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SUPER 30 DIVIDES OPINION

PRODUCERS of forthcoming biopic Super 30 are starting to sweat because numerous damaging allegations are being made about how Anand Kumar – founder of the Super 30 educational programme for poor students – may not be the heroic figure everyone believed he is.

Although veteran actor turned politician Shatrughan Sinha is among those who have come forward in defence of the mathematics genius, producers of the big-budget Hrithik Roshan starrer may now re-brand the movie as a fictional story of a common man who succeeds


against all the odds and sets up a path-breaking coaching institute instead of a documentary about the real-life person.

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Why America’s first amendment model doesn’t fit Britain

A far-right protester holds a freedom of speech placard before the march to the Roundhouse Hotel, on September 20, 2025 in Bournemouth, England.

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Why America’s first amendment model doesn’t fit Britain

"If liberty means anything at all, it is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”. George Orwell’s quote is emblazoned by his statue outside BBC Broadcasting House. Last week, the question inside was this: has Britain given up on free speech?

That is the free speech debate which American populist right wants to project onto Britain. US vice-president JD Vance has declared a free speech crisis here. Universities often find themselves at the epicentre of cultural clashes over free speech too. So, I also took part this week in the Oxford vice-chancellor’s Sheldonian Series debate on “cancel culture”, an exercise in promoting free speech via an open inquiry into its scope and limits.

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