| | | The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken over the probe into the May 4 sexual violence incident in Manipur, where three women were stripped and paraded naked, and one was raped, people familiar with the development said on Saturday. | THE DAILY QUIZ Ozempic, a medicine formulated for diabetes, quickly became popular in the US (especially with celebrities) for another reason. Now, many users report that it has paralyzed their stomachs. What were they abusing Ozempic for? a. Muscle gain
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d. Remembering dialogues TAKE THE FULL QUIZ | | THE BIG STORY CBI to probe assault on 3 women in Manipur The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken over the probe into the May 4 sexual violence incident in Manipur, where three women were stripped and paraded naked, and one was raped, people familiar with the development said on Saturday. In an affidavit submitted in the Supreme Court on July 27, the Centre said that the case has been transferred to the CBI, and that the trial should be shifted outside the state and completed within six months of filing the charge sheet. The federal agency’s special investigation team (SIT) is already probing six other cases related to violence and loot of weapons from the armories in the ethnic violence-hit state since June 10. Read more. | | | | | | A LITTLE LIGHT READING Read the room: Subtitles are unlocking new features for filmmakers “Tentacles squelching wetly” is our favourite here at HT Wknd. (That’s from Season 4 of Stranger Things). You can laugh at them, revel in them, or turn them off, but same-language subtitles are altering not just the viewing experience but the storytelling one too. The audience is often reading as they watch. How is this a good thing? Let us count the ways. Perhaps the most significant thing same-language subtitling has done is allow filmmakers to alter the soundscape. Characters can now mumble or whisper, lapse into a dialect or another language, mutter to themselves during an explosive event, or mouth iconic lines amid soaring music. Read more. | | THE WEEKEND FIX One tale, many lives: Inside the worlds of transmedia storytelling In December, the prestigious film magazine Sight and Sound asked director SS Rajamouli to list the 10 greatest films of all time, according to him. Rajamouli’s list was controversial, completely ignoring art cinema for the unabashedly popular, including films such as the Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Kung Fu Panda. He had one Indian film on his list, Kadiri Venkata Reddy’s 1957 Telugu classic Mayabazar. Mayabazar is the telling of an episode of the Mahabharata, but it’s not an episode that is found in standard tellings of the epic. It is based on the Sasirekha Parinayam, a folktale popular in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. In it, Sasirekha, the daughter of Balarama, falls in love with Arjuna’s son Abhimanyu. Balarama wants Sasirekha to marry Duryodhana’s son Lakshmana Kumara. Sasirekha and Abhimanyu finally get together, after the intervention of two Cupids, the deity Krishna and Abhimanyu’s cousin, the demon Ghatotkacha. Read more. | | LIFE HACKS BY CHARLES ASSISI Why going uphill takes you further “Choose what is harder. Youth is a time to prove you have it in you.” The advice was offered by a lecturer at a Chennai-based college to my older teen, after we arrived at a stalemate on what course she ought to pursue in college. She is enamoured by an option that I think isn’t worth investing three years of one’s life in. I have suggested that it could serve as a side hustle, or an elective. That is how we ended up on a conference call with a professional teacher. After he had made his stance clear, he went on to explain it. The pursuit of the easy, when one is young, keeps one from exploring and understanding one’s boundaries, he said. Read more. | | HT This Day: July 30, 1980 India regain hockey gold after 16 years The national tricolour fluttered at the Olympic Games here today as India regained the hockey title after a lapse of 16 years. Read more. | | Were you forwarded this email? Did you stumble upon it online? Sign up here. | | Written and edited by Shahana Yasmin. Produced by Md Shad Hasnain. | | | | | | | Get the Hindustan Times app and read premium stories | | | | | | View in Browser | Privacy Policy | Contact us You received this email because you signed up for HT Newsletters or because it is included in your subscription. Copyright © HT Digital Streams. All Rights Reserved | | | | |  | |
