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Manav Kaul on quality of content depleting on OTT: If the audience don’t ask for more, they’ll get sasta entertainment

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With the click of a button, content across genres and languages can cater to one’s whim for the day. The OTT revolution, which has brought stories from far and wide to the fore, continues to be hailed for providing a platform for artistes to experiment. However, content has been dropping with an overwhelming frequency, with audiences complaining of viewer fatigue and depleting quality of late. Earlier, actors Sikandar Kher and Sharib Hashmi, have said that a check on the quality of content needs to be maintained. Actor Manav Kaul certainly thinks so, as he says, “Everything is a reflection of society.” The actor has starred in shows like Ghoul (2018), The Verdict- State vs Nanavati (2019), The Fame Game (2023) and Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper. Manav Kaul discusses the quality of OTT content Everything can change The 47-year-old opines, “Suddenly, you gave this medium to writers as a playground. They got freedom and they delivered; but to sustain that, we haven’t given them any value, because we don’t value them in society. The day we …

Depleting water sources forcing leopards to stray out of forests in Anantapur district

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The leopard carcass found at the base of the transformer. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The death of three leopards in the undivided Anantapur district in one and a half months suggests that water resources in the wild are on the verge of drying up, with mercury levels slowly climbing from the second week of March. The fact that all three casualties occurred well away from the forests indicates that the animals strayed into human habitations in search of food and water, say experts. On February 6, a leopard was fatally knocked down by an unidentified vehicle on the Bengaluru NH near Penukonda in Sri Sathya Sai district. On March 18, the carcass of a leopard was found in a decomposed state in the hillocks of Settur mandal of Anantapur district. On March 19, a leopard was electrocuted when it scaled a transformer at an agriculture field in Kuderu mandal of the same district. In all three incidents, forest officials ruled out the angle of poaching or hunting. Anantapur and Sri Sathya Sai districts are …