The gallery of the strange and wacky events from across the world. Festival-goers wrestle in the mud during the annual Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, South Korea. The mud,......
Ravi Shankar, the man who introduced the world to the delights of Indian classical music, turns 90 today. The sitar maestro, who broughthis melodious sounds to the shores of America in the 1960s,......
Legendary musician Pandit Ravi Shankar passed awayin San Diego on Wednesday. He was 92. The musician was admitted to the Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla last Thursday after he complained of......
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......
Pope Francis said on Wednesday the world was at war but argued that religion was not the cause, as he arrived in Poland a day after jihadists murdered a Catholic priest in France. In his first......
Buffett gave no hints about who would succeed him and defended ties with Brazil's 3G Capital during the annual meeting Berkshire Hathaway Inc shareholders on Saturday celebrated Warren Buffett's......
It did not come easy for Ang Lee.Today, the 58-year old Taiwan-born Oscar winning filmmaker, the man and the energy behind Life of Pi, is widely recognised as one of the leading directors in the......
It's been 40 years. Four decades since rock and roll hit its flower-powered zenith in a New York farm. Half a million watched, over 30 acts performed. It never got bigger than Woodstock, from......
Strangely enough, the Indian presence at the Festival de Cannes, in the last few years, hasn't risen above solicited space on the jury. After author Arundhati Roy and actors Nandita Das and......
Subcultures would be the engines of change, Alvin Toffler had declared in his groundbreaking book Future Shock. In India today, especially in the arts, the fringe is making his predictions come......
You don't require a Godfather to make it in the Hindi film industry, and first-time director Sudipto Chattopadhyay seems to be all out to prove it. Chattopadhyay managed to find a producer in......