Before “A Beautiful Mind” turned the story of a mentally ill math genius into Oscar gold, David Auburn’s play “Proof” had performed similar alchemy, winning both the Pulitzer and a Tony for the tale about a mentally ill math genius’s daughter. Like its film successor, “Proof” skirts the mathematics in favor of accessibility and...
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- Act on roadside meet unlawfulContradictory provisions in the legislation brought forward by the State government to overcome the Kerala High Court’s ban on roadside meetings make it unlawful, alleged petitioner Dejo Kappan on Thursday. The affidavit filed by the petitioner at the high court highlights that Section 4 of the legislation, Kerala Public Ways Restriction of Assemblies and Pr […]
- Cannot censor the Web: Google to IndiaAhead of a court hearing, technology giant Google facing controversy in India allegedly for hosting obscene and objectionable content on Thursday made it clear that it is not possible for the company to monitor everything on its website. Google and Facebook are among 21 companies whose executives have been summoned to appear in person in a lower court in Del […]
- Kerala governer MOH Farook remembered as leader who groomed othersKerala Governor MOH Farook maintained cordial relations with his opponents and groomed many political leaders, Congress leaders in his home state of Puducherry said Friday, a day after his death. “He was a very learned politician and trained many in politics, including me. Puducherry politics stabilised after his entry. He was friendly with everybody,” V. Va […]
- City inching closer to pipeline dreamIt seems that there is hope round the corner for the industrial aspirations of the energy-starved north Kerala. If the Rs 3,100-crore project of laying a natural gas pipeline from Kochi LNG terminal takes shape, Kozhikode will enter the big league of cities with a direct-to-home piped gas distribution network. The 720-km-long Kochi-Koottanad-Bangalore-Mangal […]
- Muslim League denies scuttling probeThe Muslim League, the second largest constituent of Kerala’s Congress-led ruling UDF, on Thursday said that it was not against any kind of investigation – even a CBI probe – into the conspiracy behind the 2003 Marad carnage in which eight Hindus were brutally massacred. Lok Sabha member ET Muhammad Basheer, the party’s Kerala general secretary, said in Kozh […]
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