New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS) Models are beautiful from outside but wild from inside, while animals are wild from outside and beautiful from inside, says award-winning photographer Akashendu Das. (more…)
Chandigarh, Sep 10 (IANS) In dusty corners of government offices in Chandigarh, officials are now searching for furniture designed by famed architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in the 1950s and restoring what they can find to be part of the city’s cultural heritage. (more…)
New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) After the horrors of war, Yalda Noorie, a 25-year-old woman from Afghanistan, is painting her angst in colours. She is among 18 young women artists who have for the first time ventured out of their country to India with a cache of 90 powerful canvases titled “A New Beginning”. (more…)
Chennai, Sep 9 (IANS) Violin maestro in south Indian classical music Kunnakudi R. Vaidyanathan died here Monday night, family sources said. Vaidyanathan, 73, succumbed to a massive cardiac arrest. He had been admitted in a private hospital for a heart ailment a few days ago. (more…)
Chennai, Sep 8 (IANS) Carnatic classical music exponent Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan died here Monday, family sources said. He was 73.
Known for his offbeat methods of playing the violin, Vaidyanathan was honoured with the Padma Shri by the government of India. He had scored music for several feature films, some of which he produced.
New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a plea to prosecute well known painter M.F. Husain for his allegedly obscene paintings of Hindu goddesses and hurting religious sentiments. (more…)
New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) Leading Mumbai-based auction house Saffronart logged sales of Rs.290 million ($7.2 million), about 72 percent more than its lowest estimate, during its Autumn Online Auction of Contemporary Indian Art that ended Sunday night. (more…)
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 8 (IANS) Liquor shops in Kerala are well-stocked for the ongoing Onam season and alcohol sales are expected to touch Rs.2 billion (Rs.200 crore) during the 10-day festival. (more…)
Johannesburg, Sep 8 (IANS) Three exhibitions and a Bollywood musical performance by jazz group ‘Indian Ocean’ over the weekend marked the beginning of a six-week-long Shared Histories Festival of Arts and Culture organised by the Indian Consulate-General here that takes place in Durban and Cape Town as well. (more…)
Khajuraho, Sep 6 (IANS) Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur electrified tourism industry honchos at a conclave here Saturday, stating home truths about the state of the sector and urging them to think out of the box if they wanted to move ahead. (more…)
