By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, June 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Remember the 1977 Satyajit Ray classic “Satranj ke Khiladi” based on Munshi Premchand’s short story about two noblemen obsessed with the game of chess, one of them…
New Delhi, June 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Ministry of AYUSH along with Indian Council of Cultural Relations on Friday announced a unique international video blog competition, called ‘My Life My Yoga’ as the International Yoga Day…
New Delhi, June 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) “Is solitude more precious than/Fathomless company?/ Is power over a nation/Better than to be free?/If confined in your room/You spend your time alone/You can study the imprint/Of the value that…
New Delhi, June 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) The world has changed and so have the ways in which we communicate and connect with each other. The current need of social distancing is propelling the transformation of the…
Jaipur, June 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Monuments and museums were opened in Rajasthan from Tuesday after over two months. The decision to open these 16 monuments and 22 museums were taken by the Rajasthan Archaeological and Museums…
New Delhi, June 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) From award-winning science journalist Dr. Michael Mosley, comes “Covid-19: What you need to know about the CORONAVIRUS and the race for the vaccine” that traces the greatest public health threat…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, May 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) She lives in a “surreal and dystopian” world and thus hasn’t been too impacted by the lockdown triggered by the coronarirus pandemic, says playwright, author and illustrator…
Gandhinagar, May 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Famous astrologer Bejan Daruwalla breathed his last on Friday in an Ahmedabad hospital. Daruwalla, 89, was admitted in the private hospital following complaints of pneumonia like symptoms. Daruwalla was admitted to…
New Delhi, May 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) “This is not an attempt at literary writing; the passages featured in this book are reflections of my observations and sometimes unprocessed thoughts; expressed without filter,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
New Delhi, May 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s book ‘Letters to Mother’, translated by film critic Bhawana Somaaya, will be released by HarperCollins Publishers as e-book and hardback in June this year. As a…
Hyderabad, May 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Celebrated Urdu author, humorist and satirist Mujtaba Hussain passed away here on Wednesday after a prolonged illness. He was 84. According to family sources, he breathed his last at his residence…
New Delhi, May 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Focussing on ideas and movements that have been marginalised both within Nepal and globally, including discourses of decolonisation, migration and displacement, indigenous knowledge, queer rights, feminism, and alternative world views,…
New Delhi, May 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Breaking new ground, J.K. Rowling, the creator of the immensely popular Harry Potter series, on Tuesday launched the online serialisation of a new 34-part series, ‘The Ickabog’, aimed primarily at…
Abu Dhabi, May 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) With the Louvre Abu Dhabi “closed until further notice” due to the coronavirus pandemic, the museum’s website was now offering videos, audio and images of art and archaeological pieces, as…
Chandigarh, May 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Uma Gurbaksh Singh (93), the first Punjabi theatre actress and daughter of novelist Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari, passed away in Amritsar on Saturday after prolonged illness, her family members said. She was…
New Delhi, May 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) The disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will entail a drastic reimagining of business models in going forward says a new book on the subject that proposes frameworks with Design…
New Delhi, May 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Forty-one years ago novelist, short story writer, playwright and lyricist MK Binodini Devi, a member of the erstwhile royal family of Manipur, won a Sahitya Akademi Award for “Boro Saheb…
New Delhi, May 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Coming as a prequel to the cinematically-adapted worldwide bestselling ‘The Hunger Games’ series by author Suzanne Collins, a new novel ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ revisits the fictional world…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, May 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) He is counted among the trinity that includes Mulk Raj Anand and R.K. Narayan and his belief that the philosophy of ‘Advaita or nondualism offers a solution…
New Delhi, May 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Doomsday theories have been flying thick and fast ever since the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic that has affected close to 5 million people and claimed nearly 400,000 lives…