Bhubaneswar, July 22 (IANS) Braving incessant rains, thousands of devotees on Sunday thronged the holy town of Puri to witness Bahuda Yatra, the return journey of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra, Lord Sudarshan and Devi Subhadra….
By Saket Suman New Delhi, July 22 (IANS) India is the second-largest English-language publishing market in the world and Penguin Random House India, a major player in the sector, publishes more than 200 books a…
By Vikas Datta “Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur” (“Whatever is said in Latin seems profound”), they say, and the language’s sonorous tones aren’t confined to religion, but law and medicine too. In the South…
By Mohammed Shafeeq Title: Humans on the Run; Author: Kumar M. Tiku; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Pages: 280; Price: Rs 650 For millions of people displaced around the world, “Home is where the heart is”….
Mumbai, July 22 (IANS) Veteran actress Shabana Azmi who is socially aware about many things and admirer of art has said that we don’t look after art in our society. Shabana Azmi was interacting with…
Thiruvananthapuram, July 21 (IANS) A few days after Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor warned about the emergence of a Hindu Taliban promoted by right-wing outfits, a Kerala Sahitya Akademi award winning writer has withdrawn his novel,…
By Binita Das Kolkata, July 21 (IANS) She almost took up an engineering job and would love to teach farming to village youth. Fate willed otherwise. Meet Shikha Mandi, 24, the first Indian radio jockey…
By Siddhi Jain Title: Rajasthani Miniatures: The Magic of Strokes and Colours; Author: Dr Daljeet; Publisher: Niyogi Books; Pages: 392; Price: Rs 4000 During the 1600s, the spiritual unity reflected in Rajasthani miniature paintings began…
Lucknow, July 21 (IANS) The mortal remains of doyen of Hindi poetry Gopal Das ‘Neeraj’ reached Agra on Saturday from where they will be taken to his native home in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh for cremation,…
Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) The Union Culture Ministry is carrying out large scale restoration work of heritage buildings and places of art in Kolkata using organic and natural conservation processes, with the project likely to…
By Sugandha Rawal Montreal, July 20 (IANS) Cirque du Soleil will mark the world premiere of its touring show “Bazzar” in India soon. The country will play an important role in the growth of the…
Chennai, July 20 (IANS) Three children from the Atomic Energy Central School at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu have been selected to participate in the forthcoming “Nuclear Kids” — an international music programme in Hungary, Russian…
Agartala, July 20 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Friday inaugurated the seven-day long “Kharchi Puja” at Puran Habeli, seven km from the state capital. The centuries-old Puja was inaugurated by the Chief…
By Vikas Datta Title: Forever and a Day; Author: Anthony Horowitz; Publisher: Jonathan Cape/Penguin Random House; Pages: 304; Price: Rs 599 Before he turned up at the baccarat tables of Royale-les-Eauex in an imaginative operation…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Flick through a crime thriller that explores how a woman’s blind trust in her friend leads to the tragic accident of her son; read the story of a woman, perfect…
Lucknow/New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Doyen of Hindi poetry and legendary lyricist Gopal Das ‘Neeraj’ passed away at the All-India Medical Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in New Delhi on Thursday. He was 94. He…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Citing apartheid as “an early example of state terrorism against the majority population”, it took an “extraordinary man” like Nelson Mandela “who dedicated his life to the emancipation of his…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) The fourth edition of the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize is now accepting entries from Indian publishers and designers of covers of titles released between April 1, 2017 and March…
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar Book: The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch; Author: Sanam Maher; Publisher: Aleph; Pages: 272; Price: Rs 466 Like a dragon exhaling spurts of fire, the global social media factory has…
By Richa Sharma New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Thirty-two-year-old Geeta sits patiently, painting pots created by her husband in the small open porch in her house at Kumhar Gram or Potters’ Village that interestingly has…