Embattled French first lady Valerie Trierweiler to visit India

France’s first lady Valerie Trierweiler is returning to charity work with a trip to India, an anti-hunger group said, two weeks after she was hospitalized following a...

Theatre Of The Administration Of The Agitators

There’s a sort of sinister tone to the times we are living in and experiencing as each day unfolds and takes us closer to an impending political circus which has comm...

All About Body, Soul & Rhythm

Percussion is one of the finest musical art in any ethnic group whatsoever. Indian music has a fine tradition of the tabla beats, mastered and challenging to emulate, but m...

Crow Tales

Even now as I sit in my bedroom writing this piece, my friendly crow sits perched on the window cawing and daring me to shoo him away. I ignore him, so he hops on to the wi...

Del Boy and Rodney back for charity special

London (AFP) – Loveable wheeler-dealers Del Boy and Rodney Trotter are set to return to the screen for the first time in a decade, the BBC confirmed Saturday, in a on...

Tackling a Racial Gap in Breast Cancer Survival

MEMPHIS — After her doctor told her two months ago that she had breast cancer, Debrah Reid, a 58-year-old dance teacher, drove straight to a funeral home. She began p...

They Brought Laughter Into Homes

Surfing through the channels late Saturday night, I found Sarabhai v/s Sarabhai on Star Utsav. Although relegated to Star One and not the premium channel Star Plus, in its ...

Bollywood year in review: groans and some moans

Full-throated huzzahs, polite claps, furrowed brows and growly boos in the direction of Bollywood in 2013

A year of high-concept and low-recall movies, numbers twos...

Thought Factory : Tedious Terrains

“Landscape is   . . .   
devoid of chance, and every falling leaf fulfils, as it falls, one of the greatest laws of the universe.”

–...