Kolkata, July 12 (IANS) Up in arms against the CBFC’s move to red flag a documentary on Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen because of some words uttered by him in the film, West Bengal’s civil society…
Beijing, July 12 (IANS) Carbon dating has recently confirmed the age of a 3,800-year-old red pottery bird statue unearthed in China’s Henan province. The statue, 16 cm long and 7 cm tall, was painted red…
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) One can trust noted historian and intellectual Ramachandra Guha to think out of the box — and set the cat among the pigeons in the process. He has now called…
By Kishori Sud New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) Stand-up comedian and writer Sorabh Pant has addressed some crucial socio-political issues via his acts, and he feels in the multilingual country his regional counterparts can do…
London, July 12 (IANS) A rare 1931 pencil portrait of Mahatma Gandhi and a collection of his handwritten letters that went under the hammer at the Sothebys auction here on Tuesday have been bought by…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) The literary space has seen a rising tide of Bollywood celebrities — from Karan Johar to Rishi Kapoor — turning towards memoirs and autobiographies in recent years,…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Last Warlord; Author: Brian Glyn Williams; Publisher: Harper Collins India; Pages: 372; Price: Rs 599 History is told by the victors but in our modern age, even contemporary events get…
Kolkata, July 11 (IANS) A section of intellectuals from West Bengal have appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi “to take steps to undermine the agitation and restore normalcy in Darjeeling hills”, and stressed that any…
Kolkata, July 11 (IANS) National Award winner Ujjwal Chatterjee, who is helming a trilingual film produced by Priyanka Chopra’s company on the relationship between Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and his English teacher Annapurna Turkhud, has…
Beijing, July 11 (IANS) A massive archaeological excavation underway at Beijing’s Old Summer Palace has uncovered more than 50,000 cultural relics so far, the media reported. The excavation, which was started in 2013 and will…
By Vikas Datta Title: A Necessary Evil; Author: Abir Mukherjee; Publisher: Harvill Secker/Penguin Random House; Pages: 380; Price: Rs 599 If a crime fiction series is set in the Raj era, one installment will invariably…
Mumbai, July 10 (IANS) Marking the birth centenary of the first woman Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a book “Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature”, authored by former union minister Jairam Ramesh was released here on…
Hyderabad, July 10 (IANS) A day after Ahmedabad became India’s first World Heritage City, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi urged the Centre and the Telangana government to secure a similar tag for Hyderabad. The Hyderabad MP’s…
Kolkata, July 10 (IANS) Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Monday said there is a “reason to worry” over the communal violence that has engulfed pockets in Basirhat sub-division of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district….
Rio de Janeiro, July 10 (IANS) A wharf in Rio de Janeiro where nearly a million African slaves are estimated to have landed through history has been declared a Unesco World Heritage site, the media…
Tokyo, July 10 (IANS) A sacred island in south-west Japan that bans women and where male visitors must strip naked before going ashore has been declared a Unesco world heritage site, the media reported on…
By Saket Suman Book: Sita – Warrior of Mithila; Author: Amish Tripathi; Publisher: Westland; Price: Rs 350; Pages; 361 His “Shiva Trilogy” — “The Immortals of Meluha”, “The Secret of the Nagas” and “The Oath…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Gatekeepers; Author: Chris Whipple; Publisher: Crown/Penguin Random House LLC; Pages: 384; Price: Rs 799 The floundering that marks the Donald Trump presidency so far may be due to his ignoring…
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) Author Renee Ranchan presented her latest book ‘To Each With Love’ to President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhawan here over the weekend. The work is a collection of six short…
Phnom Penh, July 9 (IANS) Cambodia’s Sambor Prei Kuk archaeological site has been inscribed on the Unesco’s World Heritage List, bringing the country’s tangible cultural properties in the list to three, the Culture Ministry said…