By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Dec 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Who was Othello? How did he come to Europe? Did his ancestors come on a slave ship with sugar? Theatre director Anuradha Kapur’s latest project, which will…
Srinagar, Dec 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) A total of 10 young writers from Jammu and Kashmir in the fields of fiction, poetry etc. have received the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for Kashmiri language so far. Constituted in…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Dec 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) With storytelling through multi-media seeming to be the flavour for the future, experimentation will be the name of the game in publishing in the year ahead, says…
Kochi, Dec 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Vasudevan Akkitham had no choice left than to restrict his artistic thoughts to the four walls of his house when everything was forced to shut down to curtail the fast spreading…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Dec 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) After almost more than a decade, theatre director Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry, recipient of the Padma Shri, known for her devised productions and not working with bound scripts,…
Sanjay Borkar Panaji, Dec 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) If writers write to please the dispensation and become cheerleaders, then it would be harmful to society, said Jnanpith awardee Damodar Mauzo, also known for championing the cause of…
By Sumanta Ray Chaudhuri Kolkata, Dec 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) The year 2023 will come with new hopes as regards to expansion of the communication and marketing bases for Bengali literature beyond the boundaries of West Bengal…
Mumbai, Dec 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) From checking out the state’s variety of cuisines to exploring its places of worship, forts, and historical monuments, the seven-part series ‘Postcards from Maharashtra’ gave the actress and show host Sai…
By Vikas Datta Celebrated poet of romance and revolution, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, titled his first book of verse “Naqsh-e-Faryadi” after the opening words of the first ghazal in this doyen of Urdu poetry’s Diwan, while…
By Brij Khandelwal Agra, Dec 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 225th birth anniversary of Mirza Ghalib, the doyen of Urdu poetry, was a forgotten event in the Taj city, his birth place, though a ritualistic ‘mushaira’ was…
Srinagar, Dec 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Keeping up with the traditional brotherhood, a group of local Muslims joined their Christian brethren on Sunday for Christmas celebrations in J&K’s Srinagar city. Wearing Santa Claus hats, a group of…
Kolkata, Dec 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Kolkata’s iconic Dover Lane Music Conference, a globally-acclaimed musical event that is attended by the cream of India’s classical music circuit, will be back again with its original winter schedule next…
By Raamesh Koirala On September 13, 2003, Rajesh Gurung, a young photojournalist at ‘The Himalayan Times’, had received an assignment from his editorial team — to get a photograph of Charles Sobhraj. The serial killer…
Kochi, Dec 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Curated by Shubigi Rao, the fifth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale was declared open for art enthusiasts on Friday, and on display are over 200 projects spread across heritage properties and…
Lucknow, Dec 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT) and Folk and Tribal Art and Culture Institute (FTACI) of Uttar Pradesh are converting stories of unsung heroes of the freedom struggle into…
New Delhi, Dec 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The National Institute of Indian Medical Heritage (NIIMH), Hyderabad, maintains a medico-historical library, which contains 10,384 books (including 448 rare books) on different aspects and branches of history of medicine,…
Kochi, Dec 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) The seventh edition of the Ni Fest – Niracharthu, founded in 2014 by the village community with the objectives of reviving artistic spirits of the village people, grooming next generation artists,…
New Delhi, Dec 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) The meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Transport, Tourism, and Culture has on Thursday summoned representatives of the Ministry of Finance, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC),…
By Moinuddin Ghani New Delhi, Dec 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) The ‘Chitram Vastram’ exhibition held in the National Museum here, records the journey of the Indian textile industry and sartorial styles through Jain manuscript paintings. Clothes, colours,…
By Sujit Chakraborty Guwahati, Dec 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Did you know that a 12-year-old girl from Assam by the name of Tileswari Barua is the youngest martyr of India’s freedom struggle? Or that General Thangal of…