‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ animated series sets August premiere on Amazon Prime Video
The Hindu
Batman: Caped Crusader, a new animated series on Prime Video, reimagines Batman's story with industry heavyweights at the helm.
The upcoming animated series Batman: Caped Crusader is slated for release on Prime Video starting August 1st. Produced by industry heavyweights J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves, and Bruce Timm, the series offers a reimagination of the classic Batman mythology.
Set in the gritty backdrop of Gotham City, the narrative follows billionaire Bruce Wayne’s transformation into the vigilante Batman, driven by a desire to combat the city’s rampant corruption and crime and draws on familiar characters from the Batman universe, including Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Dr. Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn, Commissioner Jim Gordon, and Clayface.
With a two-season order from Prime Video, Batman: Caped Crusader is produced in collaboration with Warner Bros. Animation, Bad Robot Productions, and 6th & Idaho and builds upon the legacy of its predecessor, Batman: The Animated Series, which earned acclaim during its original run.
“Writing, in general, is a very solitary process,” says Yauvanika Chopra, Associate Director at The New India Foundation (NIF), which, earlier this year, announced the 12th edition of its NIF Book Fellowships for research and scholarship about Indian history after Independence. While authors, in general, are built for it, it can still get very lonely, says Chopra, pointing out that the fellowship’s community support is as valuable as the monetary benefits it offers. “There is a solid community of NIF fellows, trustees, language experts, jury members, all of whom are incredibly competent,” she says. “They really help make authors feel supported from manuscript to publication, so you never feel like you’re struggling through isolation.”
Several principals of government and private schools in Delhi on Tuesday said the Directorate of Education (DoE) circular from a day earlier, directing schools to conduct classes in ‘hybrid’ mode, had caused confusion regarding day-to-day operations as they did not know how many students would return to school from Wednesday and how would teachers instruct in two modes — online and in person — at once. The DoE circular on Monday had also stated that the option to “exercise online mode of education, wherever available, shall vest with the students and their guardians”. Several schoolteachers also expressed confusion regarding the DoE order. A government schoolteacher said he was unsure of how to cope with the resumption of physical classes, given that the order directing government offices to ensure that 50% of the employees work from home is still in place. On Monday, the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) had, on the orders of the Supreme Court, directed schools in Delhi-NCR to shift classes to the hybrid mode, following which the DoE had issued the circular. The court had urged the Centre’s pollution watchdog to consider restarting physical classes due to many students missing out on the mid-day meals and lacking the necessary means to attend classes online. The CAQM had, on November 20, asked schools in Delhi-NCR to shift to the online mode of teaching.