Category: Art

Portugal PM Costa, US diplomat Biswal among Pravasi awardees

Bengaluru, Jan 9 (IANS) Indian-origin Portugal Prime Minister Antonio Luis Santos da Costa and Indian-born US diplomat Nisha Desai Biswal…

8 years ago

This Himachal singing star wants to be a Lata Mangeshkar

Shimla, Jan 9 (IANS) People are singing praises for the songs of this girl from a nondescript village in Himachal…

8 years ago

American hip hop to debut at Vh1 Supersonic 2017

Pune, Jan 9 (IANS) The organisers of electronic dance music (EDM) festival Vh1 Supersonic 2017 will be adding a hip…

8 years ago

An Indus Valley city’s end and its shadow on the present

By Vikas Datta Title: The Curse of Mohenjodaro; Author: Maha Khan Phillips; Publisher: Pan Macmillan India; Pages: 448; Price: Rs…

8 years ago

Exhibition to create awareness on fake art

Mumbai, Jan 8 (IANS) In an attempt to decipher the concepts behind identification of real and fake in art, the…

8 years ago

Bookworms throng World Book Fair, children’s book sees demand

New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) From Jeff Kinneys Wimpy Kid series to Amar Chitra Katha, the second day of the…

8 years ago

Ozzy overdosed on pills when Sharon had cancer

London, Jan 8 (IANS) Singer Kelly Osbourne has revealed in her upcoming book "There Is No F***ing Secret" that her…

8 years ago

Trump’s top security pick plagiarized book?

Washington, Jan 8 (IANS) Author Monica Crowley, the US President-elect Donald Trump's pick for a top national security communications role,…

8 years ago

A poetic colossus and his stylish, striking and sonorous works

By Vikas Datta Among the shortcomings of our education system is that literature, especially poetry, is mostly presented to impressionable…

8 years ago

70K people visited Fidel Castro’s tomb in a month

Havana, Jan 8 (IANS) About 70,000 people have visited Cuban leader Fidel Castro's tomb in the city of Santiago de…

8 years ago

World Book Fair kicks off, a lot to look forward to

New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) The sudden change in weather may have been a setback for those with elaborate plans…

8 years ago

World peace depicted in art

New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) The Sanskrit phrase 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' in Hindu texts, translates as 'the world is one family'.…

8 years ago

World Book Fair kicks off in the capital

New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) Focussed on writings on and by women, the nine day-long New Delhi World Book Fair…

8 years ago

Kolkata litfest to pay tribute to Bob Dylan, Mahasweta Devi

Kolkata, Jan 6 (IANS) The eighth edition of Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival (AKLF) will pay tributes to Nobel laureate Bob…

8 years ago

Swami Haridas-Tansen Sangeet Nritya Mahotsava begins in Delhi

New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) Aiming to revive and enhance interest in traditional Indian art forms, particularly among the younger…

8 years ago

Kalapana festival promoting arts, crafts to open in Mumbai

Mumbai, Jan 6 (IANS) Celebrating the diverse forms of arts and crafts in India is the 'Kalapana -- a specially…

8 years ago

Along with literary heavyweights, arts and culture to enhance JLF experience

New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) Even as the buzz around the upcoming Jaipur Literature Festival, which will witness participation of…

8 years ago

The recipe for looking good? Eat well

By Radhika Bhirani Title: Gorgeous - Eat Well, Look Great; Author: Shvetha Jaishankar; Publisher: HarperCollins; Pages: 175; Price: Rs 799…

8 years ago

A Pakistani ‘Herstory’ of a community, city and country

By Vikas Datta Title: The Upstairs Wife - An Intimate History of Pakistan; Author: Rafia Zakaria; Publisher: Beacon Press; Pages:…

8 years ago

Music, love and history

New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) Unravel the mystique behind Bollywood's most adored composer-singer Rahul Dev Burman, flick through the love…

8 years ago



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