Sunday 24 December 2023

Politicians and their businesses

Business is more important. Political narratives and shouting's are just noises to be ignored.

Sharad Pawar thanks Adani for contributing 25 cr to Baramati Tech Centre : Hindustan Times.

Article states "After the inauguration, Pawar thanked Adani and Vijay Shirke of Shirke Construction for donating a combined ₹35 crores to set up the centre. (HT PHOTO)"






Saturday 23 December 2023

Duplicate Language / Copy

An article in New York Times reported "Harvard Finds More Instances of ‘Duplicative Language’ in President’s Work"

Scratching head and wondered as to what is Duplicate Language?. 

On reading the article it stated that "Harvard University, in the face of mounting questions over possible plagiarism in the scholarly work of its president, Claudine Gay, said on Wednesday that it had found two additional instances of insufficient citation in her work.

The issues were found in Dr. Gay’s 1997 doctoral dissertation, in which Harvard said it had found two examples of “duplicative language without appropriate attribution.”.

Okay we ordinary people call it Copy.
Media calls it Plagiarism.
Harvard calls it Duplicate Language.

Duplicate language in layman's term is copy. 

Saturday 9 December 2023

Zoya's ignorance.

In a recent interview Zoya Akthar (daughter of Javed Akhtar) stated:

My dad came from nowhere and made a life for himself. I was born and bred in the industry, and I have every right to follow whatever I want to do. As part of his network and what he made, I know those people. What am I going to do, disown my dad because I want to be a filmmaker? Are you saying I can’t choose my profession? It makes no sense. The actual problem is something else, and this is just like beating a dead horse… it’s not going to do anything. If every kid born into the film industry never worked in cinema, it’s still not going to change your life,” she added.

Father of Javed Akthar - Jan Nisar Akhtar.

He was the son of Muztar Khairabadi and great grandson of Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi his career spanned four decades during which he worked with music composers including C. Ramchandra, O.P. Nayyar, Datta Naik also credited as N. Datta and Khayyam and wrote 151 songs. Notable among them were songs from his breakthrough film, AR Kardar's Yasmin (1955), Aankhon hi Aankhon Mein in Guru Dutt's CID (1956), Yeh dil aur unki nigahon ke saaye in Prem Parbat (1974) and Aaja re in Noorie (1979) and his last song, Ae Dil-e-naadaan, in Kamal Amrohi's Razia Sultan (1983).[2] (Source: Wikipedia).

Javed Akhtar son of Jan Nisar Akhtar was born on 1945. Jan Nisar Akhtar wrote lyrics for movie Baap Re Baap (1955 movie) and other movies.

When Zoya Akhtar says her father came from nowhere it appears she is ignorant. Very Unfortunate.

To know about relationship between Javed Akhtar and Jan Nisar Akhtar please read the interview Javed Akhtar on troubled relationship with his father, not getting along with step-mother: ‘He was a good poet, but…’