Manila, July 26 (IANS) Two Indian nationals, Bharat Vatwani and Sonam Wangchuk, are among the six personalities named for this year’s Ramon Magsaysay award. The Ramon Magsaysay award, widely known as Asia’s premier prize, is…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) The authors of “Factfulness,” described by Bill Gates as “one of the most important books” he has ever read, say most people have wrong notions of important global trends. The…
By Vikas Datta Title: Gravitational Waves; Author: Brian Clegg; Publisher: Icon Hot Science; Pages: 176; Price: Rs 399 Recording the occurrence of a celestial event, far away across deep space and eons after it happened,…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) Firebrand writer Gauri Lankesh’s journalism was “mandatory” and flowed from her activism, her former husband and author of “Illiberal India: Gauri Lankesh and the Age of Unreason” Chidanand Rajghatta said…
By Saket Suman Belgrade (Serbia), July 25 (IANS) He was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and political leader who gained international attention as one of the faces of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), alongside India’s Jawaharlal Nehru,…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) Prototypes of Jharkhands traditional Khovar and Sohrai art, along with live demonstrations of art-making by tribal women artists, adorn the walls of India International Centre (IIC) here. Symbolizing marriage and…
(Attn Editors: A revised edition of “A Soldier’s Diary: Kargil, The Inside Story” by Harinder Baweja is being published on the occasion of Kargil Diwas. Presented below is an exclusive excerpt from the new foreword…
Mumbai, July 25 (IANS) Filmmaker Nandita Das is excited that her upcoming directorial “Manto” will be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where she last went with her directorial debut “Firaaq” a decade…
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government, in its first draft report of its ‘Vision Document’ on protection and preservation of the Taj Mahal submitted on Tuesday before the Supreme Court, suggested that…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Man Booker Prize may pride itself for representing “fiction at its finest” but its biggest draw is the whooping 50,000 pound prize money, along with the…
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) Renowned historian and author of several bestselling books, including the highly acclaimed “India After Gandhi” and “Gandhi Before India”, Ramachandra Guha has penned a new book on the father of…
London, July 24 (IANS) From a staggering 171 submissions — the highest number of titles put forward in the Man Booker Prizes 50 year history — 13 novels, which capture facets of a world on…
By Vikas Datta Great authors are not those who continue to resonate far beyond their own time and space but who provide a special kinship, a solace in times of personal upheavals. As Jane Austen…
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (Amendment) Bill could not be taken up for discussion in the Rajya Sabha on Monday as the opposition members protested and demanded…
Lucknow, July 23 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government will be presenting a ‘vision document’ on the Taj Mahal in Agra before the Supreme Court on Thursday, an official said on Monday. This document, prepared by…
By Krishna SinhaChaudhury New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) Sony which has a sizeable presence in the Indian audio market has introduced Sony SRS-XB41 Bluetooth speaker for music aficionados in the country. The device, essentially a…
By Vikas Datta Title: Missing, Presumed Dead; Author: Kiran Manral; Publisher: Amaryllis Books; Pages: 268; Price: Rs 350 With all the duplicity, self-interest, hidden motives and betrayals — both big and small — we face…
Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) The ‘Bahuda Yatra’ or the return journey of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra was on Sunday celebrated at Mayapur, the global headquarters of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)…
Thiruvananthapuram, July 22 (IANS) After an initial silence, political parties in Kerala have started condemning the suspected right-wing outfit’s threats that forced a Kerala Sahitya Akademi award winning writer to withdraw his novel, serialised by…
Bhubaneswar, July 22 (IANS) Braving incessant rains, thousands of devotees on Sunday thronged the holy town of Puri to witness Bahuda Yatra, the return journey of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra, Lord Sudarshan and Devi Subhadra….