Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has been in the public eye for more than 50 years, yet very little is known about him outside his home state, apart from the fact that he is…
New Delhi, Aug 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) The publication of Siddharth Kak and Lily Bhan Kak’s ‘Love, Exile, Redemption: The Saga of Kashmir’s Last Pandit Prime Minister and His English Wife’, published by Rupa, has renewed the…
New Delhi, Aug 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Turning the pages of Kashmir’s history, one comes across several heroes and villains. One such controversial figure was Ram Chandra Kak, the only Kashmiri Pandit Prime Minister of J&K. Kak…
New Delhi, Aug 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Veteran actress Hema Malini performed a mesmerising dance, leaving everyone spellbound, during the book launch event of ‘Chal Mann Vrindavan’ in Delhi. The OG ‘Dream Girl’ of Bollywood, Hema, who…
New Delhi, Aug 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Former diplomat, MP and veteran Congressman Mani Shankar Aiyar has said that India has the capability to do surgical strikes inside Pakistan, but the country’s leadership doesn’t have the courage…
Failure is an inevitable part of life, and oftentimes surer and more impactful than success. In his book ‘Why We Fail And How to Rise Above Failure’ (Wisdom Tree; Rs 325), former diplomat Amit Dasgupta…
New Delhi, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The anthology titled ‘The Peacemakers’ (Aleph; Rs 799), which has been edited by Ghazala Wahab, comes as a breath of fresh air for people who believe in plurality and peaceful…
New Delhi, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Journalist Neerja Chowdhury on Tuesday, during the release of her new book ‘How Prime Minister Decides’, said that she initially intended to write on demonetisation however she had to abandon…
Los Angeles, Aug 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Seattle based Museum of Pop Culture (MPC or MoPOC) which is dedicated as implied by its name to celebrate pop culture has removed all exhibitions of English author J.K…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a book packed with riveting accounts of how important decisions have been taken by India’s prime ministers — from Rajiv Gandhi’s waffling over Shah Bano, which was a serious…
Quick-witted parliamentarian Derek O’Brien’s timely new book, ‘Who Cares About Parliament: Speaking up to Protect India’s Great Institution’ (Rupa & Co., Rs 395), has very clearly been written for ‘New India’, especially Gen-Z, his central…
Chandigarh, July 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Author Gurjot Singh Kaler on Sunday said that ‘Battle of Logewala’ is different from what has been portrayed in the famous Bollywood flick ‘Border’. Kaler, who served as Assistant Inspector General…
New Delhi, July 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pakistan, a country that has forever been in dire economic straits, as it finds itself now, has managed to build a nuclear bomb. Iqbal Chand Malhotra in his just-released book,…
New York, July 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) More than 8,000 famous writers, including Margaret Atwood, Nora Roberts, and Michael Chabon, have, in an open letter, called out to CEOs of OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta, Stability AI, and IBM…
Coming from a design background, Ashima Mathur, author of the children’s picture book, ‘The Magical Mission to Mars’, was more than inclined to combine all resources at hand, including AI, to put together her book….
New Delhi, July 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) To take Raisina Hill — the seat of power in India — any political dispensation has to tame Lucknow first, the capital of the state that sends the largest number…
New Delhi, July 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Our connection with art and aesthetics is about as old as humanity; and the multi-layered lives and stories of performers go at least as far back as recorded history. Madhur…
Thiruvananthapuram, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) On Saturday, all roads are leading to the residence of legend of modern Malayalam literature MT Vasudevan Nair, who turned 90. In morning, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury led the long…
Milan Kundera, most of whose landmark novels were written in his French exile, always chose to label himself as a part of French literature. Yet, his inherited Central European intellectual tradition of philosophical reflection, particularly…
Thiruvananthapuram, July 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Even as the sunset years of the erstwhile princely state of Travancore were mired in controversies including repression of public agitations and uprisings, it was also a period of commendable industrial…