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The arrested man, a resident of Arapur, Kotwali, is accused of stealing a box of hilsa fish from the Rathbari fish depot in Malda.
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‘The Truth Is…’: Katy Perry Addresses Her Controversial Collaboration with Dr Luke on New Album
Trigger Warning: The following article contains mentions of sexual assault
Katy Perry’s latest album 143 has several tracks related to woman empowerment and motherhood but ironically one of her collaborators was Dr. Luke who was accused of sexual assault by Kesha. Her decision to work with an alleged criminal generated a huge backlash from people and her supporters.
Recently, the Roar singer addressed the controversy during her appearance on Alex Cooper‘s Call Her Daddy podcast after spending much time discussing the album’s feminist themes and how she overcame relationships with male chauvinists who “couldn’t handle me in boss mode.”
When asked about her decision to team up with Dr. Luke, without explicitly mentioning his name, Perry explained how he played an important role in her creative journey. “I understand that it started a lot of conversations,” she admitted.
“But the reality is, it comes from me. The truth is, I wrote these songs from my experience of my whole life going through this metamorphosis, and he was one of the people to help facilitate all that,” Perry explained.
She also pointed out that Dr. Luke was one among the many collaborators including people she’s worked with in the past from her Teenage Dream era. Since the album encapsulated her journey from being a rookie to a famous and acclaimed artist, she had to give a nod to people who helped her along the way and made her feel empowered.
“When I speak about Woman’s World, I speak about feeling so empowered now, as a mother, as a woman,” she said referring to one of her latest tracks. Dr. Luke has been one of the Dark Horse singer’s fruitful collaborators, producing her first No. 1 single I Kissed a Girl, and other hits, including California Gurls. He also produced her single Woman World on album 143.
Perry has tried to avoid the scrutiny about the collaboration before. In June, during her visit to Paris, people threw accusatory and sarcastic questions at her like “Isn’t your album about women empowerment?” to which the singer didn’t respond.
In 2014, the Tik Tok singer filed a lawsuit against Dr. Luke claiming that he drugged and sexually abused her in 2005. As per Deadline, the legal document also contained allegations of emotional and psychological abuse. Later, Dr. Luke counter-sued her for defamation. The case was settled last year.
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“Don’t Know Why Controversy, Names Were Factual”: IC-814 Pax On Netflix Row
The new Netflix series ‘IC-814 Kandahar Hijack‘ – on the 1999 hijack of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 by Pakistan-based terrorists – is “based on a real event and the names (of the hijackers, which has led to a row over historical accuracy) are factual”, Pooja Kataria, one of 189 people held hostage, has said.
She called on people to view the show as entertainment and not as controversy.
“I don’t know why people are making a controversy… this is based on a real event and the names were also factual,” she told news agency ANI Wednesday, indicating she had been well-treated. “One hijacker, called ‘burger’ celebrated my birthday and gifted me his shawl. Another, ‘doctor’, used to give speeches on Islam we were on the plane and seemed to be an intelligent individual.”
“We were returning from Nepal when the plane was hijacked. There were 176 passengers on the flight… there were five hijackers. We were all scared and didn’t have any idea of what was happening. We were given nothing to eat, except a small apple,” Ms Kataria said of a hostage situation resolved after the then Indian government was forced to exchange three terrorists.
#IC814 विमान पर सवार रहीं एक मुसाफ़िर पूजा कटारिया को ज़रूर सुनिए। सब कुछ साफ़ साफ़ बता रहीं है अपहरण के बाद विमान पर क्या क्या हुआ…
— Umashankar Singh उमाशंकर सिंह (@umashankarsingh) September 4, 2024
Pooja Kataria’s comment follows a heated row over Netflix’s use of two terrorists’ code names – ‘Bhola’ and ‘Shankar’. Critics have accused the OTT giant of distorting facts, misrepresenting the identities of the terrorists – named by the Home Ministry in 2000 as Ibrahim Athar, Shahid Akhtar Sayed, Sunny Ahmed Qazi, Mistri Zahoor Ibrahim and Shakir – and offending Hindu sentiments.
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The ministry also noted that during the hijacking the terrorists called each other only by code names, two of which were ‘Bhola’ and ‘Shankar’, and the others were ‘chief’, ‘doctor’, and ‘burger’.
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Nevertheless, as the row over the terrorists’ code and real names gathered steam, the government summoned senior Netflix executive Monika Shergill and told “nobody has the right to play with people’s sentiments”. The company later updated the opening disclaimer to include real and code names.
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Ms Kataria isn’t the only ex-hostage to have spoken up on the series.
Anil Sharma, who was a steward on the flight, spoke to news agency IANS, but he had a different perspective, stating some of the scenes in the web series are fictional and that the names ‘Bhola’ and ‘Shankar’ were “imaginary… and not their (the terrorists’) real names”.
“The intent of the makers of web series did not seem good to me,” he declared.
The Netflix show is inspired by events on board flight IC-814 and on ground in Kandahar and Delhi, as well as the book ‘Flight Into Fear: The Captain’s Story’ by Devi Sharan, who was the plane’s captain.
It stars Naseeruddin Shah and Pankaj Kapur in key roles.
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