New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) An upcoming online auction features 82 rare and carefully selected old maps, vintage photographs, and gilt-bound books. The lots offer a glimpse into over 200 years of colonial India, presenting…
Chandigarh, Dec 6 (IANS) Following Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa’s death, President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday cancelled his visit to Kurukshetra in Haryana to inaugurate the ‘Gita Mahotsav’. Cultural and other celebratory events were…
New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) Laced with theatrical performances, design interventions, restoration projects and public art initiatives, the ‘Serendipity Arts Festival’ is set to showcase an array of arts and cultures existing in India and…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Other Side of Silence – Bernie Gunther Thriller 11; Author:Philip Kerr; Publisher: Quercus/Hachette India; Pages: 400; Price: Rs 399 Surviving the Nazis, World War II at its most brutal, Soviet…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) India’s otherwise booming publishing industry is now undergoing a crucial phase as sales have dropped by almost 30-60 per cent since November 8, after the government’s decision…
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) What is it like to be anonymous in a city? Or is it a subterfuge many of us resort to in order to deal with a growing sense of anxiety…
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia formally concluded the Delhi Walk Festival by visiting Mirza Ghalibs Shahjahanabad in Old Delhi. Titled “Mirza Ghalib’s Shahjahanabad: Purani Dilli as the poet’s muse”,…
By Somrita Ghosh Panaji, Dec 5 (IANS) Strange as it may sound, Bollywood can actually promote jazz, which is all about swing, rhythm and harmony, but it is sadly killing the genre, says 67-year-old Tanzanian-born…
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the International Gita Mahotsav on Tuesday at Kurukhetra in Haryana, his office said on Monday. The Gita Mahotsav or Bhagawad Gita Jayanti Samaroh is celebrated…
By Bappaditya Chatterjee Mechukha (Arunachal Pradesh), Dec 5 (IANS) A flight and two helicopter rides later, one completed a 10-hour journey from Kolkata via Guwahati to reach the picturesque Mechukha Valley in the northeastern state…
By Vikas Datta Title: Feroze Gandhi – the Forgotten Gandhi; Author: Bertil Falk; Publisher: Roli Books; Pages: 320; Price: Rs 695 He was a “VIP” in independent India, not because he was son-in-law of the…
By Vikas Datta The London policeman, a member of the modern world’s first professional law and order enforcement force, has long been a model for his counterparts and a subject for crime novelists. However, the…
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Imagine yourself at the Maha Aarti in Pushkar with local and foreign visitors all together on the ghats against the pink hued winter evening sky as performances by renowned Sufi…
By Aroonim Bhuyan New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) A new book born out of three years of intensive research across northeastern India and parts of Myanmar and Bangladesh focuses on the role of women in…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: Uttara: The Book of Answers; Author: (Translated by) Arshia Sattar; Publisher: Penguin; Pages: 286; Price: Rs 499 The Uttara Kanda is the seventh and last book of Valmiki’s Ramayana. It…
New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) India “gained enormously” by not retaliating against Pakistan after the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that claimed more than 160 lives, former Union Minister of Home and Finance P. Chidambaram…
Mumbai, Dec 2 (IANS) Showcasing Indian music across genres and generations and at the same time attempting to create opportunities for young, talented musicians to play, the three-month-long travelling festival ‘Citi-NCPA Aadi Anant – ‘from…
New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) The British Library and the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) have come together in a new partnership to host a series of events in Jaipur and London during 2017, with the…
Mumbai, Dec 2 (IANS) Actor Aman Uppal, who is set to feature in a virtual reality (VR) web series with actors Aditya Kumar and Vijay Varma, says that the medium is like theatre — an…
New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) Noted film director and screenwriter Shyam Benegal has inaugurated “Habitat Photosphere”, a photography exhibition based on the theme of sustainable development. A first-of-its-kind theme based photography festival focusing on the…