New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Restored Indian silent film “Shiraz: A Romance of India”, which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival Archive Gala earlier this month, has been given a live score performed by…
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Aim to generate curiosity for the lesser known, appreciation for the unfamiliar, nostalgia for the outgoing and new possibilities for the national capital’s future, the third edition of the Delhi…
Mumbai, Oct 30 (IANS) Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui on Monday apologised and announced that he is withdrawing his book “An Ordinary Life” after a complaint was reportedly filed against him for outraging the modesty of his…
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) India and Italy on Monday signed six agreements, including in the areas of railway safety and energy, following delegation-level talks headed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Italian…
London, Oct 30 (IANS) German dictator Adolf Hitler only joined the Nazis after being shunned by another far-right political party, a leading historian has revealed. Thomas Weber, a professor of history at the University of…
By Saket Suman Book: Tinman; Author: Sarah Winman; Publisher: Hachette India; Price: Rs 399; Pages: 197 Some novels have simple beginnings but they go a far longer way in constructing the narrative of the story…
Panaji, Oct 30 (IANS) The controversy over former BJP MLA Vishnu Wagh’s book of poems, ‘Sudhir Sukta’, attacking Goa’s elite Gaud Saraswat Brahmin caste, refuses to die with vernacular literateurs and friends of Wagh hitting…
By Radhika Bhirani Jaipur, Oct 30 (IANS) The sitar, tabla and flute played on. And the youngsters in the crowd heard the classical ensemble in awe. Sitar maestro Shujaat Khan says it’s surprising and heartening…
New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) Author Ruskin Bond, who has been enthralling readers for 60 long years with over a hundred novellas, short story collections, non-fiction and poetry books, thinks that he has survived as…
New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) Amid the ongoing controversy over the historic Taj Mahal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said forts were symbols of heritage and it was the duty of all the countrymen…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) With the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Man Booker Prize — the two most coveted literary honours — having been awarded earlier in October, the literary…
By Vikas Datta Philosophers are not usually distinguished for themselves seeking to curtail the scope of their sphere of activity, being lucid or admitting they were mistaken. Nor are they known for stopping crimes being…
New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hailed the efforts of an NGO that ran a 200-day campaign to clean a fort at Chandrapur in Maharshtra. The Ecological Protection Organisation launched…
Guwahati, Oct 28 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said on Saturday the government will establish one drama school for preserving the state’s theatrical traditions even as he said there are plans to make the…
Mumbai, Oct 28 (IANS) “Loving Vincent”, a film which is made entirely of oil paintings, will be releasing in India on November 3. The film, which tells story of painter Vincent van Gogh through painting,…
Mumbai, Oct 28 (IANS) Writer, film producer and former actress Twinkle Khanna feels honoured to get the Popular Choice Award at the sixth edition of Bangalore Literature Festival for her book “The Legend of Lakshmi…
By Subhash K. Jha Mumbai, Oct 28 (IANS) Renowned sarod player Amjad Ali Khan says India will always miss Indian classical vocalist Girija Devi, who earned the epithet of ‘Thumri queen’. “When I heard that…
Hyderabad, Oct 28 (IANS) Police placed Dalit writer and social activist Kancha Ilaiah under house arrest here on Saturday to stop him from leaving for Vijayawada to address a public meeting. Policemen were deployed outside…
Jaipur, Oct 28 (IANS) The strumming of the sitar, the mellifluous flute, the riffs of the saxophone, the beats of the tabla and power-packed vocals — a jugaldbandi of classical, folk, sufi and jazz set…
Hyderabad, Oct 27 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh Police on Friday served notice on writer and social activist Kancha Ilaiah, asking him not to visit Vijayawada on Saturday to address a public meeting. Police officials from…