Methil Devika is an Indian classical dancer, research supervisor and actress. She was a Senior Research Associate at ISRO's Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, in 2023 working on an arts-integrated-advance-science project ideated by her.
She is currently doing Kerala Chief minister's Nava Kerala Post Doctoral Fellowship, conducting research on Temple Terrain as a New Performance Space for the Woman Dancer: A Study on How the Modern Woman Reinvents her Art in Esoteric Spaces. She has made her feature film debut with the Malayalam film Kadha Innuvare directed by Vishnu Mohan, a national film award-winning director.
Read more...The April 5, 1977 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 94 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.
If you were born on this day, you are 49 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, April 5, 2026, 92 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, April 5, 2027, in 272 days. You have lived for 17,989 days, or about 431,754 hours, or about 25,905,296 minutes, or about 1,554,317,760 seconds.
Date: 05 April 1977
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
Mobil Oil is exploring with Newhouse newspaper interests possibility of purchasing plant of LI Press and reviving it; Mobil vp for public affairs Herbert Schmertz comments; Mobil chmn Rawleigh Warner Jr says co has retained mediator Theodore W Kheel to look into labor situation with 10 newspaper unions that had contracts with Post; Kheel comments (M)
Date: 05 April 1977
Zaire breaks off relations with Cuba, claiming evidence that Cuba is involved in invasion of Shaba (M)
Date: 05 April 1977
Ed, noting increase in fear among elderly concerning crime, urges more patrols
Date: 06 April 1977
Natl Assn of Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame names Red Smith (NY Times) member (S)
Date: 05 April 1977
By WILLIAM BORDERS Special to The New York Times
William Special
Prime Min Desai, in address to nation, says that because centralized state is 'menace to democracy,' village must be made base for econ progress, and small-scale cottage indus must be encouraged (S)
Date: 06 April 1977
Ex-Soviet secret police officer Aleksei Myagkov, who has been living in Netherlands, has been refused asylum and has been deported to W Ger; asylum request refused because Myagkov was admitted to W Ger as refugee and holds Ger refugee's passport (S)