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Mumbai LitFest 2020 Goes Virtual

Mumbai’s celebrated literature festival Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest, which is now in its 11th year has adopted a virtual format due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic this year. The festival,

October 30, 2020

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Improved infra helping Indian football: Adil Khan

Defender Adil Khan feels that Indian football is moving forward and growing on “the right path”. “Indian football is growing in a good way and through the correct path. I just wish

October 30, 2020

Football·Sport

Kala Sangam announces Back to the Studio Packages

Intercultural arts hub Kala Sangam at Bradford’s Arts Centre has launched a new scheme to provide dance and physical theatre artists with studio time and living expenses so they can restart their

October 30, 2020

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Kalakar Arts UK lives Indian music tradition of ‘Guru Shishya Parampara’‘

In a free-wheeling conversation internationally acclaimed London based artiste Chandra Chakraborty talks to Arundhati Mukherjee from Asian Lite news desk about classical music, its tradition and artistes and art today. Rishi Vashista,

October 30, 2020

Arts & Culture·LITE BLOGS·UK News

Srishti Receives Grant from Culture Recovery Fund

Independent Indian dance and music organisation named Srishti, run by Nina Rajarani MBE has been awarded a grant as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face

October 30, 2020

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Stephen’s ‘Wild Himalaya’ Bags Prestigious Award

Prolific writer Stephen Alter has won the prestigious Mountain Environment and Natural History Award at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2020 in Alberta, Canada, for his book “Wild Himalaya” (Aleph)

October 29, 2020

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Barcelona Board set for major rejig as chief, members resign

Barcelona FC has confirmed that president Josep Maria Bartomeu has stepped down from his post. The abrupt ending of Bartomeu’s 6 year stint along with the stepping down of other board members

October 29, 2020

Football·Sport

Enlighten Your Kids With Reading

In these unprecedented times, when isolation fatigue, gloom and the fear of losing a beloved has also come to grip children, taking care of their mental health is of paramount importance…writes Siddhi

October 28, 2020

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My Years With Rajiv: An Endearing Account Of Friendship

Was Rajiv Gandhi the victim of “international intelligence agencies” in “what was to become” of him after the 1991 General Elections that were likely to see him return to power after being

October 27, 2020

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‘India’s Love for Foreign Coaches a Colonial Influence’

Subrata Bhattacharya, a well known defender of his time, feels Indian football’s love for foreign coaches is a relic of the gone colonial era. The former national player and a long term

October 27, 2020

Football·Sport

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