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@Dixit__Nikhil Yes, Nikhil. It was originally declared as 2251+ but due to one unforeseen circumstance, i had to downgrade it.
I wrote to aicf, informed of the need to downgrade, got their permission and only then we changed it
@Dixit__Nikhil Nikhil, it was 2100 and if you can check the list only foreign players were allowed to fulfill the minimum requirements of 20 players. We had 6 norms from the tournament.
@Dixit__Nikhil Yes, Nikhil. All these years i have always followed the cut-off. This year it is 2400 over a period of 2-years from July 2024 to June 2026.
On the auspicious occasion of Mahavir Jayanti, we bow to the timeless teachings of Ahimsa (Non-violence), Satya (Truth), and Aparigraha (Non-possessiveness).
May the path of wisdom, patience, and discipline inspire us to live with compassion, clarity, and courage!
He could speak 8 languages and they said he could recite all 37 of Shakespeare's plays from memory. An award winning playwright & stage artist and one of Satyajit Ray's favourite actors.
Also one of India's finest comic actors in films like Golmaal, and Hirak Rajar Deshe. The irony is that the marvellous comic roles in Golmaal and other films, what most people outside remember him for, is what he regarded as the least important "I have developed a technique of shutting my mind off, switching it off, rather. I will not be able to tell you even the names of the films I have acted in or even the name of the character I have just finished shooting.โ
He was also a brilliant writer & regular theatre reviewer. โMr.Dutt as Othello was rather a pitiable sight, with his voice gone, his breathing laboured and his bulk enormous.โ This was Utpal Dutt reviewing his own stage performance using the pseudonym Iago.
He also loved classical art and there is this wonderful story told by his daughter. "When we went to Italy, it meant we would have to spend at least one day on viewing each sculpture. We had hired the services of a guide. But, we found that Baba knew more about the place than the guide. The next day, the guide asked us if we would be ready to go on our own."
A true renaissance man and a principled one, not scared to go to prison for his views. Utpal Dutt was truly one of our greats.
97th birth anniversary today.
When they finally sentenced Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev to death in the Lahore conspiracy case, they were to be hanged on 24 March 1931.
The fear of a public outcry or a last minute rescue attempt made the British authorities bring forward the execution by 11 hours, at 7:30 pm on March 23rd.
No magistrate was willing to supervise Singh's hanging as was required by law, and it was done by an honourary judge appointed at the last minute.
The bodies were stuffed into sacks and cremated in Hussainiwala while it was still dark.
Thirty years later, India exchanged 12 villages of the Fazilka district with Pakistan in exchange for Hussainiwala and bordering areas and the site of their last rites once again became a part of India.
In 1965, when Bhagat Singh's partner in the Central Legislative Assembly bombing Batukeshwar Dutt passed away, he was cremated there as well in accordance with his last wish to be reunited with his comrades.
And in 1975, Bhagat Singh's mother Vidyawati Kaur was cremated there, joining her son and his fellow freedom fighters.
The National Martyrs Memorial stands there today, a testament to India's bravest and best...
@JustChessSports In one of the Fred Wren's article 'Tale of a Woodpusher' there is a reference of 'Pinkus Analysis' of Two Knights' Defense.
Any idea about this?