Oscars 2022 was the best night for equality
Ahmir Questlove Thompson and Joseph Patel and David Dinerstein winners for Summer of Soul This years years Ocar’s were the best night for equality. The […]
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Movie Review: More Diverse Death on the Nile
Ali Fazal, Letitia Wright and Sophie Okonedo in the movie “Death on the Nile.”(Rob Youngson) Review The new 2022 adaptation of Death on Nile based […]
Jaipur Literature Festival 2022 Virtual and Physical
The Jaipur Literature Festival, one of the biggest literary festivals on earth, plans to be bigger, better and grander this year. The festival allows you […]
Arel Nasr’s film on Afghanistan featured at the Shakti Film Festival
“Good Morning Kandahar,” is a documentary film by Ariel Nasr ia featured in this year’s second annual Shakti film festival, that follows young Afghan-Canadians torn between a deep desire to help Afghanistan and a fear that things will never change.
Celebrating a Pandemic Holi
This year’s holi celebrations will be subdued due to the pandemic. The Gujarat government has prohibited any mass gathering at public spaces to play with colours during Holi festival.
Jaipur Literature Festival 2021 Goes Virtual
The Jaipur Literature Festival known as one of the biggest literary festivals is going virtual this year. The festival allows you to interact with a diverse mix of renowned writers, thinkers, leaders, entertainers and all the eminent personalities from around the world.
A restored Palestinian library in Jerusalem preserves heritage, encourages research
Founded in 1900, Khalidi Library contains one of the world’s biggest private collections of Arabic books and manuscripts. The library and its treasure trove of […]
Book Review: A Day in the Life of Maya of Mohenjo-Daro
Published in 1968, A Day in the Life of Maya of Mohenjo-Daro by Mulk Raj Anand was the first ever children’s story, and the second work of Indus Valley fiction after Murdon ka Teela written by Rangeya Raghava twenty years earlier. Anand was one of the first Indian fiction writers in English to appeal to international readership. That makes one wonder why he did not set a full-scale English novel in the ancient culture, which did not happen for almost forty years thereafter.