Bollywood, and the high drama that invariably accompanies it, totally overtook the Jaipur Literature Festival on its second day, reports Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
Hundreds of artisans every Dussehra would earn enough this season to see them through the entire year. Not this time though with COVID-19 continuing its spread and fear of contracting the disease keeping most people away from festivities.
The Soha Ali Khan-Kunal Khemmu wedding celebrations is underway!
'A movie to bring back memories of your innocent, carefree, childhood,' says Prasanna Zore.
India's state-owned institutes have literally been forced to embrace technologies to go digital - however reluctantly. Till the museum reopen, the magic mantra has been "online", "cyber", "virtual" - a transition that has been less smooth for most art institutions than one might have hoped. The first of a four-part series, Kishore Singh turns the gaze to some of India's leading art institutions to see how they are keeping the show going.
'Everything they read on social media, they believe, is the truth.' 'One of the biggest challenges in the country today is how to counter fake news and propaganda.'
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Vajpayee will visit the museum into which burglars broke into at Rabindra Bhawan, Vice-Chancellor Sujit Basu said in Kolkata.
'She was not forced into the decision," a close friend of Yuvraj Singh tells Subhash K Jha.
India was an 'excellent feast' and that such imposition would lead to 'nausea', he said.
Quoting from the epic Mahabharata and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, a top Chinese leader has said the easing of tensions between India and Pakistan has increased the prospects of peace in South Asia.
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This is a list of his films that would work wonders for any generation lucky enough to see them on the big screen.
An anonymous bidder bought the letter written by Mahatma Gandhi in 1922 to Rabindranath Tagore's eldest brother Dwijendranath at seven times its pre-sale estimate while a rare copy of the Indian Constitution sold for nearly eight times its offered price to a private collector at a Sotheby's sale in London.
The couple hope to keep the wedding very 'simple.'
In the wake of row over Kamal Hasan's movie Vishwaroopam, the Centre today set up a judicial committee to have a relook at the Cinematograph Act to make it more robust and ensure that movies do not get stuck after clearances by the film certification board.
Mommy Kareena Kapoor and daddy Saif Ali Khan have put together a nursery fit for royalty -- complete with the Pataudi crest -- for their baby.
Dubbing the NPR exercise as 'a dangerous game', Banerjee said the form, which seeks birth details and residential proof of parents, was nothing but a precursor to NRC implementation.
Actress Sharmila Tagore has written to Board of Control for Cricket in India president N Srinivasan expressing displeasure over the Board's reluctance to officially name the upcoming India-England series after her late husband, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi.
India and China, both emerging countries, should become "inseparable strategic partners" after overcoming the "deep scars" inflicted by the 1962 war and should make its 50th anniversary a starting point for a promising bilateral cooperation, the State-run media said on Wednesday.
The actress, who tied the knot with Saif Ali Khan on October 16, looked radiant in her traditional and designer attires.
India's economy is slowing down due to domestic issues, says Sumit Ganguly.
Speaking at the inauguration of his book, former Speaker and Parliamentarian Somnath Chatterjee called on youngsters to join politics and try change the system from within. Indrani Roy reports
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It was reported that the couple would tie th eknot on October 16 but Saif denied it later.
In response to actress Sharmila Tagore's plea to name the India-England Test series after her late husband Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, the Cricket Board on Tuesday made it clear that it could not change the name since the series is played for the Anthony De Mello trophy instituted in 1951.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday arrived in Dhaka on a two-day tour to join the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of poet Rabindranath Tagore.
Here's looking at some of the most popular costars of the late superstar.
As means of transport or metaphor, the romance of trains is unmistakable in Hindi cinema.
Who better than India's beloved storyteller to teach you how to spin a yarn?
'He was always opposed to a form of nationalism that was narrow, selfish and arrogant.' 'He will always remain a beacon of inspiration for freedom-loving people across the world and for movements of resistance against oppressive State power.'
A group of 71 personalities including social activists, filmmakers, scribes and writers on Sunday condemned the arrest of freelance journalist Syed Mohammed Kazmi in connection with the bombing of an Israeli diplomat's vehicle, saying that he may be made a scapegoat to "please an international lobby."
Writer-filmmaker Rinki Bhattacharya pays tribute to the thespian on his 97th birth anniversary.
As Soumitra Chatterjee turns 80 on January 19, we look back at his best movies.
With a reserved price of $2500, five bids were made before the painting titled 'Flower Power' was sold at $3000 to Sundaram Tagore Gallery, a spokesperson of the US-based NGO Children's Hope India which auctioned the painting to raise funds for the welfare of underprivileged children in India, told PTI.
The brilliant filmmaker gave her a unique gift.
State party leaders admit that Hindu consolidation by itself was not good enough to unseat Didi.
Hard work is the best way to success. This was proved by danseuse Sonali Acharya of Hailakandi, Assam who danced 25 hours and 25 minutes non-stop to enter the Guinness book of world records recently on occasion of her paying tribute to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore as part of the countrywide celebrations for his 150th birth anniversary.
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