Mumbai, October 28, 2017: It’s soon going to be that time of year again. Come November, the city will play host to the most anticipated annual literary festival, Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest 2017. As with every successive edition, this year’s festival is set to be bigger and better, with over 100 authors andthinkers having already confirmed their presence at the four-day literary extravaganza, ...

Newdelhi:28/10/17:Raksha Mantri Smt Nirmala Sitharaman released a coffee table book on the Department of Defence Production (DDP), titled ‘A journey towards self-reliance’ here today. The first ever coffee table book on the department, it chronicles the post-independence years of development, indigenisation and production of arms, ammunition and defence equipment, with a view to achieve self-reliance for the Armed Forces of ...

Bhubaneswar:26/10/17:Sahitya Aaj Tak is a literary festival conceived by India’s No. 1 Hindi News Channel – Aaj Tak, and is one of the nation’s biggest confluence of the greatest names from various disciplines of literature and a truly meritorious audience. Poets, writers, musicians, actors, authors, and artists mesmerise the gatherings. Sahitya Aaj Tak also encourages upcoming talent and the voice ...

Bhubaneswar:26/10/17; Renowned Odia writer Banaja Devi received the prestigious ‘Sarala Award’ instituted by IMFA’s charitable wing IMPaCT for her story collection ‘Kathapua’ and overall literary achievements for the year 2017 during the 38th edition of the event here on Thursday. Devi was conferred the Award by Chief Guest Padmashree Mamang Dai. Devi received a cash award of Rs 5 lakh along ...

Bhubaneswar:22/10/17:Gagan Behari Panigrahi second collection of poems came out in the form of a book titled “Pratichhabi” (Reflection). The award winning movie maker, art and literature lover and successful business person Mr Akshay Kumar Parija has published the book under the banner Akshay Kumar Parija Publication. Noted writer Dash Benhur has written the preface for the book. The book was inaugurated ...

New Delhi, 16 October 2017: Eminent writer Namita Gokhale has been awarded the first-ever Centenary National Award for Literature, which was conferred by one of the most prestigious literary bodies in India – the AsamSahityaSabha  – a nonprofit, non-governmental organization which was established in 1917 and has about one thousand branches in and outside the state.   The award was ...

Sweden:5/10/17:The English novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, known for his spare, elliptical prose style and his inventive subversion of literary genres, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Mr. Ishiguro, 62, is best known for his novels “The Remains of the Day,” about a butler serving an English lord in the years leading up to World War II, and “Never ...

  Bhubaneswar:2/10/17:Eminent Odia singer Adyasha Das released “A Song for the Chausathi Yoginis, Hirapur” , her latest musical venture at the ancient tantric seat of worship, the hypaethral Chausathi Yogini Temple at Hirapur on the auspicious occasion of Dussehra yesterday. The first ever song depicting the rare qualities of all Chausathi yoginis, it is a unique contribution to the preservation ...

Bhubaneswar:22/9/17; Versatile personality Byomakesh Tripathy’s thirteen plays and three translated plays covered in the set of 5 volumes released today at special programme organized here at Press Club of Odisha.  Prof. Rajat Kumar Kar, eminent playwright and actor was the Chief Guest of the evening and well known Odia poet and writer, Professor Sanghamitra Mishra was the Chief Speaker. Renowned Theatre ...

Bhubaneswar:18/9/17:On the auspicious occasion of Dussehra, Raaga , a reputed cultural organization of Odisha, presents a song in celebration of the venerated Chausathi Yoginis of Hirapur Odisha, a well-known tourist destination, heralded the world over as a seat of Tantra worship. The Yoginis in the shape of a Sakta-Tantric cult came into existence in the 7th-8th century AD. It continued ...