By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, Nov 30 (IANS) It can zip past on city roads or traverse through narrow roads in countryside to rush a patient to hospital, and when idle can convert into a mobile…
By Sourabh Kulesh New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) As governments and companies face an uphill task to stop hackers from stealing data, the Dark Web is providing them a safe haven, helping them scale up…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) As we enter the last month of 2017 — a significant year from the publishing point of view — the wide variety of books published over the…
New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) Even as the boom of literary festivals in the sub-continent continues to gain momentum, it is the versatile list of speakers from several quarters of the world that sets the…
New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS) A fresh book on the stands draws the attention of its readers to the third largest ethno-linguistic group in the world. “A quarter of a billion strong and growing,” the…
By Sanu George Pathanamthitta (Kerala) Nov 26 (IANS) Everything about this 57-year-old retired zoology professor is unique — and what stands out is her abiding compassion for the deprived. In 11 years, she has built…
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The upcoming Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa this December will host the first ever Arts Spectrum Awards in the South Asia region. Being seen as an attempt to recognise, encourage…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) It has barely been a month since acclaimed poet Jeet Thayil’s “The Book of Chocolate Saints” hit the stands, but even in this short period, the novel…
By Nury Vittachi Lazy dad tip: You can answer any question asked by your child with “Go ask your mama”, including “Where’s mama?” The tragedy of modern life is that people look down on lazy…
New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) Two leading art galleries, Exhibit320 and Blueprint12, have come together to create a platform for Folk and Tribal Art. The exhibition resulting from this collaboration offers an invitation to the…
New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) An upcoming group exhibition aims to capture the trends in contemporary Indian art and 34 leading figures from the art world have come together to create exclusive works for the…
Mumbai, Nov 23 (IANS) One of the most anticipated events in Mumbais theatre calendar is all set to return to the city for its eighth edition at the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) with…
New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) From mother goddess sculptures created over two thousand years ago to Indian Modernism and todays contemporary art, Saffronarts upcoming online auction traces the development of Indian art through 121 works….
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) Prominent Indian artist Jatin Das — painting for well over five decades now — has come down heavily on the state of the contemporary art market. In…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) About five years ago, when Financial Times journalist and author Victor Mallet began living in Delhi, he was shocked to discover that the Yamuna — “this beautiful…
By Sahana Ghosh Malda/Kolkata, Nov 19 (IANS) Motherhood transcends gender. Unconditional love knows no caste barriers. Defying norms, in a rundown neighbourhood in Malda in West Bengal, transwoman Arindam Saha Kundu (now known as Priyanka)…
By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, Nov 19 (IANS) “I want to become a pilot.” When she instinctively answered a question at an event over a decade ago, the dream of a humble bakery worker’s daughter had…
By Nury Vittachi A few days ago, this columnist was using an ATM machine while travelling and it warned me to “beware of robbery attempts” while simultaneously stealing my money through ridiculous bank fees. It…
New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan may have stopped making headlines every other day but his tenure is enough inspiration for leading thriller writer Ravi Subramanian to…
New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) Eminent artist Jatin Das is all set to exhibit a staggering 500 portraits — many of which have never been on display before — at Lalit Kala Akademi here. The…