By Vikas Datta Title: Gangster Warlords; Author: Ioan Grillo; Publisher: Bloomsbury; Pages: 385; Price: Rs.399 It may take an inexplicable atrocity to bring focus on a ‘war’ long-underway which doesn’t get global attention like other…
The Hague, April 20 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has received a high Dutch royal honour in The Hague. Ban was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion on Tuesday….
London, April 20 (IANS) Shakespeare is more popular globally than with people in Britain though the bard has made a significant contribution to Britain’s economy and culture, a new research revealed on Tuesday. According to…
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday presented the Hindi Sevi Samman Awards to 39 scholars in seven different categories for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014. The awards were distributed at…
By Somrita Ghosh New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) Incredibly shuffling between post-partition Sialkot and the Pataliputra of 250 BC but focussing on the six decades of sub-continental upheaval since 1947, Ashwin Sanghi’s latest book is…
By Vikas Datta Title: Shammi Kapoor – The Game Changer; Author: Rauf Ahmed; Publisher: Om Books International; Pages: 299; Price: Rs.595 If Shammi Kapoor’s life was presented on celluloid, it would quite be like one…
By Sanu George Thiruvananthapuram, April 19 (IANS) Reshma Thomas is working for a doctorate on health issues relating to LGBTs and has over 200 paintings – out of an oeuvre of 500 – on the…
Kathmandu, April 18 (IANS) Almost a year after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake jolted Nepal, scores of people gathered at the Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu on Monday to pray for the success of ongoing rebuilding…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: Fourteen Years with Boss; Author: Ashokamitran; Publisher: Penguin Books; Pages: 164; Price: Rs.299 Title: The Ghosts of Meenambakkam; Author: Ashokamitran; Publisher: Penguin Books; Pages: 149; Price: Rs.299 For decades Gemini…
By Vikas Datta Title: Getting Things Done – the Art of Stress-Free Productivity; Author: David Allen; Publisher: Hachette India; Pages: 353; Price: Rs.399 In our fast-paced and complex chaotic world of work and life, a…
Bhubaneswar, April 18 (IANS) At least 30 people were killed and eight injured when a bus carrying over 40 artistes of an opera team fell down a 300-feet gorge in Odisha’s Deogarh district on Sunday…
Abu Dhabi, April 17 (IANS/WAM) The Black Box Cinema project by UAE filmmaker Nawaf Al Janahi will feature 18 films from 10 Arab countries in the 26th Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF) which starts…
Islamabad, April 17 (IANS) A Pakistani commentator has hit out at a private TV channel for using “extremely offensive and derogatory remarks” targeting the Hindu minority. A commentary published in The Nation pointed out that…
Beijing, April 17 (IANS) A museum dedicated to the Long March of the Red Army, which is due to open in mid-May in China, has received more than 270 items donated by the relatives of…
By Vikas Datta What do we make of the Raj’s storytellers? Should we simply view them through anti-colonialism’s uncompromising prism and unceremoniously dismiss them as standard-bearers of discredited imperialism? Or should we be more judicious…
By Preetha Nair New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) With the row over the rejigging of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) yet to die down, its former members have demanded that cultural institutions…
Agra, April 16 (IANS) The Taj Mahal is ready for the hyped visit of British royal couple, prince William and Kate, on Saturday. According to the programme released here, the royal couple will have lunch…
Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) Actor-director Randhir Kapoor has said that his first film as actor and director, ‘Kal Aaj Aur Kal’, will always remain his most favourite film. “I remember my first picture ‘Kal Aaj…
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) A giant tub where you can float and feel like you are in space, an urban laboratory for birds to rest, a wearable sculpture that protects you from pollution, a…
Washington, April 14 (IANS) US First Lady Michelle Obama continues to “resent” Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton due to the “bad blood left over from the bruising” 2008 campaign, a new book has alleged. In “First…