By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, May 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) His three teen and preteen daughters find it hilarious that their father has written a book about memory; they believe he “literally can’t remember anything”. His wife,…
Barcelona, May 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Barcelona’s Picasso Museum celebrated the 50th anniversary of the famed Spanish painter’s donation of over a thousand works from his youth to the city in 1970. Between May 20 and September…
New Delhi, May 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) What are periods? And why is it such a big secret, 11-year-old Aditya really wants to know. Ever since Rhea didi began getting brown paper packages, there’s been something that…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, May 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Award-winning childrens author Vaishali Shroff belongs to a family of wildlife enthusiasts. While her husband and children look for interesting sightings and topographies to photograph, she looks…
Lucknow, May 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The UP State Biodiversity Board will be publishing a coffee table book featuring some of the heritage trees found in the state. The coffee table book will include those heritage trees…
New Delhi, May 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) In the midst of Covid-19, when the world is at a loss over how to tackle the pandemic unleashed by the coronavirus, with millions infected and hundreds of thousands dead…
Beijing, May 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Twelve Buddhist statues in China’s Shandong province dating back nearly 1,000 years have undergone their first renovation in 39 years. The coloured clay statues are at the Lingyan Temple in Jinan,…
Guwahati, May 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sahitya Akademi awardee, renowned litterateur Homen Borgohain died here on Wednesday following post-Covid-19 complications, doctors said. He was 89. The celebrated Assamese litterateur and journalist, who breathed his last at a…
New Delhi, May 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) From multi-award-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple comes a four-book collection chronicling the thrilling rise and fall of the East India Company. We still talk about the British conquering India,…
New Delhi, May 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sikkim remains an enigma for most, with many misconceptions about its history and its merger with India in 1975. In “Sikkim – A History of Intrigue and Alliance” (HarperCollins), former…
New Delhi, May 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ahead of his 87th birthday on May 19, Ruskin Bond, one of Indias most-loved writers of childrens stories, has carefully curated a mixed bag of 25 of his most cherished…
New Delhi, May 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Guess whats cooking in Gadbadland? Lies, mystery, trouble and laughs as a superhero grandmother faces her greatest foe yet in Lavanya Karthik’s “Ninja Nani And The Freaky Food Festival” (Duckbill)….
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, May 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Author and gastronomist Veena Sharma has always believed that ones kitchen is ones best pharmacy, providing us with the particular admixtures and combinations that help uplift both…
Thiruvananthapuram, May 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Curbs have been imposed on the Facebook page of popular poet and critic K. Satchidanandan for a day, the former secretary of Sahitya Akademi himself said on Saturday. “This came last…
By Siddhi Jain May 8, New Delhi (SocialNews.XYZ) Titled ‘Head of a Bear’, a rare drawing by Italian polymath and ‘Mona Lisa’ creator Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) will be on auction in London on July…
New Delhi, May 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) After making waves with films like “Margarita with a Straw”, “Yeh Jewani Hai Deewani” and “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara”, award winning French-Indian actor Kalki Koechlin is to debut as a…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, May 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) In 1998, Ray McLennan, who till then had been importing into the UK “all sorts of things” from India like musical instruments, saris, tilak, Tulsi malas and…
Mumbai, May 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Kriti Sanon has spoken of the bright side of gloom in a new video. She says what breaks people somewhere unites them, too. Kriti posted the video on Instagram, observing how…
New Delhi, May 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Billionaire investors. If we think of them, it’s with a mixture of awe and suspicion. Clearly, they possess a kind of genius — the proverbial Midas Touch. But are the…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, May 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) It began as a tale of a mother and a daughter, two Indian Americans who are gold thieves, but expanded into a magical realist story about two…