New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) There is a striking similarity between the unfolding of events during the 1975-77 Emergency under then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and the contemporary times under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a…
New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) A series of posters by 48 graphic designers and artists from India and Mexico illustrate the poetry of 1990 Literature Nobel laureate and former diplomat Octavio Paz in an exhibition…
By Mohammed Shafeeq Book: Hostage; Author: Greta Rana; Publisher: Speaking Tiger Publishing; Price: Rs 350; Pages: 223 This novel by Greta Rana is inspired by a true story of Nepali migrants. She dedicated it to…
Bucharest, Nov 19 (IANS) A Picasso signed painting, which might be one of the artworks stolen in 2012 from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam, was found in Romanian eastern county of Tulcea, the country’s anti-organized…
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) An Indian classical music and dance drama, “Indra Sabha”, first scripted and performed in 1850s in the court of Awadh’s last nawaab Wajid Ali Shah was performed here on Sunday….
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Mexican street artist and illustrator Edgar Flores, better known as Saner, is combining Indian and Mexican motifs for a wall mural in the national capital’s open air public art district,…
Zagreb (Croatia), Nov 18 (IANS) A former professional Serbian basketball player turned international criminal on Sunday launched her book “Pink Panther,” which recounts her experience as part of a criminal organization that Interpol claims stole…
Varanasi, Nov 18 (IANS) Iconic 15th century Bhakti poet-saint Kabir’s couplets, bhajans and compositions, rendered by noted musicians, reverberated in Varanasi’s spiritual air for two days as part of the three-day Mahindra Kabira Festival (MKF)…
By Amitabh Bachchan The Gateway of India, at first instance, appears to be an odd frame for the type of conversations that follow. It was, after all, built to commemorate a state visit of a…
By Binita Das Kolkata, Nov 18 (IANS) A man who wanted to visit India after watching Mira Nair’s “Salaam Bombay”, Australian director Benjamin Gilmour was here to screen his film “Jirga”, which has been nominated…
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) One of India’s greatest sarod masters, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, on Saturday was presented the ‘Sumitra Charat Ram Award for Lifetime Achievement’ at the Kamani Auditorium, for his “immense contribution…
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Hundreds of Delhiites, including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and CPI (M) head Sitaram Yechury, gathered at the Garden of Five Senses on Saturday as a performance…
Bhubaneswar, Nov 17 (IANS) Eminent percussionist Banamali Maharana passed away at a private hospital on Saturday. He was 77. He was undergoing treatment at the hospital due to age-related ailments, said family sources. Born in…
By Quaid Najmi Mumbai, Nov 17 (IANS) Alyque J. Padamsee, lent glamour to common products and brought luxury products within the reach of the common masses with his catchy and memorable advertising campaigns. Considered the…
Mumbai, Nov 17 (IANS) Veteran actor, theatre personality and advertising guru Alyque Padamsee died here on Saturday morning, family sources said. He was 90. He had been ailing since sometime before he breathed his last…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Nov 17 (IANS) How does one react to the torrent of hate engulfing the social media? The surprising answer of the Indian YouTube personality Prajakta Koli, herself the target of…
Mumbai, Nov 17 (IANS) Veteran actor, theatre personality and advertising guru Alyque Padamsee died here on Saturday morning, family sources said. He was 90. He is survived by three former wives and four children besides…
By C. Uday Bhaskar Book: The Indian Empire At War; Author: George Morton-Jack; Publisher: Little, Brown; Pages: 582; Price Rs 699 World War I was a long and brutal military confrontation between the major powers…
London, Nov 17 (IANS) British Culture Minister Michael Ellis on Friday placed an export bar on a unique watercolour painting depicting a traditional musical performance in mid-18th century Northern India. The move will prevent the…
New York, Nov 17 (IANS) The Oscar-winning screenwriter and best-selling author William Goldman, known for “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All The President’s Men”, died on Friday. He was 87. According to The…