By Vikas Datta Title: India at the Global High Table; Authors: Teresita C. Schaffer and Howard B. Schaffer; Publisher: Harper Collins India; Pages: 384; Price: Rs 599 Indian diplomacy may be successful or not, but…
By Mudita Girotra New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Imagine a berry pudding made using amaranth, a chicken wrap made of whole wheat or corn tortilla and grilled chicken salad without using marinade. Eighteen-year-old Vedant Bahri’s…
By Vishnu Makhijani Book: “Not War, Not Peace?”; Authors: George Perkovich & Toby Dalton; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Pages: 297; Price: Rs 695 The Partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947, with its violent consequences…
Rio de Janeiro, Aug 5 (IANS) Emblematic monuments and buildings in at least twelve countries such as Paris’s Hotel de Ville, Brazil’s Christ the Redeemer and Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium have lit up with green and…
Kolkata, Aug 4 (IANS) Describing the theft of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize medallion as a shame, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said given a chance, she could endeavour to retrieve the stolen…
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) Singer Shubha Mudgal will be awarded the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award for her outstanding contribution towards the promotion of communal harmony, peace and goodwill. Shubha Mudgal is a well-known…
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) The demise of the prominent Bengali writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi, who gave voice to the voiceless by chronicling injustices against them, had left a void that would be…
By Vikas Datta Among the boldest lines in Hindi film songs from a landmark epic where an imperial courtesan, who has already dared the monarch with her declaration of loving without fear, goes on to…
Kolkata, Aug 2 (IANS) Get on the director’s chair, cast the actors, select their costumes, acting style and create your own scene to experience Shakespeare — like never before. The British Council’s interactive video platform…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) The government has invited nominations for the Padma Awards for 2017, for which the last date is September 15. The nominations can only be sent online and not through any…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday received a copy of the book ‘Grassroots Innovation’ and said the “government should provide institutional support to the grassroots innovators”. The book is authored by…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) The government has planned an elaborate fortnight-long programme to commemorate the country’s 70th Independence Day, Information and Broadcasting Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will…
Kolkata, Aug 2 (IANS) The Mamata Banerjee government’s bid to rechristen West Bengal as “Bengal” has attracted mixed reactions from authors, singers and politicains, with some giving the thumbs up and others frowning at the…
By Vikas Datta Title: Crisis; Author: Frank Gardner; Publisher: Bantam Press/Penguin Random House; Pages: 460; Price: Rs 599 For decades now, the world is so fixated with the peril from Islamist terror that the earlier,…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: Bhagat Singh’s ‘Jail Note Book’: Its Context and Relevance; Editors: Malwinder Jit Singh Waraich and Harish Jain; Publisher: Unistar; Pages: 378; Price: Rs 495. In prison, as he awaited execution,…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Artists desire the freedom to tread their chosen path and to show to the world a part of their souls. A group art show titled “Freedom of Thought” in the…
By Ankit Sinha India’s musical landscape is currently witnessing an overwhelming change and there is no doubt that independent artistes across genres are collectively pushing the limits with bohemian ideas. But the seriousness of this…
By Ankit Sinha India’s musical landscape is currently witnessing an overwhelming change and there is no doubt that independent artistes across genres are collectively pushing the limits with bohemian ideas. But the seriousness of this…
Kharagpur, July 31 (IANS) The Intellectual Property Rights cell of IIT Kharagpur has taken up an initiative to facilitate the process of filing of potential Geographical indications for “Goyna Bori” – the fine art of…
Shimla, July 31 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh government has catalogued over one lakh manuscripts as part of the National Manuscript Mission Yojna which aims to preserve old languages and dialects, an official said on Sunday….