3.5 million people expected at world culture festival

IMAGE:Prasanna Prabhu, trustee, Art of Living at a press conference in Mumbai. The Art of Living foundation will hold a three-day World Culture Festival in New Delhi (March 11-13), a mega event......

Why the World Culture Festival matters

IMAGE: The World Culture Festival in progress in Berlin in 2011. Photograph: Sankrant Sanu There will remain those who will remain in opposition to this massive endeavour for world peace with an......

Sri Sri's World Cultural Festival starts off on a high

The controversial event World Cultural Festival on the floodplains of Yamuna opened on Friday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi heaping praise on Sri Sri Ravi Shankar saying he had......

Diwali added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list

India's Deepavali -- the festival of lights -- was on Wednesday inscribed on the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, sparking celebrations to mark the......

World's 10 best cities to live in

Melbourne is the world's best city to live in. Cities in Australia and Canada have dominated the list of most livable places in the world.  The survey has ranked cities in the areas of health......

Why Sri Sri is laughing all the way to the bank

Yoga, wellness, meditation, Ayurveda, software and toothpaste -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has successfully merged business with spirituality, reports Nikita Puri. IMAGE: Art of Living now offers......

Babas follow Ramdev's footsteps to mint a fortune from FMCG

Ravi Shankar mulls taking his products, available at 600 outlets, to 2,500 stores by 2017; others have plans, too. Image: Sri Sri Ayurveda is now mulling tie-ups with retailers to expand reach......

'I Wouldn't Change Anything In Sholay'

'Sholay had a sargam of human emotions.' IMAGE: Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan in Sholay. There was no Basanti or Radha to begin with and Jai and Veeru started off as former army men sacked for......

The Kannada Film That Trumps Adolescence

The unspoken subject of Mithya is violence, and the big zinger here is our recognition that the movie is showing us the makings of a juvenile delinquent -- perhaps the finest since Truffaut......

What Made Shaji N Karun A Master Film-Maker

With Piravi, Shaji N Karun joined the select group of great masters of film.Malayalam once upon a time used to produce such films.Today, it is only mindless violence, politics and grotesque......

A Film From Manipur That You Must See

'This story has been always there since my childhood because of missing people.''I remember a family member who disappeared and I kept wondering what happened to him.' IMAGE: Gugun Kipgen in......

Khelo India Brings First-Ever Water Sports to Kashmir

IMAGE: Srinagar’s Dal Lake to host India’s first Khelo Water Sports. Photograph and video: J&K Sports Council/Instagram The first-ever Khelo India Water Sports Festival is all set to reveal......

Check out Gen Next's favourite sport!

IMAGE: Karen Jonz competes in the Women's Skateboard Vert Final during X Games 15. Photograph: Jeff Gross/Getty Images An overwhelming majority of Indians want to see more extreme sports, with a......