Some choose their path and for the rest, it is the path that chooses them. For renowned stone sculptor Rajendar Tiku, who was awarded the Padma Shri for his contributions in the field of art, stone sculpting is a choice he made when he could easily “let life take another course.”Chuffed with his achievement of receiving grants from reputed foundations, …

Sitting on a mat, Gond and Bhil artist Dinesh Shyam is focused on his art; a tiger it is this time that he is painting with little dots and smaller lines. Part of the ongoing exhibition, Aadi Chitra at Government Museum and Art Gallery-10, Dinesh is too happy to share his initiation into tribal art. This Madhya Pradesh tribal art …

Hands in the air, mobile phones, camera, and action! As Pakistan-based folk musician, Arif Lohar, arrived at Paara, a night club in Chandigarh, to perform, the audience that kept waiting for three hours pulled their Smartphones out and clicked selfies and videos with Arif in the backdrop! What followed later was a Friday night drunk on the beats of dhol …

सजोले चांद को लेकर‚ नशीली रात आई है। नशीली रात आई है। बरसती चांदनी चमचम‚ थिरकती रागिनी छम छम‚ लहरती रूप की बिजली‚ रजत बरसात आई है। नशीली रात आई है। जले मधु रूप की बाती‚ दुल्हनिया रूप मदमाती‚ मिलन के मधुर सपनों की‚ सजी बारात आई है। नशीली रात आई है। सजी है दूधिया राहें‚ जगी उन्मादनी चाहें‚ रही …

वो पंगत में बैठ के निवालों का तोड़ना, वो अपनों की संगत में रिश्तों का जोडना, वो दादा की लाठी पकड़ गलियों में घूमना, वो दादी का बलैया लेना और माथे को चूमना, सोते वक्त दादी पुराने किस्से कहानी कहती थीं, आंख खुलते ही माँ की आरती सुनाई देती थी, इंसान खुद से दूर अब होता जा रहा है, वो संयुक्त परिवार का दौर अब खोता …

Publisher: Hays House Publishers India Pages: 312 Price: Rs.399 Can you recall the first Bollywood film stressing communal harmony and tolerance by showing diverse people staying together despite vested interests trying to divide them? (It was Dev Anand‘s debut). Two where everything happens in one eventful, adventurous night? (They starred Waheeda Rehman and Madhubala). The first (and possibly only) mainstream …

Publisher: Speaking Tiger; Pages: 408; Price: Rs.499 With global food shortage peaking in the past decade, American author Joel K. Bourne Jr. paints the vision of an apocalyptic future for humankind if concerted efforts are not made to ward off what Robert Malthus had predicted as the coming of an “agricultural Armageddon.” The ideas of the 18th century economist, Malthus, …

Hari Chand sits at Café Coffee Day, a stone’s throw away from the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. Inside the enormous belly of the stadium is a tartan track. Hari Chand has an unrealised dream there. If fulfilled, it would have made him the undisputed long-distance running champion in India. For a lot of people, who have bothered to …

Author: Mekhala Sengupta Publisher: Harper Collins Pages: 248 Price: Rs.350 Her life seems like a melodramatic film plot – a hard-fought ascent from destitution and menial work to become a superstar and a heart-throb, but then also encountering the dark side of the glamour world with its lechery and jealousy and the harsh lesson that fame does not always make …

अग्नाशय यानी पैक्रियाटिस  कैंसर को ‘साइलैंट किलर’ भी जाता है जिससे होने वाली मृत्यु दर अधिक है क्योकि शुरूआती स्तर पर इसकी पहचान करने में मुश्किलें आती है। लक्षणों के आधार पर अग्नाशय कैंसर की शुरूआती पहचान मुश्किल है और बाद के लक्षण हर व्यक्ति में अलग-अलग होते है। अमेरिका के युवा वैज्ञानिक जैक एंड्रेका ने शुरूआती स्तर पर इस …