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PHOTOS: Smashing FUN @ Glastonbury

Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. The festival aims to encourage and stimulate youth culture from around the world in all its forms,......

Delhi festival to highlight Kashmir's folk theatre

A three-day festival at the Indira Gandhi Centre for the Arts in Delhi will showcase the traditional folk theatre of Kashmir -- Bhand Pather -- from April 5. The traditional dance drama of Kashmir......

The man who made Jayalalithaa's sculpture in BLOOD

There was a time the huge sculptures created by martial arts man Shihan Hussaini stood like giants on the terrace of his house facing the sea. Today, high rise apartments block them from looking at......

'Ravi Shankar wanted music to reach the right people'

It was an immensely sad day for students of Ravi Shankar Institute of Music and Performing Arts in Delhi. Their guru and mentor -- sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar -- was no more. The students......

Obama nominates Indo-American to National Council of Arts

Bharatanatyam dancer and teacher Ranee Ramaswamy, 60,has been nominated by United States President Barack Obama as a member to the National Council of Arts, a key administration position.Ramaswamy......

Mumbai's new iconic structure: Bombay Arts Society building

The Bombay Arts Society building is finally open for public. The newly constructed building is located in Bandra. Established in 1800s, the Bombay Art Society was based in JehangirArtGallery and......

Amazing IMAGES of divisible gold bars in Switzerland

Gold has been a valuable and highly sought-after precious metal for coinage, jewellery, and other arts since long before the beginning of recorded history. Let's take a look at divisible gold bars......

Amazing images reveal how miners search for gold

Gold has been a valuable and highly sought-after precious metal for coinage, jewellery, and other arts since long before the beginning of recorded history. Gold standards have been the most common......

Beginning of the end of India's mainstream media?

From politics to economics, from cinema to sports, to arts to culture, social media has a view on everything.They swarm the Internet like locusts. They hunt in packs like wolves. They strip you to......

Rupee rises to near three-month peak

The rupee rose on Thursday to its highest level against the dollar this year as strong buying from foreign investors sent shares to a record high and data showed the country's current account......

PIX: Bachchans, Subhash Ghai at Mangeshkars' Hridayotsav

Marking Hridaynath Mangeshkar's 76th birthday and 24th anniversary of Hridaynath Arts, Amitabh Bachchan was felicitated at Hridayotsav -- the ceremony held at Parle Tilak Vidyalaya -- over the......

Bruce Lee: 40 years later

As an ode to martial arts star Bruce Lee's 40th death anniversary, Big RTL Thrill will air a documentary on his life called I Am Bruce Lee. It will be telecast in Hindi and......

Sirish: I didn't want a star-kid launch vehicle

Sirish made his mark working in father Allu Aravind's production house Geetha Arts and later as a magazine publisher. He has now changed tracks to become an actor following his brother Allu Arjun.......

Why you MUST watch Gulabi Gang

The writing is on the wall -- and it is written in the blood of the women who ‘died’, ‘ran off’ or ‘committed suicide’ under mysterious, carefully unexplained......

Sanjay Leela Bhansali: I never believed in birthday parties

Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali turns 51 on February 24, but he prefers to keep his birthday quiet. "Last year my sister (Bela Saigal) arranged a big 50th birthday party," Bhansali says. "This......

'India a key market to spread women's tennis'

The Women's Tennis Association, which has turned to Asia to grow its sport, is unclear how the International Tennis Premier League is going to pan out. “We are still learning about it, just......

It's been 50 years since the 'greatest' Ali 'shook the world'

Fifty years ago, an upstart American boxer who later became known as Muhammad Ali ‘shook the world’ when he dethroned Sonny Liston to claim the heavyweight championship of the world in......

Sochi closing ceremony paints hosts Russia in softer colours

Sunday's closing ceremony at Russia's first Winter Olympics will aim to paint the host nation in softer colours than the muscular spectacle that kicked off the Games, organisers said. The show at......

IOC pats Ukrainian athletes' spirits; Pussy Riot members get whiplashing

Following deadly clashes at home in which at least 26 people were killed, the Ukraine's Olympic team wore black armbands at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games on Wednesday. Praising the spirited......

PHOTOS: Winter Games opening takes world on tour through Russian history

The Winter Olympics opening ceremony kicked-off on Friday at Sochi's shining new Fisht Stadium on the shores of the Black Sea, and viewers around the world witnessed a journey through Russian......

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Q. are you jovial or sad soul?
Nihal Singh: A. more

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Q. Have you visited Tribal museum ?
Samson Aseervatham: A. sad one more

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Q. how eager are you to reveal your self to friends when you take a new id ?:)P
Simon Waaras: A. Whole India is like a tribal museum. All live in it. more

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Web results for Arts

Turning four in a burst of cultural activities

In the beginning, in March 2010 to be exact, it had all the qualifications of being branded as an elitist, insular spot, akin to an exclusive, old... ...

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Barca's Decline and Fall Heralds End of Empire

Genially, but rather pointedly, Gerardo Martino announced: "I'm not going to say that Barcelona is dead." He will just leave others to write those... ...

http://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/Barcas-Decline-and-Fall-Heralds-End-of-Empire/2014/03/12/article2104457.ece

The Nomad comes home

Indian-born designer Mawi has become a name unto herself in every way. With her eponymous label of accessories and a store in London and Porto... ...

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Sahitya Akademi Award presented to Dr Makhonmani

Source: Hueiyen News Service / MIC New Delhi, March 11 2014 : Renowned film maker Dr.Makhonmani Mongsaba received prestigious Sahitya Akademi... ...

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Indian pilots

KOLKATA: Even as the world waits with bated breath to know about the fate of 239 passengers and crew on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that... ...

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