New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) Leading art practitioners have asserted that Indian culture and art forms that have preserved their core traditions for millennia are being reduced to a mere “spectacle” today in the race…
By Saket Suman Title: Option B: Facing Adversity, Buiding Resilience and Finding Joy; Author: Sheryl Sandberg with Adam Grant; Publisher: Penguin; Price: Rs 599; Pages: 226 Let the reader be warned: This book will make…
Kolkata, May 8 (IANS) Festooned in fairy lights, far from the prying and judging eyes of the public, cafe “Amra Odbhuth” (We are Queer) provides space to the LGBTQ community members here to get together…
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) Layered mixed-media canvases, and assemblages in subtle monochromatic palette compose an introspective and revelatory exhibition in the national capital. The exhibition, titled “A(Void)”, by artists Dilip Chobisa and Tanmoy Samanta…
Mumbai, May 8 (IANS) Legendary sarod player Amjad Ali Khan is giving an autographed travel-friendly sarod to Canadian singer Justin Bieber, who will give his maiden performance in India here on Wednesday. Asked about the…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Dark Prophecy (The Trials of Apollo Book 2) ; Author: Rick Riordan; Publisher: Puffin/Penguin Random House UK; Pages: 460; Price: Rs 599 Stripped of his divine form and powers –…
London, May 8 (IANS) A Brexit-inspired mural by acclaimed street artist Banksy showing a metalworker chipping away at a star on the European Union (EU) flag appeared in a coastal town in England, the media…
Karachi, May 7 (IANS) Renowned Pakistani sitarist Ustad Raees Khan passed away here on Saturday, media reports said on Sunday. He was 77. Khan is survived by his singer-wife Bilqees Khanum and four sons, Dawn…
By Vikas Datta For keen readers, the point where texts transform into literature is always interesting. The protagonists are more likely to be fallible humans than deities, the prescriptive and didactic approach wanes to show…
Nay Pyi Taw, May 7 (IANS) Over 40,000 foreign tourists visited Myanmar’s famous Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon in April, the first month of the 2017-18 fiscal year, said the Pagoda’s Board of Trustee on Sunday….
Kolkata, May 6 (IANS) Is Feluda, auteur Satyajit Ray’s iconic sleuth, bobbing about on a camel amid the urban jungle of the eastern metropolis? Check out a theme park launched here in New Town on…
Nay Pyi Taw, May 6 (IANS) A total of 249 out of the 389 earthquake-hit pagodas in Myanmar’s Bagan city have been renovated so far, the media reported on Saturday. The remaining 140 damaged pagodas…
Kolkata, May 6 (IANS) The West Bengal Heritage Commission will embark upon restoration of three heritage buildings in the state, including the house of Alexander Duff, the first overseas missionary of the Church of Scotland…
Tokyo, May 6 (IANS) A Unesco advisory body has recommended adding Japan’s island of Okinoshima, a men-only ancient religious site in Fukuoka prefecture, to its World Heritage list, cultural authorities announced on Saturday. The advisory…
Beijing, May 6 (IANS) The ruins of an ancient city have been discovered in China’s Yunnan province. Archaeologists have found the remains of several walls in Midu county, believed to be part of Baiya city,…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Just a few steps inside the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in the capital and an entire potpourri of art works by sculptors throw up an…
By Vikas Datta His political accomplishments are still worthy of emulation. A successful war leader-turned-outstanding statesman, Marshal Tito showed how to subsume narrow ethnic identities into an inclusive nationalism and temper ideology with pragmatism as…
By Mayank Chhaya Chicago, May 6 (IANS) Thirty years after Chicago-based photographer and writer Victoria Lautman first stepped into the famous stepwells of India, the magic of that experience has not waned. If anything, it…
London, May 5 (IANS) Indian origin author Vikram Seth’s “A Suitable Boy” is being adapted as the first period drama for BBC One. The series will have a complete non-white cast. Published in 1993, the…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Even as the publication dates of noted Indian writer Vikram Seths “A Suitable Girl,” — a sequel to his much acclaimed 1993 novel “A Suitable Boy” — continues to hang…