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Former Pakistani cricket captain Imran Khan Monday said Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar should have retired after India won the cricket World Cup last year. “We all want to go with a big bang but you always don’t get it right. For Sachin the ultimate time to go was after that World Cup win. He had such a great World Cup. [...]
The market for antiquities – old miniature art – is emerging as a strong force in the country, Neville Tuli, founder and chairman of the Mumbai-based auction house Osian’s has said. His auction “Creative India Series 2″, featuring Delhi and Punjab miniatures and Indian contemporary art in the capital Jan 27 fetched Rs.14.14 crore, signalling an upswing in the fortunes [...]
St. Petersburg officials have denied re-registration to the city’s branch of the world-renowned Dante Alighieri Society, insisting its members must seek permission from the poet himself, Fontanka.ru news website reported Monday. The society’s members filed documents necessary for re-registration, a standard bureaucratic procedure in Russia, in late 2011. The official response was straight out of Dante’s Divine Comedy itself. “They [...]
A surge of interest in icon M.F. Husain’s art, curiosity about new media work, price consciousness and the realisation that European modern classics can be a viable investment were the dominant trends at the fourth edition of the India Art Fair 2012. The marginal slowdown in business compared to previous years was made up by the visitors’ enthusiasm at the [...]
The Indian art scene has taken yet another global leap with the Kochi-Muziris Biennale — the country’s first official art biennale – to begin Dec 12. The prophetic date (12.12.12), throwing doomsday predictions to the wind, was announced by the Kochi Biennale Foundation – a private non-profit organisation – here late Saturday. The art gala will continue for three months. [...]
Over 1,000 pieces of art by Pablo Picasso have been stolen or gone missing, more than any other artist in the world. The Spanish artist has 1,147 paintings registered as stolen, missing or disputed, the Daily Mail reported Sunday. His 1939 work “Woman’s Head” was recently stolen from the National Art Gallery in Athens. The Art Loss Register, an international [...]
Days after Salman Rushdie was not allowed to speak at the Jaipur Literature Festival, the issue continues to touch a raw nerve among Muslim clerics and intellectuals even as liberals excoriate the brazen violation of a writer’s freedom of creative expression. “It was the right thing not to let him speak. And it’s a good thing he did not come,” [...]
The Indian Air Force (IAF) contingent that was led by a woman officer for the first time ever was Saturday adjudged the best marching team among the three armed forces, while the Border Security Force bagged the honour among the paramilitary forces. History was made Thursday when Flight Lt. Sneha Shekhawat, a woman Indian Air Force (IAF) transport pilot officer, [...]
Secret love letters written by Charlotte Bronte to a married Belgian professor have been found after they were preserved by his wife. The letters written to Professor Constantin Heger in 1844 by a 28-year-old Bronte were torn up by the man, who was married and had children. But they were later found by his wife in a rubbish bin and [...]
Does art writing need to change to suit the fickle intellectual attention span of the audience in an age of multi-cultural and multi-dimensional media? “New art writing should be in a language that people understand. A good art writer has to be a storyteller to connect to the emerging audience and context articles in the social, historical and political perspectives. [...]
Veteran designer Wendell Rodricks has carried the sartorial legacy of Goa to a new level by documenting it in “Moda Goa” – a first-of-its kind pictorial and illustrative fashion chronicle of the state. He says Goa was the cradle of Indo-Western couture. “Goa was the birthplace of Indo-Western garments,” Rodricks told IANS in an interview. The book, “Moda Goa” (HarperCollins-India), [...]
Chihuahua, one of the Mexican states hardest hit by drug-related violence in recent years, is looking to recover public spaces and rebuild its torn social fabric through a new reading-promotion initiative. Launched this week, the project aims to bolster a sense of community by installing small, open-air libraries known as “Paralibros” in public squares. The idea is based on a [...]
Book: “Amma’s Advice: Traditional Wisdom for Modern Times”; Author: Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi; Konark Publishers; Pages 209, Price: Rs.3,500 The subtitles to the book are appropriate as are the 73 crisp articles that form this excellent collection of talks given at various times by one of India’s spiritual giants. Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, popularly known as Amma, represents everything that [...]
Describing as “shameful” the cases filed against writers who had read excerpts of banned book “The Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie at the Jaipur Literature Festival, litterateurs in the city are mulling a protest against the move. “It is a real shame to know that complaints against those writers have been registered. Literature is something which is sacred and can [...]
A day after the full dress-rehearsal of the Republic Day Parade caused massive jams in the national capital, Delhi Police Tuesday said that Delhiites suffered because they neither planned their trips nor paid attention to advisories. According to a message posted by Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Satyendra Garg on the Delhi Traffic Police’s Facebook page, the police did the [...]
Salman Rushdie may not be here, but the shadow of god looms large over the Jaipur Literature Festival, with philosopher and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins dismissing god as a “computer virus” and asserting that we are what we are because of genes and evolutionary history. “If you want to believe in god, don’t look to arguments from biologists and scientists. [...]
China Monday welcomed its Lunar New Year or the Year of the Dragon with celebrations across the country. The day marks the end of the winter in China. It is also celebrated as Spring Festival as it ushers in the spring season. On this day, the Chinese, rich or poor, dine and celebrate together. Villagers who were relocated to Zhengzhou, [...]
Is i always famine in the heart of Africa? Pause “and think again. It’s time to rediscover Africa through the eyes of love, the true Africa of laughter, joy, creativity and playfulness,” said celebrated Nigerian novelist Ben Okri in a lyrical meditation on the continent that has been trapped in cliches. “There is Africa in all of us. Africa is [...]
Salman Rushdie’s interaction with the audience via video link, scheduled for Tuesday, may be cancelled citing law and order concerns, a source in the police said. The organisers who had earlier announced the time and venue of the video interaction, — 3.30 p.m. Tuesday at the front lawns of the festival venue Diggi Palace — changed tack suddenly, and said [...]
Over 80 million people travelled by trains in China between Jan 8 and 22 on account of the Chinese Lunar New Year, the railways ministry said Monday. The figure was up by nearly 8 percent compared to the corresponding period last year. On Jan 21 alone, trains transported 5.7 million passengers, the biggest daily increase since the spring festival rush [...]
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