New Delhi, March 14 – Erotic art with a social message literally hit the Indian streets when leading Chinese performance artist Han Bing performed ‘Dreams of Lost Homes’ – a live erotic act – in the heart of the capital.
The one-hour act by bare bodied Bing, clad in just a loin cloth, making meditative love [...]
New Delhi, March 12 – Literature is the flavour of spring in the capital.
Come Saturday, the open air amphitheatre of the India Habitat Centre will play host to a flurry of literary activity woven around the week long Spring Fever 2010 – a literary festival and a showcase of modern classics by Penguin-Books India. [...]
New Delhi, March 11 – Indian novelist Rana Dasgupta’s ‘Solo’ and Pakistan-based author Daniyal Mueenuddin’s ‘In Other Rooms, Other Wonders’ were Thursday declared regional winners of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for 2010 in the European and South Asian categories.
While ‘Solo’ was declared the best book, ‘In Other Rooms…’ was selected as the best first book [...]
New Delhi, March 11 – Thirty-three rare paintings, all classical 19th and 20th century Russian winter landscapes by leading artists, have stepped out of the Russian Museum at St.Petersburg for the first time in the archive’s 115-year-old history for a show in the Indian capital.
Coinciding with the visit of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, ‘Russian [...]
Aizawl, March 11 – They plan to dance their way into the Guinness Book of World Records. Around 12,000 young men and women in Mizoram will move rhythmically between clicking bamboo stilts to set a record as the largest dance congregation in the world Friday.
‘Over 11,900 dancers in traditional costumes from all the eight Mizoram [...]
New Delhi, March 11 – The stigma surrounding stage actresses still persists in middle class Indian society, 147 years after the birth of Nati Binodini, the first woman icon of Bengali stage, says National School of Drama (NSD) president Amal Allana.
She staged her multi-lingual play, ‘Nati Binodini’, as part of the ongoing South Asian Women’s [...]
New Delhi, March 11 – ‘The Last Sunset’ by erstwhile royal and former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh dominates non-fiction this week while Stieg Larsson’s ‘The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest’ climbs four steps to take the number one fiction spot on the bestseller list.
The top 10 in each category are:
Non-fiction
1. ‘The Last Sunset’
Author: [...]
New Delhi, March 10 – Enrico Rava, one of the most sought after jazz musicians in Europe, is inspired by Indian music that ‘creeps’ sub-consciously into his compositions.
‘I like Parveen Sultana and Bismillah Khan. When I played in India at the Yatra jazz festival in Mumbai 25 years ago, I attended shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan’s [...]
New Delhi, March 9 – Should Maqbool Fida Husain, who put the Indian contemporary art on the world map, have given up Indian citizenship? The artistic community is sharply divided.
While some feel that he should not have left India, others contend that he wanted to put the past behind him and find a new home [...]
New Delhi, March 7 – The South Asian Network of the German government’s Goethe-Institut Sunday announced a fully funded fellowship to further boost cultural relations with India and create cultural leaders.
The fellowship, named ARThinkSouthAsia, in its first edition has selected 17 fellows from across the region, the Goethe-Institut said.
The fellowship is designed to help [...]
