By Rupesh Dutta Madhusudankati (West Bengal), April 3 (IANS) Deep wounds and white patches on their skin are common among people in this tiny West Bengal speck bordering Bangladesh. The disease turned deadly for many,…
By Quaid Najmi Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) The Maximum City’s thirst for unique experiences and locales just got an innovative boost with the country’s very first Aquarium Tunnel Cafe opening here recently. And Mumbaikars, especially…
By Saket Suman Title: The Golden Legend; Author: Nadeem Aslam; Publisher: Penguin Random House; Pages: 376; Price: Rs 599 Nadeem Aslam never disappoints his readers and the characteristic features of his novels — vividly beautiful,…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) For all those of us eagerly looking forward to making the most of summer by indulging in reading some new offerings, April is — for all intents…
By Nury Vittachi My wife and her friends were discussing the topic “What is the deepest question ever”, so I gave them my choice: “What superhero would you be?” The women sneered that my favoured…
By Vishal Narayan New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) The vicious attacks on Africans in Greater Noida are a reminder of the palpable hatred, which many of us still harbour for the ‘blacks’ and which the…
By Debayan Mukherjee Kolkata, March 28 (IANS) Be it the original flavour of Bengal’s sought-after fish cutlet or the popular north Indian shammi kebab, at Monkey Bar — the Indian version of a gastro pub…
New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) At a star-studded evening here, meant to celebrate and reward extraordinary work by emerging artists, Odisha-based Sitaram Swain was awarded the sixth Glenfiddichs Emerging Artist of the Year 2017. The…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) On the face of it, it’s deceptively simple. Pregnant woman across eight districts of Bihar are given 180 iron and folic acid (IFA) tablets to prevent anaemia,…
By Karishma Saurabh Kalita Gurugram, March 26 (IANS) Giving a new twist to a classic is sometimes tolerated, even enjoyed, and sometimes met with harsh criticism. But the Punjab Grill Tappa, an offshoot of the…
New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) In what may turn out to be a good news for the capital’s dwellers, Minister of Culture and Tourism Kapil Mishra has said he believes in improving the city’s nightlife…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) A magnificently elegant interior dotted with all things artistic — surreal paintings, graffiti and moving quotations etched on its walls — houses, to the wonder of many,…
New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) He is the author of the fastest-selling book series in Indian publishing history — “The Shiva Trilogy” — and his last book, “Scion of Ikshvaku”, was the biggest literary blockbuster…
By Nury Vittachi I ran at Olympic speed for a bus but missed it, so I had to pretend that I always go jogging in a business suit and I ended up a sweaty mess…
By Milinda Ghosh Basar (Arunachal Pradesh), March 23 (IANS) Starting with the locally-famous “achin pinam” (spiced rice) to smoked beef platters, or the “amin” made out of rice cake and chicken, every dish cooked in…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) He’s quite a citizen of the world, what with being born in Kenya to an English mother and Indian father, whose roots are in Gujarat, and whose…
By Aadil Mir Hong Kong, March 20 (IANS) You want to feel spoilt for choices of sumptuous street food, shopping options and roller-coaster rides? This oceanarium, a park near the disputed South China Sea in…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) The passing away of Nobel prize winning poet Derek Walcott, the best known writer from the Caribbean internationally, is a great loss to literature and more so…
By Nury Vittachi I told a friend that if he scrolled down to the very first Facebook post ever written he would win a prize from Mark Zuckerberg and hes been scrolling for three-and-a-half days…
By Azera Parveen Rahman Guwahati, March 16 (IANS) In a small town called Pathsala, about 60 km from this principal town of Assam, a mission has been underway for more than half a century. The…