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India Art Fair to showcase Modi, Mahatama Gandhi
New Delhi: India Art Fair has many unique things this time in the galleries representing modern and contemporary works. Artist Viveek Sharma has shown Prime Minister Narendra Modi and few artworks about Mahatama Gandhi.
The exhibition is being held at NSIC Exhibition Grounds, Okhla, here.
Mumbai-based artist Viveek Sharma has paid an ode to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a painting titled “Sons of Same Soil”. The artist has placed the image of Modi, Mahatama Gandhi and the people of India in such a way that it looks like the Indian flag.
A self-confessed Modi fan, Sharma admitted he has been following Modi’s political development for the past 12 years, and he truly believes that Modi is the man who can transform India.
“I have used the metaphor of a chequerboard in the image that suggests how Modi patiently played the game of making it to the top. He has always evoked Gandhi in his speeches so I have taken the image that shows him blessing Modi,” Sharma told media.
Sharma took two years to complete this painting.
The art of writing letter is almost lost. This is what artist Nandita Kumar’s “Emotive Sounds of the Electric Writer” aims to revive at the fair.
For this, the artist asked various participants from different parts of the world to send handwritten letters. These letters are pasted on the walls of her stall and there is a machine that is mimicking these hand-written letters on a long-scroll of paper.
“The machine while typing often stops to think when given complex information. This thinking is recorded by the pen blotting into the paper and leaving a score like impression throughout the scroll,” Kumar told IANS.
So, this long scroll with red ink on it and letters addressed to ex-lovers, mothers, chocolates and inner devils make for an interesting read.
And then we have artist T.V.Santhosh’s “The Threshold Into a Dream” – a recreation of Mumbai’s iconic Chhattrapati Shivaji Terminus that looks at the implications of the First World War and post-colonial hangover.
This tilted instillation made of wood was made in two years and the intricate design of the station has been replicated to the perfection.
“There are multiple ways of looking at our complex history and the reason it is tilted is to tell the audience that there can be many issues and interesting facts beneath our history and we need to see through what is obvious and known,” he added.
The India Art Fair concludes Sunday.
International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.
Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.
The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.
“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.
Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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