Do spies still have a future?
By Vikas Datta Title: The New Spymasters; Author: Stephen Grey; Publisher: Penguin; Pages: 365; Price: Rs.499 In today’s world, when you can track people in any part of the globe with satellites, know what they…
Culture
Students from around the globe spread the idea of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) More than 400 students from 17 nations assembled here on Saturday for the 14th International Festival of Language & Culture (IFLC 2016) which had the premise ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (The world…
Tagore and his women
By Somrita Ghosh New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) Bimala lives under the shadow of her rich elite husband Nikhil. Despite being high-spirited, she has to remain subdued in the role of a traditional Indian housewife….
Tagore and his women
By Somrita Ghosh New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) Bimala is a simple wife living under the shadow of his rich elite husband Nikhil. Despite being a woman of high spirits, her wings remained folded while…
Bengal celebrates Tagore’s birth anniversary
Kolkata, May 8 (IANS) With his ever-popular songs, poems and other compositions reverberating through the air across the state, West Bengal on Sunday paid homage to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore on his 155th birth anniversary….
MPs pay tribute to Rabindranath Tagore
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) MPs on Sunday paid homage to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore on his 155th birth anniversary, a Lok Sabha official said. Among those who attended a special event in the Central…
Colourful lights revive Syria’s ancient city Palmyra
Damascus, May 8 (IANS) Colourful lights have started returning to the Roman amphitheatre in Syria’s Palmyra so that audience can listen to the fine art of opera. It’s the same theatre where the black-masked Islamic…
No Freudian slip this! The psychoanalyst’s literary forays
By Vikas Datta It is debatable but any list of influential thinkers must include these five men whose contributions to the study of mankind, and the world they live in, came in a century spanning…
There is revival of interest in Tagore in Germany: Researcher Martin Kampchen
By Sirshendu Panth Kolkata, May 7 (IANS) There is a slow revival of interest in Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and his works in Germany, but mostly among a niche readership, says German scholar and Tagore…
Kolkata trams transformed into art, culture hubs
Kolkata, May 7 (IANS) To celebrate the legacy and romance of iconic trams, these unassuming electricity-driven transport vehicles were on Saturday transformed into hubs of film screenings, theatre, music and art to help revive them….
Leaders pay tribute to Tagore via Twitter
New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) Social networking site Twitter on Saturday saw several political leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechuri pay tribute to Nobel laureate…
‘Bose: An Indian Samurai’ highlights INA’s role
New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) As mountainous waves struck the German U-Boat under dark and roiling skies, its captain emphatically advised Subhas Chandra Bose against leaving the vessel to board a Japanese submarine. Bose replied:…
Modi pays homage to Tagore on 155th birth anniversary
New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid homage to Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore on his 155th birth anniversary. “I bow to Gurudev Tagore on his birth anniversary. He was…
‘Hollywood, inde cinema reduced Bollywood viewers’
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Today’s audiences are not dependent on movies and have a number of other options like Hollywood and independent cinema for entertainment resulting in Bollywood not having grown in 2015 by…
Nepal president’s India visit axed, Ujjain deaths cited
Kathmandu, May 6 (IANS) Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari’s visit to India has been cancelled, with the president telling an Indian visitor on Friday that it was because of the Ujjain Kumbh tragedy. Bhandari told…
Need tips on parenting? Read on!
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) In an era of teens and tweens facing the spectre of depression and getting overexposed to social media and junk food, parenting is a complex and an exigent task. This…
Slips, rivalry and psyche’s triad: Freud’s relevance today (May 6 is Sigmund Freud’s 160th birth anniversary)
By Vikas Datta Is the greater contributor to human understanding the one who makes a discovery or one who discerns there is something to be discovered? It may seem the first one but discoveries seldom…
Five-day Tagore Festival in Egypt
Cairo, May 6 (IANS) The Indian embassy in Cairo and the Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture are hosting a Tagore Festival here from May 8-12 to mark the 155th birth anniversary of poet laureate…
8,000-year-old paddy field found in China
Beijing, May 6 (IANS) Chinese archaeologists said they have found a paddy field more than 8,000 years old. This could be the earliest wet rice farming site in the world. The field, covering less than…
Beijing’s Palace Museum confirms ancient relics find
Beijing, May 6 (IANS) The Palace Museum in Beijing has confirmed the discovery of relics from the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) that were buried underground in the heart for over 600 years. The museum, also known…