Amitav Ghosh is back with his much-awaited ‘Flood of Fire’, the last in the Ibis trilogy, where history and fiction interweave and span the years leading to the first Opium War between Britain and China....
"We know that sports can enhance the development of children and adolescents, but the dynamic that comes with sport may be beneficial to the development and well-being of adults as they age," said David Walsh, assistant professor at University of Houston in the US....
A nationwide research undertaken by dating app TrulyMadly has revealed insights into dating habits of India....
The South Asian University (SAU), an educational initiative of the eight SAARC neighbours, has already inked a partnership agreement with Dhaka University, while it is in the process of linking up with the Royal University of Bhutan and Kabul University, giving it a wider footprint in the South Asian region....
The controversial changes at the helm of the National Museum and Lalit Kala Akademi are the government's attempt to bring in new talent and there is no attempt at "saffronisation", Minister of State for Culture Mahesh Sharma has assserted....
India is much more progressive than the US when it comes to the third sex, says activist Amruta Alpesh Soni. She is only the second to get an Indian passport in the "T" (transgender) category and the first such to get a US visa, albiet under the "female" category....
A young mother, shocked to find her picture of publicly breastfeeding her son on Facebook, has shot a furious letter to the person who had posted the picture....
Politicians, business magnates, sports stars - the Indian diaspora has done well for itself in its new homes around the world and, on a literary basis, crossed another test of acceptance with their depiction in fiction as regular, non-stereotypical characters. From police inspectors to businessmen to cooks in nearly half a ...
In today's day and age, it wouldn't be wrong to say that every other individual is either an author or wants to become one - and that everyone has a dormant poet within him or her, waiting to be published by a publisher who "believes" or sees "promise" in his or her verses....
A 400-year-old botany book contains what could be the only known portrait of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare made in his lifetime, an academic expert said on Tuesday....
