Kolkata, March 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) West Bengal on Monday celebrated the spring carnival or ‘Dol’ with colours, songs, prayers and distribution of sweets, even as fear of coronavirus cast its shadow over the festivities. The biggest…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, March 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) It has been a long journey for Barry John. Arriving in India at the age of 22, starting the Theatre Action Group (TAG) in 1973, one of…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, March 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) How long can the Ganga river sustain the 500 million people along its banks; study how capitalism functioned in India before the turn of the previous century;…
Colombo, March 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) A Sri Lankan book has achieved a world record for the most number of alternate endings, a media report said. The book “Wonder Crystal” by veteran write Sybil Wettasinghe was recognised…
Aligarh, March 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Noted bilingual critic, scholar and columnist, Professor Shafey Kidwai has received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award (2019) for his seminal Urdu work ‘Sawanah-e-Sir Syed – Ek Bazdeed’. The book seeks to…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, March 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) The sight of a mellow dawn breaking over the city’s ghat’s or the light of a thousand diyas brightening the Ganga river at dusk might have inspired…
BY SHUBHA SINGH Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line By Deepa Anappara Penguin Random House A nine-year old amateur detective and his young team try to solve the mystery of children going missing from their…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Feb 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) Strange as it may seem to today’s generation, India and Pakistan were at peace in the first five years after the partition of the sub-continent in 1947…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Feb 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Emerging powers like India have the best chance in contemporary history to rise up as great powers as the US pulls back from its role of a…
New Delhi, Feb 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Even as authorities see a huge heritage tourism potential of Rakhigarh village in Hisar district of Haryana and is making efforts in this regard, villagers are obviously fearful of what…
Agartala, Feb 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Amid controversy over shifting of its venue outside the capital city, the 38th edition of the Agartala Book Fair, the second largest in eastern India after the Kolkata Book Fair, began…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Feb 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Vu Tran’s father fought for the South Vietnamese Air Force with the Americans so he had to flee the country when the South fell to the Communist…
Jaipur, Feb 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Jaipur Jazz and Blues Festival, a world-class music festival, will be held here from February 28 to March 1. The three-day festival will be organised by Seher India in association…
Cairo, Feb 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) The annual ‘India by the Nile’ festival in Egypt will be held this year from March 2-10, bringing with it a selection of classical and popular Indian art forms to the…
New Delhi, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Mumbai police had detailed intelligence on a plot to kill music baron Gulshan Kumar, down to the name of the underworld don whose gang had been assigned the task,…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Feb 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Read about the brutalisation of the Indian Constitution only months after it was enacted; navigate your way through the innumerable kidney transplant scams that have rocked India…
Mumbai, Feb 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Absconder mafiosi Chhota Shakeel on Wednesday rubbished contentions by former Mumbai top cop Rakesh Maria that fugitive mafia don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar had allegedly been given a contract to kill the…
Mumbai, Feb 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actor-filmmaker Sanjay Khan is set to launch his second book titled “Assalamualaikum Watan”, which will trace Muslims’ role in shaping India’s heritage. Khan emphatically declares in almost every page of the…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) To celebrate 28 years of diplomatic relations between India and Israel, The Embassy of Israel in India and Bruno Art Group will organise ‘Shining Brightly’, a group exhibition by Israeli…
New Delhi, Feb 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) To showcase the spirit, flavour and essence of the Kashmiri culture, the University of Delhi (DU) organised the first of a series of cultural events “Meeras-e-Kashmir” at Sir Shankar Lal…