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Pandit Ravi Shankar was George Harrison's link into the Vedic world.A fascinating excerpt from Kavita Das's Poignant Song: The Life And Music Of Lakshmi Shankar to mark Pandit Ravi Shankar's birth......
There’s a dancer currently kicking up a storm at the Rockefeller Center Plaza in New York. IMAGE: The 45-foot tall nylon sculpture is based on a porcelain figurine of a ballerina in a......
'There has never been a problem between Hindus and Muslims in Kairana.''We are a people that smoke from the same hookah.'Once the seat of an influential tradition of Indian classical music, Kairana......
United States President Donald Trump on Saturday promised the American people he will be ‘producing results’ and there will be no games as his work begins, with three glamorous......
If 'innovation' were a person, he or she would have looked like David Bowie, says Bhaskar Chakravorti. Image: David Bowie performs during the Fashion Rocks concert at New York City's Radio......
Samsung Electronics Co premiered its latest flagship phone, the Galaxy S4, which sports a bigger display and unconventional features such as gesture controls, as the South Korean titan challenges......
Diet Coke, the world's top-selling diet beverage, is 25 years old. It was in 1982, when Diet Coke first burst onto the scene. "When Diet Coke debuted in 1982, the brand struck a chord by inviting......
When Anil Ambani's Adlabs signed a licencing deal with Rave Entertainment, this week, to take control over 23 new screens in north India, it might have bitten into a chunk of cinema exhibitor PVR's......
To bring people back to the church, Izzy Solomon introduced the Automated Confession Machine, commonly known as the Confess-o-matic. The software of the ACM allowed it to take confessions in up to......
IMAGE: Tina Tuner arrives at the Giorgio Armani fashion show in Milan, Italy. Photograph: Giuseppe Cacace/Getty Images Tina Turner, who had Indians across generations dancing to songs such as......
'There was no other Lata Mangeshkar, there is none and there won't be any.' IMAGE: Master Dinanath Mangeshkar with wife Shevanti and daughter Asha (on her mother's lap), Lata (to her father's......
Entertainment that's the equivalent of easily digestible food can only make this lockdown more frustrating for you. You know what can be equally frustrating? Watching movies with apocalyptic......
Check out all these star arrivals.The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, famously known as the Tony Award, recognises achievement in live Broadway theatre. Held at the Radio City......
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas does not boast of a strong script or any other major artistic merit, Aseem Chhabra warns viewers with discerning taste for good cinema.Harold Lee and Kumar Patel......