Friends and admirers of M F Husain were on Thursday at a loss of words at the demise of the painter, famously dubbed 'Picasso of India', and angry at the fact that he had to die in a foreign land.......
'That secularism in India is at risk is alarming for someone like me. I'm born secular,' Anjolie Ela Menon, the well-known painter, tells Pavan Lall. Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com There......
PM Modi invoked memories of Partition in his speech to Parliament this week. 'Where children are told soothing bedtime tales, our daily fare were stories of the bloodshed my family had witnessed,......
The over-reaction to the Indian cricket team's early elimination from the World Cup after its defeat by Sri Lanka has been so gross that one must worry about the future of that sport in India, with......
Beyond her avatar as the head of a multi-crore biotech company, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is a powerful voice of change for the city she lives in. "Do you know which city in the world has been ranked the......
Merrill Lynch will auction 40 lots of exclusive Indian artwork on October 5 at Mall Galleries in London. In one of the largest initiatives by a non-auction house to cash in on the growing......
PrathamUK, the London-based arm of India's leading educational charity, has crossed the 1 millionmark in fund-raising efforts dedicated to eradicating illiteracy in India by 2010.In its latest......
The orgy of escalating prices for Indian art continued in New York where Sotheby's auctioned a record 148 modern and contemporary works (and, in an additional session, 30 miniature paintings,......
Sending the message that investment in art works, especially of some top artists, was good and had lucrative returns, a Chennai-based art gallery has tied up with a private sector bank, whereby the......
'We went on to make history that year by winning all 3 international titles.' IMAGE: Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta and Dia Mirza. Photograph: Kind courtesy Dia Mirza/Instagram It's been 25 years......
After the lavish wedding celebrations held in Mumbai for Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor's filmi friends, the newlyweds flew to New Delhi for the Daawat-E-Walima on October 18.Held at a plush......