“A creature is bound by the triple thread of the three gunas : sattva, rajas and tamas. Tamas gives birth to attachment. From rajas comes addiction and desire. Sattva produces purity. If tamas and rajas were shackles of iron, then sattva was a chain of gold. Therefore, even though the desire to reach svarg through the Himalayas was sattvik, it ...

21st January, 2017: The New Delhi Art Book Fair is all set to give India its first own art book fair on 22nd, 23rd and 24th November, 2017 with support and in collaboration with India Habitat Center, New Delhi. NDABF draws its inspiration from the passion of its founders for books of literature, of visual arts, of architecture, of photography, ...

Jaipur:ONT Bureaue:22/1/17: The charisma of ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival regular Shashi Tharoor and the passion of Dr Jon Wilson, author of India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire, are a potent combination for any panel. When the discussion centres on colonial legacies, the magnetism is amplified a hundredfold. The thousand-strong crowd waiting for the session, expected a fiery ...

Odisha News Times Bureau Bhubaneswar, Jan 20: “Writers and their writings come in all shapes and sizes. While some can spin one novel a year, others take years of inspiration to pen a line.,” eminent writer Nayantara Sehgal said during the second edition of Tata Steel Bhubaneswar Literary Meet (TSBLM) here today. The event was inaugurated by Nayantara Sahgal in ...

Jaipur:20 January, 2017(ONT Bureau) The author of thought-provoking best-sellers, AnandNeelakantan, launched the cover of his new book THE RISE OF SIVAGAMI, a prequel to the blockbuster movie BAAHUBALI, at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2017, on 20 January, Front Lawn, at 1.40 pm. Joining him on the panel were actor RanaDaggubati(who plays Bhallala Deva in the film), director S. S. ...

New Delhi 16th January 2017(ONT Bureaue) Senior journalist Shantanu Guha Ray latest book ‘The Target’ was released today. The book is a result of the author’s meticulous research on how entrepreneurship and technology led innovation—capable of breaking market monopolies and creating a new order and thousands of jobs—can also suffer at the hands of those who are actually responsible for ...

Newdelhi:ONT Bureau10/1/17 :The 25th edition of the New Delhi World Book Fair themed ‘Manushi – writings on and by women’ began here today, with over 800 participating publishers from across the country and abroad. Touted as Asia’s largest, the nine-day fair was inaugurated today by Mahendra Nath Pandey, Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development. Jnanpith awardee and Odia ...

Bhubaneswar:ONT Bureaue :10/1/17:Culturally among the richest states of India, Odisha has always been at the forefront of iconic works of Indian literature, from Jaydev’s Gita Govinda, to Sarala Das’ Mahabharata, to the path-breaking works of poets such as Sitakant Mahapatra and Ramakanta Rath, and fiction writers such as Prativa Ray in the modern era. It is to celebrate this immense ...

Senapati’s ClassicNovel: Six Acres and a Third Satya P Mohanty Fakir Mohan Senapati’s classic Oriya novel is a marvel of 19th century literary realism, complex and sophisticated. It seeks to analyse and explain social reality instead of merely holding up a mirror to it. The novel’s literary innovations changed Oriya literature forever. SET IN colonial Indian society during the early ...

Bhubaneswar: Eminent writer Paramita Satpathy’s collection of stories, Prapti will receive the Kendriya Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 2016. The book features stories depicting the emotional and psychological situations and expressions of women. “I am really glad that my book has been chosen and particularly this book since it is dedicated to women,” said the author. She said she ...