Telugu Literary and Cultural Association (TLCA) celebrated its annual Ugadi festival on April 1, 2023, in New York. The New York City Mayor was among the VIPs who attended the event. A spring festival, Ugadi celebrates the start of a Telugu New Year. The 2023-24 Telugu year is named Shubhakruth.
The tourism industry of India is showing signs of revival after the pandemic. According to the latest data released by the Bureau of Immigration, India received 6.19 million Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) during 2022 as compared to 1.52 million during the same period in 2021. Though the increase may seem appreciable, the foreign tourist inflow is still not up to the pre-pandemic levels – there were 10.93 million Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) in India in 2019.
Beginning March 31, the Asian Art Museum will host ‘Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in Art’ to showcase dance in its varied forms, especially in the arts of South and Southeast Asia – from the sacred dance of a god bringing the world into being to the sensual dance of a courtly performer before a maharaja to the glamour of modern Bollywood.
We have seen “RRR (Rise, Roar, Revolt)” – all three hours and seven minutes of it – in a single Netflix binge last year. Previously we were told about the outlandish special effects, and a dance tune that everybody was raving about. We were ready for, maybe, ten minutes of a quick browse before moving on. Lo and behold, we were at the end and did not realize where these hours went.
The American Library Association (ALA) has selected Owl & Penguin, written and illustrated by an Indian American, Vikram Madan, as Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor Book. The association has selected the book for another honor – naming it to their 2023 Notable Children’s Booklist.
Lucknow’s 153-year-old Amir-ud-Daula library has been fully digitalized.
More than 80,000 digitized books and 27,000 e-magazines are now available free on the library’s website and the content is also available on a mobile app Lucknow Digital Library.
Three Kashmiri youths along with one from Uttar Pradesh have been selected to participate in the Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championships scheduled to begin in the USA on January 22.
Mayank Chhaya- As the hugely popular poet, writer and sociocultural observer Javed Akhtar turns 78 on January 17, he does so in the midst of the release of a compilation, snapshots, of his life called Jadunama. Written in Hindi by Arvind Mandloi and translated into English by Rakhshanda Jalil, ‘Jadunama’ or the chronicles of Jadu, […]
For tourists headed towards India, there is now an added attraction – the world’s longest river cruise – MV Ganga Vilas which was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. The cruise offers a 51-day trip from Varanasi to Dibrugarh via Bangladesh covering a 3200 km distance.
Love, they say, knows no bounds and, for the steadfast, even death cannot do them part. Kolkata’s Tapas Sandilya epitomizes eternal love. This retired government employee never stopped missing his wife, Indrani, after she passed away in May 2021, during the second wave of Covid. To once again feel the reassuring presence of his loving wife beside him, Sandilya has got a lifelike silicon statue made of her.
Meet Kavi Sharma, American Girl’s latest “Girl of the Year”, a spunky Broadway-loving dancer and singer and the company’s first-ever South Asian main character. American Girl, a cornerstone in the Mattel portfolio of purposeful brands, unveiled its 2023 Girl of the Year, Kavi Sharma, on December 29, 2022.
James Cameron’s epic movie, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’, has sailed past $1 billion in global ticket sales in just 14 days, becoming the fastest movie to cross the coveted box office milestone this year, reports ‘Variety’.
Curated by Shubigi Rao, the fifth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale was declared open for art enthusiasts on Friday, and on display are over 200 projects spread across heritage properties and warehouses, galleries and public spaces across the commercial capital of Kerala, Kochi.
In recognition of the challenges being faced by society, this year’s South Asian Literature and Art (SALA) Festival commits to making a lasting impact through its programs.
The District Attorney of Manhattan Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., on October 17, 2022, announced the return of 307 antiquities valued at nearly $4 million to the people of India.
Justice Markandey Katju- Justice Markandey Katju is a former Judge, Supreme Court of India, and former Chairman, Press Council of India. The views expressed are his own. This story was told to me by my friend Wajahat Husain Khan, senior advocate of Allahabad High Court, who is now over 80 years old. Wajahat’s grandfather […]
Dr. Sriram Sonty- Dr. Sriram Sonty, is a glaucoma consultant at Midwest Eye Center SC, and health, wellness, and fitness consultant at Midwest Eye Center SC Flossmoor, Illinois, United States. He is also the Trustee of Gandhi Memorial Trust, Skokie Illinois USA; founder member of Gandhi King Global Initiative, chairman of Gandhi 150, US Commemorative […]
This year’s Durga Puja, which is considered to be one of the biggest festivals around the world, is more special as UNESCO has inscribed Durga Puja in its Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This is the first Indian festival to figure in the UNESCO list.
The next time you visit the historic India Gate, you will have a giant statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose to look up to. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, September 8, evening unveiled a 28-feet statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose near India Gate in New Delhi.
In recognition of the challenges being faced by society, this year’s South Asian Literature and Art (SALA) Festival commits to making a lasting impact through its programs.
Broken seeds still grow – a multi-disciplinary dance and visual arts show, co-created by Nadhi Thekkek and Rupy C Tut is a sensory delight.
Sourish Bhattacharyya and Sukant Deepak- It’s a pity that the life of Baba Prithvi Singh Azad has been relegated to a couple of paragraphs in Mahatma Gandhi’s biographies in connection with Mirabehn’s much-publicized infatuation for the revolutionary who became a Gandhian. But there was much more to Azad’s life than what one finds out from […]
In the 20th century, the global media spoke of democratic India “as a hope-giving marvel”. Today, the country is “in the hands of diligent leaders and dedicated organizations whose first commitment is not to democracy or equality” but Hindu nationalism, leaving out the biggest question of “What does India stand for”, writes biographer and historian, and Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, Rajmohan Gandhi as he reflects on the state of the nation in the 75 years since Independence.
RITU JHA- The only class Sukhpreet Singh(Above photo), 52, enjoyed in school was the drawing class. He was so good at it that other students would seek his help, making him feel like a leader. He was certainly much happier in drawing class than he was in math or science. The well-known artist from Punjab, […]
