Anit Thapa, the president of the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha (BGPM), the party that won the recent Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) Sabha polls, called on chief minister Mamata Ban...

In discussing potential solutions aimed at addressing today’s politics, Paranjape said that earlier “societies were blessed with a lot more social cohesion, conversation and conviviality, ...

Most part of Lear’s journeying was by train, but he notes that he took the jampan, a hand-pulled carriage, when he went to Shimla from Kalka. He took a horse cart from Coonoor when he travelled ...

You are also an Instagram influencer with more than 50,000 followers. What do you do to keep coming up with ideas to engage your followers? I started my Instagram journey a little over two years ago...

Finally, any chance we get to see you return to the silver screen after your debut in Zulfiqar (2016)? Not at all, partly because I didn’t find my performance to be very convincing. Although my...

The topic then quickly changes to the quirky quotes used in our various native hinterlands and in cities too, with a smattering of English thrown in. How about the phrase “Aapne aap ko Colgate s...

At 83, no longer a young poet, Ihor Kalynets knows something of life under Russia’s thumb. Having spent nine years in the Soviet Gulag, including hard labour cutting stone, he secretly wrote on...

The Tata Steel Jharkhand Literary Meet that made a comeback in Ranchi with its fourth edition after a gap of two years concluded on Sunday. “It’s the first physical literary and cultural e...

Book: Pessoa: A Biography Author: Richard Zenith Publisher: Liveright Price: $40 In his novel, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1988), José Saramago imagines the Portuguese poet, Fern...