Kullu – Manali weavers get down to shawl making for summer tourists
byKullu: As winters and the accompanying cold encroaches upon the valley, villagers have pulled out their handlooms to start weaving the much in demand…
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Leading still-life photographer essaying Indian migration
byNew Delhi: The hybrid life of migrant Indians, their longing to connect to their homeland and their histories have been translating themselves into narrative photo-essays…
A Taj litfest to project literary heritage of Braj
byAgra: Renowned writers like Ruskin Bond and Shobha De, director Muzaffar Ali, humourist Surendra Sharma and scores of literary luminaries from the Braj area will…
Delhi schoolgirls to get self-defence training
byNew Delhi: Anger and outrage in the city against the gang-rape of a 23-year-old woman has caused the civic agency-run primary schools here to announce…
Top 10 movies that rocked Bollywood (2012 in Retrospect)
byNew DelhiL: Action, drama, comedy or romance – you name it and Bollywood had it this year. Be it small-budget content-driven films or typical potboilers,…
Women wearing mini-skirts to be arrested in Swaziland
byLondon: Women in Swaziland, a landlocked kingdom bordering South Africa, have been warned that they risk arrest if they wear mini-skirts or tops which expose…
Barfi! One more failure at the Oscars
byThe Anurag Basu film was as India’s official entry to the Academy Awards 2013, despite the fact that Pan Singh Tomar and GOW released…
Top 10 Bollywood actresses in 2012
byNew Delhi:Be it Sridevi’s comeback, Huma Qureshi’s debut or Priyanka Chopra’s portrayal of an autistic girl – the leading ladies of Bollywood continued to…
‘Don’t blame Bollywood for rapes’
byMumbai: Do explicit movie scenes and double-meaning songs and dialogues incite sexual violence? Many think so. But most directors in the Hindi film industry don’t…
Sachin Tendulkar: Man who became god
byNew Delhi: It did not take much for the cricket pundits to spot a genius in Sachin Tendulkar after he made his international debut in…