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DON’T BEAT YOUR WIFE

The Home Minister Pramod Sawant has requested all women who are not financially independent to call 100, 112 or 181 if beaten or battered by her husband. Women harassed by the in-laws family can also dial 181. Pramod Sawant has threatened to block even the monthly allowance of Rs2,500 if the battered wife separates from her husband. Any woman who is harassed by her husband and in-laws can complain to the police station. Pramod Sawant insisted that people can dial 181 during sudden trouble, accidents, or situations caused by emotional distress. He has not clarified what victims can do if they are harassed by children of a VIP minister like Subhas Faldesai.

WALK FOR WOMEN

A walk for women in solidarity with survivors of sexual assault in being organized on Friday October 2 from 9pm night onwards. It may be recalled that the young school going couple was harassed and the girl who subjected to gang raped in a small garden just behind the famous lady Shri Ram college in New Delhi. There have been several such incident in Bihar. In Tamil Nadu a sexual prediator call Virmani has been arrested for trafficking in minor girls. The basic demand of the organisors is that women should be safe at night. Which is why the march is being organized at 9pm. It will begin at the Kala Academy and go towards the Mandovi bridge.

 ILLEGAL BUNGALOW OF RAMESH TAWADKAR

A public interest litigation has been filed before the Bombay High Court of Goa by Kashinath Shetye. The PIL focuses on the alleged irregularities of the bungalow link to Minister Ramesh Tawadkar at Poinguinim, Canacona. The petition alleges that the bungalow, with a floor area of 527 sq meters, was constructed around 2015 without authorization. An application for regularization was made only in 2025. Cases are pending against the huge bungalow in a paddy field by Vijai Sardesai in Fatorda and by Niana Chudasama, BJP spokesperson in Maharashtra at Old Goa.

SPOILED CAKE FROM SWIGGY-INSTAMART

A Facebook post by Paramita Mukerjee claims that a cake ordered through Swiggy InstaMart was covered completely with fungus and was visibly rotten. When she checked the expiry date that appeared to be valid for another month. The question is how does a cake that is supposed to be within its shelf life end up in this condition?  The cost of the cake was Rs 200. The FDA in Maharashtra has found that many food articles are stored in unhygienic conditions. There are also complaints about cakes offered online by Amul and Britannia.

GANDHI JAYANTI IN GOA

Nobody remembers Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary in Goa. The double-engine government is more interested in promoting Shivaji. The only ritual is a garlanding of the Mahatma Gandhi statue at Old Goa circle. It needs to be clarified that Rajiv, Sonia, Priyanka and Rahul Gandhi or dependence of Feroz Gandhi and not of Mahatma Gandhi. There are no functions in schools or any significant events commemorating the birth of the Mahatma. Unlike in the rest of the country, even the bars are now closed in honor of Gandhi who was against drinking.

Paromita Dhar’s ‘Salt Electric’ to World Premiere at Busan International Film Festival 2026

Salt Electric, a 12-minute Konkani fiction short written and directed by Goa-based filmmaker Paromita Dhar, will have its world premiere in the Wide Angle Competition at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), scheduled to be held from October 6 to 15, 2026. It is the first-ever Konkani film by a female director and the only Indian film in the Wide Angle Competition.
The film will subsequently have its North American premiere in the Short Narrative Competition at the Tasveer Film Festival in Seattle, held from October 13 to 18, 2026.
Set during the monsoon in 1990s Goa, Salt Electric follows Kim, a teenage Catholic girl whose ordered world begins to change after she makes a private discovery in her older brother’s room. The film explores her curiosity and internal journey as she navigates questions of growing up, desire and secrecy in a period before the internet became a readily accessible source of information.
Glossy Valanka Fernandes appears in the titular role of Kim, with Yash Dayanand Devidas playing her brother, Terry. Aplon Rebello plays their mother, while Antonio Joaquim Dias and Sarah Hussain appear as Phoebe. William da Cruz, Adheip Rahul Rashada, Anita Pereira, Logan Lobo, Md Aamin, John Marcelo, Md Sarfaraz and Joanita Rebello also appear in key roles.
Dhar describes the film as a personal return to her own late adolescence in the 1990s, when discovering adult cinema was an experience shaped by secrecy, imagination and limited access to information. Through Kim’s story, the film explores the ways young women discovered and understood their own curiosity during a time when questions about growing up often remained unspoken.
The film approaches Kim’s experience through a quiet and empathetic perspective, focusing on the act of looking and the curiosity to understand a world that exists beyond what she has been told. Her older brother forms part of this environment as she encounters images and ideas that she is not expected to see.
Salt Electric was directed and written by Paromita Dhar and produced by Hyash Tanmoy and Niren Bhavnani. The co-producers are Yohann Cornu, Soumyabuddha Debnath, Ameesha Joshi and Paromita Dhar, while the executive producers are Nikita Naiknavare and Carlos Rodriguez Balaguer.
Jall Cowasji serves as the Director of Photography, Colorist and Editor, Francesca Cotta is the Production Designer, and Pruthu Parab is the Sound Designer. The production units involved in the film are Zero Degree Arts, Fault Line Films, Damned Films, Lost The Plot, Ronronear Films, Dosomik and Sarbonam.
The collaboration between Dhar and Tanmoy began through Berlinale Talents, an international talent-development programme for emerging filmmakers, where both were selected from India in the same cohort. Dhar participated as a director and cinematographer, while Tanmoy was selected as a producer and director. Their collaboration on Salt Electric subsequently developed into a four-country production involving filmmakers and producers from India, France, Canada and Estonia.
Following its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival, Salt Electric will travel to Seattle for its North American premiere at the Tasveer Film Festival. The film has also drawn interest from other international festivals and is expected to continue its festival journey during the 2026–27 circuit.
Paromita Dhar is a Goa-based director, cinematographer and screenwriter and a 2021 Berlinale Talents Fellow. Her work has focused on migration narratives and has included collaborations with migrant labourers. Her films include Behind the Tin Sheets, Birha and That Cloud Never Left, which have screened at festivals including Busan, IDFA and Yamagata. Dhar also mentors at the QueerFrames Screenwriting Lab, a screenwriting programme focused on queer storytelling in Asia.
While Salt Electric travels through the festival circuit, Dhar is also developing her feature debut, Ulta (Madam), an India-France-Canada co-production produced by the same team, with Hyash Tanmoy as lead producer. The project was part of the Women in Film India delegation at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Industry Conference in September 2025 and received a full scholarship from the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC). It later won the second-place Co-Production Market award at NFDC’s Waves Film Bazaar, held alongside the International Film Festival of India in Goa in November 2025.
Ulta (Madam) is now set to be presented at the Producer Hub of the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) in Busan in October 2026, where Hyash Tanmoy will represent the project.
Salt Electric has a running time of 12 minutes and is a fiction film produced across India, France, Canada and Estonia. It is presented in 2K with Dolby Digital

 

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