By Preetha Nair New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) Mughal rulers patronised Sanskrit literature in their courts, especially between AD 1560 to 1660, and also took up Persian translations of epics like the Mahabharata and the…
By Somrita Ghosh New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) Bhisham Sahni’s “Tamas”, a timeless classic on India’s partition, holds strong relevance in the present scenario because it speaks of how politicians “manipulate public opinion through rumours…
Hong Kong, April 6 (IANS) A rare blue diamond bucked the recent downturn in the auction market when it was sold for $30.8 million at Sotheby’s, setting a new record. The “De Beers Millennium Jewel…
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said that the “current uneasy environment” is the reason for growing intolerance in the country and stressed the need of efforts to control the…
(150412) — NEW YORK, April 14, 2015 (Xinhua) — File photo taken on March 10, 2015 shows former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the press after attending the annual Women’s Empowerment Principles event…
London, April 5 (IANS) Britain’s Royal Mail on Tuesday issued a set of special postage stamps to mark the 400th death anniversary of playwright William Shakespeare. The 10 First Class stamps pay tribute to the…
By Preetha Nair New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) As her Prime Time Theatre Company production house completes its quarter century, well-known actor and theatre director Lillete Dubey is excited to bring her latest production “Gauhar”…
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) Pitching for deeper ties with India, Radio China International (CRI) director general Wang Gengnian on Monday said that economic and cultural exchanges between the two countries date back to ancient…
Panjim, April 4 (IANS) Goan author Savio Rodrigues’s book Karmic Ishq is being made into a Hollywood movie. The book, which came out last year has been sold to an Indo-Hollywood production company, Houseful Motion…
By Rachel V. Thomas Title: Devil Inside My Mind; Author: Dr. Gaurav Nigam; Publisher: Notion Press; Pages: 90; Price: Rs. 199 Imagine you are on a treadmill and don’t have a pause button or you…
By Vikas Datta Title: Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?; Author: Katrine Marcal; Publisher: Portobello Books; Pages: 240; Price: Rs.499 The 2008 global financial crisis still casts a baleful shadow, but most of the world still…
Dhaka, April 3 (IANS) Bangladesh has banned the vuvuzela, the popular but noisy South African horns, from the country’s most colourful procession, the Mangal Shobha Jatra, in the capital Dhaka. Hundreds of thousands of people,…
Tokyo, April 3 (IANS) A giant penis shrine was paraded through the streets of Kawasaki city, south of Tokyo, on Sunday as crowds turned out to celebrate the Steel Phallus festival. The popular festival (Kanamara…
By Preetha Nair New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) The new Pakistani woman is changing the face of the country and her status is undergoing a drastic makeover, says 24-year-old author Kanza Javed, who recently released…
By Vikas Datta Remember “Ghostbusters”? The 1984 film about three parapsychologists taking on supernatural phenomenon in New York sparked off a whole universe of spin-offs across various media – a reboot version comes out in…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: A Revolutionary History of Interwar India; Author: Kama Maclean; Publisher: Penguin Books; Pages: 305; Price: Rs.599 This is a fascinating story of the Indian revolutionary movement, focussing mainly on the…
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The city’s cultural calendar will soon get another addition with the opening of ‘The Egg Art Studio’, a gallery for budding artists. True to its name, the gallery is designed…
Damascus, April 2 (IANS) Architecture and archaeological sites have sustained severe damage due to the attacks by Islamic State terrorists in the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria. Homs Governor Talal Al-Barazi said that services,…
London, April 2 (IANS) Textile and dye analysis of cloth remains, dated between 400-650 AD, found in Nepal’s Upper Mustang region shows that the Silk Road extended further south than previously thought, say researchers. Silk…
By Biswajit Choudhury New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) There is something highly moving when a woman, whose people face extinction, sings of unrequited love. Love, not just for a mortal beloved but also of the…