5-year-old boy dies after falling into 200-feet borewell in Madhya Pradesh

A 5-year-old boy died after falling into a 200-feet-deep borewell in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) said. According to NDRF officer Pavan Gaur, the boy fell into an uncovered borewell at a farm in Kopardi village of Madhya Pradesh’s Ahmednagar district. The deceased boy,…

‘Was important to write about the bits that, in my eyes, didn’t work’: Uday Bhatia on his book on Satya

Ram Gopal Varma’s Satya released in 1998 and uncovered a peculiar site of curiosity — the inner lives of gangsters. It altered the depiction of outlaws in Hindi films without deviating from the demands of the genre. But before that, the film changed the lives of a director who barely spoke Hindi but was…