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In this episode of The Lead, Suraj Sharma of 'Life of Pi' fame talks about his new film "The Illegal" and more.

Hi and welcome to the Lead by DH Radio. In today's episode, DH's Roktim Rajpal speaks to Suraj Sharma of the 'Life of Pi' fame about the latter's new film "The Illegal" and more. Listen in.

Roktim Rajpal: Hi Suraj, how are you?

Suraj Sharma: Hi, how are you?

Roktim: I'm fine. I'll begin by asking you: What prompted you to take up "The Illegal"?

Suraj: It was the script. Danish, Danish... Danish Renzu, the director, came to me with the script. I read it and felt that it was a beautiful script and I felt that connected to the character...

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In your evening news brief, Bodies of 17 more security personnel killed in an encounter with Maoists recovered; r Rahul Gandhi promising that every poor person in Kerala will get Rs 6,000 every month "without fail" and The UK is to trial a system of "Covid status certification" at events including football matches.

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In your evening news brief, India on Saturday recorded 89,129 new Covid-19 cases in a day; Iran's government says it is opposed to any gradual easing of sanctions and a Taiwan court releases on bond the manager of a construction site whose truck authorities believe to have caused a train accident in the country.

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In your evening news brief,  Election Commission suspended four officials after row over EVMs found in a BJP candidate's car; 41 people dead after train derailed inside a tunnel in Taiwan and  Sachin Tendulkar hospitalised.

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In this episode of The Lead, we discuss the books: 'What's a Lemon Squeezer Doing in My Vagina?' by Rohini S. Rajagopal; 'The Dating Plan' by Sara Desai and short stories: 'The Lottery Ticket' by Anton Chekhov, 'The Boarded Window' by Ambrose Bierce and 'Horla' by Guy de Maupassant.

Ahmed Shariff: Hi and welcome to another episode of the reads of the week by DH Radio. Joining is my colleague L Subramani. Hi, sir. How are you?

L Subramani: I am really fine, thank you. I hear that Bangalore is unusually hot.

Ahmed: Yes...

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In your evening news brief, Election Commission of India bars DMK leader A Raja from campaigning for 48 hours; GST collections in March touch a record high and  Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar appeal to eligible people to get vaccine against Coronavirus.

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In this episode, gynaecologist Dr Harita Rao explains the terms ovarian reserve and Anti-Mullerian hormone and the factors they have on one's fertility.

Ahmed Shariff: Hi and welcome to the lead by DH Radio. When one is considering assistive reproduction or help with fertility, some terms need to be known like ovarian reserve and Anti-Mullerian hormone, what do they mean? Today we are joined by well-known gynaecologist Dr Haritha Rao to tell us more.

Hi doctor and welcome to DH Radio.

 Dr Haritha Rao: Hi

Ahmed: What is Ovarian reserve, can you explain that to our audience?

Dr Haritha: Ovarian reserve is nothing but a fancy word for in a lay man's term it is called an egg count. Every woman is born with a certain amount of eggs. She is born with millions of eggs. And as she reached the age of menarche that is 13-14 years of age and from the time she reached menopause that is about 48 to 50 years in an Indian woman, the egg count depletes...

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In your evening news brief, World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2021; BioNTech-Pfizer says its vaccine showed 100% efficacy against the coronavirus in 12 to 15-year-olds and former Prime Minister H.D Devegowda admitted to hospital for evaluation of fever.

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In this episode of The Lead, Sahar Mansoor and Tim de Ridder talk about their book: 'Bare Necessities How to Live a Zero-Waste Life', what got them into zero waste, and more.

Ahmed Shariff: Hi, this is Ahmed Shariff and welcome to The Lead by DH Radio. We often wonder about the waste mess that we have created and one solution to clean up, or not add more to this mess, is to adopt a zero-waste lifestyle. But how can we?

To answer that question, we have today entrepreneur Sahar Mansoor, CEO of Bare Necessities, and author Tim de Ridder, who has written research papers, including on the livelihoods of low-income communities, and the benefits of carbon farming for indigenous Australians. Sahar and Tim have authored a sort-of guide called 'Bare Necessities How to Live a Zero-Waste Life'.

Hi Sahar and Tim, welcome to DH Radio. My first question is open to both of you. What made to write this book?

Sahar Mansoor: We have been in this sector trying to make sustainability information fun and accessible to as many people as possible. We have been doing various talks and workshops, teaching people how to make their own products...

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In your evening news brief, Manipur government withdraws order that barred the district administration and civil society organisations from providing food and shelter to Myanmarese; Sensex rallies 1,128 points and India underlines that durable peace in Afghanistan would require peace within and around the conflict-ravaged country.

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