New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) Schoolchildren from four Delhi schools and folk artists from Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre, Kolkata will take part in the cultural programme during the Republic Day parade here on January 26. The number of participating children and folk artists have been cut down to 400 this year, compared to more than […]

New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws of captivity and consigned to a safe house in the Scion Citadel of Paris, she finds herself caught between those factions that seek the downfall of Scion, the powerful governing system that controls several major world cities in the late […]

New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) Delving deep into Islamic theology and politics and how they shaped contemporary India, a compelling new book explains the two landmark legislative interventions of the Central government in the first six months after returning to power in 2019 — nullification of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and enactment of […]

New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) Who is Rana Kapoor and, more importantly, what role did he play in the rise and fall of YES Bank? On September 28, 2018, after announcing that he was going to step down as the managing director of YES Bank, Rana Kapoor had claimed: “Diamonds are forever. My promoter shares […]

New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) Kalinga Literary Festival’s virtual platform KLF Bhava Samvad hosted author Sandeep Bamzai who conversed on his latest book ‘Princestan’. The session took place with moderator Pallavi Rebbapragada, a journalist. Beginning with the session, Pallavi said, “Gandhi in 2nd round table conference told that ‘You shouldn’t toe the British line and […]

New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) The Delhi government on Friday approved the setting up of a Konkani academy here to facilitate the growth and promotion of Konkani language and culture in the national capital — a step intended to strengthen Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) foothold in Goa ahead of the 2022 Assembly elections. The academy […]

New Jan 8 (IANS) Originally written by Sahana Vijayakumar in Kannada in 2018, “Kasheer: A Diabolical Betrayal of Kashmiri Hindus” in its English translation brings forth to a larger audience the story of Kashmiri Hindus and the unfortunate mass exodus of the community from their motherland in 1990, against the backdrop of Kashmir’s Islamisation. Translated […]

New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) Author Sandeep Bamzai will be in conversation with journalist and writer Pallavi Rebbapragada to discuss different facets of his latest book ‘Princestan’ during the Kalinga Literary Festival’s ‘bhava samvad’ (online) on January 9 at 7 pm. Exploring how in the run up to independence, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel and Lord […]

New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) Madame Tussauds, the iconic museum of wax statues at Connaught Place in Delhi, has been closed. The exercise of reopening it at another location will begin in Delhi NCR itself. It was closed in the month of March after the onset of the global Coronavirus pandemic. Madame Tussauds is operated […]

New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will release a book hailing Mahatma Gandhi as the “biggest Hindu patriot” on the first day of the new year. On January 1, Modi government ministers Prahlad Patel and V. Muraleedharan will participate in the release ceremony of this book titled ‘Making of a Hindu Patriot’ […]

New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) Christmas has turned dark for Urdu literature with the passing away of literary giant Shamsur Rahman Faruqi in Allahabad on Friday morning. The writer and theorist had tested positive for Corona-19 in November though he was discharged from a Delhi hospital after a few days of treatment. Born on September […]

New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) At a time when inter-faith marriages have come under pressure and Uttar Pradesh has even promulgated an anti-conversion ordinance, a new book contends that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was vehemently opposed to discrimination based on faith and that religious conversions deeply offended his sensibilities – but he accepted […]

New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Guru Dutt’s filmography has some names which have long been considered as some of the best films to have ever been made in India. His masterpiece “Pyaasa” (1957) was featured in TIME magazine’s All-Time 100 Best Movies list in 2005. His films are still celebrated and revered by viewers, critics […]

By Vikas DattaNew Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) His brief career in espionage ending with the defection of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most notorious double agent, David Cornwall alias John Le Carre turned to chronicling it instead and within a few books, became a prominent defining voice of the genre, with his gritty accounts of […]

New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) ‘Yashasvi Bharat’, a book based on collections of 17 speeches of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohand Bhagwat, which is supposed to be released next week, speaks about Hindu as worshipers of unity in diversity in its title. In its page number 27, the book describes “when we talk about […]

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) “Till We Win”, a definitive account of Indias fight against Covid-19 — how to cope with the pandemic in the days to come and dealing with essential questions like how long will wearing masks be necessary and whether at all a permanent cure is possible — co-authored by AIIMS Director […]

New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Have you ever wondered why your grandmother threw a teabag into the pressure cooker while boiling chickpeas, or why she measured using the knuckle of her index finger? Why does a counter-intuitive pinch of salt make your kheer more intensely flavourful? What is the Maillard reaction and what does it […]

New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an understated and a singular politician of the kind rarely seen in contemporary times. His patriotism was uncompromising, forged out of the paradoxes of his life: The sensitive poet who summoned nerves of steel to conduct the Pokhran-II nuclear tests; the man from […]

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1) Khud Kushi Khud Khushi? – is a documentary about farmer’s suicides with a question to the society. The documentary displays the irony that the farmers who produce food for the world, can’t live a healthy lifestyle themselves. We’ve researched and presented the reasons for their suicides which majorly comprises of Illiteracy in Farmers and […]