11 Oct, 2024 10:51 AM
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) The Oxford University Press (OUP) on Friday announced the launch of a trilingual Sanskrit-Hindi-English dictionary to make the Sanskrit language accessible to learners across the globe.
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10 Oct, 2024 5:32 PM
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) South Korean author and poet Han Kang, who came to global prominence with her unsettling novel "The Vegetarian" (2015), about a woman seeking to reclaim her agency through her food choices but coming to grief in an insensitive and exploitative patriarchal society, was on Thursday awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".
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08 Oct, 2024 11:45 AM
New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) Urdu poet Jigar Moradabadi could have never conceived that the opening couplet of his ghazal placing man at the centre of the cosmos would achieve such fame -- but as an iconic Bollywood dialogue performed by a rather unlikely hero whose spare frame, unconventional looks, and signature diction were, however, offset by an evident aura of over-the-top superiority.
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03 Oct, 2024 12:46 PM
Los Angeles, Oct 3 (IANS) Hollywood star Reese Witherspoon is all set to turn writer as she will be co-penning a thriller novel with bestselling mystery author Harlan Coben.
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01 Oct, 2024 11:15 AM
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) His lyrical exploits in Hindi films spanned over half a century, starting from K.L. Saigal to the Khan trio, but were versatile, prodigious, and paradoxical - the pathos-filled "Jab dil hi toot gaya" was penned when he was in his 20s while frothy numbers like "Papa kehte hai", "Pehla nasha, Pehla khumar", and "Janam samjha karo" that entranced teenagers when he was in his 70s.
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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 9:13 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 11:27 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 5:08 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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