New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) Adite Banerjie, a New Delhi-based author and screenwriter, is among the top three winners of a Hollywood-based scriptwriting competition. The Finish Line Scriptwriting Competition, based out of Los Angeles, announced…
Kolkata, Sep 29 (IANS) A digital archive on Kirtan is being developed to preserve the rich tradition of the devotional music form, which is on the verge of extinction in India, noted Indologist Nrisingha Prasad…
By Vishal Gulati Ladakh — once the hub of the ancient Silk Route — is aptly described as a place where Buddhist spirituality and its ancient culture reign supreme amidst virgin nature. It’s a cold…
By Mohd Asim Khan Book: 1991: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Made History: Author: Sanjaya Baru; Publisher: Aleph; Pages: 216; Price: Rs 250 If today’s Indian leadership can boast about the country’s economic growth despite the…
By Biswajit Choudhury Moscow, Sep 29 (IANS) Come October and the symbol par excellence of Russia — the Bolshoi Theatre — will step into its 160th year and to mark this momentous passage has been…
New Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) With an assemblage of finest theatre, the 15th edition of Old World Theatre Festival will be held here from October 8 to 16 this year. The nine-day festival will open…
New Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) It was a jazzed-up World Tourism Day celebration in the national capital with the performance of the American group Donald Harrison and the Berklee All Stars. Led by Grammy-nominated Berklee…
By Vishnu Makhijani Book: Even If It Ain’t Broke Yet, Do Fix It — Enhancing Effectiveness Through Military Change; Author: Vivek Chadha; Publisher: Pentagon Press; Pages: 192; Price: Rs 795/$25.95 For all the rhetoric that…
By Vikas Datta Title: So, You Think You’re Clever?; Author: John Farndon; Publisher: Icon Books Ltd; Pages: 289; Price: Rs 525 For anyone who thinks themselves smart and highly-educated, one check of their capability can…
New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) Fondly recalling the brief tenure of Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar, under whom he served as Finance Minister, senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday observed that his success had proved…
New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) It was during the tenure of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao that the “seeds of Congress party’s decline were sown”, former Union Minister and Congress leader P. Chidambaram said…
By Vikas Datta Title: Secrets of State; Author: Matthew Palmer; Publisher: G.P. Putnams Sons/Penguin Random House; Pages: 448; Price: Rs 399 India, losing its patience over continuing acts of hostility emanating from its neighbour, and…
New Delhi, Sep 26 (IANS) In a bid to protect green cover, the Delhi government on Monday decided to officially recognise 16 trees across the city as its “natural heritage”. The decision was taken by…
London, Sep 26 (IANS) Researchers in New Zealand have restored the “true sound” in the earliest known recording of computer-generated music that British mathematician Alan Turing’s pioneering work in the late 1940s helped create. Jack…
By Vikas Datta Title: Exotic England – The Making of A Curious Nation; Author: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown; Publisher: Portobello Books; Pages: 336; Price: Rs 599 Britain, by a slim majority, chose in July to leave the…
Moscow, Sep 26 (IANS) An exhibition by a US photographer, best known for his works featuring teen nudity, in Moscow was closed after some protesters blocked the venue and deemed it child pornography. Camouflaged men,…
Agra, Sep 25 (IANS) Activists in Agra and Vrindavan on Sunday demanded immediate release of water into the dying Yamuna and a firm assurance from the union government that a minimum flow of water would…
Mumbai, Sep 25 (IANS) Actress Richa Chadha wants to explore the mythological space on the big screen, and yearns to portray the role of Draupadi from the epic Mahabharata. “I would love to play the…
By Vikas Datta On this September day, over seven decades ago, a most audacious Allied operation, intended to wrap up the Second World War by 1944 itself, ended ignominiously with shattered remnants of their elite…
Washington, Sep 25 (IANS) The first black President of the US has formally opened the first US national museum about the African-American history in Washington DC. Barack Obama said the $540m (?415m) museum represented a…