Mumbai, Oct 20 – A tunnel thought to be 200 years old has been unearthed in the premises of the General Post Office in south Mumbai, officials said Wednesday. Believed to be an ancient escape route, the tunnel heads towards Colaba in south Mumbai, said Maharashtra Postal Services Director Abha Singh. ‘From whatever we have [...]
Kolkata, Oct 19 – The political clamour between the Marxists and the Trinamool Congress has now found its way into the main religious festival of West Bengal – the Durga Puja. To prevent pollution, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) set up mini waste bins around the seven ghats in the city for flowers and engaged [...]
New Delhi, Oct 19 – India has nominated Santiniketan, the university town where Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore founded Visva Bharati, and the mountain range of Western Ghats for a place in Unesco’s World Heritage list, officials said here Tuesday. The cultural ministry recommended the inclusion of Santiniketan, the university town 180 km from Kolkata, under [...]
Agra, Oct 19 – Instead of getting killed, he stormed off the battlefield, leaving the Ramayan saga incomplete at a famous Ram Lila here. But now the actor who played Ravan says he had a perfectly good reason for it – undue favours to Ram and his retinue at the cost of the king of [...]
Agra, Oct 18 – For the first time in the history of the more than 100-year-old Ram Lila on the grounds opposite Agra Fort, Ravan simply refused to die! All hell broke loose Sunday night when the Ram Lila – a dramatic enactment of the epic Ramayana – had reached its tail end. As thousands [...]
Mumbai, Oct 18 – Aditya Thackeray, Bal Thackeray’s grandson who is set to play a larger role in Maharashtra politics, says he is not opposed to Rohinton Mistry’s Booker nominated novel ‘Such a Long Journey’ per se but does not want it to be part of the Mumbai University syllabus. The 20-year-old student of history [...]
New Delhi, Oct 17 – What binds Indian food to that of Ecuador, the South American nation straddling the equator? ‘Similarities in cooking technique,’ says visiting Ecuadorian celebrity chef Edgar Leon. ‘The way we prepare stock as a base for fish and meat dishes, the widespread use of potatoes, cinnamon flour and chillies to flavour [...]
Chennai, Oct 16 – Noted Tamil writer and poet Soundra Kailasam passed away at her residence here Saturday. She was 83. Wife of retired Supreme Court judge P.S. Kailasam, she is survived by a son Sadayavel Kailasam and three daughters Vimala Ramalingam; Nalini Chidambaram, who is married to Home Minister P. Chidambaram and Padmini Sivasubramanian. [...]
Kolkata, Oct 16 – Thousands of people poured onto the streets of Kolkata, community feasts were organised and celebrations were held across West Bengal Saturday on Mahanavami, the fourth day of the Durga Puja festivities. Long queues were seen at several big-ticket puja pandals since early morning. Those who went for a whole night party [...]
Agra, Oct 16 – Umang, a group of journalism students, Saturday celebrated Mughal emperor Akbar’s 468th birth anniversary by cutting a cake at the Braj Mandal Heritage Conservation Society hall here – the land that was once called Akbarabad. ‘Shah Jahan at the time of his accession to the throne named Agra as Akbarabad, but [...]
New Delhi, Oct 15 – A five-day theatre festival, ‘Whose Life Is It Anyway’ bringing into the focus complexities of human relationships, will be held in the capital in aid of the Leh cloud-burst victims Oct 16-21. The festival at Epicentre in Gurgaon and at the Kamani auditorium in the capital is a common initiative [...]
New Delhi, Oct 15 – Historian and author Ramachandra Guha will shed light on ‘The Indian Political Tradition – And Those Who Made It’ at the Penguin Annual Lecture 2010 at the India Habitat Centre Oct 25 in the capital. Guha’s lecture will be based on his new book ‘Makers of Modern India’, which profiles [...]
New Delhi, Oct 15 – The 17 monuments, illuminated 24×7 for the benefit of the Commonwealth Games visitors, will continue to shine at night even though the mega-sporting has come to a close. ‘The permanent illumination of the 17 monuments in the capital introduces a new dimension on whether they should be thrown open to [...]
New Delhi, Oct 14 – The expatriate population of golfers from 36 countries will prove their putting skills during a daylong golf tournament, the Expat Cup, Oct 16 in Gurgaon. Altogether 160 participants, including ambassadors, attaches, embassy crew, foreign employees of multinational corporations, non-Indian professionals and Indian golfers, from 36 countries will take part in [...]
New Delhi, Oct 14 – The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will lead a commemorative service at the Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (ISPCK) in the capital Friday to mark 300 years of service to the Indian community by the society. The society that owns several book shops across the country is engaged in [...]
New Delhi, Oct 14 – Let your hair down this weekend with an exciting pile of books. 1. Book: ‘Finding Delhi’; Written by Bharati Chaturvedi; Published by Penguin India; Priced at Rs.399 It is a book that tells you what happens on the way to becoming a world-class city. A century after the British built [...]
New Delhi, Oct 14 – ‘Granta: The Magazine of New Writing Pakistan’ is at the number one position in the non-fiction section of the bestseller list while ‘The Cobra’ by Frederick Forsyth tops the fiction list. The top 10 in each category are: Non-fiction 1. ‘Granta: The Magazine of New Writing Pakistan’ Author: Compilation by [...]
New Delhi/London, Oct 13 – Howard Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize 2010 for the book ‘The Finkler Question’ at a glittering ceremony at the Guildall Hall in London Tuesday. The prize carried a purse of pound50,000 and earned the British writer worldwide recognition. The winner was chosen from among a shortlist of six authors [...]
New Delhi, Oct 12 – The growing cultural links between Australia and South Asia Tuesday received a shot in the arm with the announcement of a four-day South Asian art festival Nov 4-8 at Sydney. The festival, ‘Parramasala’, will be held at Sydney’s diaspora hotspot Parramatta – home to the country’s largest resident Indian community. [...]
New Delhi, Oct 12 – The literary fine print from South Asia represented by the likes of Fatima Bhutto, Michael Wood, Amit Chaudhuri, Mohammed Hanif, Meghnad Desai and several others is set to take Britain by storm in a festival Oct 16-30. The 15-day celebration of South Asian writing and arts – DSC South Asian [...]
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