Art & Culture News

Celebrate Tagore's 150th birth anniversary as national event: CPI

The Communist Party of India (CPI) Tuesday asked the government to form a committee headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of poet Rabindranath Tagore in 2010 a 'national event'.4:04 PM on December 01

Rock paintings reveal species that once roamed India

Sivatherium, a giraffe-like creature with two pairs of horns and extinct for 8,000 years, once roamed central and western India. So did the aardvark, an ant-eating creature now found only in Africa. The stunning finds have emerged from ancient rock paintings found along the Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh border.12:01 PM on December 01

French cultural fest kicks off with rare photos' exhibition

An exhibition featuring the work of two French photographers who captured the culture and diversity of India during the early 20th century Saturday marked the start of Bonjour India - the festival of France in India.12:02 AM on November 29

Orhan Pamuk, Meghnad Desai top bestselling authors

Nobel Prize winning writer Orhan Pamuk's 'The Museum of Innocence' tops the fiction list this week while Meghnad Desai's 'The Rediscovery of India' leads the books in the non-fiction bestsellers.6:06 PM on November 27

Myanmar cultural troupe to perform in northeast India

A 15-member cultural troupe from Myanmar will visit India's northeastern region Saturday to showcase their country's traditional art and culture, officials said here Friday.2:01 PM on November 27

Chandigarh set to party at Saturday carnival

Goofy, Minnie Mouse, a slew of sea creatures, all brought alive in colourful floats, will go around this city Saturday, kicking off a two-day carnival. Almost 300,000 visitors are expected at the event.12:02 PM on November 26

Kamte's widow takes on Mumbai Police on 26/11 attacks

The widow of additional police commissioner Ashok Kamte, one of the slain heroes of 26/11 terror attacks, has alleged that Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Rakesh Maria had attempted to suppress crucial details of the sequence of events that led to her husband's death.8:08 PM on November 25

Culture ministry fellowships for Indian, foreign scholars

The culture ministry will award fellowships to Indian and foreign scholars for research projects in the fields of art, culture and heritage, Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs V. Narayanasamy told parliament Wednesday.8:04 PM on November 25

AMU poet wins prestigious award

The Gangadhar National Award for poetry, instituted by Sambalpur University, has gone to A.M.K. Shahryar, a noted poet and formerly of the Urdu department in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).8:00 PM on November 25

Grand French festival in Bangalore to enthral art lovers

Bangalore is all set to have a rendezvous with the best of French art, cinema, music and culture from Dec 5.12:04 PM on November 25

Booker Prize winner Yann Martel all set with second book

Remember the fantasy adventure novel, 'Life of Pi'? Yann Martel, the Booker Prize winner is now all set with his second book that will be on the stands by mid-2010.12:02 AM on November 25

Peace Concert in Kolkata on first anniversary of 26/11

Bollywood actress Raima Sen will feature alongside a host of actors and singers in a peace concert Thursday that portrays the scourge of global terrorism and the significance of peace, to observe the first anniversary of last November's Mumbai terror attack.12:00 AM on November 25

France looking to revive glory of former Bengal colony

The French government is looking into various areas to develop the tourism potential and revive the rich heritage of its former colony Chandannagar in West Bengal's Hooghly district.10:03 PM on November 24

India divided over inter-regional marriages: Chetan Bhagat

One of India's bestselling authors Chetan Bhagat feels that non-acceptance of and resistance towards inter-regional or inter-religious marriages in modern India 'shows how divided our country is'.12:03 PM on November 23

Of art, memories and new interpretations

Artistic memory is spreading itself beyond the brain, says noted Mumbai-based poet, art critic and curator Ranjit Hoskote, whose show 'Retrieval Systems' in the capital, featuring five leading contemporary artists, deals with the 'nature of memory and how it preoccupies artists'.12:02 PM on November 20