New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The depth and breadth of collaboration between India and the US, ranging from security and economic partnerships to the sharing of talent and culture across areas like science and technology…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) With the new weapon of choice to intimidate publishers being the legal injunction, industry stakeholders contend that they have escaped the heavy hand of direct political intimidation…
By Nivedita New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Comic books were once the best travel companions. And they remain so in today’s digital world, with e-comics and web comics garnering popularity and reaching out to a…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker; Author: Pavan K. Varma; Publisher: Tranquebar Press; Pages: 364; Price: Rs 699 This must be one of the greatest tributes ever paid to Shankaracharya, the…
By Devdutt Pattanaik The key to understanding Karmic faiths is to look at stories, for it is through stories that the common folk understood their faith. In Hinduism, we find many stories where God transforms…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Flick through a debut novel that weaves a narrative around the changes in ones life with the arrival of a stranger; read the tale of a curious but mischievous child…
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Thursday said a strong regulatory system is needed to check widespread corruption in the Indian healthcare sector where 25 per cent of the money spent…
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India should showcase its great heritage with pride and questioned rules that prohibit people from taking pictures at some monuments. Inaugurating Dharohar Bhawan,…
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi questioned the rule prohibiting photography at protected monuments, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Thursday lifted the ban on photography within the premises…
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) On display at the India International Centre (IIC) here are old photographs, textile samples and revived versions of antique hand-woven saris, which tell the tale of a 45-year journey of…
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) When the lens briefly replaced the brushes for ‘Indian Picasso’ M. F. Husain, what took birth on the streets of Chennai in the 1980s was a rare series of photographs…
Bhubaneswar, July 12 (IANS) The Odisha government has constituted a ‘Heritage Cabinet’ to preserve the Odia language and the state’s culture, an official said on Thursday. As per the notification issued by the Parliamentary Affairs…
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) Deploying digital pulses and material resonance to create soundscapes, Swiss sound artist-composer Marcel Zaes presented his solo act “Pulsations” to a packed house at Oddbird Theatre here on Wednesday. It…
Bangkok, July 12 (IANS) A cave complex in northern Thailand where 12 boys and their football coach were trapped for more than two weeks is set to be turned into a museum, a media report…
Rio de Janeiro, July 12 (IANS) Pakistani Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai became a graffiti artist on Wednesday after painting a portrait of Marielle Franco, the city councilwoman gunned down here in March. The bisexual…
New Delhi, July 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday came down heavily on the Centre and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for not being able to protect the iconic Taj Mahal, asking to…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, July 11 (IANS) A biography that traces Baba Ramdev’s rise from godman to tycoon has been caught up in a legal storm for over 11 months; Amish Tripathi’s upcoming book…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Genius Test: Can You Master the World’s Hardest Ideas?; Author: Giles Sparrow; Publisher: Quercus; Pages: 224; Price: Rs 599 The biggest fallacy in our high-tech world is believing that the…
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) A four-week book publishing course organised by the National Book Trust (NBT) as a part of skill development initiatives that kicked off on Tuesday has attracted a few with higher…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) India spends just a little over one per cent of its GDP on healthcare and this is leading the country into “a comprehensive healthcare crisis”, according to…