The Guide is no more
Legendary Bollywood actor-director Dev Anand passed away in a London hotel on Saturday night due to cardiac arrest. He was 88. He died in his sleep at 10.40 pm.
Dev was staying in London to recuperate
Dev Anand had been staying in London for two weeks already and was planning to stay for at least three to four months to recuperate after releasing his latest film, Chargesheet, according to sources.
Shakespeare tops list of symbols of national pride for Britons
English playwright William Shakespeare and the iconic pop group, The Beatles, are the cultural icons which inspire Britons to take pride in their country.
Shakespeare topped the list of symbols that
Sikhs can wear kirpans at ’12 London Olympics
Sikh athletes and spectators will be able to wear a kirpan, a ceremonial dagger compulsorily worn by baptised Sikhs along with four other articles of faith, at the London 2012 Olympic sites.
Sikhs can wear kirpans at ’12 London Olympics
Sikh athletes and spectators will be able to wear a kirpan, a ceremonial dagger compulsorily worn by baptised Sikhs along with four other articles of faith, at the London 2012 Olympic sites.
Jordean world’s youngest CEO
At an age when kids are busy playing computer games, eight-year-old Harli Jordean runs a successful Internet business from his Stoke Newington home in London.
The British schoolboy turned his love of
Tagore poems, songs to go for $250,000 in US
Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s notebook of Bengali poems and songs, which he had gifted to a close family friend in 1930s, has been put on sale by a descendant of that family in New York.
Tagore notebook to fetch $250,000
Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s notebook of Bengali poems and songs, which he had gifted to a close family friend in 1930s, has been put on sale by a descendant of that family in New York.
Barnes nominated for Costa
BOOKER PRIZE winner Julian Barnes has been nominated for the prestigious Costa Book Awards for his novel, The Sense of an Ending.
Pankaj Mishra feuds with Niall Ferguson
British literary circles are abuzz with the emergence of a new literary feud. Right-wing British historian Niall Ferguson, who recently got married to Somali-Dutch writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali, has attacked Indian writer Pankaj Mishra over his book review published in the latest edition of London Review of Books.