By Subhash K. Jha Mumbai, Nov 29 (IANS) Actor Naga Chaitanya says he is not doing the Telugu remake of the 2014 Bollywood romantic comedy film “2 States”. According to reports, the Arjun Kapoor and…
By Saket Suman Title: In the Bonesetter’s Waiting Room: Travels through Indian Medicine; Author: Aarathi Prasad; Publisher: Hachette; Pages: 214; Price: Rs 499 The story of India’s healthcare system, as most of us look at…
By Vikas Datta Title: Band, Baaja, Boys!; Author: Rachna Singh; Publisher: Amaryllis Books; Pages: 215; Price: Rs 225 A university teacher once told me that Allahabad used to be so full of historians and lawyers…
London, Nov 28 (IANS/AKI) Acclaimed Italian writer and activist Erri De Luca has made the short-list for the UK’s “Bad Sex in Fiction” award for a sex scene in his 2009 novel “The day before…
New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) Penguin India on Monday announced that it has acquired Sunita Narains “Conflicts of Interest: My Journey through Indias Green Movement”, a personal account of one of Indias foremost environmentalist experts….
New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) Trade and industry body PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Monday hosted an inter-school play competition to kick-start the Swachh Paryavaran campaign in which 20 schools of Delhi-NCR participated….
By Tarun Basu New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) India’s former National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon says there is no alternative to talking to Pakistan to resolve outstanding issues because not talking is to allow terrorists…
New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) At a time when the debate around pollution and environmental degradation is at its peak, an upcoming photo exhibition titled “Habitat Photosphere” will take a look at the issue through…
Mumbai, Nov 28 (IANS) Superstar Shah Rukh Khan says author Paulo Coelho is kind and generous. Coelho, who has authored books like “Eleven Minutes”, “Brida” and “The Alchemist”, took to Twitter to share a link…
Beijing, Nov 28 (IANS) Archaeologists have found ruins of a pentagonal structure in China’s Shanxi province which is believed to have been a tribal meeting hall or a leader’s office 6,000 years ago, authorities said…
By Vikas Datta Title: Head in the Cloud – The Power of Knowledge in the Age of Google; Author: William Poundstone; Publisher: Oneworld Publications/Pan Macmillan; Pages: 320; Price: Rs 599 A little knowledge is a…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: Conversations with Dada Vaswani; Author: Ruzbeh N. Bharucha; Publisher: Penguin Ananda; Pages: 288; Price: Rs 299 Title: The Prophet of One World; Author: S. Mohandas; Publisher: S. Mohandas; Pages: 488;…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) Alka Mathur, who has created a body of work inspired by the vernacular practices of natural dyeing and kantha stitching, says she is moved by the natural…
New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS) Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Sunday said that he would have resigned if demonetisation was implemented in his tenure as Finance Minister. “Had I been the Finance Minister, and…
By Somrita Ghosh Panaji, Nov 27 (IANS) The feet couldn’t stop tapping and the body kept grooving as the soul danced to the melodious tunes of the jazz at the Goa International Jazz Live Festival…
Panaji, Nov 27 (IANS) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Sunday said that his post-retirement memoirs will include detailed and specific accounts of the goings-on in his ministry, whose charge he took over two years back….
Havana, Nov 27 (IANS) The leader of the Cuban revolution and former President, Fidel Castro, who died on Friday night at the age of 90, left a strong mark on contemporary political literature, the media…
By Vikas Datta Exuberant Americans, reserved Englishmen, orderly Germans, fatalistic Russians, unorganised Italians, charming and chic French, impenetrable Japanese, laidback Australians, gregarious and feckless Irish… are these descriptions a valid guide to these nationalities, and…
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Former Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, Nandan Nilekani, has said the demonetisation “shock given to the currency” will boost digital economy. “The fact is that we have…
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) A Russian classical ballet, a performance by Chinese musicians and Indian classical dances, rung down the curtains on the fortnight-long 10th Delhi International Arts Festival that saw 2,000 artistes from…