New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The English rendering of “Amader Shantiniketan”, a charming memoir by the late Hindi writer Shivani, translated by her daughter Ira Pande, will be released under Penguin Random House India’s Vintage imprint next month. This timeless memoir was written by Shivani nearly 50 years ago from her perspective as a child […]

New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) A timely and comprehensive political critique of India’s ‘grand old party’, the Indian National Congress, author Amit Bagaria’s new book “Congress-Mukt Bharat: Is the Modi Era the End of Congress?” is a compelling and multi-dimensional take on the political, ideological and structural downfall of this 135-year-old party and the ascent […]

By Vishnu MakhijaniNew Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Without legacy systems of the past, Indian businesses are uniquely positioned to leverage the new digital media, says Will Page, former Chief Economist of music streaming app Spotify, in his new book “Tarzan Economics” (Simon & Schuster), extrapolating the global music industry’s journey in coping with the threat […]

New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Contemporary and internationally respected spiritual teacher Nithya Shanti unveils the art of letting go and returning to a ‘zero state’, a state of mind that has only intentions and no desires, in “Call Your Own Bluff: An Incredible Journey to Your True Freedom” (Penguin) as he guides you on the […]

By Sukant DeepakNew Delhi, April 14 (IANS) From brass utensils to stainless steel tiffins. From cow dung to buckets — in the world of one of India’s best known contemporary artists, Subodh Gupta, the universal derives from the personal even as the past and future emerges as a time of both hope and conflict. Known […]

New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) Are you waiting for that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change your life, change your business or change the world? How will you know when it comes? How will you be sure you’re ready? “Opportunity – Seize the day. Win at life.” (John Murray Press/Hachette) is not about waiting for an opportunity […]

By Vishnu MakhijaniNew Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Hero or hurdle? That’s the question one is left wondering after reading “The Gopichand Factor” (Westland) given author Abhijeet Kulkarni’s praising sky high only the second Indian to win the All-England badminton title but also grudgingly admitting how he has been an impediment to the game while being […]

New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) The Vadehra Art Gallery in the national capital is organising a solo exhibition by artist Sachin George Sebastian, who brings new drawings and cut-out sculptures cast in metal and paper in his latest body of work titled ‘Once, there was a seed’. Sebastian has often articulated his long-standing interest in […]

New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) Two new books by Chennai-based data journalist Rukmini S, “Whole Numbers and Half-Truths: What Data Tells Us About Modern India” and “India in 100 Charts”, to be published by Westland, are set to release in quick succession The first is a sleek, ambitious book that sets out to answer 10 […]

New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) As tribes are among the disadvantaged sections of the society, a quiz has been started by the Centre at promoting and preserving their craft, culture and lifestyle to improve their income. Tribes constitute over 8 per cent of our population. Started by Ministry of Tribal Affairs, the innovative contest called […]

New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The obsession with World War II continues — and from all indications, is not likely to die down anytime soon. Paris, 1939: Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all — Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; Remy, her twin brother who she […]

By Vishnu MakhijaniNew Delhi, March 31 (IANS) A biography of the last Maharaja of Travancore that attempts to provide an “authentic” account of his accession and his legacy is, however, silent on the shenanigans of his Dewan, Sir C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar, to retain the independence of the province in 1947 and his deal with the […]

By Vishnu MakhijaniNew Delhi, March 30 (IANS) Manohar Parrikar transformed the Ministry of Defence (MoD) from a “slumberous, mammoth and slow-moving organisation, happy to trudge along, least bothered about time-bound outcomes” and “personally led changes that have resulted in transparent and simpler” acquisition procedures” and implemented “three big decisions”, says a new book on his […]

New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) The Delhi Traffic Police have said they have made elaborate arrangements to ensure the safety of motorists on the roads and also to check the incidents of drunk and driving, over-speeding, reckless driving, etc. In a press note issued by Meenu Chaudhary, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), she said, “This […]

By Rajnish SinghNew Delhi, March 28 (IANS) Starting its journey from a small village in Odisha’s Balasore district with six artisans five years ago, KalaGhar is not only creating employment opportunities for rural women artisans, but also reviving handicrafts in Odisha. The craft-based social enterprise has empowered over 200 rural women aged between 19 and […]

By Sukant DeepakNew Delhi, March 28 (IANS) Remember the massively popular ‘Kala Sha Kala’, ‘Kahi Karta Hoga Intezaar’, ‘Sona Disda’ — the numbers that grooved an entire generation in the 90’s? Well, singer Anamika Grover is all set to re-release her old classics to introduce youngsters to her music now. “But I’m not going to […]

By Vishnu MakhijaniNew Delhi, March 27 (IANS) When he was 11, family members and friends thought he would become a monk. When he was 18, people thought he would run away from IIT-Bombay because he didnt know English. At 25, given his lifestyle and habits, most of his friends thought he would not reach 50. […]

By Hamza AmeerDera Ismail Khan (Pakistan), March 26 (IANS) The Bagai family in India has urged Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to refrain from dismantling its historic ancestral palace located in the Dera Ismail Khan city in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. “I am writing to draw your immediate attention on the demolition of a […]

Mumbai, March 26 (IANS) With his wavy, silvery mane and erudite wit, Anil Dharker, who passed away late Thursday night, was an essential fixture at literary events in the city, was a promoter of New Cinema, a film critic of note, and as a journalist, was the editor of some of Indias best known publications. […]

Mumbai, March 25 (IANS) Veteran singer Asha Bhosle has been selected for the prestigious ‘Maharashtra Bhushan-2020’ honour, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said here on Thursday. The announcement was made following a meeting of the Maharashtra Bhushan award’s selection committee presided over by Thackeray, which was also attended by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, Cultural Affairs […]

By Vishnu MakhijaniNew Delhi, March 24 (IANS) Mental health rides on how we feel, and our emotions, in turn, are considerably shaped by socio-cultural norms. Thus, our early environment is crucial to the clues we take for anger an indignation, love and fear, says filmmaker and writer Vandana Kohli with an interest in the human […]

New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) The 16th edition of the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) and Festival 2021 will be held virtually from March 26 to May 1 in view of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Every weekend for five weeks, there will be conversations with the minds behind each of the plays as well […]

By Vishnu MakhijaniNew Delhi, March 22 (IANS) An idea, an experience or even a fleeting moment can become a story. But the story does not get written immediately after you think of it. Sometimes the story ideas live dormant in the mind for years and then one day become stories, says the multifaceted Dr C.S. […]

Bhubaneswar, March 21 (IANS) Eminent Odissi dancer Laxmipriya Mohapatra, the wife of legendary Odissi dance guru late Kelucharan Mohapatra, passed away at her residence here on Saturday night. She was 86. Mohapatra was suffering from age related ailments for a long time, family sources said on Sunday. Several dignitaries, including Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and […]

New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) “China Room” by 2015 Booker Prize nominee Sunjeev Sahota, a riveting novel about two characters separated by more than half a century but united by blood inspired in part by the authors own family history, is to be simultaneously published by Penguin Random House India and Penguin Random House in […]

By Vishnu MakhijaniNew Delhi, March 19 (IANS) When Indian American writer Sini Panicker, a trained chemist who is a heroin profiler for the US government, began her research into the Ramayana in early 2018, the #MeToo Movement was extremely popular and highly successful in the United States. And, in her debut novel, “Sita: Now You […]

New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) The Indian publishing industry is thriving with a wave of new publishers, international contracts, and authors but the average Indian reader and first-time author knows very little about the intricacies of the publishing process. In an attempt to bridge this gap between readers, writers, editors and publishers, Mumbai-based literary company […]

Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh), March 17 (IANS) Rajmohan Gandhi, the grandson of the ‘Father of the Nation’ Mahatma Gandhi, delivered an online lecture on “Does the Arc of History bend towards Justice? Some Reflections”, organised by the Sir Syed Academy, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) under the varsity’s centenary celebrations lecture series. “National independence is not enough […]

New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) For the lovers of the “Lord of the Rings” and the “Bartimaeus Trilogy”, here’s an exciting new voice who packs fantastic, action packed quests and brilliant world building into an emotional roller coaster of a book. Rohit Gaur’s “Ganesha’s Temple” (Penguin Random House India) presents Ganesha in an entirely new […]

By Quaid NajmiMumbai, March 17 (IANS) Like many of the magnificent British-era buildings, the iconic General Post Office of Mumbai is a riot of turrets, big and small spires, minarets, big and small windows which allow light and air inside, topped off by a majestic dome looking at the early-summer clear blue skies. Standing on […]

New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Here are two gorgeously illustrated picture books on the culture and lives of lesser-known communities in India, starting with the first two books in the Have You Met series (Penguin Random House India), for younger kids to know the culture and customs, the heritage and food habits, and the festivals […]

New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The development and operation of the Dara Shikoh Library building in the national capital has been awarded to ‘Monument Mitras’ under the ‘Adopt a Heritage’ project, an official statement said on Tuesday. The Tourism Ministry statement said that the 28th MoU under the “Adopt a Heritage: Apni Dharohar, Apni Pehchaan” […]

New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Our generation is growing up in a time where we are seeing problems that have never existed before. Older tools and techniques don’t necessarily work anymore to solve such issues. We need a different approach that builds on the latest developments in science and takes an alternate path to innovation. […]

New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Indra Nooyi is one of the worlds foremost business visionaries, who broke the glass ceiling in global business as a woman of Indian origin and immigrant leading an iconic American company that operates in 200 countries. Now, she essays her journey in “My Life In Full: Work, Family And Our […]

By Sukant DeepakNew Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The moment we start talking about his creation, the ‘Satvik Veena’, he makes it clear, “It is the one that plays me, never vice-versa.” Stressing that it is paramount for every artist to have a peculiar style, signature and identity, musician Salil Bhatt, whose latest album ‘Slide to […]

New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Singapore-based Indian Cryptocurrency investor Metakovan has bought an artwork by digital artist Beeple for $69.3 million. Various media reports cited that Metakova is a pseudonym of the investor, which means King of Meta in the Tamil language. His real identity is not known, but the investor is the co-founder of […]

New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) Poets Arundhathi Subramaniam and Anamika, and politician and writer M Veerappa Moily are among the twenty writers who will be conferred with the Sahitya Akademi Award 2020. Announcing this on Friday, the Akademi said that Subramaniam has won the award for her poetry collection ‘When God is a Traveller’ (English) […]

New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) When WHO first declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, there was a great deal of apprehension about how India — the country with the highest TB cases and diabetes, inadequate health infrastructure and a population of 1.3 billion — would fare. Between the Janata Curfew and the first […]

By Vishnu MakhijaniNew Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Subroto Bandopadhyay was all of 10 when the 1971 India-Pakistan war inspired him to join the Indian Air Force (IAF). Commissioned in 1982, he served for 26 years, rising to the rank of Group Captain, and in 2003 played a key role in circumnavigating a huge Il-76 aircraft […]

New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) In “Karunanidhi: A Life” (Penguin), A.S. Panneerselvan tells the story of the man who became a metaphor for modern Tamil Nadu, where language, empowerment, self-respect, art, literary forms and films coalesced to lend a unique vibrancy to politics. Writer-politician Muthuvel Karunanidhi is among the most important political leaders India has […]

New Delhi, March 6 (IANS) The National School of Drama (NSD) in the Capital is pushing several major initiatives to strengthen the present system of imparting theatre education and reaching out to more practitioners and theatre enthusiasts across the country. Along with infrastructural development, the vision is to recruit highly trained faculty, increase the number […]

New Delhi, March 6 (IANS) “Klara and the Sun”, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and […]

New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The 29th edition of the much-awaited New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF) will be held virtually this year from March 6-9. The virtual editions theme pavilion will be National Education Policy 2020, the National Book Trust announced on Thursday. The organisers said that over 15 countries, including the UK, the […]

New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) Award-winning author and poet, Sutapa Basu brings to you a heady mix of mystery and the paranormal, a treasure hunt, and an amateur detective at work that will remind readers of the works of Satyajit Ray and Ruskin Bond. Set in a huge, dilapidated mansion in Kolkata, “The Cursed Inheritance” […]

New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) To celebrate the publication of the sequel to ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ (ACOTAR) titled ‘A Court of Silver Flames’, American author Sarah J. Maas was in a live conversation with Mumbai-based writer Deepanjana Pal at the 14th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival(JLF). The author talked about the […]

New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) At a time when a British court has ordered the extradition of diamantaire Nirav Modi to India to stand trial in a Rs 13,500 crore bank fraud after dismissing arguments of his “mental health concerns,” saying they are not unusual in a man in his circumstances, while that of billionaire […]

New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) In these days of the coronavirus pandemic, Walter Isaacson, the bestselling author of “Leonardo da Vinci” and “Steve Jobs”, returns with “The Code Breaker” (Simon & Schuster), a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, […]

Bengaluru, Feb 26 (IANS) The South Western Railway (SWR) would restore 8 heritage stations in its Bengaluru division, with the help of Intach (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage), an official said on Friday. “We have signed an agreement with Intach to restore and preserve the century-old heritage structures in 2 phases at […]

By Archana SharmaJaipur, Feb 26 (IANS) As Jaipur Literature Festival continues to hold its sway, even in its 2021 virtual avatar, the venue of its next edition, hopefully in a physical form, is a hot topic of discussion amongst literature lovers of the Pink City and elsewhere. The current edition of the JLF is being […]

By Vishnu MakhijaniNew Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) His keen interest in the ‘riti genre of Hindi poetry (romantic works of the 18th-20th centuries) and classical music helps him understand the nuances of Rangmala paintings that depict variations of Indian musical modes. Today, art historian and art critic Vijay Sharma is widely recognised as a fine […]

New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) Did the CIA, in association with Indias Intelligence Bureau, clandestinely plant nuclear devices on Nanda Devi, the second highest mountain in India, in the 1950s to spy on Chinas nuclear programme and which are said to have led to a glacier break and triggered the devastating floods in Uttarakhand earlier […]

Bangalore, Feb 25 (IANS) At a time when US President Joe Biden is known to have a China plan in which India has a role, and a clutch of Indian American have been named to key positions in the new administration, renowned journalist and commentator Edward Luce, who was the New Delhi-based South Asia Bureau […]

New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) In the village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham, someone is mutilating horses. Someone is also sending threatening letters to the vicarage, where the vicar, Shahpur Edalji, is a Parsi convert to Christianity and the first Indian to have a parish in England. His son George — quiet, socially awkward and […]

New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) A raging pandemic, a dearth of life-saving equipment, and 90 days to manufacture a world-class ventilator. On March 24, 2020, a nationwide lockdown was imposed in India in the wake of a formidable adversary, the Covid-19 pandemic. With the number of cases increasing exponentially, hospitals were faced with a dangerous […]

New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) In April 2017, Nandini Murali lost her urologist husband Dr T.R. Murali to suicide. In the wake of that devastation, her life changed forever. As she struggled to find her feet and begin to live again, Murali, a certified life coach and a suicide prevention and mental health activist, discovered […]

By Aditi BhaduriThe year began on a subdued note with the assassination of journalist and activist Karima Baloch, one of Balochistan’s few, fiery and brilliant women freedom fighters. Her dead body was found in a lake in Toronto, Canada. The death is strongly alleged to be that of the Pakistani deep state. It, however, did […]

By Vishnu MakhijaniNew Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) It was a chance discovery of a book written 100 years ago by his great great grandfather that blended spiritual wisdom to aid decision-making that inspired writer and life coach Aditya Nath to delve deeper into the subject and pen his debut novel, “Awaken Your Soulprint – Discovering […]

New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Culture & Tourism (Independent Charge) Prahlad Singh Patel will inaugurate the second phase of Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav on February 22 at Raj Bhawan in Darjeeling. The closing ceremony of the three-day even will be attended by West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar. A choreographic presentation by […]

By Vishnu MakhijaniNew Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) A new book that unravels the nuances of world cinema harkens back to the 10th century philosopher Abhinavagupta (924-1020), a highly revered Kashmiri Shaiva master, as it pays tribute to his commentary on the “Natyasastra” (an ancient treatise on dramaturgy) and the concepts of “Rasa Siddhanta” (theory of […]

By Sukant DeepakNew Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) “There is no rulebook for me and I don’t believe in planning too much. I have never allowed my work to define me completely. All my life, I have chosen diverse roles — across genres, continents and platforms, and my career has never been dependent on my co-actors,” […]

By Sukant DeepakNew Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) She was in London when she saw the image of the hanging children, aged 16 and 14, circulating on Twitter. Though she had planned to write a book about the wave of sexual violence, seeing that visual of two teenage girls — Padma and Lalli who disappeared from […]

New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Hailed as the ‘greatest literary show on Earth’, the 14th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival 2021, will open on Friday on its brand new virtual platform. The festival, this year features over 300 speakers and performers representing around 25 Indian and 18 international languages and over 23 nationalities as […]

By Vishnu MakhijaniNew Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) With Artificial Intelligence helping “biological materialism sneak in through the back door”, the world is witnessing a real clash of civilisations with “the battle between algorithm and being” writes Rajiv Malhotra, one of the most respected venture capitalists of Silicon Valley and a former chairman of the powerful […]

By Vishnu MakhijaniNew Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) He was born in the family of a farmer who, though he bore the name Gaekwad, was considered to be to the cadet branch of the Baroda royal family or that of the younger sons of a previous ruler and thus not eligible to succeed to the throne. […]

New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) The Centre has ordered the removal of encroachments from the monuments and sites protected by the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) across the country. Currently, there are 3,693 monuments of national importance under ASI’s protection. The removal of encroachments from the premises of the protected monuments was recently ordered as […]

Kolkata, Feb 4 (IANS) Considering the upcoming Assembly elections and multiple board exams in West Bengal, the 45th International Kolkata Book Fair will be held in the month of July this year at the Central Park Mela Ground in Salt Lake. Earlier, the fair, which is held at the end of January every year, was […]

New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) What if you ran away from your life today? Twenty years later, three people are looking for you. One is dying to meet you again. The other wishes you had never met them. The third wishes they could have met you at least once. You are one person. Arent you? […]

By Archana SharmaJaipur, Jan 31 (IANS) Meet artist Chandraprakash Gupta who is paying rich tributes to Army martyrs differently since the Kargil War of 1999. He has been making oil paintings of the war heroes and gifting them to their families after travelling miles to their villages to ensure they get a feel of how […]

By Hitesh TikooJammu, Jan 28 (IANS) A youth leader from north Kashmir’s Handwara has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Jammu & Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, asking for the development of the Mata Bhadrakali temple, expansion of spiritual tourism in the Union territory and the return of Kashmiri Pandits. In a letter by […]

By Sukant DeepakNew Delhi, Jan 26 (IANS) The Delhi-NCR region is all set to get a major new cultural centre for the arts, a space that will encourage experimentation, research, education, residences, and performances of all kinds including visual, performing, and culinary arts. A virtual launch of Confluence Ideathon 2021 x Serendipity Arts Foundation, an […]

By N.B. HombalBagalkot (Karnataka), Jan 24 (IANS) Three generations from two adjacent villages in Karnataka fought over who should possess a ‘kalasha’ (holy pot) placed on a temple car during the annual fair of Garuda Siddeshwara temple, for nearly four decades. The feud was was finally resolved last week in a district Lok Adalat through […]

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 18 (IANS) Once a bustling maritime town on the west coast and now a global houseboat tourism hub, Alappuzha in Kerala will launch India’s first Labour Movement Museum, showcasing the fascinating history of the world labour movement that also left a deep imprint on the grim struggle of the workers here for their […]

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 […]