Bhaskar

Accenture has identified a set of use cases across 19 industries where generative AI can deliver significant results, Bhaskar Ghosh, global chief strategy officer at Accenture told ET in an interview. He added that even as Accenture, and its customers, are both excited about the potential of using generative AI, large language models and generative AI cannot be applied to every practice. Internally, the company has identified over 300 use cases where generative AI can have a tangible impact. This is across aspects like…

Bhaskar Chattopadhyay’s The Cinema of Satyajit Ray is divided into two parts - the first analyses all 39 of Ray’s films, including his feature films and the controversial documentaries Sikkim (1971) and Bala (1976), that he made over 36 years while the second part comprises in-depth interviews with 17 personalities who have been deeply impressed by the auteur’s cinema. While the author’s analyses of Ray’s films are well-researched, they do not add much to what’s already known about them. The section on Bala informs the…

It is not often that a solitary article spawns two international seminars, and two excellent edited volumes. But Mukul Kesavan is exactly the kind of thinker who can set off big intellectual currents with throwaway remarks. His 1994 article Urdu, Awadh and the Tawaif: the Islamicate roots of Hindi Cinema provided the impetus for Ira Bhaskar and Richard Allen’s 2009 collection Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema which studied Bombay cinema through the lens of the “Muslim Social, the Historical, the Courtesan film and the…