Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, and Raaj Kumar. A
remake of Khan's 1940 film Aurat, it is the story of a poverty-stricken
village woman named Radha (Nargis) who struggles to raise her sons
amidst many troubles. Despite her hardship, she sets a goddess-like
moral example of an ideal Hindu Indian woman. In the end, she kills her
criminal son for the greater good. Mother India metaphorically
represents India as a nation in the aftermath of independence, and
alludes to a strong sense of nationalism and nation-building. While some
authors treat Radha as the symbol of women empowerment, others see her
cast in female stereotypes. The film was the most expensive Hindi cinema
production and earned the highest revenue for any Hindi film at that
time. Mother India became a definitive cultural classic and is regarded
one of the best Indian films. It was India's first submission for the
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1958, where it made the
shortlist. The film won the Filmfare Best Film Award for 1957, and
Nargis and Khan won the Best Actress and Best Director awards
respectively.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_India>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1491:
Nkuwu Nzinga of the Kingdom of Kongo was baptised as João I
by Portuguese missionaries.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_I_of_Kongo>
1791:
The Polish Constitution of May 3, the oldest codified national
constitution in Europe, was adopted by the Sejm.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_May_3,_1791>
1913:
Raja Harishchandra (scene pictured), the first full-length
Indian feature film, was released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_Harishchandra>
1915:
Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote "In
Flanders Fields", later considered one of the most notable poems written
during the First World War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields>
1951:
The Royal Festival Hall, the first post-war building to become
listed Grade I, opened as the venue for the Festival of Britain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Festival_Hall>
1963:
Police in Birmingham, Alabama, used high-pressure water hoses
and dogs on civil rights protesters, bringing intense scrutiny on racial
segregation in the Southern US.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_campaign>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
treeness:
1. The essence of what it means to be a tree; the qualities that make a
tree what it is.
2. (genetics) The suitability of an evolutionary tree for representing the
structure of a population; the degree to which a population structure
can be accurately described as a tree of descent, with different
branches evolving independently after they split.
3. (graph theory) The condition of being a tree; acyclicity and
connectedness.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/treeness>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It's up to you whether or not you want to do work with no
contract. I think artists do need to do work with no contract, because
what we're motivated by is not money. We're motivated by a need to
express ourselves and to get our ideas out. That's the motivation. It
turns out that when people like it they frequently will support you if
you give them a means, but this is not a contract.
--Nina Paley
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nina_Paley>
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