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Harry Potter and the deathly hallows-I: Movie review

Harry Potter and the deathly hallows -I is the beginning of the end of the Harry Potter series. It continues to reveal what happens after Albus Dumbledore’s death. The wizarding world and also the muggle world is in grave peril like it was seventeen years ago as the Dark Lord rises to power again. Lord Voldemort is determined to murder his archenemy and is hunting for him. Harry Potter on the other hand, is still committed to the mission assigned to him by Dumbledore of destroying the Horcruxes which are the only way of to overcome Lord Voldemort. Along with him on this journey are his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. After the fall of the ministry of magic, Harry and his friends must speed up their search to find the Horcruxes. The trouble is they have to work out all the clues because they have no idea where the remaining Horcruxes are or how to destroy them. With the death eaters on their chase, Harry and his friends have to deal with all kinds of ca

Reminiscing Commander J

Shakespeare says, ‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once…’, Jyotirmoy Dey was one of them. J. Dey or Commander J as he was known in the journalist circle, left for heavenly abode on 11 June, 2011. His death has been deeply grieved by family and friends and his loss felt by the media world. The cold-bloodedness of the murder continues to grip India in shock and pain, the wrath pours from a nation who calls itself a land of democracy, a land of freedom of speech and expression. J Dey, who was working as a special investigations editor in the tabloid Midday, was one among the best in his profession. He was passionate about investigative journalism and wrote several stories exposing crime and the dreaded underworld in the city of Mumbai in his career of two decades. He was someone who was very familiar with the workings of the underworld and wrote extensively and ceaselessly about underworld dons like Dawood Ibrahim, C

Two sides of the same coin

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power, because they control the minds of the masses” - Malcolm X Media has played a significant role in the birth of the modern world. Renaissance, reformation and revolutions would have never been successful without the advent of media and the world would have not been what it is today. It has played a vital role in awakening the masses to a dawn of enlightenment and liberated them from the bounds of ignorance and superstitious beliefs. It has encouraged mankind to be rational and not to accept anything blindly. Media has always been the watchdog of the society. The Indian history is a great example of how press and radio mobilized the Indian masses and ultimately led them to independence. The power of media had infused fear in the British government and made them resort to repressive measures. However, t