New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) Dubbed as an initiative that seeks to bring powerful art to the people and go beyond the “art-literate circles”, a photography festival “opens minds about the transgender community” within India…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) She is an acknowledged authority on the Kama Sutra, and her recent book, “The Arts of Seduction”, is billed as a guide to having great sex in…
By Vikas Datta With there now being an abundance of formidable female characters, each as “badass” as their male counterparts, it may be difficult to believe that the “realistic” action genre of popular literature was…
Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) Thousands of devotees chanting “Jai Jagannath” and “Hare Krishna” pulled the ropes, as West Bengal celebrated the Chariot Festival or Ratha Yatra, Lord Jagannath’s annual visit to his aunt’s house, with…
Beijing, July 14 (IANS) Mount Fanjingshan, China’s latest entry on the Unesco World Heritage List, has been asked to limit visitors in an effort to protect the site. According to a plan by the Guizhou…
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Hundreds of rare ethnographic sound recordings, including parables, songs, hymns, instrumental music, and poems, made their way to India as part of a collaborative project between British Library and Archives…
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday nominated four eminent people, including noted classical dancer Sonal Mansingh and sculptor Raghunath Mohapatra, to the Rajya Sabha. The nominations which came four days…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) If Nitish Kumar’s rise as the Chief Minister of Bihar in November 2005 is seen as the onset of what he calls “sushasan” or good governance, then…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Courage To Be Disliked; Author: Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga; Publisher: Allen & Unwin; Pages: 288; Price: Rs 499 The few irredeemable misanthropes apart, every human being has a unique…
Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) Money and revenge was the primary motivation for the anti-corruption crusade of James Augustus Hicky, who launched the first printed newspaper in India in the late 18th century, according to a…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Publisher Juggernaut Books on Friday announced its partnership with content platform SHAREit, enabling its Indian users to access English and Hindi video summaries of its books. “SHAREit and Juggernaut will…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) One doesn’t have to be an activist or an environmentalist to make a difference about deforestation, “The Trees Told Me So” author and journalist Purva Grover said during an “adda…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The depth and breadth of collaboration between India and the US, ranging from security and economic partnerships to the sharing of talent and culture across areas like science and technology…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) With the new weapon of choice to intimidate publishers being the legal injunction, industry stakeholders contend that they have escaped the heavy hand of direct political intimidation…
By Nivedita New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Comic books were once the best travel companions. And they remain so in today’s digital world, with e-comics and web comics garnering popularity and reaching out to a…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker; Author: Pavan K. Varma; Publisher: Tranquebar Press; Pages: 364; Price: Rs 699 This must be one of the greatest tributes ever paid to Shankaracharya, the…
By Devdutt Pattanaik The key to understanding Karmic faiths is to look at stories, for it is through stories that the common folk understood their faith. In Hinduism, we find many stories where God transforms…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Flick through a debut novel that weaves a narrative around the changes in ones life with the arrival of a stranger; read the tale of a curious but mischievous child…
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Thursday said a strong regulatory system is needed to check widespread corruption in the Indian healthcare sector where 25 per cent of the money spent…
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India should showcase its great heritage with pride and questioned rules that prohibit people from taking pictures at some monuments. Inaugurating Dharohar Bhawan,…