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'Vidya Balan is astounding as my mummy!'

‘Vidya Balan is astounding as my mummy!’

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‘My mother had a vivacious personality and it had to come out, and Vidya was our only choice.’ ‘She is mummy on screen!’

IMAGE: Vidya Balan, who plays Shakuntala Devi, and Sanya Malhotra, who plays her daughter Anupama Banerji, in Anu Menon’s Shakuntala Devi.

Shakuntala Devi Director Anu Menon shares a beautiful bond with the Maths genius’s daughter Anupama Banerji, and it shows.

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29 IAS officers reshuffled by Government of Madhya Pradesh.

Madhya Pradesh government has reshuffled 29 IAS officers. Abhaya Kumar Verma as Collector, Agar-Malwa; Deepak Singh as Deputy Secretary, Secretariat; Vishesh Gadhpale as Collector, Satna; Mrs Surabhi Gupta as Collector, Alirajpur; Virendra Singh Rawat as Collector, Shajapur; Shamim Uddin as Deputy Secretary, Secretariat; Mrs Sufiya Farooqui Wali as Collector, Raisen; Ajay Gupta as Collector, Sehore; Shrikant Banoth as Collector Dhar; Gulshan Bamra has been appointed as Commissioner, Sagar division, while Mrs. Chhavi Bhardwaj was made Mission Director, National Health Mission and Dr. Vijay Kumar J is Director, Public Health and Family Welfare. Similarly, Ajay Singh Gangwar has been appointed as Collector, Neemuch; Sudham Pandharinath Khade as Additional Secretary, Secretariat;Umesh Kumar as Deputy Secretary, Secretariat; Ashish Kumar as Commissioner, Jabalpur Municipal Corporation; Ms Shailbala Anjana Martin as Deputy Secretary, Secretariat; Shashi Bhushan Singh as Collector, Katni; Satendra Singh as Deputy Secretary, Secretariat; Manish Singh as OSD, Industries; Ganesh Shankar Mishra as Deputy Secretary, Secretariat; Chandramouli Shukla as Deputy Secretary, Secretariat; Manoj Pushp as Collector Mandsaur; Neeraj Kumar Singh as Deputy Secretary, Secretariat; Dr Pankaj Jain as Deputy Secretariat; Rajiv Ranjan Meena as Deputy Secretary, Secretariat and Bakki Karthikeyan was made Dindori. Besides, Mrs. Renu Tiwari was posted as Commissioner, Chambal division, Morena; Mrs. Tanvi Sundryal as Collector, Khandwa; Tarun Rathi as Collector, Damoh; Karmvir Sharma as Collector, Panna; Mrs. Shanmukh Priya Mishra as Deputy Secretary, Secretariat; Akshay Kumar Singh as Collector, Niwadi. Read the full article

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via Today Bharat In an interview to TNM, Anupama Banerji talks about her relationship with her mother, math genius Shakuntala Devi. A lot has been written and said about the late Shakuntala Devi, globally renowned as the “human computer”, rattling off answers to complex calculations involving long numbers within seconds. However, the Bengaluru-born math genius’s story was told through a different lens in the eponymous film by Anu Menon starring Vidya Balan which released on Amazon Prime Video on Friday – through the relationship she had with her daughter Anupama Banerji. spoke to Anupama, who now lives in London with her husband Ajay Abhaya Kumar and their two daughters. She was one of the main collaborators with whom co-writers of Shakuntala Devi, Anu Menon and Nayanika Mahtani, worked over a period of three years. “The first time we met was actually at Harrods in London, which was my mum’s favourite store,” Anupama tells TNM. “We were supposed to meet for half an hour, but we ended up talking for six hours,” chimes in Ajay. “Several coffees later, after everything unravelled as we spoke, they realised that there was a lot more to Shakuntala Devi than being a human computer. She wasn’t just a genius. The story would not be complete unless they brought out the other aspects as well. It was there that it began… and here we are,” Anupama says with a smile. Ajay Abhaya Kumar, Vidya Balan and Anupama Banerji Anupama speaks of her mother with love but also honesty, over a video call from London. “We didn’t have a perfect relationship,” she says. In the film, we see the duo have plenty of intense arguments too. Shakuntala is shown as an unconventional mother, something that Anupama's character – played by Sanya Malhotra – has a problem with. “Growing up, I didn’t understand where she came from. It was more like, other people have normal lives, but why am I not getting that. As I grew older, I understood that she had struggled. She came from difficult circumstances and struggled to get where she did. If she hadn’t struggled, I would have been where she was. It was all for us,” Anupama says. It is known that Shakuntala married Paritosh Banerji in the 1960s, but the couple separated after it came to light that Shakuntala’s husband was gay. According to the film though, Shakuntala had made this up in order to led authenticity to her book, The World of Homosexuals. Anupama recalls that her mother was a single parent, and would always be busy – her diary, full of events one after the other. “So boarding school seemed like the best option. I met her only during the holidays, but at different places in the world,” Anupama says. Shakuntala Devi travelled extensively to give demonstrations and shows with her talents in mathematics. “So, it wasn’t quality time and there wasn’t a feeling of home,” Anupama narrates. “But later, in my 20s, she had also begun to calm down and I started to understand her struggles. That’s when a friendship blossomed between us. She was so receptive, so easy to talk to – that helped. We also made a conscious effort to make a home and spend time there, because we realised it was important. It was just her and me in this whole wide world,” Anupama says. “Ultimately, we loved each other intensely and stood by each other. That’s what matters in the end.” Anupama says that she was the only person her mother was possessive of too, and she understood and enjoyed that. In the film, we see many instances of these – such as when Vidya as Shakuntala refers to Anupama as her daughter with Paritosh, as opposed to “our daughter”. While she says it lightly – she states that she has a greater right on Anupama because she birthed her, and received three-inch stitches, not her husband. Even when Sanya as Anupama wants to go and live with her husband in India, Shakuntala is vehement that Anupama cannot live away from her. “So, say, Anupama was in London and her mom was visiting for a couple of months, she would want all of Anupama’s attention. Anupama would tell her friends that her mom’s is town and they won’t be seeing her much for a few months,” Ajay shares. Anupama responds with a laugh, “I was possessive of her too. I would keep reminding her that I was her greatest fan. I am her greatest fan.” Shakuntala and Anupama eventually became very close. So, when the latter died in 2013, it left Anupama reeling. When she met Anu and Nayanika at Harrods, three years later, the loss was still raw and hurtful. “It was still hard for me to deal with the fact that she wasn’t around. When I lost her, it felt as though I lost a whole family. So, telling her story was nostalgic and painful – it involved many, many tears – but also very cathartic.” Like her mother, Anupama loves math – but says that it’s different from her mother’s relationship with numbers. “She never channelled me and let me do things the way I wanted. Her love for numbers was different. Mummy wanted to share it with the world, to share the joy of numbers, to teach people to not be intimidated by them… numbers could be your best friends,” And so, when Vidya Balan was roped in to play the role, Anupama was pleasantly surprised when the actor turned out to be brilliant with numbers as well. “She would just rattle off these complex numbers without much effort also. There was no doubt in our minds while brainstorming that Vidya was the one for the role, but after watching the film, I was speechless. It was surreal… Vidya went above and beyond – not just the dialogues, even the attitude and expressions. She got into the spirit of mummy… She was mummy in the film,” Anupama gushes. Shakuntala Devi travelled the world, stunning distinguished crowds with her talents, however, she always had a special place in her heart for Bengaluru, her daughter says. “We could always go once a year and we had a home in Bengaluru. Being there was all about going out, eating lots of food… there was this one place that served a really greasy dosa that she loved – Vidyarthi Bhavan – we’d always go there.” When TNM spoke to her, a few days prior to the release of Shakuntala Devi, Anupama said she was a bit nervous that a depiction of her relationship with her mother will be out for the world to see. But she was also excited. “I miss everything about her. All the things we did, the hours we talked. But the world will see that she was not just a human computer. She was a woman, and a mother too. She was affectionate, loving and caring, and gave me the best that she could.”

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142 OFFICERS OF CENTRAL SECRETARIAT SERVICES GIVEN NEW POSTINGS

142 officers of Central Secretariat Service (CSS) have been given new posting in different Ministries and Department. Officeers who are transferred and given new postings are :  Devender S S Uikey to Food & Public Distribution; Kali Charan Patra to Revenue; Kailash Chand Meena to Defence; S K Parida to EF&CC; Sanjay Kumar to Defence; A K Ghosh to Financial services; Arun Kumar to Defence; Baljit Singh to Home Affairs; Kul Bhushan Nayyar to Financial Services; Anil Jain to Agriculture Cooperation & Farmers’ Welfare; Sushil Kumar Tripathi to Culture; Kamal Kishore to Road; Rajbir Singh to DoPT; Kshitish Kumar to MHA; Ashok Prasad to UPSC; M K Singh to Women & Child Development; Padmanav Behera to Commerce; B K Sethi to Higher Education; Vinayak T Likhar to Higher Education; KIiran Mala to Road; Shyam Lal to Commerce; Parveen Kumar Gupta to Heavy Industries; Sanjeev Thapliyal to UPSC; Mukesh Rai to Steel; Anjana to Culture; sangita Toppo to Higher Education; Uma Magesh to Pharmaceuticals; Rajender Singh to Commerce; Rajenderan Nair M B to Supply; Rajeev Bahree to DoPT; Shalini Juneja to WRD; Rajesh Kumar Yadav to Food and Dilip Kumar was posted to Commerce.R K Gupta has been posted to Defence while Ajay Kumar Mishra was appointed to Economic Affairs and Sanjay Bajpai is moved to Defence. Similarly, S K Mohanty has been appointed to Investment & Public Asset Mngt; Soumitra Bandopadhay to Telecomm; T N Prem to Posts; Jitendra Kumar Singh to Labour & Employment; Mrityunjay Jha to Petroleum; Urmila Rawat, Balan Nair and Sanjay Pant to Defence; Dibakar Mishra to Health & FW, RML Hospital; Anurag Kishan Bhatnagar to Defence; Ranjeet Kumar Sinha to Expenditure; Ajay Kumr Sinha to agriculture; Anil Kumar Sharma to Defence; Lalit Kumar to Rural Development; Geeta Mishra to Fertilizers; Rakesh Singh Nayal to Agriculture; Pratibha Saxena to Economic Affairs; Namburi Kumara Swamy to Labour; Santosh Kumar Verma to DoPT; S K Mohanty to Steel; Meena Kumari Sharma to Disability Affairs; Manmeet Kaur to Pensions; Shib Das Sarkar to MHA; Saurabh Bhattacharya to Animal Husbandry; Rajan Kumar Jah to Revenue; M Jayachandran to Commerce; Debasis Haldhar to Economic Affairs; Gurdeep Singh to Financial services; Jai Prakash to Biotechnology; M S Zou to Posts; Narehs Kuamr to Revenue; Tharvinder Singh and Hematn Verma to Corporate Affairs; Rajeev Attri to Health & FW; Sanjay Kuamr Gupta to UPSC; Abhaya Kumar Sharan to Defence; Rajiv Sharma to ARPG; Arun Kumar Mishra to Labour & Employment; Pramode Kumar Singh to Financial Services; P K Pattnaik to Industrial Policy & Promotion; Arup Shyam Choudhury to Economic Affairs; U K Mukherjee to ARPG; Arvind Shukla, Devashish Bhardwaj, Darshan Kuamr Solanki and Anup Singh to Commerce; S K Srivastava to Labour; Randheep Thakur to Commerce; Gokul Nagarkoti to Defence; Ramji Pandey to Rural Development; Sreekala P Venugopal to Food processing; Ajay Kuamr to Defence; Ujjawal Kumar to Expenditure; Satish Kumar to Posts; Sailendra N Mishra to Rural Development; Rajendra Kumar Ojha to Commerce; Swwarupa Saraan to Health; Shesh Kumar to HUPA; Anshul Mauli Kumar to IPP; Navneet Mishra to Culture; Anil Prashar to UPSC; Manoj Kumar Sinha to Health; Manish Kumar Sahay to Corporate Affairs; Amarendra Siingh to I&B; R P Tewari to DoPT; Jasbir Singh to Economic affairs; P Bairagi Sahu and Sandeep Saxena to DoPT; Ashok Kumar Vijay to Corporate Affairs; Manoj Kuamr Singh to Health; Prahlad Singh Dangwal to MHA; Sunder Singh to IPP; Chandra Mohan Negi to Commerce; Sunil Kumar Biswas to Higher Education; Sarita Nair to Health; Ravi Kuamr Vashisht to UPSC; Surajit Dutta to MHA; Debranjan Chottopadhyay to Power; Pradeep Purhoti to Economic Affairs; Rabindreanath Mohanty to Textiles; A C Mallick to WRD; Nand Kishroe Kumar to UPSC; Dharmender Kumar to MHA; Avinash Chandra to Commerce; Amarjit Singh to MHA; Jyotsna Gupta to DoPT; Brij Mohan to DOPT; Ram Raj Meena to Raod; Anil Kumar to MHA; Raj Kumar to Commerce; Niranjan Rakesh Minz to MHA; Gopal Aditya Raghuvanshi to Health; S D Meena to MHA; Kabiraj Sbar to MHA; Hans Raj Meena to Minority Affairs; Rajendra Singh to Statisitcs; Ashish Mohan to SSC; S Latha to SSC; Praveen Sharma to Statistics; Madan Mohan Maurya to Food & Public Distribution; Rakesh Kuamr Gupta to DoPT; Pushpender Kuamr to Commerce; Rajener Singh Bisht to UPSC; R Rajakannu to SSC. Read the full article