By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Aug 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Stressing that folktales are history and imagination, reality and magic, allegory and farce – everything rolled in one, writer Anukriti Upadhyay feels they are the most versatile…
By Puja Gupta New Delhi, Aug 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Just when you thought celebrations were getting a tad bit predictable, international celebrity engagement giant myFanPark arrives in India to spice up the party. Imagine surprising your…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Aug 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) It was a long journey for the six-year-old who, on his way to school stopped the moment Begum Akhtar’s ghazal ‘Deewana banana hai to deewana bana de’…
Mumbai, Aug 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The blockbuster Sholay turned 45 on August 15. Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini and director Ramesh Sippy looked back to dissect how and why the film stays fresh and relevant in the…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Aug 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) At a time of social distancing forced by the coronavirus pandemic, it is becoming increasingly difficult to cope with loneliness. But then, loneliness was not an unknown…
Hyderabad, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Moazzam Jahi Market, one of the major landmarks in this historic city, has received a much-needed facelift and is all set to be transformed into a cultural hub. The renovated…
New Delhi, Aug 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Adarsh housing scam in which a 31-storey apartment block in the tony Colaba area of south Mumbai, meant for Kargil heroes and war widows was instead allotted to bureaucrats,…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Aug 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) In India it was long assumed that literature for children must have ‘safe topics but in a world where Google knows everything, so do children. Now, a…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Popular Malayalam poet and film and drama lyricist Chunnakara Ramankutty passed away at a private hospital here on Thursday, said family sources. He was 84. Ramankutty has written for around 75…
By Siddhi Jain New Delhi, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Co-produced by Grammy winner Ricky Kej and featuring three-time Grammy-winning Soweto Gospel Choir, a new album by vocalist and composer Ila Paliwal launches Monday. Named after the…
By Siddhi Jain New Delhi, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) One of the unfulfilled wishes of India’s 11th President late Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was to ensure that every youth of India has access to good books…
by Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Quite obviously, Independence Day – August 15 – means different things to different people. Is it tainted with pain, despair, and bloodshed due to Partition and the…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) For the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), determined to shape the world in its own image without a shot being fired, the Cold War never ended 30 years…
By Archana Sharma Jaipur, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Manganiyar and Langa magic that have brought alive the rhythms of Rajasthan to the world audience for decades is on the verge of dying an untimely death,…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Aug 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Even as the film ‘Peepli Live’, India’s official entry for the 83rd Acadmey Awards Best Foreign Film category completes a decade this month, its Delhi-based writer and…
Alappuzha (Kerala), Aug 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Kerala’s signature event – the annual Nehru boat race, scheduled for the second Saturday in August, has been postponed in view of the Covid pandemic, the organisers said. The race…
Bengaluru, Aug 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) A city-based sculptor has chiselled the wooden idol of Lord Ram which was presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Ram temple foundation stone-laying ceremony in Ayodhya. “Yes, Ramamurthy Achar…
New Delhi, Aug 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Writer, columnist, filmmaker and activist Sadia Dehlvi, a prominent critic of radical interpretations of Islam who urged a holistic understanding of the religion and was also a vocal critic of…
New Delhi, Aug 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) What happens when two disparate people grow up together but stay apart, only to eventually fall in love. Shravya Bhinder, the bestselling author of “Something I Never Told you”, who…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Aug 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) “He is definitely responsible for what I am today. It was Ebrahim Alkazi who laid my creative foundation,” says actor Pankaj Kapur, adding that the three years…