23 Sep, 2024 10:00 AM
New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) His lecherous look, his salacious sneer, and a voice that could range from silken menace to wheedling entreaty were all he needed and no woman his sly stare fell on was safe. With the depredations he committed on-screen, Prem Chopra just had to say his name to establish his notoriety.
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20 Sep, 2024 10:37 AM
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Leave alone the dynasty, their title has become a byword for luxurious indulgence, cultural refinement, genteel fastidiousness -- the famed 'nafasat' and 'nazakat', and political passivity, but do the Nawabs of Awadh deserve their posthumous (largely) ignoble reputation?
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18 Sep, 2024 21:13 PM
Bhopal, Sep 18 (IANS) Pune-based veteran Hindi poet and writer Damodar Khadse was felicitated with the prestigious 'Rashtriya Hindi Seva Samman' award by the Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday.
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17 Sep, 2024 23:27 PM
New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) 'The Four Attempts on Narendra Modi's Life', a book authored by Binay Kumar Singh, was unveiled in the national capital on Tuesday, coinciding with Prime Minister Modi's birthday.
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17 Sep, 2024 17:08 PM
New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) BlueKraft Digital Foundation on Tuesday launched the Viksit Bharat Fellowship programme, an initiative aimed to encourage and empower writing and creative talents across various domains.
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10 Sep, 2024 16:47 PM
New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS) A perspicacious peregrination through the discombobulating gallimaufry that is the English language with its penchant for purloining from other languages, its hermetic spellings, its recondite pronunciation, its abstruse punctuation, and sundry other caprices requires an erudite yet venturous savant. But the Tharoorosauraus is on the case.
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09 Sep, 2024 15:53 PM
Mumbai, Sep 9 (IANS) Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is also an avid reader and shared a glimpse of his library and the books he likes to read.
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04 Sep, 2024 13:53 PM
Kozhikode, Sep 4 (IANS) In what's billed as a first-of-its-kind India's first political library, books on Prime Minister Narendra Modi shine best among paperbacks on Indian politicians.
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30 Aug, 2024 10:35 AM
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) It was an evening bustling with sprightly banters, the eclectic crowd of all ages of adults with a “taste,” connoisseurs of “molecular gastronomy,” and the aroma of coffee pervaded the air as the audience awaited the launch of the international paperback edition of ‘The Bloomsbury Handbook Of Indian Cuisine’ here.
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06 Aug, 2024 21:48 PM
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Former civil servant, corporate leader, and writer Ashok Bal has joined the Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) as its Patron-cum-CEO, KLF Founder Rashmi Ranjan Parida announced.
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