Punjab’s teen singer takes caste voice to a new high
By Jaideep Sarin Jalandhar, July 26 (IANS) She took to singing when she was just seven and has, just a decade later, turned into a star of sorts within her community as she dared to…
Art
Napoleon and Waterloo: Defeat in battle, but Victory over history
By Vikas Datta Title: How the French Won Waterloo – or Think They Did; Author: Stephen Clarke; Publisher: Arrow Books/Penguin UK; Pages: 304; Price: Rs 499 Waterloo has become a byword – at least in…
SIT set up to probe Kolkata teen’s death
Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) The city police on Monday constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the death of a teenager at the apartment complex of noted author Amit Chaudhuri where he had gone…
Mahasweta Devi critical
Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) Social activist and writer Mahasweta Devi continued to be in a critical condition requiring life support, a doctor said on Monday. The nonagenarian litterateur was responding to treatment last week but…
Crime and Punishment: A radical new approach?
By Vikas Datta Title: Criminal – The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things; Author: Tom Gash; Publisher: Allen Lane/Penguin; Pages: 349; Price: Rs.899 ‘Crime doesn’t pay’ is something almost everyone is taught around the…
Sahitya Akademi invites applications for Yuva Puraskar
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Sahitya Akademi has invited young Indian writers to submit their works for its Yuva Puraskar 2017, given to writers below 35 years of age writing in any of the…
New ‘story-telling’ museum to wow visitors at Rashtrapati Bhavan
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) A new high-tech, “story-telling” museum is all set to wow visitors at Rashtrapati Bhavan, and would be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday in the presence of President…
Centuries-old fair symbolising maize blossom begins in Himachal
Chamba, July 24 (IANS) The eight-day-long, centuries-old Hindu fair that symbolises the blossoming of maize began on Sunday in this historical Himachal Pradesh town located on the banks of the Ravi river. It was to…
Ansari condoles death of S.H. Raza
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari on Sunday condoled the death of legendary painter S.H. Raza, and credited him with popularising Indian art globally. “I am deeply grieved to hear about…
Indian Arabic calligrapher bags top prize at Cairo festival
Hyderabad, July 24 (IANS) Muqtar Ahmed, an Indian Arabic calligrapher, has won one of the top prizes at the Cairo International Festival for Arabic Calligraphy. The Bengaluru-based calligrapher’s work was selected for second prize from…
Lost in translation: The peculiar case of a popular French author
By Vikas Datta English speakers have long had an advantage for there are few classics from other literary traditions which are not available in the language. Translations of Homer, Rumi, Cervantes, Goethe, Pushkin, Dumas, Tolstoy,…
Want to become a big music director: Hard Kaur
Mumbai: Rapper Hard Kaur during the 8th Mirchi Music Awards in Mumbai on Feb 29, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, July 23 (IANS) Singer-rapper Hard Kaur, who has lent her voice to numerous hit songs, says…
Raza was a secularist in the true sense: Fraternity
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) Describing veteran artist S H Raza’s death as a huge loss to the art world, many from his fraternity said that he and his works represented secular India. Remembering him…
Raza: Artist who believed in Christ and Krishna and the primordial ‘Bindu’
By Uma Nair An Indian artist in Paris — an Indian artist who decided he would explore the rudiments of plastic art, a gentleman who was subtle and every bit an arts connoisseur, a voracious…
Modern Indian artist S H Raza passes away
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) Iconic Indian artist Syed Haider Raza, known for his abstracts, passed away on Saturday at the age of 94. Raza’s works had very rich use of color, replete with icons…
We are like frogs in boiling water: Author Amitav Ghosh on climate change
By Kushagra Dixit New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) The much-touted Paris climate conference is only about business and not about addressing environmental degradation, noted author Amitav Ghosh says, adding that these very businesses had created…
Mahasweta Devi’s condition improving
Kolkata, July 23 (IANS) Social activist and writer Mahasweta Devi on Saturday continued to be in a critical condition, a doctor said, stressing the nonagenarian litterateur is responding to treatment. “We are trying to get…
SRK terms himself struggling writer, pens poem inspired from Zayn Malik
Mumbai: Actor Shahrukh Khan during the launch of author Gunjan Jain book She Walks She Leads, in Mumbai, on July 21, 2016. The Book features Priyanka Chopra and Kareena Kapoor Khan. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, July…
Reading Harry Potter may make Americans less favourable to Trump
Washington, July 22 (IANS) Harry Potter books, with their message of tolerance and respect for difference, may make Americans less favourable to Donald Trump, who is the Republican Party’s nominee for the US presidency in…
‘She Walks, She Leads’ an inspiring account of 24 women achievers
By Vishnu Makhijani Book: “She Walks, She Leads”; Author: Gunjan Jain; Publisher: Penguin/Viking; Pages: 556; Price: Rs 799 In spite of a host of Indian women having achieved the pinnacle of their respective spheres, the…