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Vaidyokti- A unique initiative by Sanskruti

by adminArts & CultureBooksCOLUMNSFEATUREHealthLifestyleLITE BLOGSApril 8, 2020April 8, 2020

Vaidyokti- a unique initiative by Sanskruti marking World Health Day …. reports Asian Lite Newsdesk In the deadly situation where Coronavirus has halted or engulfed lives globally, a unique initiative named…

Book Review: Ups and downs of Kudankulam n-plant, women bikers on an adventure, journey of a classical vocalist

by adminArts & CultureBooksCOLUMNSFEATURELITE BLOGSMarch 13, 2020March 13, 2020

BY VISHNU MAKHIJANI Read about the storms that the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), India’s largest such facility, has had to weather; take a 17,000 km motorcycle ride with four…

Calcutta Nights, Capitalisms & Superhuman Error – Book Review

by adminBooksDaily DoseFEATURELITE BLOGSMarch 11, 2020

BY VISHNU MAKHIJANI   How long can the Ganga river sustain the 500 million people along its banks; study how capitalism functioned in India before the turn of the previous…

WAR OF THE TITANS: Singhvi Vs Zaiwalla

by admin-Top NewsBooksINDIAN NEWSLITE BLOGSPOLITICSUK NewsMarch 6, 2020March 6, 2020

The senior Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi had recently sent a legal notice for criminal and civil defamation to London-based Zaiwalla for allegedly defaming his family name by attempting to establish…

When one teargas shell quelled a 3,000-strong mob

by adminArts & CultureBooksFEATURELITE BLOGSMarch 2, 2020

BY VISHNU MAKHIJANI The sight of a mellow dawn breaking over the city’s ghat’s or the light of a thousand diyas brightening the Ganga river at dusk might have inspired…

India, other emerging powers can fill space vacated by US

by adminArts & CultureBooksEntertainmentFEATUREFebruary 28, 2020

BY VISHNU MAKHIJANI Emerging powers like India have the best chance in contemporary history to rise up as great powers as the US pulls back from its role of a…

When fleeing a homeland stirs one’s creative juices

by adminArts & CultureBooksEntertainmentFEATURELITE BLOGSFebruary 27, 2020February 27, 2020

Vu Tran’s fiction workshops are designed to help students find their voice, cultivate their voice, and then challenge and expand their voice – all while carefully studying the work of…

Birmingham re-connects with Bard

by admin-Top NewsArts & CultureBooksEducationTheatreUK NewsFebruary 15, 2020February 15, 2020

This ground-breaking project will restore the world’s first great people’s Shakespeare Library to everyone in the city, reanimating Birmingham’s historic, multicultural Shakespeare collection in time for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. …

India’s culture, religion is continual process: Swapan Dasgupta

by adminArts & CultureBIG INTERVIEWBooksINDIAN NEWSFebruary 7, 2020

One cannot have an India that is completely sanitised of its culture, which itself is linked to religion, as India has a certain existence predating the Republic and the Indian…

Akbar on Gandhi, Jinnah & Partition

by adminBooksCOLUMNSDelhiINDIAN NEWSLITE BLOGSOpinionPakistanFebruary 7, 2020

The Congress rejected this outright while Jinnah pounced on it as it give a clear assurance that a separate Pakistan would be established. From then on, there was no looking…