By Vikas Datta Title: In the Jungles of the Night – A Novel About Jim Corbett; Author: Stephen Alter; Publisher: Aleph Book Company; Pages: 208; Price: Rs 499 In our era of threatened natural environment…
Leh, Sep 19 (IANS) A 60-foot-tall silk embroidery brocade of Buddha Amitabha was unfurled on Monday at once-in-12-years carnival of spirituality, culture and tradition near the 17th century Hemis monastery of Drukpa lineage, the largest…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) The opening scene of “Mangoes” shows two Pakistani expatriates and Indian women relishing mangoes together, recollecting their childhood memories. However, the scene suddenly turns ugly as they start comparing the…
Farah (Uttar Pradesh) Sep 19 (IANS) Two short films on the life and works of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya are being shot at his birth place, in Farah village of Mathura district. Director of the…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) Music maestro Shashank Subramanyam and theatre director Yuki Ellias are some of the celebrated artists set to perform at the tenth edition of the Parks New Festival, which begins on…
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) India’s leading art platform India Art Fair has become the first regional partner of MCH group — parent of the international fair Art Basel, held in Basel, Miami Beach and…
By Preetha Nair New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) Author and journalist Pinki Virani’s recent book “Politics of the Womb: The Perils of IVF, Surrogacy and Modified Babies” grabbed headlines for its expos? of the unscrupulous…
By Vikas Datta Title: Operation Thunderbolt – the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History; Author: Saul David; Publisher: Hodder Books/Hachette India; Pages: 464; Price: Rs 499 No other anti-terror mission has been more successful….
London, Sep 18 (IANS) England all-rounder Ben Stokes has launched a scathing attack on the West Indies middle-order batsman Marlon Samuels in the newest twist of a lingering feud between the two cricketers. In an…
By Anjali Ojha New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) In the highly inspirational movie “Dead Poets Society”, Robin Williams plays an influential American teacher in the 1950s, John Keating, who struggles to instill a sense of…
By Vikas Datta Title: Network18 – The Audacious Story of a Start-up that Became a Media Empire; Author: Indira Kannan; Publisher: Portfolio Penguin; Pages: 352; Price: Rs 699 It was a start-up, even before the…
By Vikas Datta There is one country that has militarily defeated the US — and that too on its own soil — stolen a march on both the US and USSR in space travel, severely…
London, Sep 17 (IANS) Six years after the language in Enid Blytons Famous Five books was updated in an attempt to make them appeal more to modern children, the publisher has decided to abandon the…
Paris, Sep 16 (IANS) Namaste France, a two-and-a-half-month-long festival which began here on Thursday, will serve as a window into Indian traditional arts, music, dance, theatre, literature, cinema and fashion. The Indian Embassy in France,…
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) A sarod performance by Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and a Kathak performance by Kumudini Lakhia had the audience in Paris as a 75-day ‘Namaste France’ festival opened in the French…
Mumbai, Sep 16 (IANS) Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar on Friday paid her tribute to legendary classical singer M.S. Subbulakshmi on her 100th birth anniversary. “It’s legendary singer M.S. Subbulakshmi’s 100th birth anniversary. I bow in…
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) Immerse yourself in the thrilling story of a young politician fighting corruption, know the struggles of a journalist as she reports a murder, flick through different aspects of Indians and…
London, Sep 16 (IANS) Part of Queen Elizabeth II’s wardrobe, both present and past, will be on display from this Saturday at Windsor Castle, about 32 km west of London, in the exhibition: ‘Fashioning a…
Athens, Sep 16 (IANS) The largest bookstore in Greece with 118 years of history, Eleftheroudakis, will be closed on September 30 due to the seven-year debt crisis. The bookshop chain’s central store, spreading over eight…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Ocean of Churn – How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History; Author: Sanjeev Sanyal; Publisher: Penguin Random House India; Pages: 323; Price: Rs 599 What could be more Indian then…