By Vikas Datta Authors, especially poets, are feted more for their work than for their lives, with the general impression being that the latter cannot be equated with their exploits of imagination and expression. Save…
Jammu, Jan 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Sangeet Natak Academy, in association with Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Arts, Culture and Linguistics and the Gardhari Lal Dogra Memorial Degree College, Hiranagar, is organising the three-day Amrit Yuva…
By Ummar Jamal Srinagar, Jan 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) In present time, you will find most of teenagers squandering hours on social media purposelessly, wasting their time in observing the lives and images of their peers, however,…
Bengaluru, Jan 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Karnataka Minister of Kannada and Culture, V. Sunil Kumar, on Friday objected to a parallel literary festival for sidelined Muslim writers in the 86th All India Kannada Literature Conference. “Organisation of…
Kochi, Jan 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Cartoonist, animator and filmmaker Bharath Murthy said that the comic culture in Kerala had a huge potential for growth and that it should move beyond the boundaries of political satires. Murthy,…
Bengaluru, Jan 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 86th Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana (All India Kannada Literature Conference), organised by the Kannada Sahitya Parishat, was inaugurated on Friday with much fanfare in Karnataka’s Haveri district. However, the…
Ayodhya, Jan 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirath Kshetra Trust has asked top sculptors in the country to send their models for the statue of Ram Lalla (Lord Ram in the form of a child)…
San Francisco, Jan 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tech giant Apple has quietly launched a catalogue of books narrated by artificial intelligence in a move with potentially huge implications for the multi-billion dollar audiobook industry. The feature represents…
Kochi, Jan 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) ‘Embassy’, an installation set up by noted Australian artist Richard Bell as a symbol of the resistance of the aboriginals, is making waves at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, an international exhibition of…
Srinagar, Jan 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Young Kashmiri singer Ishfaq Kawa is all set to make his playback debut in Bollywood. Ishfaq has recorded the title song for the Bollywood movie ‘Welcome to Kashmir’, which has been…
Kochi, Jan 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) The fifth edition of the Kochi Biennale is back with a bang after a four year hiatus as the exhibition, featuring over 200 projects of 90 artists, has attracted a record…
Mysuru (Karnataka), Jan 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Jnanpith awardee, popular Kannada litterateur Dr. Chandrashekar Kambar complained to the Police Commissioner of Mysuru on Tuesday in connection with distortion of his literary work in a drama exhibited recently….
Kolkata, Jan 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Acclaimed Rabindra Sangeet artist Sumitra Sen died on Tuesday morning in Kolkata. She was 89. She is survived by her two daughters, Indrani Sen and Sraboni Sen, both of whom are…
New Delhi, Jan 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The National Cadet Corps (NCC) Republic Day Camp, 2023 began on Monday at the Indian Army’s Cariappa Parade ground here with a total of 2,155 cadets, including 710 girls, participating…
Kochi, Jan 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) As the fifth edition of the Kochi Biennale progresses, an installation by a group of contemporary artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo, recreating the theme of the seventh edition of…
By Ashmita Badoni January 3 marks the birth anniversary of one of the world’s greatest teachers, Savitribai Phule. Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta is set to release Savitribai’s first biography, titled ‘Savitri and Fatima’, with a focus…
New Delhi, Jan 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Hastsal Minar, a minaret resembling the Qutub Minar, has been opened for the tourists after renovation, in the capital. The tower, commonly known as the Mini Qutub Minar, was built…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Jan 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) From JLF to AKLF to Kalam, a veritable feast of literature fests awaits aficionados in 2023. Kicking them off will be the 14th edition of the Apeejay…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Jan 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) “My plans for the future are always nebulous. I seldom pre-plan, letting the new body of work evolve slowing according to new inspirations,” artist Anjolie Ela Menon…
By Vikas Datta Any discussion of Urdu ghazals, between connoisseurs, may bring up rival merits of “Dabistan-e-Dehli” and “Dabistan-e-Lakhnau”, or the Delhi and Lucknow schools of poetry, each with an array of accomplished master poets…