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YEARS # 1 Indian American Weekly : Since 2006 VOL 15 ISSUE 28 ● NEW YORK / DALLAS ● JULY 09 - 15, 2021 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 ● [email protected] www.theindianpanorama.news India’s PM Narendra Modi in a India celebrates the 75th Independence Day on August 15,2021. major reshuffle drops 12 senior To commemorate the historic event, we are bringing out a profusely ministers and inducts a younger team illustrated special edition. Besides the commissioned articles, we invite readers to contribute. Please send in your articles by August 01, 2021 to [email protected]. Advertising space may please be booked by July 26, 2021 at [email protected] For more information, please visit www.theindianpanorama.news For all inquiries, please call 646-247-9458 or email to [email protected] The new inductees in the council of ministers with India's President Ram Nath Kovind, 8th from left, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 6th from left. - Photo / Courtesy PIB INDIAN AMERICAN I.S. SALUJA dropping 12 ministers and inducting 15 in a few States, the most important being NEW DELHI (TIP): In a balancing act cabinet ministers and 28 junior Uttar Pradesh, a State which plays a ASTRONAUT SIRISHA and to refurbish the image of the ministers. decisive role in the fortunes of political BANDLA SET TO FLY OFF government, Prime Minister of India The exercise is believed to have been parties and the federal government. INTO SPACE ON JULY 11 Narendra Modi, reshuffled his ministry, necessitated by the upcoming elections CONTD ON PAGE 38 Third woman of Indian descent to fly LEGENDARY INDIAN ACTOR into space will be a mission specialist Indian Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh on Virgin Galactic’s ‘Unity 22’ flight. DILIP KUMAR HAS DIED AT 98 Sandhu interacts with White House fellows I.S. SALUJA WASHINGTON (TIP): Founded in 1964, the White MUMBAI (TIP): Founded in 1964, the White House Fellowship is a non- Dilip Kumar, the House Fellowship is a non- partisan programme that Bollywood icon, partisan programme that brings young leaders into the hailed as the brings young leaders into the federal government to provide "Tragedy King" and federal government to first-hand experience working one of Hindi provide first-hand at the highest levels of cinema's greatest experience working at the government. actors, died highest levels of government A key element of this Wednesday,July 7, in Sirisha Bandla is all set to fly off into space India’s Ambassador to the unique fellowship is the a Mumbai hospital on July 11 as a mission specialist on Virgin US Taranjit Singh Sandhu on education programme in after a prolonged Galactic’s next test flight Thursday, July 1, interacted which prominent leaders illness. He was 98. "Dilip Kumar will be Ambassador Sandhu is the remembered as a with White House fellows first one to be invited from across society meet the "Dilip Kumar will cinematic legend’, WASHINGTON (TIP) July 5: Indian and discussed with them the under the Biden fellows. be remembered as a tweeted Prime American Sirisha Bandla is all set to fly intricacies of diplomacy and administration to this In the past, the fellows have cinematic legend. Minister Narendra off into space on July 11 as a mission the relationship between the interaction heard from dignitaries like He was blessed with Modi. specialist on Virgin Galactic’s next test world's oldest and largest democracies. Colin Powell, the former secretary of state. unparalleled brilliance, due to which flight of its SpaceShipTwo Unity with Sandhu, in a tweet, said "an enjoybale Sandhu was the first one to be invited audiences across generations were Company’s founder, Sir Richard and substantial interaction" with the under the Biden administration to this enthralled. His passing away is a loss to Branson. White House fellows at Eisenhower interaction. In the past, several Indian- our cultural world," Indian Prime The “Unity 22” mission, the twenty- Executive Office Building, which is part of Americans have been selected for the Minister Narendra Modi said in a second flight test for VSS Unity, will be the White House complex. prestigious fellowship. Prominent among tweet. the first to carry a full crew of two pilots "Covered wide areas ranging from them include Dr Sanjay Gupta of CNN, "An institution has gone," Bollywood and four mission specialists in the diplomacy, India-US relations, regional Rajeev Venkayya, EVP Vaccines, Takeda superstar Amitabh Bachchan tweeted. cabin, according to a company developments, health care, energy, Pharmaceuticals. "Whenever the history of Indian Cinema announcement. environment, IT and education with this Indian-American Priya Dandiya from will be written, it shall always be 'before CONTD ON PAGE 38 group of young emerging American Florida is a White House fellow for the year Dilip Kumar, and after Dilip Kumar'.” leaders in different fields!” he added. 2020-21. (Source: PTI) READ MORE ON PAGES 2,4,5 Dr. Anupama Gotimukula is the New President of AAPI ATLANTA (TIP) July 5: Dr. Anupama Gotimukula assumed charge as the President of American Association of Physicians of Indian Dr. Anupama Gotimukula is the Origin (AAPI), during the 39th annual Convention fourth woman President of AAPI, of America’s largest ethnic physician organization an association of more than 80000 in Atlanta on July 4. practicing physicians of Indian CONTD ON PAGE 38 origin in its 39 years long history THE INDIAN PANORAMA EDITORIAL FRIDAY JULY 09, 2021 YEARS 02 -: GUEST COMMENT :- PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER: Prof. Indrajit S. Saluja VICE PRESIDENT: Goodbye, Dilip Kumar Chitagam Saluja CHIEF EDITOR: he passing of Dilip Kumar, the of characters — a dapper young man in Prof Indrajit S. Saluja king of melancholia on the silver Andaz, a farmer in Mela and Naya Daur, CONSULTING EDITOR : Tscreen, signals the final break an unbounded adventurer in Azaad and Deepak Dwidedi, Chairman, from the early days of Hindi film Kohinoor, the prince in Mughal-e-Azam, Bhaskar Group, Delhi ‘talkies’, when actors were beginning to a dacoit in Ganga Jamuna. But the role ASSISTANT EDITOR: shed the exaggerated theatricality of that epitomized his ‘Tragedy King’ Bidisha Roy stage drama and learning to love the persona was as Devdas in Bimal Roy’s SPL. REPORTER UNO: camera. In the 1930s and 1940s, Ashok film of the same name in 1955. Deep- H.S. Panaser Kumar, Motilal Rajvansh and Balraj diving into tragic characters caused him GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Sahni were among the handful of actors to be depressed, and the light-hearted, Om Parkash Malik taking pioneering steps towards natural, swashbuckling roles he played in the DIRECTOR realistic acting. They were eschewing mid-1950s were part of efforts to cheer ADMINISTRATION: the preceding style that — with its hand- his spirits. Gauri Beri waving, over the top gestures and facial By the 1970s, with Dilip Kumar in his expressions — seemed affected and 50s, his charm as the leading man began CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: artificial. Then came Dilip Kumar, the to fade and he made an impressive Pathan from Peshawar, who went a step transition into character roles — the Baldev Singh / BJ Videos Gunjesh Desai / Masala Junction further, deep into the skin of the most memorable role of this phase was Jay Mandal, character he was playing. He didn’t as a police officer in Shakti (1982), in Mohammad Jaffer, make a mark in his earliest movies, but which he is clearly the giant among SnapsIndia collaborating with Nitin Bose in 1946 Amitabh Bachchan, Smita Patil and Mohammad Shahzad, proved a turning point. He began to Kulbhushan Kharbanda. His brooding Zia Khan, develop the finer nuances of his craft style, however, began to seem dated by Nisha Rani and, in his own words, ‘evolved a the time he did his final films. He long Vaaho Photographers, method’ — a method actor without outlived his two foremost rivals and Vijay Shah - Photo Journalist. training. friends, Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand — CORRESPONDENTS : The Finest actor of his time takes the final Through the 1940s to 1960s, in a newly- bow but at 98, it is time for the finest actor of SACRAMENTO: independent country brimming with his time to take the final bow. Parminder S. Aujla hope but grappling with new challenges, Dilip Kumar played an impressive range (Tribune India) NEW YORK : Chitagam FRESNO: -: GUEST COMMENT :- Tarlochan Singh DALLAS: Harjit Dhesi, Amarjit Dhillon OVERSEAS CORRESPONDENTS The death of Fr. Swamy LONDON Nirpal Singh Shergill DENIAL OF BAIL TO UNDER-TRIALS MUST COME UP FOR SPL CORRESPONDENT NATIONAL DEBATE DELHI BUREAU CHIEF: Chandan Singh tanislaus Lourduswamy or Father CHANDIGARH: Stan Swamy, a Jesuit priest, was Manjit Sidhu Sborn in Tiruchirappalli, worked in LUDHIANA: Ranchi for the rights of forest dwellers A.S. Arora, and died at the age of 84 in Mumbai as an R.P.Sharma under-trial prisoner, exemplifying the JAIPUR : undying spirit of rebellion against the State power and life-giving kindness for Dr. Yashpaul Goyal Custodial death of Fr. Stan Swamy, a the meek. 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