S University in Baroda, with the influential artist K G Subramanyan, under whose guidance Mukherjee first experimented with fiber. Phenomenal Nature will also present the latter half of Mukherjee's career in the mid-1990s, when, prompted by a residency at the European Ceramics Work Centre in the Netherlands, she began working with ceramics, eventually taking on bronze in 2003. 'Probing the divide between figuration and abstraction, Mukherjee would go on to fashion unusual, mysterious, sensual, and, at times, unsettlingly grotesque forms, commanding in their presence and scale,' the museum said. A committed sculptor who worked intuitively, never resorting to a sketch or preparatory drawing, Mukherjee in her forms explored the divide between figuration and abstraction. She was primarily inspired by nature and this was further informed by her enthusiasm for Indian historic sculpture, modern design, and local crafts and textile traditions. The exhibition will seek to highlight the radical intervention Mukherjee made by adapting crafting techniques with a modernist formalism. The artist's fiber forms are physical and organic. She never worked with a loom; instead, knotting became her primary technique and it imbued her sculptures with three-dimensional volume and a sense of monumentally, the museum said in a release. Mukherjee used natural as well as hand-dyed ropes sourced from a local market in New Delhi, where she lived and worked. The forms she fashioned are replete with sexual imagery, while some of her large anthropomorphic pieces — in which the vegetal, human, and animal coalesce — at times suggest the imagery of classical Indian sculpture. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttps://www.plurk.com/ruheenasazzu

Promoter alert down DHFL

Following this, the BSE sought clarification from DHFL with reference to the news report over lookout notice against DHFL promoters. Replying to the clarification, DHL said that neither the company nor the promoters have received any communication relating to such a notice."Please note that the company and/or its promoter-directors have not received any communication from the authorities regarding issuance of any lookout notice. Apart from this, according to our knowledge, there is no other price-sensitive information under Regulation 30 of the SEBI listing regulations which could have bearing on the share price of the company,'' the company said.DHFL pointed out that it is focussed on getting a strategic partner and building a strategy for its back-to-business growth. The company also denied all allegations of existence of any alleged shell firms."We have fully co-operated with all authorities and we have not received any communication from any authorities in support of any of these allegations," it added.Earlier, investigative news portal Cobrapost had alleged that DHFL through layers of shell companies siphoned off over Rs 31,000 crore of public money through secured and unsecured loans and advances to shell companies, that were related to its own primary stakeholders through their proxies and associates. In March, the company cited a report from an independent audit firm which said that it has not promoted any of the 27 shell companies that were alleged to have siphoned off money. The independent chartered accountant firm T P Ostwal & Associates LLP said in its report that the company has not promoted any of the alleged 26 shell companies that are borrowers.DHFL was recently in the news when its stopped acceptance and renewal of fixed deposits. Reports of a lookout notice being issued against the promoters of DHFL comes after a similar notice was issued to former Jet chairman Naresh Goyal. This circular is issued against a person directing the immigration authorities to ensure that the individual does not leave the country through an airport or seaport. There have been reports of the MCA suggesting more than 20 names against whom the circular could be issued. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://www.aeriagames.com/user/aneeshaass/

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With 8,000 guests, Modi's swearing-in to be Rashtrapati Bhavan biggest event

Both the BJP and NDA have improved their tally compared to 2014. The swearing-in will be held in the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan, the same venue as in 2014. The event then was attended by about 5,000 guests. The high tea will have snacks, including samosas, and paneer items apart from sweets, while at the President's dinner, the visiting foreign dignitaries will be treated to 'Dal Raisina' - a special delicacy of the Rashtrapati Bhavan that takes 48 hours to cook - among other delicacies. The Prime Minister will also attend the dinner, along with some officials. With the swearing-in scheduled for 7 p.m., dinner will be light as it will be served a little late in the evening. The dinner will have both vegetarian and non-vegetarian options and include soup, fish, chicken, vegetables and the 'Dal Raisina' - a variant of popular 'maa ki dal'. 'It is a speciality of our kitchen. Its special recipe was developed here in Rashtrapati Bhavan. It takes 48 hours to prepare. The process of preparing it started on May 28 and it will be ready by tomorrow (Thursday),' Malik said. The Bimstec leaders attending the event include Bangladeshi President Abdul Hamid, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, Myanmarese President U Win Myint, Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering. Thailand will be represented by its Special Enovy Grisada Boonrach. The event will also be attended by leaders of political parties, Ambassadors and diplomats and celebrities from various fields. (The story has been published from a wire feed without any modifications to the text, only the headline has been changed.) DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttp://www.sccaforums.com/user-profile/userid/59979

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How to get the stalled lane moving?

The simple fact that the share of agriculture is now about 13 per cent of GDP and falling, while still being the source of sustenance for almost 60 per cent of the population reveals the stark reality. A vast section of India is being left behind even as India races to become a major global economy. The realities are indeed stark. The savings/GDP ratio has been in a declining trend since 2012 and Mr Modi has so far been unable to reverse it. Consequently, the tax/GDP ratio and investment/GDP ratio have also been declining. The rate of economic growth has been suspect and all objective indicators point to it being padded up. The drivers of economic growth such as capital expenditure are dismal. Projects funded by banks have declined by over half since 2014 to less than `600 billion in 2018. Projects funded by the market have dropped to rock bottom. Subsequently, the manufacturing/GDP ratio is now at 15 per cent. Corporate profits/GDP ratio is now at a 15-year-old low at about 2.7 per cent. You cannot have adequate job creation if these are dipping. Declining rural labour wage indices testify to this. Low food prices testify to demand contraction and have added to farmers' distress. But yet Prime Minister Modi won the election hugely. In over 200 Lok Sabha constituencies, the BJP took more than 50 per cent of the votes cast. So what is happening here? In 1973, Albert O. Hirschman, the celebrated University of California Berkeley economist, published The Changing Tolerance for Income Inequality in the Course of Economic Development, and with it the 'Tunnel Effect' came to be an integral part of the sociologists' and economists' lexicon. In the paper, Hirschman argued: 'In the early stages of development, when income inequality among different classes, sectors, and regions tends to rise, society's tolerance for this inequality will be substantial. The reason people can tolerate this inequality is that they hope and expect that this disparity will fall at one day or another. However, if this disparity does not narrow, there comes a point when people will no longer endure it.' He illustrated this by using the behaviour of car drivers in a two-lane tunnel enduring a traffic jam. When one lane starts moving, the drivers in the still stalled lane feel hopeful and wait patiently. But when their lane remains stalled for a long time, they lose their patience and try to jump the lane, and soon chaos ensues. We see this happen every day in our lives in India when people are quick to jump lanes and traffic chaos results. It is very clear now that one lane has been moving and doing well in India. Indeed, so well that an Oxfam study revealed that that as much as 73 per cent of growth during the last five years accrued to just one per cent of the population. This does not mean it is just the tycoons of Mumbai and Delhi who are cornering the gains. The government now employs close to 25 million people, and these have now become a high-income enclave. The number of persons in the private and organised sector is about another 10 million. In all, this high-income enclave numbers not more than 175-200 million (using the thumb rule of five per family). Much of the consumption we tend to laud is restricted to just these people. The challenge is now to expand this high wages enclave. This is easier said than done, when we realise that over four-fifths of the labour force is in the unorganised sector, and the vast majority of these are unskilled and uneducated. Income transfer schemes will only put many of these in the consumption loop, but without addressing the problem of low productivity that blights the Indian economy. The only realistic solution is creating jobs for these millions and that can only come from labour-intensive sectors like construction of housing and rural infrastructure. For this, government capital expenditure needs to be raised dramatically. This is directly related to increasing the savings/GDP ratio. I would recommend that the PM give a special focus to critical ratios like taxation/GDP, capital expenditure/GDP, investment/GDP and income inequality. Our problem gets even more compounded by the fact that this segment of India, where most of the growth is accruing, tends to live in urban areas and in certain regions. The in-country inequality is now a matter of grave concern. We are now witnessing huge in-country migrations. Earlier the migrations were to fill in labour shortages in states like Punjab and Haryana, where disproportionate recruitments into the military and paramilitary created rural labour shortages that got filled in by migration from Bihar, West Bengal and even Bangladesh. We are now witnessing migrations from eastern UP, Bihar, Odisha and the Northeast into South India, where the population growth has dramatically slowed down and ageing is becoming an issue to contend with. This is now causing considerable disquiet, now quite palpable in the social media chatter. This time it cannot be palmed off on 'ghusbaitis'. The migration from Bangladesh has incidentally become a focus of upper caste and class Hindu ire. Thus, when we hear the RSS, BJP and their affiliates rage and rail against 'ghusbaitis', they are actually targeting Muslims. The irony now is that it is forecast that between 2025-30, the per capita income in Bangladesh might exceed India's. This is also something we need to ponder over instead of just parroting the line that we are the fastest growing 'major' economy. One of the notable programmes of Modi Sarkar 1.0 was the Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan, to popularise toilet usage by embarking on a massive rural construction programme. But there is now increasing evidence that a majority of toilets have fallen into disuse due to a lack of sewage and water shortages. This is because there is no local government worth the name in the entire country. No local government usually means no local infrastructure for water supply and sanitation. I have been an early proponent of a nationwide water supply and sanitation programme, but I have always said that without local government, and that means decentralisation, these programmes will fail. Prime Minister Modi needs to make this a priority in his second term. The job of leading India must easily be the toughest job in the world. Knowing where to start adds to the complexity. But the starkness of the issues makes this somewhat easier to discern. The focus now needs to expand to add jobs creation, reduction of income inequality to growth. One lane has been moving since 2000 when India entered the high-GDP growth trajectory. The patience of the stalled lane in the tunnel is now reaching the end of its endurance. The question is how much time does Prime Minister Narendra Modi have left to get the stalled lane moving? The writer, a policy analyst studying economic and security issues, held senior positions in government and industry. He also specialises in the Chinese economy. ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttps://www.theverge.com/users/reetasignaas

Kavitha is daughter of a fighter, Lok Sabha result not a setback: KT Rama Rao

"We won only one seat in Khammam district in the Assembly elections but got a lead in many Assembly segments in the Khammam LS seat. Likewise, the TRS was in the lead in many Assembly segments in Mahabubabad LS seat, where the party did not fare well in the Assembly polls." The Congress won all three seats with simple majorities. "The TRS got a 3.5 lakh vote majority in the Warangal LS seat. But the Opposition's combined votes in seven Assembly segments in the constituency was less than the TRS' majority in Warangal," he analysed and admitted that national factors like the Modi wave seemed to have worked among voters aged between 18 and 30. "In my Sircilla segment, I got an 89,000 vote majority in 2018, but it fell to 6,000 in the LS polls. There are no workers for the BJP and no polling agents in several booths. But the voters supported the BJP," Rama Rao said. The BJP leaders could not have even expected to win the Adilabad LS seat, he added. "We have to check whether the series of elections, right from the Assembly polls, slowed down governance and created an impact on voters in the LS polls," KTR said. 'Kavitha a fighter's daughter' Asked about the defeat of Kavitha in Nizamabad, Rama Rao said that she was not defeated due to the farmers' agitation. All the so-called farmers were political agents, he alleged. "Nomination papers of around 93 farmers were prepared at the residence of a Congress leader in Jagtial," Rama Rao said, claiming that the Congress and BJP colluded in Nizamabad. "Failure is an orphan. But success has so many fathers. We will not be discouraged by the defeat in Nizamabad and Karimnagar. Kavitha is the daughter of a fighter (KCR). She has been participating in programmes in Nizamabad, and B Vinod Kumar, who lost the election in Karimnagar, is meeting people from Karimnagar every day. 'TRS will get majority' While asserting that the TRS' vote bank was intact, Rama Rao said the party would get the lion's share in ZP chairpersons and MPP posts. 'It's not my failure' When asked about reports in a section of the media saying the TRS received a jolt in the LS polls after KTR took charge as working president of the party, Rama Rao said: "We got a majority of the seats in GHMC. But no one praised me (yevaru kireetamu pettaru?). The LS poll results are not an indication of my failure."He wondered why the media, which came down on him, failed to call Naidu an utter flop leader in Andhra Pradesh, when the TDP received a drubbing in AP polls. Relations with the BJP Asked about the party's relations with the BJP at the Centre, Rama Rao said the TRS government in the State would maintain a "government-to-government" relationship with the BJP at the Centre. "We have maintained constitutional relations with the BJP in the past. We supported GST and demonetisation, but fought with the Modi government on State issues like the delay in bifurcation of the high court. We will continue this approach. We will support the BJP on issues of national importance, but fight for our rights and funds," he said. KTR alleged the Congress was not in a state to act as a better Opposition in the Lok Sabha and there was a need for all regional parties to unite and play the role of the Opposition. "Even if regional parties like the DMK, YSRCP and others won a majority of the seats, they can't do anything now, as the BJP got sufficient numbers. Even if the TRS won all the 16 seats, our role is limited in the formation of the government in Delhi. But the regional parties should unitedly fight for their rights. Stronger regional parties will help the federal spirit to flourish," the TRS working president said. Rama Rao refused to come down on TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu, but said cordial relations with YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, the CM-designate of AP, would continue. "Telangana shares a long border with AP - from Alampur to Bhadrachalam. We have to maintain good relations with neighbouring states. Now, there is a mutual trust and respect between the Chief Ministers of AP and TS," Rama Rao said. Asked if the defection of 11 Congress MLAs had an impact on the TRS in the LS polls, Rama Rao pointed out that the TRS got a majority in eight out of 11 seats. He, however, said Congress MLAs did not join the TRS technically. 'Hajipur incident being politicised' Claiming that some Opposition leaders' attempts to politicise the Hajipur incident was painful, TRS working president KT Rama Rao said that the ruling party wanted to set up a fast-track court to punish the accused in the case. He added that the party felt very sorry about the recent suicides of Intermediate students 'Kavitha is daughter of a fighter' On his sister Kavitha losing the polls in Nizamabad, KTR said: "We will not be discouraged... Kavitha is a daughter of a fighter (Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao) DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The New Indian Expresshttps://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/users/ashashinaa/

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Yash begins shooting for KGF 2, actor's look leaked online

'The team is currently in Kolar Gold Fields and the shoot has started. The pictures that have leaked online cannot be confirmed as his look in the film,' a source told Silverscreen.in. LEAKED! Is this Yash&dhapos;s look in KGF Chapter 2? pic.twitter.com/RwUtcLBNka — Muvipedia (@muvipedia) May 12, 2019 Reports also suggest that Sanjay Dutt has been approached for a negative role in KGF 2. The Bollywood actor turned down a chance to star in the first part due to unavailability of dates. If things pan out, KGF 2 will mark Sanjay Dutt's debut down south. Directed by Prashanth Neel, KGF traced the rags to riches journey of Rocky (Yash) and his quest for power in the underbelly of the Kolar Gold Fields. The film was released in India on December 21, 2018 and went on to become a huge hit. The film had one of the biggest openings for a Kannada film as it released in over 2400 theaters across the country. Despite mixed reviews, KGF performed well commercially and is the highest grossing Kannada film of all time. function catchException() {try{ twitterJSDidLoad(); }catch(e){}} function getAndroidVersion(ua) {ua = (ua || navigator.userAgent).toLowerCase(); var match = ua.match(/android\\s([0-9\\.]*)/);return match ? match[1] : false;}; var versions='4.2.2'; var versionArray=versions.split(',');var currentAndroidVersion=getAndroidVersion();if(versionArray.indexOf(currentAndroidVersion)!=-1){var blocks = document.getElementsByTagName('blockquote'); for(var i = 0; i < blocks.length; i++){blocks[i].innerHTML = '';}}DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttps://www.pearltrees.com/renaultregens

Rajahmundry: Awareness drive held for girls on hygiene

He advised them to use sanitary napkins during the menstrual periods rather than soiled clothes that could cause infection. Use of medicines to stop menstrual periods would affect their health, he cautioned and asked them to consult a doctor in case they experience heavy bleeding. He advised the girls not to dump used napkins in toilets and avoid environmental problems in residential areas and further advised them to learn more about it. Earlier, the civic authorities along with several government agencies took out a rally to bring about awareness among the girls on menstrual cycle. ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttp://southmainalliance.org/UserProfile/tabid/57/userId/638744/Default.aspx