Moscow, March 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) Western classical music and ballet connoisseurs have a reason to cheer for in these times of coronavirus lockdown. The prestigious Bolshoi Theatre is currently streaming a few of its classic performances…
By Archana Sharma Jaipur, March 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) The renowned festival of Gangaur passed off silently as women kept themselves indoors within their houses and celebrated the festival via video conferencing due to nationwide lockdown because…
New Delhi, March 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Borders have been sealed, people are masked, supermarkets are plucked clean, lives quarantined: In trying times like ours, reading is a great way to fill up the hours. Social-distancing or…
New Delhi, March 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Renowned artist and architect Satish Gujral passed away late Thursday at the age of 94. A recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award of India, in 1999, the…
Kolkata, March 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Famed photographer Nemai Ghosh, known for his very fruitful two-decade long association with auteur Satyajit Ray, died at his residence here on Wednesday following cardio-respiratory failure, a family member said. Ghosh,…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, March 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Two-time National award winning documentary filmmmaker Shilpi Gulati feels that in order to make things easier for documentary filmmakers in India, the government must activate the various…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, March 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Somewhere close to the year 2000, as an informal consultant, renowned art historian B.N. Goswami was going over the San Diego Museum of Arts’ holdings of Indian…
New Delhi, March 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) An Indian novel published in 2018 and set in various parts of Asia and Europe was uncannily prescient about the possibilities of accidental or otherwise release of biotechnology products and…
Chennai, March 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tamil movie director, producer, actor, play writer Visu, 74, on Sunday died here due to old age ailments. Tamil Nadu BJP leaders condoled the death. Born as M.R. Viswanathan and popularly…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, March 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) “The arts are wonderfully challenging and difficult to engage with or tackle, depending on your point of view. They are by nature, reflections of a nations identity…
(FRIDAY) By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, March 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Read about the journey of filmmaker Girish Kasaravalli, whose oeuvre is in Kannada but has a universal appeal, discover the pitfalls of bringing India’s isolated tribes…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, March 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) The philosopher Aristotle’s homily, “happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence”, might seem a tall order given…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, March 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) When eminent Canadian author M.G. Vassanji does the final edit of a book you can be sure it goes beyond the ordinary. And that’s exactly what “Paper…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, March 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) The landmark India-US nuclear deal of 2008 marked a tectonic shift in international politics but it took a lot of hard bargaining to ensure the country’s strategic…
New Delhi, March 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) In the olden days, people ate early because there was hardly any light after sunset. Their next meal would only be after sunrise. This practice spread to all religions as…
Madhubani (Bihar), March 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Amid the coronavirus scare in the country, a Bihar couple feted for world-famous Madhubani paintings is leading the efforts to use the art form on face masks to exhort the…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, March 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Read about the storms that the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), India’s largest such facility, has had to weather; take a 17,000 km motorcycle ride with four…
Panaji, March 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Organisers of Ketevan Sacred Music Festival, an international music event held annually in Goa, on Thursday announced the postponement of the festival, in view of the World Health Organisation escalating the…
New Delhi, March 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) The “Ramcharitmanas” is undoubtedly one of the greatest lyrical compositions in Hindi literature. Writing in the 16th century, Tulsidas chose to pen verses in Awadhi rather than Sanskrit, thus breaking…
Kolkata, March 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Holi, the festival of colours, was celebrated with mirth and gaiety across West Bengal on Tuesday as people participated in large numbers draped in festive spirits. While the Bengali community predominantly…