New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Vice President Hamid Ansari on Tuesday said the experience of the Indian Muslim minority community living in a secular polity having a composite culture could be a model for others…
Beijing, April 26 (IANS) Three sets of coffins, believed to have been buried 3,000 years ago, were discovered in China’s Henan province, sources said on Tuesday. They were unearthed on Monday and taken to a…
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) A massive fire destroyed the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) here early on Tuesday, reducing its priceless collection including fossils to ashes, officials said. The shocking devastation forced Environment…
Lucknow, April 26 (IANS) It is unfortunate that some people are opposing the planned performance in Varanasi by Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali, eminent musician Pandit Jasraj has said. Ghulam Ali is due to perform…
Phnom Penh, April 26 (IANS) Thousands of people on Tuesday called for an end to wildlife tourism rides in Cambodia after an elephant dropped dead from exhaustion. The elephant was walking for about 40 minutes…
By Vikas Datta Title: Shanghai Redemption; Author: Qiu Xiaolong; Publisher: Mullholland Books; Pages: 322; Price: Rs.399 A country may be democratic or authoritarian, but the regime will always maintain influence, covert at least, on police,…
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed sadness on the death of social worker Poornimaben Pakvasa, the mother of renowned Odissi classical dancer Sonal Mansingh, on Monday. “Sad to hear about demise…
Beijing, April 25 (IANS) Mei Baojiu, a famous Peking opera performer and son of a legendary Chinese theatre mogul, died here on Monday at age 82. Mei fell into coma following a bronchial spasm and…
Abidjan, April 25 (IANS) Democratic Republic of Congo music star Papa Wemba died after collapsing while performing at an international cultural festival here, organisers said. The organising committee of Anouambo Urban Music Festival said Wemba…
By Jaideep Sarin Gunehar (Himachal Pradesh), April 25 (IANS) Close to Bir-Billing, one of the most famous sites in the world for para-gliding, a village is experiencing an artistic transformation. Life in Gunehar village in…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) With World Dance Day around the corner, there is nothing more fitting than conveying the message of unity and harmony. Reflecting this, eminent Kathak danseuse Shovana Narayan will host “Vividh…
By Preetha Nair Dehradun, April 25 (IANS) Hindutva is a brand of fundamentalism and the Hindu right wing is distorting what Hinduism stands for, says renowned author Nayantara Sahgal who was among one of the…
Mumbai, April 25 (IANS) Filmmaker Vikramaditya Motwane will be directing “Chakra The Invincible”, the first Indian superhero created by legendary comic-book writer Stan Lee along with Graphic co-founder and CEO Sharad Devarajan. Graphic India, a…
Santiago, April 25 (IANS) The remains of famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda arrived at the Congress in Santiago for a ceremony on Monday before being buried a day after, three years after exhumation. The coffin…
By Vikas Datta Title: New Songs of the Survivors; Author: Yvonne Vaz Ezdani; Publisher: Speaking Tiger; Pages: 232; Price: Rs.350 Facing an inexorable enemy, they fled – the lucky ones flying out, some over the…
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) An online forum ‘sahapedia.org’ — an interactive platform on Indian and South Asian culture — has been launched here. The portal, launched on Saturday, consists of information ranging from visual…
Stratford-upon-Avon (UK), April 24 (IANS) Shakespeare’s India was rich with pearls and precious stones, its people deeply religious and its veiled women famous for their “dark beauty”. And the country has repaid the Bard “richly”…
By Vikas Datta Poets can be divided into two broad categories – those who are sometime, somewhere influenced by the world outside and ‘prosaic’ concerns like politics, or at least reference what is happening, while…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: Chittagong Armoury Raid: A Memoir; Author: Subodh Roy; Publisher: LeftWord Books; Pages: 137; Price: Rs.175 It cost only Rs.18,000 to prepare for the 1930 Chittagong Armoury Raid. That – coupled…
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) Renowned Urdu litterateur and author Joginder Paul passed away on Friday after a prolonged illness. He was 90. Paul had been suffering from age-related illness and was hospitalized for some…