By Saket Suman New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) That the nation is embodied in the Prime Minister is the telling similarity between the Emergency of 1975-77 under Indira Gandhi and the contemporary state of affairs…
New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) Read through the delightful tale of a young couple who learn how to find meaning in “a little love, a little togetherness and a little happiness”; flick through an amusing…
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Words like pashmina, dal, chutney and pyjamas form part of a list of 70 Indian origin words included in the Oxford English Dictionary unveiled by the British Council here on…
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Just as the Indian art circuit gathers for a domestic art festival at the Thyagaraj Stadium here starting Thursday, at least three booths break away from the convention to display…
Ahmedabad/ Bengaluru, Nov 22 (IANS) In a bid to celebrate creativity and promote a shared understanding of the best practices in design, two independent design festivals will kick off on Friday in Ahmedabad and Bengaluru…
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) The battle for 2019 is not about replacing one government with another, says former Minister in the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government Manish Tewari in his new book, and asks whether…
Shimla, Nov 22 (IANS) Running through history, the British-era Kalka-Shimla railway track will now take tourists to the “glorious” past for capturing the moments. Railway authorities installed a rail engine and a coach for the…
Abu Dhabi, Nov 22 (IANS/WAM) The Louvre Abu Dhabi announced on Thursday that its upcoming “Rain of Light” Festival, a week-long performing arts festival celebrating the museums architecture, will begin on December 11. The festival…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) We live in an age when technology drives most of what we do in our day-to-day lives. And blessed as we are with tech boons such as…
Islamabad, Nov 22 (IANS) Noted Pakistani feminist writer and poet Fahmida Riaz died here. She was 72. The eminent progressive writer, who was also hailed by many as the pioneer in feminist literature, had been…
Patna, Nov 21 (IANS) Sonepur cattle fair, considered as Asia’s largest such event, began in Bihar on Wednesday with hundreds of people from rural areas thronging the fair to enjoy the unique flavour of an…
Kolkata, Nov 21 (IANS) Noting that the modern-day education system is indifferent about the disappearing old art forms while our sense of aesthetics is getting increasingly commodified, writer-mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik on Wednesday said the young…
Mumbai/ Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 21 (IANS) A cheque of Rs 36.17 lakhs, raised from a fundraiser auction of 32 works of modern and contemporary Indian art, was donated on Wednesday to Kerala Chief Ministers Distress Relief…
Hong Kong, Nov 21 (IANS) A 24-carat fancy yellow diamond that captivated Indian and Hollywood royalty, “Moon of Baroda” will go under the hammer at Christies auction in Hong Kong on November 27. Existence of…
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, Nov 21 (IANS) The people of Chennai prefer to give an Indian twist to Thai food as compared to those in Mumbai and Delhi, said a senior chef at The Lotus…
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar Book: Maharana Pratap – The Invincible Warrior; Author: Rima Hooja; Publisher: Juggernaut Books; Pages: 204; Price: Rs. 499 Who really won the battle of Haldighati? Did Maharana Pratap’s army and his Bhil…
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) An overnight music concert, marking the 31st Foundation Day of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), ended at the cultural institution here on Tuesday morning. The concert,…
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Recreated versions of Indian miniatures in the “Company” style, a style popularized by Indian artists with European patrons, are on view at the Bikaner House here. The exhibition, titled “The…
Mumbai, Nov 20 (IANS) Renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari will deliver a lecture on “The New Challenges of the Twenty-first Century” here in December and will talk about the impending challenges that may surface in…
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) In a first for an Indian academic, Professor S.P. Ganguly, a well-known Hispanist who headed the Centre for Spanish and Latin American Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University here, has…