Bengaluru, Oct 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Deepti Navaratna, the current Regional Director of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, has been invited to perform at the prestigious Parliament of the World’s Religions scheduled to be held…
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Almost two years after arrest of 49 year-old Jolly Amma Joseph, who eliminated six people in her family using cyanide many years back, is now again in the news again, through…
New Delhi, Oct 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) The late Jnanpith award-winning author Indira Goswami was a great literary writer of her generation and a feminist icon. Most of her major works have been translated from Assamese into…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Oct 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) He says that the brush line can be like the throb of the heart. That when he puts a line on the canvas, the feeling is reminiscent…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) An ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ corner showcasing exquisite GI-tagged tribal art and craft products from India was set up at the High Commission of India in Ottawa, Canada, to mark the Gandhi…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Penguin Random House India said on Saturday it has acquired three new titles by critically acclaimed Malayalam writer V.J. James, to be translated into English by Ministhy S. and with…
By Quaid Najmi Mumbai, Sep 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) A grand statue honouring Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, famous as Dadasaheb Phalke, the revered father of Indian film industry, will come up in Bandra West by the year-end, said…
Copenhagen, Sep 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) A Danish museum has asked an artist to return around $83,000 he had been given in cash to recreate old artworks using banknotes, after he produced blank canvasses with the title…
New Delhi, Sep 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) The steam engine shot out of the tunnel, snorting, and puffing like a green, black, and gold dragon, a beautiful monster out of Ranji’s dreams. Fascinated by the midday train,…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Sep 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Term it colonialism in reverse. A seminal book brings together the striking botanical art of Indian origin spanning a period of 300 years drawn mostly from original…
New Delhi, Sep 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) For a dozen years as one of the worlds most admired CEOs, Indra Nooyi, redefined what it means to be an exceptional leader. To the extent that when she once…
Kolkata, Sep 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) A 30-member delegation team from UNESCO is likely to visit Santiniketan between September 28 and October 3 brightening up the prospect of Rabindranath Tagore-envisioned prestigious university Visva Bharati being included in…
Hyderabad, Sep 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Following demand from the Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) to delete ‘Islamophobic’ content in a school book in Telangana, the state authorities on Sunday assured appropriate action while the publisher…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Sep 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Believing that musicians should expose themselves to all forms of music, irrespective of language, techniques and borders, he feels that doing so ascertains a broader approach towards…
By Arun Lakshman Chennai, Sep 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) The archeological excavations being carried out at Keeladi and Thamiraibaranai in Tamil Nadu have given inputs to the archeologists and historians that there was a rich Tamil culture…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Rasheed Kidwai, a political commentator, author and journalist of three decades standing, generally writes in English but chose Hindi for his book on Indian Prime Ministers as…
Los Angeles, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Streaming giant Netflix has got the golden ticket as it has acquired the rights of novelist Roald Dahl’s books. The deal means the streaming giant will own creations like ‘Charlie…
New Delhi, Sep 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) As the Indian cricket team prepares for a transition to a new head coach and a change of guard in the shortest format, its story is, in so many ways,…
Chandigarh, Sep 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) ‘From Nazneen to Naina’, a book on 20 years of actress Kareena Kapoor Khan in Bollywood, was officially launched here. Authored by Canadian journalist Gurpreet Singh, the book is based on…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Sep 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) It was while writing an article on the Bengal Famine of 1943 that she asked herself — why does Indian food only focus on taste-centric gastronomy? Who…