- Monday, March 03, 2025
In the Indian literary world, this is quite big news. Prabhu Guptara, who runs a niche publishing house in the UK called Pippa Rann Books & Media (named after his late wife), tells me he is bringing out a fresh biography of Nirad C Chaudhuri next year to mark the…
The Shubbak Festival returns for a seventh edition with an action-packed line-up of over 80 events including visual arts, performances, music, comedy, dance, film, literature, debates, and workshops. The largest contemporary Arab arts festival mixes up exciting newcomers, established names and unique presentations across London. The various platforms bringing Middle…
Shalini Boland was signed by Universal music and trying to make it as a singer/songwriter when she took a decision that changed her life. After having her first child, she missed being with family, so decided to give up music, and started writing fiction to remain connected to her creative…
There was always going to be a lot of pressure on Abraham Verghese to follow up his best-selling novel Cutting for Stone, which became a sleeper super-hit and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years. The talented American author has risen to the challenge with an epic follow-up, which…
Self-made star Manoj Bajpayee has gone from small roles in films to winning multiple awards, acclaim, and adulation for stunning performances as a leading man. That incredibly rich career has enabled the versatile actor to play a wide array of roles in diverse projects that have shown off his impressive…
On a hot summer afternoon, 23-year old Nizamudin Abdul Rahim Khan is playing cricket on a muddy, unpaved road in the Rafiq Nagar slum in India’s financial capital, Mumbai. Here, there is scant evidence of India’s fast-growing economy. Bordering what was once Asia largest garbage dumping ground, Rafiq Nagar and…
Thousands of kilometres away from its city of origin, the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) began on Thursday evening (01). The festival debuted in the Spanish capital with an aim to provide a platform for the exploration of Spanish writing. JLF Valladolid Spain, hosted in the northwestern city, is set to…
A Myanmar government team visited Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh last Thursday (25) as part of a mooted pilot repatriation scheme. Most of the refugees have been stuck in ramshackle camps in southeastern Bangladesh since fleeing a 2017 crackdown by the Myanmar military that is now subject to a United…
The unemployment rate for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) workers is more than double that of white workers, a new analysis published last Friday (26) by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) revealed. The study of the most recent ONS labour market statistics pointed out that the BAME unemployment rate…
Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana has filed a writ of habeas corpus challenging a recent US court order that paved the way for his extradition to India where he is facing trial for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. Last month, the US district court central district of…
