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  • Le Meridien, Kochi brought alive a new perspective on art with ‘India Revisited’ a DOLNA initiative

    Mumbai : The spectacular opening night graced by celebrated artist Bose Krishnamachari  saw the ‘navras’ as expressed through Kathakali being captured live on canvas, by the globally acclaimed artist Subodh Poddar. Audiences were left spellbound as black canvas after canvas was being infused with colour and emotion creating visual drama as never seen before. The […]

    Jaipur Literature Festival gets underway;Dalai Lama among participants

    Sixth Jaipur Literature Festival has started today. During the five-day long event, 285 writers from India and abroad will discuss literary and social issues in 174 various sessions. Our correspondent reports that the Jaipur literature festival is now recognized as an important literary event of the Asia-Pacific region. The event started with chanting by Buddhist […]

    Celebrated folk singer Murra Lala Fafal from Kutch to enthrall audience at Zorba

    2013 sees the very first Blue Lotus Festival, an outstanding and unique Festival of Indian music and culture taking place in Pushkar, an ancient sacred city on the side of a lake in the middle of a desert! Unique, as it brings into one place music and traditions from across length and breadth of India, […]

    Dalai Lama to grace DSC Jaipur Literature Festival 2013

    Chennai : This year the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, will honour the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival 2013 with his presence. “Literature has played a major role in my life,” the spiritual leader said. “Since childhood, reading has been of great importance to me and I am often reminded of […]

    Inauguration of Solo Exhibition and Coffee Table Book Launch

    In appreciation of the quality of Neeraj Goswami’s art, Sanchit Art invites all artists, gallerists, collectors, art connoisseurs and the media for the launch of his solo exhibition. The exhibition would be accompanied by the launch of a coffee table publication. While portraying the life and art of Neeraj Goswami, the book also chronicles Neeraj’s […]

    Rajasthan Royals teams up with DSC Jaipur Literature Festival 2013

    Two of the state’s  renowned entities, Rajasthan Royals, a champion team, and the DSC Jaipur  Literature Festival, Asia’s leading literature event, today announced a novel  partnership for the 2013 edition of the festival which is scheduled at Jaipur’s  Diggi Palace from January 24th 2013. As part of the association, on the eve of the festival, […]

    Gana Kala Goregaon presented ‘Meenakshi TiruKalyaanam’ dance ballet by Mausam Mahendra & students

    Gana Kala along with Institute of Goregoan, an organization started by             Mrs. Mausam Mahendra, presented a dance ballet ‘Meenakshi TiruKalyaanam’ .  The programme was compiled and choreographed by Guru S.P. Srinivasan with the assistance of Mrs. Mausam Mahendra.                      A total of 40 students participated in this programme. The role of Meenaksi, the main character in […]

    Oriya novelist is Jnanpith award winner

    Leading Oriya novelist and academician Pratibha Ray, who has over 40 novels, travelogues and short stories to her credit, was on Thursday named for the prestigious Jnanpith Award for the year 2011. At a meeting chaired by writer and Jnanpith award winner Sitakant Mahapatra, it was decided that Ray, 69, will be the winner of […]

    Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations from next month

    Lectures, seminars and cultural programmes, aimed at propagating Swami Vivekananda’s message across the country to mark his150th birth anniversary celebrations, will be launched by the Vivekananda Kendra here from Jan 12. The year-long celebrations end Jan 12, 2014. “Swami Vivekananda said ‘Rise, Awake and Stop not till the goal is reached’. We all know this […]

    Sahitya Akademi Awards for this year announced

    Booker-nominated Jeet Thayil and Bengali novelist Subrata Mukhopadhyaya are among 24 authors selected for this year’s Sahitya Akademi Awards. A Sahitya Akademi press release says, 12 books of poetry, six short story collections, four novels and one each of autobiography and criticism were selected for the awards this year, two of them posthumously. The award […]