By Nishant Arora Gurugram (Haryana), May 19 (IANS) When we talk about advertising potential on Facebook, the fact is that 2.2 billion global users — almost a quarter of the world’s population — constitute the…
By Nury Vittachi Fathers, please note: Whenever your child says “I’m ready” it is a legal requirement that you say: “Hello, Ready, I’m Dad!” The telling of extremely lame “jokes” has been a duty for…
By Saket Suman Landour (Uttarakhand, May 18 (IANS) Up above the hills, where a forest of nodding flowers and an endless valley of Himalayan mountains paint the sky, lives one of India’s most-loved writers –…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) Of all the states in India, West Bengal stands apart as a rich and vibrant land of people with shared customs and tastes. If history stands testimony…
By Sandeep Manohar New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) A stray dog ilies dead, its eyeballs popping out. Buzzing flies enter its open rib cage and vultures above a mountain of garbage fly away with bites…
By Milinda Ghosh Roy Kolkata, May 13 (IANS) With no cutting-edge medical equipment, air-conditioning or critical care unit in place, the under-construction building in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district hardly matches the popular notion…
By Mamta Aggarwal New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) She’s a trained Kathak dancer who has performed around the world, runs an institute that’s training 300 underprivileged children in the arts and passionately believes the dance…
By Nury Vittachi Many folk stupidly spend their lives trying to impress other people, when what they should really be doing, of course, is trying to impress their step-counters. Smartphone health apps and Fitbit-style wristbands…
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, May 10 (IANS) Forty-four-year-old Sridevi Balasubramanian — popularly known as Shri Bala in the hospitality circuit — juggles effortlessly between the worlds of numbers and commercial kitchens. “Accounting is my profession,…
By Saket Suman Book: The Fuzzy and the Techie; Author: Scott Hartley; Publisher: Penguin; Price: Rs 599; Pages: 301 There are two very common terms used at Stanford University — “Fuzzy”, for students of the…
By Ashok Vajpeyi More than 25 years ago, the Indian government decided to put together a National Policy of Culture in keeping with more than a hundred countries that had such policies. In fact, there…
New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) A wide swath of the millennia-old Indian civilization came alive through a cluster of artefacts of astonishing brilliance as the National Museum opened a nearly two-month transcontinental exhibition that takes…
By Anubhav Nath Since childhood, I have had a keen interest in the arts — coming from a family with a strong tradition in arts and crafts, this was not surprising. Growing up, I visited…
By Jaideep Sarin Jalandhar (Punjab), May 6 (IANS) WWE fights may be flashy, hard and violent at times but the first Indian woman to get into that ring at the international level has beaten bigger…
By Sanjoy K Roy In 1999, as part of a British Council showcase programme, I travelled to the Edinburgh Festival and that set in motion the idea of creating platforms for Indian contemporary and classical…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) A new monthly series of concerts has opened here aiming to seamlessly blend music and craft in a beautiful setting. The inaugural edition of this new entertainment adda was all…
By Nury Vittachi A man raised by wolves in a forest says he misses his old life. Living as a wolf cub in a Spanish wilderness was much less stressful than modern life, Marcos Rodriguez…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) There has been, in recent times, a great churning in what can be called India’s “cultural space”. Public institutions, hitherto custodians of all things “cultural”, have been…
By Somrita Ghosh Varanasi, May 2 (IANS) It was past 10 in the night. Four pyres were aflame at Manikarnika Ghat on the banks of the Ganga here. Gagan Choudhary, a corpse burner, was shifting…
By Vishal Gulati Mainz, April 30 (IANS) Tobias Huster is a young grape cultivator and winemaker in Ingelheim in the countryside of this town who wants to expand his family business beyond 200,000 wine bottles…