TK Arun

TK Arun

TK Arun is a Senior Journalist and Columnist based in Delhi.
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Impact of the Passing Away of Michael Gambon on India

India is a multicultural world, with common, shared, underlying themes; its many languages dictate we must be bilingual, trilingual.

The death of actor Michael Gambon grabbed headlines, thanks to his part in popularising a modern myth, playing Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight Harry Potter movies that together raked in some $7.7 billion worldwide. The British press described him as Sir Michael Gambon, knighted as he was for his long, solid career in British theatre and television, which included playing Shakespearian heroes, and about 150 character roles in films. But people in India know him because he played Dumbledore,the headmaster at Hogwarts, the school of magic where Harry Potter learns magic, and, more importantly, forges friendship, develops moral clarity and courage, discovers love and loss, and fights the good battle against evil.

Trudeau’s Intentions and Indo-Canada Relations

Canada might not be a very large country, but it has been broadly supportive of Independent India’s development.

All those that take the sword shall perish by the sword. Good Christians recognise this as a sayingof Christ. All sensible people, Christian or otherwise, recognise the validity of the aphorism.

The Relevance of an American Protest Song in the Struggle for Democracy in India

The song, Rich men north of Richmond, is no great shakes in terms of musical quality or lyrical appeal, but its lines capture the angst of an ordinary worker.
A working man’s protest song in the US released in August swiftly rose to the top of the charts, propelled by partisan politics and the Republicans’ use of the song as a political anthem sung at their rallies and meetings.

Domestic Startups Need Funding to Thrive

Huawei is not just any phone-maker. It is a company that was set up to give China indigenous capability in the entire telecom value chain, from developing communications and signalling technologies to designing chips, routers and telecom networks to producing the components that go into setting up a telecom network, besides making handsets. It spends 15-20 per cent of its turnover on R&D. It has been the world’s cheapest provider of telecom gear and rapidly gained market share around the world.

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