Renowned poet, writer and critic Dilip Chitre passed away at his Pune residence in the early hours of Thursday. Chitre, 71, was suffering from cancer, family sources said.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to direct the government to take steps to ensure return of self-exiled painter M F Husain, who has been residing in a Gulf country, to India and withdrawal of cases against him.
'We don't want to lead this hellish life. Enough is enough.'
Famed painter M F Husain may have quit his Indian citizenship, but he does not want to snap all links with the country of his birth and has applied for an Overseas Citizenship identity."India is my motherland and I simply cannot leave that country. What I have surrendered is just a piece of paper," Husain said. "I will continue to travel to India and have applied for an Overseas Citizen of India card as Indian law does not permit citizens to hold dual citizenship," he said.
If Husain feels betrayed by the treatment being meted out to him in the country of his birth, India too has reasons to feel betrayed by its globally celebrated son, writes Mahendra Ved.
Legendary artist M F Husain, who has been living in self-imposed exile for nearly four years following a spate of cases in India over his controversial paintings of Hindu goddesses, has accepted Qatar's offer to confer nationality on him.
Saradha Group-run Saradha Tours and Travels tied up with IRCTC for operating tourist services to different destinations.
Legendary Indian writer, critic, painter, and filmmaker Dilip Purushottam Chitre passed away on Thursday. We bring back to you an earlier interview with the rare multi-talented artist, who spoke about his passion, his work and his views on India's global reach to Rediff.com in 2007.
Thousands of people from all walks of life on Friday filed past the body of Mahasweta Devi to pay their last respects.
All of a sudden, in the space of some weeks, the nation seems to be running up a deficit on its cultural capital.
Don't know how to look fashionable while it rains? We have help -- we talked to a few Indian designers to see what they had to say about monsoon fashion trends.
Paying Guest's Javed Jaffrey on donning women's clothing for the third time.
Up and coming artist Remen Chopra speaks about becoming an artist in the post-recession world
'This year, we know the virus. Last year we didn't know anything about it.' 'The best part is that for the Indian population there has been some amount of cross protection.'
Five acid attack survivors walked for designer Agnimitra Paul's show in Kolkata.
Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik will tie the nuptial knot with Pakistani artist Mushaal Hussein Mullick later this week. Malik, 42, got engaged in absentia to Mushaal, a 28-year-old painter who is pursuing a bachelor's degree at the prestigious London School of Economics, in October last year.
Husain's paintings, allegedly depicting Bharat Mata and Hindu Gods and Goddesses in an obscene manner, had created a furore resulting in him receiving threats from right-wing groups like the VHP and the Bajrang Dal. As a result, the painter is living in a self-imposed exile in Dubai.
Shreyas Talpade talks about his upcoming film, Paying Guest.
India's Copyright Act allows for a percentage of any secondary art sale to be paid to the original copyright holder.
A little-known right wing Hindu outfit on Saturday vandalised NDTV's office in Ahmedabad and assaulted two staffers, venting their anger against an SMS poll of the news channel with noted painter M F Husain as a contender for Bharat Ratna.
Jagjot Singh Rubal has painted this painting of the jailed actor in Amritsar.
From a bridge that connects two continents to one that inspires eternal love, 10 structures that guarantee a memorable journey.
Qualcomm India, Pvt. Ltd's fourth Works@Work art exhibit which will open on March 13, 2008 at the Company's offices in the Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mumbai.
The San Diego Museum of Art held an exhibition of paintings of Nandalal Bose, the great Indian painter whose major work spanned the first half of the 20th century. The paintings convey aspects of nature and spirituality, simple lives of villagers, women at work, and also subtly reflect the socio-political environment of life in Bengal at the time.
Sotheby's raised $1.5 million for Kolkata Musuem of Modern Art in New York
Mamata imposed affirmative action to the point of absurdity. This has naturally led to counter-action: The Hindus who never thought of themselves as Hindus are now banding behind the BJP, points out Aditi Phadnis.
Historian Romila Thapar and noted academics Deepak Nayyar and Andre Betaille have written a letter to the Prime Minister, demanding that Gujarat's Governor or the University Grants Commission be asked to set up a committee to probe the matter.
A meeting to pay homage to K G Subramanyam, one of India's most interesting painters and thinkers.
US First Lady Michelle Obama, known for her impeccable fashion sense, got a Pashmina shawl from Kashmir with intricate embroidery as gift from President Pranab Mukherjee's wife Suvra Mukherjee.
Modernist painter Tyeb Mehta's Yellow Heads, which he painted in 1979 was showcased along with 'Steal 2,' an oil on canvas measuring 167.8cm X 228.5 cm by multimedia specialist Subodh Gupta as part of the 20 exclusive art works displayed at a select preview in New Delhi. Yellow Heads was tagged at between 2 crore (Rs 20 million) to 3.48 crore (Rs 34.8 million) and Steal 2 was estimated between 3.4 crore (Rs 34 million) and Rs 5 crore (Rs 50 million).
Puneet's characterisation and his appeal make Bindaas a compulsory double viewing for his fans. Good fights and music are the major attractions in this film which offers an age old story and haphazard script. Hansika's beauty rocks in the film.
Welcoming the high court's decision to stay the award, announced by the state Education and Cultural department, VHP and Bajrang Dal office-bearers told a press conference in Kozhikode that Baby should quit office and apologise for his action.
The state education and cultural department had announced that Husain will be conferred the award on September 17.
The court gave the directions on a case filed by one Prempal Singh on March 20.
K K Swamy is between jobs. After spending a little over a decade running Toyota Kirloskar Motors as its deputy managing director, he made a quiet exit a month ago to move to Volkswagen India as its first managing director. He is moving lock, stock and barrel from Bangalore to Pune, where he is set to take charge on July 21.
"It is blatant intolerance and disgusting fanaticism," Soli J Sorabjee, former Attorney General and an art lover, told PTI after taking a round of the exhibition -- India in the Era of Mughals -- which ended in New Delhi on Friday.
The activists shouted slogans like Balasaheb (Bal Thackeray) Zindabad, Shiv Sena Zindabad and M F Husain Murdabad besides distributing pamphlets, which threatened to disrupt any exhibition of Husain in the country.
35-year-old Namita Sibal, a mother of two, started her own Web site Indianartcollectors.com three years back. She expects to earn Rs one crore in revenues this year.
Earlier Uddhav had to manage only seniors in the party. Now, he has to manage the leadership of two other parties who have been political adversaries in the past. Aditi Phadnis notes.
Controversial artist M F Husain, who has several criminal complaints pending against him in various courts in the country because of his paintings, has said he will return to India "whenever" he wants as no one was stopping him.
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