Newdelhi:20/9/17:Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State (Independent charge) for Culture released the book entitled “Bhartiya Kala Mein Salil Kridayen Evam Sadyahsnata Nayika” authored by Dr. Kshetrapal Gangwar and Shri Sanjib Kumar Singh at a function in National Museum here today. This is an Art Book based on original research, written in Hindi and published by National Museum after few decades. ...

New Delhi, September 13: The Third edition of the India Public Libraries Conference organised by the Indian Public Library Movement (IPLM) and hosted by NASSCOM Foundation will run from 3-5 October at India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road. Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Union Minister of State for Tourism and Culture (Independent Charge), Government of India, will inaugurate the conference. Conference would witness participation of about 400 plus public library ...

Newdelhi:13/9/17:Much like the flagship ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival in India, ZEE JLF at Boulder features art and cultural showcases including an exhibition from the awardees of the Ojas Art Award 2017 for traditional Bheel Art from one of the many tribal communities from India. Audiences can look forward to spell-binding musical performances including Sacred Chanting by the GadenShartse Monks on ...

  13th,September, 2017, New Delhi: With a please surprise the Goddesses Durga has arrived in Delhi not even in Bengal, much before the auspicious occasion of Navaratra.  Well, we are talking about the Delhi based young artist Soumen Dutta’s first book The Ananta. The book has been released today at the Bikaner House by noted art connoisseurs Shirin Paul – ...

Jayanta Mahapatra’s poetry unfolds into the landscape of Indian writing… His verse, silent, subtle and intense, truly becomes him. For years he has ‘purified the dialect of the tribe’ with his poetry of teasing indirection, sensuous suggestiveness and metaphoric interiority delivered in an idiom of enviable precision. Few poets have been able to do what Jayanta Mahapatra has done, turning ...

Rourkela21/8/17: Litterateurs in Rourkela steel city paid glowing tributes to Gangadhar Meher, legendary poet of yesteryears. The Cultural Academy, an organization espousing art and cultural acitivities, observed its 26th edition of  ‘Kabya Kabita Diwas’ yesterday in its premises on the occasion of the 156th birth anniversary of famous Odia poet. To commemorate the personality this Cultural Academy took up a discussion ...

Bhubaneswar:5/8/17:The noted writerharaprasad Das has filed the civil defamation  suit against ‘Sambad Kalika’and its editor along with other seven with senior civil judge and a criminal defamation case with Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) here this evening. Sources said, Das has filed cases against Jayasish Ray, Manu Das, Asit Mohanty, Amiya Pandav, Pallishree Pattnaik, Srikulangar, Bimalendu Mohanty and Umakant Rout for levelling ...

Newdelhi:2/8/17:A two-day national seminar was organized by the National body for book promotion and publication, National Book Trust, under Human Resource Development Ministry to coincide with the 60 Years programme of the Trust. Speaking on the occasion Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey, Minister of State of Human Resource Development said that the Government of India is working on finalizing a National ...

    Bolangir1/8/17:: Eminent historian and senior epigraphist (study of inscriptions) Sadanand Agrawal passed away here today. He was 65. Agrawal was taken ill and shifted from his residence at Menda to Bolangir district headquarters hospital where he died at around 4 am. Known for his extensive research on western Odisha history Agrawal lacked any formal higher education, but had earned  fame in the field of ...

  While Arundhati Roy’s comeback novel has once again made the cut for the just announced Man Booker Prize longlist, the other books that are running for the 50,000 pound award make it one of the most diverse lists in the race for a literary award in the recent years.   Roy’s comeback novel “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” is ...