Mumbai, Nov 17 (IANS) Veteran actor, theatre personality and advertising guru Alyque Padamsee died here on Saturday morning, family sources said. He was 90. He had been ailing since sometime before he breathed his last…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Nov 17 (IANS) How does one react to the torrent of hate engulfing the social media? The surprising answer of the Indian YouTube personality Prajakta Koli, herself the target of…
Mumbai, Nov 17 (IANS) Veteran actor, theatre personality and advertising guru Alyque Padamsee died here on Saturday morning, family sources said. He was 90. He is survived by three former wives and four children besides…
By C. Uday Bhaskar Book: The Indian Empire At War; Author: George Morton-Jack; Publisher: Little, Brown; Pages: 582; Price Rs 699 World War I was a long and brutal military confrontation between the major powers…
London, Nov 17 (IANS) British Culture Minister Michael Ellis on Friday placed an export bar on a unique watercolour painting depicting a traditional musical performance in mid-18th century Northern India. The move will prevent the…
New York, Nov 17 (IANS) The Oscar-winning screenwriter and best-selling author William Goldman, known for “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All The President’s Men”, died on Friday. He was 87. According to The…
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) One of the biggest language and poetry festivals in the Urdu and Hindi genre, Jashn-e-Adab, will kick off its seventh edition in the national capital from November 23. The three-day…
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) A concert featuring Carnatic musician T.M. Krishna, which was postponed by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) reportedly following vicious trolling on social media by rightwing elements, will now be…
Mumbai, Nov 16 (IANS) Carnatic vocalist T.M. Krishna, who is at the centre of a controversy following the postponement of his scheduled concert by Airports Authority of India (AAI) in the wake of vicious trolling…
Mumbai, Nov 16 (IANS) Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, son of late celebrated poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, says writers are the most important part of the filmmaking process. Talking about his father at the Tata Literature Live…
Mumbai, Nov 16 (IANS) Renowned classical danseuse-cum-scholar and exponent of Mohiniattam dance form, Kanak Rele will be honoured with this year’s ‘Aditya Vikram Birla Kala Shikhar Award for Lifetime Achievement’, an official said here on…
Kolkata, Nov 16 (IANS) Award-winning Assamese filmmaker Bobby Sarma Baruah said her movie ‘Mishing’ (The Apparition) is an attempt to preserve Arunachal Pradesh’s Sherdukpen dialect which is on the verge of extinction. “In India, we…
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Popular belief has it that the Ramayana is idealistic while the Mahabharata is realistic but these two epics have “identical building blocks, themes, and history,” says writer-mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik, whose…
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Bold brushstrokes by artist Arpita Chandra conjure up a dreamland in her ongoing solo exhibition “Dream” here, narrating the tale of women who might be physically at home, but their…
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Read a heart-breaking love story – one that will transcend decades, continents and the workings of fate. There’s also a gripping mystery and a page-turning next instalment in the ongoing…
Tokyo, Nov 16 (IANS) A 1928 Disney animation, which predates the creation of Mickey Mouse, has resurfaced in Japan, the media reported on Friday. The Asahi Shimbun daily said that the cartoon short, entitled “Neck…
By Suprita Das For a country thats as cricket-crazy as India is, its amazing (read “really really unfortunate”), that the womens game, up until very recently, has got such little attention. As I understood during…
Kolkata, Nov 16 (IANS) A week-long workshop kicked off at Kolkata International Film Festival on Thursday bringing together 58 students from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Myanmar to attend and experts from abroad. “India’s cinematic…
Mumbai, Nov 15 (IANS) Choreographer Ashley Lobo’s dance company Navdhara India Dance Theatre (NIDT) has collaborated with Poland-based Zawirowania Dance Theatre for their contemporary piece titled ‘The Crossing. ‘The Crossing’ will be held on Saturday…
Agartala, Nov 15 (IANS) Around 660 youths from eight northeastern states took part in the 6th North-East Youth Festival, inaugurated here on Thursday by Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb. Arts, culture, lifestyle, traditional folk…