If they are anything like most Oscar winners, the team behind The Artist will have spent the first day of the rest of their lives conforming to the grandest, and most lucrative, of Hollywood traditions.

Having woken up, pinched themselves, and made sure that -oui! – it really was a gold statuette on their bedside table, France’s newly minted movie stars are likely to have devoted their waking hours to pondering two pressing questions: how to shift that throbbing hangover, and which of the myriad career choices suddenly on their horizon should they pursue next?

Breaking the silence

The first will not have been easily answered. Having sought refreshment at the Governor’s Ball, the team who won five of Sunday’s Academy Awards – including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor – adjourned to a packed party hosted by their film’s distributor, Harvey Weinstein, at the Mondrian Hotel in Hollywood.

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Then they swept through Vanity Fair’s bash, before continuing to the Chateau Marmont hotel, where at around four in the morning, several boisterous members of their entourage leapt into the swimming pool, fully clothed.
The second post-Oscar question requires even more careful consideration. Like any winners of the biggest accolade in show business, The Artist’s leading man Jean Dujardin, director Michel Hazanavicius, and producer Thomas Langmann will, for the time being, be inundated with potential job offers. But, as any Hollywood agent will tell you, an overabundance of choice doesn’t always make for easy decisions. Leverage the success

On a purely pragmatic level, history suggests that all three can, if they so desire, leverage The Artist’s success into financial security. The film has already made $76 million worldwide and is now being widened into more than 2,000 cinemas in the US, with a view to further capitalise on its Best Picture status.

As well as “back end” earnings from that pot – which must also be dipped into by the voracious Weinstein – they are entitled to use their modish status to secure significant paydays.

ET Now: There are two ways of looking at it the top level exits in Infosys. On the one hand, a lot of people say that there was a team that was probably not performing well and now they are exiting and that will probably be a positive for the stock over the long run. The sceptics, on the other hand, would argue that there are a lot of people who have been manning the company for the last many years and it is not a pint-sized company, but a Rs 1 lakh 70 thousand crore behemoth. Why have there been so many high profile exits in the company?

Mohandas Pai: There is a leadership vacuum in the company, because they made the wrong choice of CEO three years ago and that is playing out right now. The company has not performed and in June 2011, they had appointed three members on the board and all three of them have gone now and all three have been extraordinary individuals.

Ashok Vemuri is now the CEO of another company, V Balakrishnan had left and has started his own fund and BG Srinivas, I am told, would now be joining some other company as CEO.

So obviously, all three have been CEO materials. It is obvious that the chemistry did not work, or they were not fully empowered. There is a need for the board to sit down and work out a good succession plan and put a new team in place because the entire layer of people below the executive board are now gone and many of them were outstanding performers.

Yes, a few of them possibly were not pulling the weight, but it is not possible that all of them were not doing so. They were extraordinary people and they are performing at other places.

So there is a need for teamwork and need for people to come together. They need to forget the past and focus on the future, they need to realign the company based upon what the market needs.

The market has changed and so its model needs to change, its management structure needs to change and the set of people who have ruled the company for 30 years have to step down and hand over reins, because they have stayed on for too long. Therefore, I hope that in the next one or two months, the board will come together along with NRN and once and for all close this issue.

ET Now: Where can the breakthrough come from at this point, because you have already stated in the past that the board and Mr Murthy need to take responsibility for the exits. It just seems that the series of exits is not ending. Does this mean that the company may have to also consider forming a completely new team from outside and hiring some expensive resources from outside?

Mohandas Pai: My view is that the layer below BG Srinivas, V Balakrishnan and Ashok Vemuri is an extraordinary layer. You have many good people who have run units. But they have run units and they require one or two years to come up with enterprise.

Enterprise position is very different from a unit position. You could be an extraordinary unit person, but to run an entire enterprise in a very competitive environment, you require some mentoring and some experience.

Now the entire generation of leaders who could have handled enterprise has gone. The next layer of people have done very well and there is great management there, but they need to connect between themselves and NRN who is the executive chairman and will stay for the next three years. That connect has to be fixed and it is up to NRN to do it.

Now it can be done by somebody stepping up to the plate as CEO. He will be inexperienced, he would not have handled enterprise, but being very efficient, in three to six months, he can pick it up.

However, that requires a different style of functioning by NRN. It also means that some amount of bloodletting will happen. In fact, it has to happen when the next generation comes up, because obviously people who are much senior will not stay on and there has to be a cleanup. So in the next two or three months, we have to see a radical change.

It is very difficult to speculate whether we will have an external team of people coming in, because such a team does not exist in any other company, let us remember. It is a very large company, with 160000 people, and $25 billion or $30 billion of market value.

So it requires a certain level of expertise and the board and the chairman have to work with them very carefully. So they have their task cut out and it will help if Nandan Nilekani is asked to come back, because he could provide the link between the chairman and the next layer of people and help to mentor them for the next couple of years, because he had an extraordinarily connect with people, his style is very inclusive and he is a person who empowers his team and gives them full strength to go ahead and stands by them. So getting Nilekani back would be a great strategy.

No. 5 Indiana returns to Memorial Stadium in Bloomington on Saturday to host the Howard Bison in the first-ever football meeting between the two programs, with the Hoosiers looking to extend a winning streak that has now stretched to 17 straight games.

Kickoff is set for noon Eastern time (9 a.m. Pacific) at Merchants Bank Field at Memorial Stadium. The game will air nationally on the Big Ten Network, with Jeff Levering and Jake Butt calling the action and Brooke Fletcher reporting from the sideline. Fans can also stream the broadcast on FOX One, which offers a three-day free trial for new subscribers, or through the Fox Sports App and FoxSports.com for viewers already authenticated through a traditional TV provider. Cord-cutters can access BTN through live TV streaming services including Fubo, YouTube TV and Hulu + Live TV, most of which offer free trial periods for new users.

Indiana enters as a heavy favorite

Indiana comes into the matchup at 1-0 following a dominant 52-16 win over North Texas in its season opener, a performance that extended the program’s win streak dating back through last season. The Hoosiers finished the 2025 season a perfect 16-0, becoming the first team in the modern era of college football to complete an unbeaten 16-win campaign en route to a national championship under head coach Curt Cignetti.

Quarterback Josh Hoover was sharp in the opener, completing 13 of 16 passes for 231 yards and four touchdowns without an interception, building on an Indiana passing attack that produced 46 touchdowns through the air last season, the most in the NCAAFB during the 2025 regular season. Turbo Richard and Charlie Becker each found the end zone twice against North Texas, with Becker turning 64 receiving yards into two scores.

Oddsmakers have installed Indiana as a massive favorite for Saturday’s matchup. DraftKings listed the Hoosiers as 56.5-point favorites, with a game total set at 64.5 points and a moneyline reflecting the lopsided expectations: -100000 for Indiana and +5000 for Howard.

Howard brings a dangerous passing attack despite the gap in competition

Howard enters Saturday’s game at 1-1, having opened the season with a win over Alabama A&M before falling 21-28 to Richmond in Week 1. Despite the steep talent gap against a top-five program, the Bison bring a quarterback capable of moving the ball through the air. Ja’Shawn Scroggins has thrown for 424 yards and four touchdowns through two games this season, while also contributing 88 rushing yards on the ground, giving Indiana’s defense a dual-threat challenge to account for. Receiver Se’Quan Osborne has emerged as a reliable target for Scroggins, hauling in 101 receiving yards and a touchdown so far this season, while running back Travis Kerney has added another dimension to Howard’s offense with 81 rushing yards.

Howard’s defense, however, has struggled early in the season, surrendering 28 points to Richmond last week, and the team’s passing offense has completed just 44.6% of its throws through two games, the ninth-lowest completion rate in college football this season. Howard has not finished a season above .500 since 2017.

A first-ever meeting between the programs

Saturday’s matchup marks the first all-time meeting between Indiana and Howard on the football field, giving the game no historical precedent to draw from. Howard becomes the seventh first-time opponent to appear on Indiana’s schedule since Cignetti took over the program in 2024, following Western Illinois, UCLA and Charlotte that first season, and Old Dominion, Kennesaw State and Alabama in 2025.

The matchup also continues a stretch of home games for Indiana to open the season, with the Hoosiers playing their second consecutive contest in the noon Eastern time slot at Memorial Stadium. Cignetti has noted the challenging conditions players faced in the opener against North Texas, telling reporters the heat index on the field during that game reached 152 degrees. Cooler conditions are expected for Saturday’s matchup against Howard.

What to watch for

With the talent and depth gap between the two programs significant, the primary storylines for Saturday’s game are likely to center on how Indiana’s offense continues to build rhythm heading into a stretch of tougher non-conference and Big Ten competition later this month, and whether Howard’s Scroggins can generate enough explosive plays through the air to keep the Bison competitive against a Hoosiers defense that will be heavily favored to control the game from start to finish.

For Indiana, Saturday offers another opportunity to refine execution on both sides of the ball and manage depth across the roster before conference play intensifies. For Howard, the trip to Bloomington represents a chance to test the Bison’s passing attack against one of the top programs in the country and build experience that could pay dividends later in the season against more evenly matched Football Championship Subdivision opponents.

Game details at a glance

Fans looking to catch every play can tune into the Big Ten Network beginning at noon Eastern time Saturday, or stream the broadcast through FOX One, the Fox Sports App, or any of the major live TV streaming platforms that carry BTN in their standard channel lineups. With Indiana chasing an 18th straight win and Howard looking to make a statement against Big Ten competition, Saturday’s contest offers an early measuring-stick moment for both programs as the 2026 college football season moves into its second full week.

He spoke to ET on the Bharatiya Janata Party government’s approach towards media, social media, media controls and much more. Edited excerpts…

In terms of communication and messaging, the BJP’s electoral campaign has been termed an object lesson in the field. How can you translate that into the governmental structure?

All communication needs of the government will be handled in our ministry through a social media hub. I am offering this service to all ministers. Their facebook, twitter and other social media outreach will be handled by the new media wing, and the social media and communication hub.

The advantage that the party saw in reaching out through all communication media has been tremendous, and it was felt that the government too use the available platforms. Therefore, this new hub will provide all the help needed by various ministers and ministries for setting up and operating their facebook pages, twitter handles and the outreach throughsocial media. Traditional media is important, of course, but social media vehicles have to be spruced up.

What are your priority areas as far as this (I&B) ministry is concerned?

We have to ensure transparency, make our vehicles more effective. We want to be accessible and accountable too. Now there is a stage three and stage four of digitisation, we will take a call on this only after taking all things into account. The issue is that digitisation increases the revenue of paid channels, but customers want fewer advertisements.

Now 11 crore new settop boxes are required, which provides a great case for indigenisation, rather than just import them. I will take it up with the finance and commerce ministers on how this could be done.

During the elections, an interview of Prime Minister Narendra Modi set off questions on the autonomy of the public broadcaster. As I&B minister, how will you deal with it?

Right off the bat, I would like to say that our commitment for press freedom, and the autonomy of public broadcast is absolute. But freedom or autonomy has its own responsibilities.

Media has the responsibility of being neutral and objective. There’s always a concern that when the government is spending so much, it must reach the public. The public broadcaster is a tool for public awareness. Having said all of this, let me categorically state that we have no plans to enforce controls on the media.

Modi has been described as a “post TV” Prime Minister, in that he reaches out to his audience or voter directly. How would you recast the role of the traditional media?

This is a lesson for everyone on how to put your point across, in the way the Prime Minister does. Minister for law and communications Ravi Shankar Prasad and I have been deputed as spokespersons for the government and we will shortly come up with a communications plan to suit everyone’s needs. This government is different from the way it approaches issues and problems.

For instance, Modiji’s design for the Cabinet. Yesterday, there were some issues related to environment and power. Piyush Goel holds the power, coal and renewable energy portfolio, I hold the environment portfolio, and between the two of us and 10 officials we sorted things which the previous government had tied up in knots in a Group of Ministers (GoM) set up. The emphasis is on synergy. For the media too, there will be things to learn from the new government and its functioning.