By Suresh Jindal New Delhi, Jan 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) “Words. Sounds. Images: A History of Indian Media & Entertainment” by Amit Khanna is a tour de force that is encyclopaedic in the vastness of its canvas….
New Delhi, Jan 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) HarperCollins Publishers India will be publishing three new books by Amitav Ghosh, winner of the prestigious Jnanpith Award and one of the most acclaimed Indian writers. The first of these,…
New Delhi, Jan 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Udaipur World Music Festival, featuring live performances with the city of lakes as a background will be held from Feburary 7 to 9. A city-wide, multi venue music festival…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Jan 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) As Indian art and artists had a phenomenal 2019, receiving much national and international acclaim, we speak to some art makers who looked at things imaginatively last…
Agra, Jan 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Satirist and columnist Piyush Pandey on Sunday dared those who had been making a show of returning awards to also return the royalty and the monetary gains made from various recognitions….
New Delhi, Jan 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Inviting Indian publishers to the International Book Fair in Tehran in April, an Iranian minister on Sunday called for greater cooperation in the publishing space of the two nations. Mohsin…
New Delhi, Jan 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 28th edition of the nine-day New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF) opened at Pragati Maidan here on Saturday, and saw Lt. Governor of Puducherry Kiran Bedi launch a book…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Jan 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Author and screenwriter Ashok K. Banker’s sweep encompasses mythology, crime thrillers, essays, literary criticism and fiction. He’s also collaborated with DC Comics for graphic novels and has…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Jan 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Learn about how to increase your company’s sales without burning a hole in your pocket — through co-branding to create synergy and leverage the strengths of the…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Jan 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) This may be the first time Anuradha Kapur is venturing into this space, but then navigating the unexplored has never been a new territory for her. Kapur…
Kharagpur, Jan 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian researchers have for the first time connected the decline of Harappan city Dholavira to the disappearance of a Himalayan snow-fed river which once flowed in the Rann of Kutch. They…
New Delhi, Jan 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 28th edition of the much-attended New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF) will open at the Pragati Maidan here on Saturday. Marking Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary, it is themed…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Jan 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) As a global debate rages on the death penalty and back home, the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape try every trick in the book to beat…
New Delhi, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) A legend at Alfred A. Knopf, where he was only its third editor-in-chief in its over 100-year history and which he considered the “best job in the world”, winner of…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Dec 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) It was a roller-coaster ride for publishers in 2019, thanks mainly to the after-effects of demonistisation, GST, the import duty on books and the economic slowdown, but…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Dec 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Author, podcaster and blogger Fred Ferriss has famously said: “Forget New Year’s Resolutions and Conduct a Past Year Review instead.” Inspired by this, Eika Banerjee, a top…
New Delhi, Dec 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Read about how a young IPS officer staged India’s largest-ever opium bust in spite of political games being played in the corridors of power, travel with Prem Sagar as he…
By Arundhuti Banerjee Mumbai, Dec 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan has written to Kerala Government to build a hospital on a two-acre land that the state government had earlier given him to…
Bhubaneswar, Dec 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) On the eve of Christmas, internationally acclaimed sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik claimed to have created a giant 3D sand Santa Clause at Puri beach in Odisha. He has created this 3D…
By Sukant Deepak Gwalior, Dec 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) The fog enveloping the picturesque mausoleum of Tansen in the background, and some fine Indian and international musicians from Greece, Israel, the US, Iran and Belgium spellbinding an…