Gal Gadot has stated that the video of her and other celebrities singing John Lennon's 'Imagine' from their balconies as a show of support for people fighting Covid-19 was 'in poor taste.'
In the upcoming episode of an interview series 'This Cultural Life', Paul McCartney, opened up about The Beatles' break up.
Mark David Chapman shot and killed Lennon on the night of December 8, 1980, as he and Ono were returning to their Upper West Side apartment.
On December 8, 1980, Chapman fired five times at Lennon, hitting him four times in the back, and later sat down on a nearby curb reading a novel until he was arrested by the police.
"As you know, one of my best friends was shot not far from here. It is important to me," McCartney told CNN.
They wrote around 48 songs during their seven-week stay at the centre, now known as the Beatles Ashram.
It is twenty-five years ago that John Lennon was murdered. This 1971 interview that is said to have inspired him to write the anthem by the above name first appeared in The Red Mole.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.