Art & Culture News

Amateur cameramen capture soul of old Delhi

A pair of ice cubes in a glass of rippling rose syrup - the famous rooh afza of Chandni Chowk - looks good enough to drink from the framed photograph in which it casts its rosy spell. Pair it with the sizzling chicken tikka kebabs sputtering on iron skewers in the frame next door. Yummy!

Artist Tyeb Mehta is dead

Noted Indian painter Tyeb Mehta died Thursday of a cardiac ailment at a hospital here. He was 84.11:01 PM on July 02

PM mourns painter Tyeb Mehta's death

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday expressed grief over the 'sad demise' of noted painter Tyeb Mehta and said his death is a major loss to the art world.11:01 PM on July 02

Acclaimed painter Tyeb Mehta dead

Tyeb Mehta, one of India's most critically acclaimed artists, died of a cardiac arrest here early Thursday, according to family sources. He was 84.11:00 PM on July 02

Vikram Seth strikes 1.7 mn pound publishing deal

Indian writer Vikram Seth, who is working on a sequel to his blockbuster novel 'A Suitable Boy', has finalised a deal worth around 1.7 million pounds to move his entire back list to Penguin UK, sources close to the deal said.7:00 PM on July 02

Ladakh's largest Buddhist festival adopts green cause

Dancers draped in silk moved to the beat of drums, evil spirits were warded off and over 60,000 plastic water bottles were collected as the annual three-day Hemis festival began.11:30 AM on July 02

Relief for emperor's descendent in government hands

State-run Coal India Ltd (CIL) has asked an NGO, which approached it for providing a job to a descendent of India's last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, to approach the central government for suitable relief.11:30 PM on July 01

Time to sing the requiem for Agra Gharana?

The Rajputs passed it on to the Mughals, in whose courts the classical Hindustani music of Agra Gharana flourished. Now, however with few patrons and students left in the city of its origin, is it perhaps time to sing the requiem of the musical tradition?8:00 AM on June 30

Kids bond with Lord Krishna and Mahabharata tales at book launch

The fascinating stories of the Indian epic Mahabharata -- including the rivalry between cousins Pandavas and Kauravas, Lord Krishna and his mischievous exploits as a lad, and the Kurukshetra battle -- have been re-told for children in a new book with lots of colourful illustrations.1:31 PM on June 28

Sandy tribute to Michael Jackson on Orissa beach

Sand artist Sudarsan Patnaik Friday paid tribute to the 'King of Pop' Michael Jackson who died of a cardiac arrest, by creating a sand image of the musical legend on Orissa's Puri beach.9:30 PM on June 26

Girl with Husain's brush and mature strokes

Eleena Banik, a Kolkata-based contemporary artist is often dubbed the 'girl with Husain's brush'.1:30 PM on June 26

'Indian CEOs can make dollar run longer'

CEOs of Indian companies can make a dollar run longer than their Western counterparts because of the spirit of frugality with which they have been brought up, says a top India-born US-based recruiter of corporate honchos for Global 2000 companies.10:30 AM on June 26

Rushdie, Ghosh, Lahiri in Vodafone-Crossword award shortlist

Salman Rushdie's 'The Enchantress of Florence', Amitav Ghosh's 'Sea of Poppies' and 'Unaccustomed Earth' by Jhumpa Lahiri are among the fictions shortlisted for the Vodafone-Crossword Book Award 2008.12:30 AM on June 26

Goa competing with foreign locales for film shoots

Goa is competing with New Zealand, Switzerland and South Africa as a film shooting destination, with an increasing number of film-makers choosing the state, an official said Thursday.9:30 PM on June 25

'Past life' author Walter Semkiw sheds light on rebirths

Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi has been reincarnated as Van Jones, the celebrated American civil rights and environmental activist who was named Time magazine's 'environmental hero' in the US in 2008?2:54 PM on June 25