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Centrality of Central Asia: A film festival in Almaty

The film festival in Almaty (Septe-mber 17-21), Kazakhstan, is called the Eurasia International Film Festival, and with good reason.

Frosty but peaceful middle path in Sino-India relations

Chinese defence minister General Liang Guanglie visited India from September 2-7, 2012 at a rather short notice of a month.

A historian for all ages, but a Marxist at heart

Eric Hobsbawm, the famous British historian who died at his home in London on October 1 at the age of 95, mesmerised the audience when he delivered a lecture at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi a

Creating medicinal forests a giant step to good health

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One of Asia’s largest monolithic rock structures overshadows the Savandurga forest spread over 1,000 hectares (has). The rock structure attracts a large number of trekkers but the forest enjoys its own significance as it is a repository of rare medicinal and aromatic plants.

Nightingale of India gets her songs on CD

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Weavers, weaving solemn and still,
What do you weave in the moonlight chill?...
White as a feather and white as a cloud,
We weave a dead man’s funeral shroud.

— Sarojini Naidu

Centre must find a solution to Naga issue with tact

A rally organised by the Angami, name of a Naga tribe Youth Organisation (AYO) and supported by several other Naga organisations on April 2, 2012, saw thousands of Naga youth taking to the streets in

Manto: The bold, controversial storyteller par excellence

In the perspective of world literature, Saadat Hassan Manto is reckoned with Chekhov and Mopasan.

‘India is going through exciting phase of innovation, growth’

It’s not really easy to catch a Harvard professor and like any other student you have to ensure you talk to the professor between lectures. On a busy weekday afternoon, Professor Stefan H.

UK to unveil world’s largest sculpture

Britain will unveil the world’s largest human landform sculpture, a 1,300-feet-long and 100-feet-high reclining woman, next week.

Will India-Burma cooperation neutralise Northeast militants?

The 46th India-Burma border liaison meeting was held at Leimakhong near Imphal, where a mountain division of the Indian Army is headquartered, on August 22.

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.