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MicroStrategy's unwavering commitment to Bitcoin, evident in its recent $615 million purchase and overall holdings of $5.9 billion, has ignited a fiery debate. While supporters applaud CEO Michael Saylor's visionary leadership, critics like Peter Schiff paint a picture of reckless obsession.

Fallouts of a triangular love affair often lead to bloodshed and retaliatory violence. But that of Amrita Pritam, one of the most significant authors from Punjab, who was loved by poet-painter Indrajeet Chitrakar, better known as Imroz, and Sahir Ludhianvi, was an unusual love story.

No one is born a Marxist — not even Karl Marx. Before he formulated his famous ideas about the centrality of class struggle to social change, young Marx surrounded himself with liberals who sought to abolish the religious authoritarianism of the old regime and bring about a new state that guaranteed greater liberty. His political evolution occurred in two stages: the first took him beyond liberalism to social democracy, and the second gave him faith in the self-emancipation of the working class.

A country with relatively unrestricted trade will face two problems: the first is a balance of payments problem because its exports are insufficient relative to its imports. And the second, the creation of unemployment, and more generally of domestic resources remaining idle, because domestic goods cannot compete with imports.

In countries where recipients of titles like Rai Bahadur and Khan Bahadur were once much looked upto and in another country where holders of knighthood and peerage still enjoy a status of their own have a common link- the English language. Small wonder, heads turn to have a better look at a man, a noted English language poet when he refused to accept Order of the British Empire (OBE) from none other than the British Prime Minister and the Queen.

As a singer Anup Ghoshal’s name was never taken in Bengal on the same breath as Hemanta Mukhopadhyay or even Dwijen Mukherjee; nor did his songs enjoy the popularity of Manna De or Shyamal Mitra. Yet Ghoshal who passed away in Kolkata on December 15, attained a unique distinction which none of the artistes of Bengal enjoyed. He was 78.

After his debut film Homecoming's success, Director Soumyajit Majumdar is currently working on Parvathy Baul's biopic. Notably, the director has confirmed an actress from the Hindi film industry playing Parvathy's character and is nearing the casting process's finalization. The biopic promises to shed light on her transformative journey and highlight her immeasurable contributions to Baul music.

It is a morning knock but is no less sinister than a midnight one as Dublin microbiologist Eilish Stack comes face to face with state's totalitarianism as powers that seek to interrogate her trade unionist husband Larry. It is in this way Paul Lynch, an Irish author begins the book ’Prophet Song’ in the backdrop of Dublin's descent into dystopia. The book just got the Booker Prize for this year.

The veteran Hollywood film director Martin Scorsese's life is apparently somewhat reminiscent of the great American dream of a new kid on the block overcoming odds and gaining material success, a humble background notwithstanding. But as one looks at the vast body of his works in celluloid one is left in no doubt that the man from the mean streets of Lower Manhattan, a New York suburb was not in pursuit of mere commercial triumph but something that far outlasts it- a place of honour in the hall of fame of world cinema.

Arguably, the most influential music band, The Beatles used their platform to spread love and peace in a troubled time. The last song of The Beatles remind the audience why the audience fell in love with the mop-topped boys from Liverpool.