Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh government’s ban on ‘Chintamani’ a Telugu stage play that has been around since 1920, has raised the hackles of the art and culture fraternity in the state. The play scripted by…
by Karan Thapar
New Delhi: Perhaps because it’s the only language I know properly I’m fascinated by the idiosynscrasies of English. Its pronunciation is often inexplicable, its spelling mystifying and the same word can have different meanings, including…
New Delhi: Though central government or West Bengal government are not known to have made any official attempt at acquiring a 1930 painting of Rabindranath Tagore, it has been auctioned recently by international auction house…
New Delhi: Noted Hindi poetess Anamika, senior Congress leader and former Union Minister M Veerappa Moily, and English poet Anurdhati Subramaniam were presented the Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 2020 here on Saturday. Anamika,…
Gandhinagar:Paying tributes to Tamil poet Subramaniam Bharti on his 100 birth anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that there will be a special chair set up at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) to…
New Delhi:In a rare gesture, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has paid tribute to the founder of its Hindi department and Hindi Urdu scholar Mujeeb Rizvi by bringing out a magazine named “Mujib” on the occasion…
by Manoj Kumar
‘Dekh lo aaj humko jee bhar ke, koyi aata nahin phir mar ke’ – this poignant and heart-rending song of Hindi classic movie ‘Bazaar’ (1982), which beautifully portrays the pangs of separation suffered by lovers,…
by Manoj Kumar
Chandigarh:I had my first encounter with former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at an inter-college declamation contest at Dhuri, a small town in Sangrur district of Punjab in the 80s. He was then a leader…
By Siddhi Jain New Delhi: The rich heritage of mythological epics in India has begun to reflect in the popular audiobook production and listenership. The latest in this direction is ‘Many Ramayanas & Many Lessons…
by Manoj Kumar
Chandigarh: In the 1920s, an Arab trader came to India and got settled in Bombay, now known as Mumbai. He was from Saudi Arabia and his wife from Kuwait. They gave birth to nine children.…
