Embark on a poetic journey where love and friendship gain new identities. There’s also a unique literary experience that combines poems, short stories and plays in a single book. Then, a woman’s journey in a…
Kathmandu, April 7 (IANS) The annual horse racing festival of Ghode Jatra was celebrated in Nepal on Thursday with merriment. The festival, celebrated in the Nepali month of Chaitra, is regarded as the oldest festival…
London, April 7 (IANS) An app for mobile phones was launched on Thursday which allows users to text like William Shakespeare. The free app is called ShakeSpeak and can be downloaded onto digital devices. It…
London, April 7 (IANS) A rare copy of the First Folio of the works of William Shakespeare has been found in a home on the Scottish isle of Bute. The First Folio is the name…
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and actor Emraan Hashmi at the launch of a book “The Kiss of Life” in New Delhi on April 7, 2016. (Photo: Amlan Paliwal/IANS) New Delhi, April 7…
New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Union Human Resource Development Minster Smriti Irani on Thursday launched a portal for registration and allotment of International Standard Book Number (ISBN). “The portal has been created to facilitate publishers…
Kolkata, April 7 (IANS) The Sundarbans mangroves in West Bengal is “perpetually unsettled” with regards to its largely migrant population, says sociologist and author Amites Mukhopadhyay, advocating the setting-up of a land erosion inventory to…
Preetha Nair New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) With the highly-anticipated movie “The Jungle Book” hitting the screens on Friday, it will be a trip down the memory lane for its fans with new editions of…
Bhubaneswar, April 7 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday announced the setting up of a Kosli dialect and literature research centre in Bargarh district which will be named after Padma Shri recipient Haldhar…
Kolkata, April 7 (IANS) Renowned Indian artist M.F. Husain’s five-day birth centenary year celebrations here, beginning on Saturday, will see film screenings, seminars and exhibitions of his graphics as well as books written on him….
New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) The Western aesthetic has been known to dictate grid structures but Indian cultural heritage and its various manuscripts are good examples of the existence of an alternative that could lend…
Beijing, April 7 (IANS) An ancient tomb dating back to the late Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD), nearly 2,000 years ago, has been found in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang region, authorities said on Thursday. The…
New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Search engine Google is paying tribute to late musician Pandit Ravi Shankar on his 96th birth anniversary on Thursday by a doodle with a sitar as the centrepiece. Ravi Shankar…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: A Wonderful Wife; Author/Editor: Virender Kapoor: Publisher: Bloomsbury; Pages: 292; Price: Rs.350 A dozen “ordinary” men relate their impressions of their wives. “A wonderful wife is a unique creation.” So…
By Vikas Datta Title: Liberalism – A Very Short Introduction; Author: Michael Freeden; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Pages: 160; Price: Rs.225 No other political or social belief has ever been so proudly owned to or…
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…