- Thursday, February 27, 2025
“WHO was Winston Churchill – the saviour of his nation or a racist imperialist?” This is the rather blunt question that will be examined in the opening session of a debut literary festival next month, to mark the 70th anniversary of Churchill winning the Nobel Prize for literature. It was…
BEING a high school English and literature teacher in Australia closely connected Sita Walker to writing. The immense experience of teaching story writing for 20 years, encountering a lot of work from students and being published in an anthology, finally led towards her debut book The God of No Good. Being…
A REMARKABLE rise from a humble beginning has seen Kishen Das go from working as a production intern to becoming a popular content creator and then making an award-winning acting debut in 2022 film Mudhal Nee Mudivum Nee. He has also interviewed top celebrities on Menu Please, which is a popular…
It’s not like strong women don’t have a romantic bone in their body, says actress Shabana Azmi, wondering why her kiss with Dharmendra in Karan Johar’s latest Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani has generated the buzz it has. In the film, Alia Bhatt’s Rani and Ranveer Singh’s Rocky meet each other…
Bollywood actress Kajol feels that when a film like Wonder Woman is made for Indian audiences and turns out to be as successful at the box office as Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan, Indian cinema will witness pay parity. She was speaking on the sidelines of the 2023 Jagran Film Festival in New…
Actor Aamir Khan, who paid his last respect to veteran art director Nitin Chandrakant Desai on Friday expressed his grief. Today, Desai’s mortal remains were brought to the ND Art World Studio Pvt Ltd studio in Karjat, Maharashtra. A host of celebrities visited ND studio to pay their last respects…
Anti-Islam activists in Denmark and Sweden have recently engaged in the burning and damaging of multiple copies of the Qu’ran, sparking outrage within the Muslim world and prompting calls for these Nordic nations to prohibit such actions. Both governments have expressed condemnation for these burnings and are contemplating the enactment…
Pakistan prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has pointed to the involvement of “Afghan citizens” located across the border assisting the militants responsible for a series of suicide attacks in Pakistan. This statement comes shortly after a fatal bombing occurred during a political gathering near the shared border between the two nations.…
Lorna Nanda Gangotra, an award-winning chef from Woking, embarked on a challenging trek to Mount Kilimanjaro raising over £7,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Her motivation was to express gratitude for the care her mother received during her cancer journey at a Birmingham hospital. Lorna’s mother was diagnosed with cancer, and…
SOCIAL media platform Twitter is seeking to quash an Indian court ruling that it was not compliant with federal government orders to remove content, arguing it could embolden New Delhi to block more content and broaden the scope for censorship. Twitter in July 2022 sought to overturn government orders to…
