| | | India will scrap the free movement regime it shares with Myanmar and build a fence on the border with the neighbouring country, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Saturday as he also stressed that the country will be rid of Maoist extremism within three years. | THE DAILY QUIZ Two broods will emerge together in the US for the first time in 221 years. Billions will appear. They’ll make a racket, mate, and lay eggs. Kerala’s Silent Valley has none. Meghalaya’s appears before every Fifa World Cup. Which shrieking insect? a. Beetle
b. Mantis
c. Grasshopper
d. Cicada TAKE THE FULL QUIZ | | THE BIG STORY Myanmar border will be fenced, says Shah India will scrap the free movement regime it shares with Myanmar and build a fence on the border with the neighbouring country, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Saturday as he also stressed that the country will be rid of Maoist extremism within three years. “The government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to fence the entire India-Myanmar border like it has been done along the border with Bangladesh,” Shah said at the graduation parade of 2,551 commandos of Assam Police at Guwahati, one of the five events in which he participated on Saturday. He was on a three-day tour of Meghalaya and Assam, and had attended the plenary session of North Eastern Council in Shillong on Friday. India and Myanmar share a 1,643km border in four states of the northeast -- Mizoram, Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh. The free movement regime allows people living in border areas to travel up to 16km inside the other country without a visa. Read more. | | A LITTLE LIGHT READING Contested Will: What is Shakespeare’s true linguistic legacy? Orders for beer, courtroom arguments and refugees from France have helped a team of scholars begin to answer questions that have drifted, suspended, around the world for over 400 years: What is Shakespeare’s true linguistic contribution? Which words did he really coin? Read more. | | THE WEEKEND FIX Herbie Hancock: Playing it forward On Monday evening this past week, Martin Luther King Jr Day, a man who released his first solo album (aptly called Takin’ Off) a year before The Beatles had their first release, played in a club in South Delhi. On Tuesday, Herbie Hancock, 83, listened to a bunch of young jazz musicians from Delhi play, a sort of masterclass. The Monday performance, along with jazz singer Dianne Reeves and performers from the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, was to honour King — and it also saw US ambassador to India Eric Garcetti play. (How good is he? Well, Herbie Hancock opened for him.) Hancock is a young 83; and seems younger when he plays. And he has played with them all. That first solo album came out when he was 22; in 1965-66, he was tapped to do the soundtrack for the cult movie Blow-Up; then he played for a few years in Miles Davis’s band, before becoming a bandleader. Read more. | | ALWAYS AT THE MOVIES BY ANUPAMA CHOPRA Is there a nude in the balcony? Last week, I got an email from a publicist asking that I review a marquee show. It was a standard request, except for one line: “Kindly inform me about… the charges… We are looking at mainly a positive review.” Two years ago, I received a more blatant offer, via text. “Wanted to check if you are open to doing paid movie reviews. If yes, request you to please let me know how we can go about it,” that publicist said. Clearly, entertainment journalism and the sizeable publicity machinery around showbiz needs overhauling and introspection. As a fraternity, we’ve been on a slippery slope since the avalanche of advertorial material first hit, about two decades ago. The addition of digital platforms muddied the waters further. Over the past decade, entertainment journalists have also had to contend with influencer culture, social media, the immense power of paparazzi handles, and success being assessed in terms of hits and views rather than simple accuracy or insight. Read more. | | HT THIS DAY: January 21, 1957 Nehru inaugurates India’s first reactor; peaceful uses only objective, says PM BOMBAY- MR NEHRU gave the assurance today that India would never use atomic energy for evil purposes “ whatever might happen and whatever might be the circumstances Read more. | | Were you forwarded this email? Did you stumble upon it online? Sign up here. | | Written and edited by Amit Chanda. 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 | | | | |  | |
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