By Vikas Datta Title: Curvology; Author: David Bainbridge; Publisher: Portobello Books; Pages: 240; Price: Rs.499 It may seem only a preoccupation of curious adolescents or a subject of adult male titillation, but the obsession over…
Agra, May 1 (IANS) The 361st annual urs of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal to immortalise his love for his queen Mumtaz Mahal, will begin Tuesday. The original graves of the…
By Kavita Bajeli-Datt New Delhi, May 1 (IANS) Even 15 years after 9/11, Sikhs in the US feel they are more likely to face profiling, bigotry and backlash than the average American because of the…
By Vikas Datta No other ideology has been so villified or pursued so assiduously, viewed with so much promise when implemented or junked most readily and enthusiastically when it ran into trouble, and above all,…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: Kipling Sahib: The Raj Patriot; Author: Subhash Chopra; Publisher: New Millennium; Pages: 141; Price: Pounds 9.95 This is an autopsy of Joseph Rudyard Kipling, known to Indians in particular for…
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) A day after Delhi University decided to stop the sale or distribution of the Hindi edition of renowned historian Bipin Chandra’s “India’s Struggle for Independence”, artists and historians on Saturday…
Mumbai, April 30 (IANS) FLY dance foundation, a non profit organisation, has launched a crowd funding campaign to support dancers from every walk of life. The foundation provides scholarship training programmes to talented children from…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Karachi Deception; Author: Shatrujeet Nath; Publisher: Rupa Publications; Pages: 240; Price: Rs.295 The basic premise appears simple – after a turf war, the Indian security establishment okays a plan for…
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) Delhi University on Friday decided to stop the sale or distribution of the Hindi edition of ‘India’s Struggle for Independence (1757-1858)’ authored by historian Bipin Chandra in 1988. The book…
By Vikas Datta Title: Environmental Politics – A Very Short Introduction; Author: Andrew Dobson ; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Pages: 152; Price: Rs.225 Global warming and COP-21, or specifically at home in India, the ‘odd-even’…
How strong is the opposite attraction? Here is a tale of two extreme people from different professional world meeting – and love blossoms; a story of two childhood sweethearts living in Trinidad who fall apart…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) The third batch of 25 declassified files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose will be released on Friday. According to an official release, Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma will release the third…
Madrid, April 28 (IANS) A haul of 600 kg of “hugely important” bronze Roman coins, was uncovered by workers in the Spanish town of Seville, the media reported on Thursday. The Andalusia Department of Culture…
Ujjain, April 28 (IANS) The foreign nationals who came to participate in the ongoing Simhastha Kumbh Mela in Ujjain city of Madhya Pradesh have been promoting cleanliness by connecting to “Green Ujjain – Clean Ujjain”…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Bringing back the spirit of devotional music to the capital, the annual Bhakti Sangeet Festival is set to begin from Friday. The three- day festival will bring together eleven singers…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Mongolia on Thursday conferred its highest civilian award, the North Star, on two Indian scholars who are experts on that country. Mongolian Foreign Minister Lundeg Purevsuren conferred the award on…
Tokyo, April 28 (IANS) Japanese has added 19 new cultural assets to a list it terms ‘Japan Heritage’. The newly-created list is aimed at promoting tourism and boosting local economies, The Japan Times reported on…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) A day after the India-Pakistan war erupted in 1971, then prime minister Indira Gandhi was so cool that she was changing the bedcovers on a ‘diwan’ when her personal physician…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: India Rising: Fresh Hope, New Fears; Author: Ravi Velloor; Publisher: Straits Times Press; Pages: 368; Price: Not mentioned. In March 2013, National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon called Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the…
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Wednesday staged a protest at the Delhi University against an academic history book that refers to freedom fighter Bhagat Singh as “revolutionary terrorist”….