Between my Apu-like Indian accent and Stuart Braithwaite’s thick Glaswegian inflection, we barely understand a word the other says in our brief, 15-minute-long phone...
Locating the house where the Hindustani classical musician Pandit Chhannulal Mishra lives in Benares was easier than I thought it would be. To begin...
Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris beginning 30 November, the European Union today,Wednesday, awarded photographers here for capturing the importance of...
Nepal’s Constitution of September 2015, which triggered a storm of protest in the Terai and prevented fuel and necessary supplies from India entering the...
Respected Smt. Soniaji Congress President, 10 Janpath, New Delhi. 8 June 2006 You will kindly excuse me, I am writing a long letter to you.For some sixty years...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has complimented both Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) for burying...
Miffed at the Maharashtra government’s decision to allow Shiv Sena to continue holding its Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park despite the ground being declared...
Tension prevails in Bhaderwah town in Jammu where right-wing Hindu organisations took out a procession on Dusshera, allegedly with weapons. Local Muslims too took...
Faced with a growing pressure to scrap the alliance with the BJP, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has asked his People’s Democratic Party leaders...
The Shiromani Akali Dal-led government has been struggling to bring normalcy in the state of Punjab which has been reeling from back-to-back agitations over...
Foreign companies with which the Organising Committee of the Commonwealth Games has had disputes over payments did not provide proper documentation to buttress their...
The Northeastern students of Jawaharlal Nehru University can finally heave a sigh of relief as Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region...
The Centre has drastically reduced the allocation of funds to the states under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), after reports...
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has come under sharp attack from the opposition parties for attending Dushehra function in Srinagar on...
BJP leaders in Jammu and Kashmir have alleged that Independent legislator Engineer Rashid has links with the Pakistani establishment. They have asked Chief Minister...
Wimbledon Green (2005)Writer/Artist: Seth Drawn & Quarterly Once an author decides that the novel will have an unreliable narrator, there are certain obvious advantages at his...
Mrs FunnybonesTwinkle KhannaPenguin IndiaPages: 240Price: Rs 299 I judge people by what they find funny. And the thing that people have been finding hilarious lately...
Summer RequiemVikram SethAlephPages 66Price: Rs 399 Summer Requiem, the title in itself is enigmatic ----- on one hand, the picture conjured is of summer replete...
Photojournalism and art photography, divergent as their perspectives may be, converge when the picture transcends aesthetic boundaries and holds its own. Mukesh Parpiani, seasoned...
When thousands of dangerously obsessive fans cram themselves inside Siri Fort auditorium, New Delhi to watch some of the finest exponents of Korean Pop,...
FAILURE TO TAKE INFORMED CONSENT Apart from its errors in data gathering and wilful misrepresentation, the authors of the Report “Study on Child Abuse: India...
Chefs and restaurateurs from SAARC countries, including Pakistan, will assemble for a two-day culinary event which aims to provide a platform for cultural exchanges...
Enthused by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to declassify the files on Subhas Chandra Bose, historians and defence experts want him to make public...
Corrupt bureaucrats are opposing the reform measures initiated by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu in the Indian Railways. These measures, aimed at bringing transparency and...
India’s hydrocarbon industry wants domestic natural gas to be priced at at least $7/MMBTU to make its exploration and production efforts economically viable. Accepting...
Two minors were sexually assaulted in two separate incidents in the capital in the past two days. In the first incident, a two-and-a-half-year-old girl...
Amid heated newsroom debates and front page photographs of ink-faced Sudheendra Kulkarni, the real story behind the Kasuri book launch went unnoticed throughout the...
Various campaigns to prepare Britons to decide whether to stay in or outside the European Union were launched this week. The non-party affiliated (Get...
