The Wordsmith

Shaheen Bagh Protest site at night While chilly wave has seized entire North India, a six-lane highway at the outskirt of North East Delhi, Shaheen Bagh, is simmering slowly on the flame of anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019) and proposed NRC (National Register of Citizens) protest. A makeshift since fortnight, when Jamia Milia Islamia's library faced violent clashes between the protestors and Delhi police, is the temporary installation for thousands of women, men and children lodging their protest against the CAA and the NRC. Under a tarpaulin tent, all day and night, women sit on the floor over a thin layer of mattress. Wearing shawl and scarf, they are beating the cold with their bold voices. The protest so far has been peaceful and the credit goes to the volunteers of Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Nagar and the neighborhood. Two young research scholars from IIT Delhi, Aasif Mujtaba and Sharjeel are the architect behind the peaceful protest at Shaheen Bagh. Volunteers some...

Giovanna Casagrande from Brazil has been crowned Miss Teen Earth 2019 at a spectacular event in Ecuador, South America. Miss Teen Air, Water and Fire were awarded to participants from Mexico, Paraguay and Philippines respectively. Organised by Rodrigo Moreira, this is one of the top seven beauty pageants for teenagers in the world. Bhavna Jain, Miss Teen Fire 2018, from India was happy to pass on her title to the Philippines as they celebrate being the powerhouse Asian countries of the beauty pageant. Jasmeet Kaur, the director of Miss Teen India Earth International, after the event, said, "The new winners are very beautiful and I am happy that they also have a very good social cause to save the environment." As the mother of Teen Universe 2017, Srishti Kaur, Jasmeet Kaur has always felt the need to support charitable acts through pageant winners. Together they have a school for the underprivileged and supported tree plantations along with various other charit...

‘I Heard You Paint Houses’, asks Al Pacino in the 56-seconds teaser of ‘The Irishman’ that was launched by Netflix nine months ago, directed by Martin Scorsese. The sentence was a hint to the movie’s plot. Actually, It’s a narrative non-fiction written by the former defense attorney and investigator Charles Brandt in 2004  that documents the life of an Irish mob hitman, Frank Sheeran, who confesses bone-chilling details of killing James Riddle Hoffa, aka Jimmy Hoffa, whose sudden disappearance became a legend and a mysterious tale in the mid-70s in the United States. Jimmy Hoffa in 60s and early 70s was a powerful labor union leader and the President of International Brotherhood of Teamsters, IBT. ‘The Irishman’ is based on the book, ‘I Heard You Paint Houses’.  ‘The Irishman’ was the most-anticipated movie of the year as Martin Scorsese pulls off a classic reunion with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. It clearly is the most ambitious project of Scorsese as A...