Screengrab from Youtube trailer NEW DELHI: The Shri Ramlila Mahasangh has asked the makers of Ranbir Kapoor-starrer Ramayana to hold a special preview screening for its representatives before the film’s worldwide theatrical release, warning that it will stage protests if the request is not accepted.In a letter addressed to director Nitesh Tiwari and the film’s…

This is a representative AI image (Chatgpt) Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis transformed an ordinary man into a giant insect to explore alienation, helplessness and the dehumanising pressures of modern life.More than a century later, India’s self-styled Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has adopted a similarly unsettling symbol, not to tell a work of fiction, but to…

Shehzad Poonawalla; Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Former BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Sunday took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi over his Friendship Day message for Gen Z, referring to the Korean finger heart emoji in the Congress MP’s social media post as “counting fingers”, accusing the Gandhi family and the grand old party of corruption.Poonawalla,…