From a tribute to women like Revathi who fought conventional ideas and established themselves in the south Indian film industry to a journey through world history - from the French Revolution to the World Wars and beyond - this is what IANS offers its readers this weekend. Read on....
Former scientists of ISRO B. Anantharaman and K.S. Vishwanathan Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and presented to him a copy of "Atmatirtham", a book on Adi Sankara's life and teachings....
The 49th SAARC literature festival commenced here Friday amid sprinkling of rose petals in Yamuna water and eminent poets from the eight member countries reciting poems on the first day. ...
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Friday said women in media would be better off pursuing off-field roles like that of news analysis as opposed to field reporting in view of safety, challenging conditions and odd hours of work....
Instead of denying its existence, academics should find ways to better integrate the use of Wikipedia in higher education and encourage students to edit the pages of the popular website, a study says....
Indian American author Akhil Sharma's "Family Life" has been shortlisted for the Folio Prize, a popular English language book award, its publisher said Wednesday....
The researchers studied a curved single-edged sword called shamsheer which was probably used in battles. The 75-centimeter-long sword from the Wallace Collection in London was made in India in the late 18th or early 19th century....
Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley Monday said India must have a formal war history for every child to read, calling for digitisation of such books and other knowledge products in view of the widely popular digital media....
A poll conducted among 11,000 people across 24 cities says that the British accent is the most attractive in the world, a media report said Monday....
Can a city develop a characteristic, exclusive literary style? A long-standing convention divides the Urdu ghazal tradition into "Dabistan-e-Dehli" and "Dabistan-e-Lakhnau" or Delhi and Lucknow schools, each with an array of poets and devoted adherents - and fierce critics. The role of both the cities in Urdu literature is beyond disput...
