Going Greek at Canada's largest street festival
Aug 08, 2016, at 06:36 pm
Toronto, Aug 8 (IBNS): The Krinos Taste of the Danforth, one of Canada’s largest street festival, with more than 1.65 million attendees annually, is one of the best multi-cultural facets of the city of Toronto where one, irrespective of country of origin, gets a chance to pretend to be a Greek for a day, says Debarati Mukherjee.
Aug 06, 2016, at 06:01 pm
Canada debates doctor assisted mercy killing for disabled people. IBNS Correspondent Debarati Mukherjee reports from Toronto
Filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan to be a Grand Marshal at Montreal Pride 2016
Aug 02, 2016, at 06:49 pm
Mumbai, Aug 2 (IBNS): In an honour for the Indian LGBT community, filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan, who earlier this year co-won the National Film Award for Best Editing, will be the Grand Marshal at Montreal Pride, to be held on Aug 14, 2016.
Our focus now is on spreading literacy: Shyamashree Sen
Jul 23, 2016, at 09:25 pm
Shyamashree Sen wrote herself into the history books earlier this month, when she became the only second female District Governor of Rotary International District 3291 in Kolkata. In a chat with IBNS correspondent Supriyo Hazra, Sen opens up about her post and the plan she has in store. Excerpts:
Jul 22, 2016, at 05:28 pm
The death of famous journalist Sydney H. Schanberg whose accounts of Cambodia on throes of civil war was the core of the prize-winning ‘The Killing Fields’ makes Ranjita Biswas recall her visit to the infamous site
My dad has always been my idol: Alberto Del Rio
Jul 15, 2016, at 05:30 pm
Alberto Del Rio is one of the most energetic performers in the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) today. What prevented him from making an Olympic appearance, also paved a way for his successful pro-wrestling career. In Kolkata as a WWE ambassador to promote the company, IBNS-TWF correspondent Sudipto Maity engages in a chat with him. Excerpts :
Stone- Being and Becoming: Kounteya Sinha's photographic tribute to Kolkata's rickshaw-pullers
Jun 30, 2016, at 08:51 pm
Kolkata, June 30 (IBNS): Veteran actor Om Puri, with the trademark chequered 'gamchha' -- that most Kolkata rickshaw-pullers use -- round his neck, relived his iconic role as Hasari Pal in Roland Joffe’s The City of Joy recently. The occasion: a photographic tribute to the rickshaw pullers of Kolkata at a city art gallery.
Under-reporting Biodiversity: Clear and Present Danger
Jun 21, 2016, at 06:12 pm
Media has not been able to keep aside its circulation arithmetic and assign enough space to this critical topic---Biodiversity, reports Jayalakshmi Sengupta for IBNS humanitarian and development news service Just Earth News
Gabbar Singh: The villain as hero
Jun 13, 2016, at 05:25 am
“Kitne aadmi the?†the dialogue sent a chill down the spine of the audience as Gabbar Singh in Sholay walked menacingly in front of his gang swinging his whip. That even today the villain par excellence of Indian cinema remains an icon is a attribute to the characterisation and Amjad Khan’s acting. Shoma A. Chatterji examines the phenomenon of Gabbar Singh
Jun 02, 2016, at 04:31 pm
Sustainability is a living concern today with issues like global-warming and climate-change posing a huge threat to the planet. How is the fashion designer community responding to the call for sustainable fashion? Pramita Bose probes
Migration can transform art and culture, argues Birmingham Deputy Vice-Chancellor
May 23, 2016, at 09:57 pm
Birmingham, May 25 (Just Earth News) Migration from Asia and the Middle East to Western Europe could provide the kind of vibrant boost to arts and culture as movement from India and Pakistan did to UK food tastes over the past 40 years, a leading artist and academic has said.
May 17, 2016, at 05:18 pm
The affinity between India and the US as the world’s two biggest democracies is often spoken of today’s context. But a recent exhibition, Kindred Nations, brought out the fact that the connection goes back to a much earlier time, finds Ranjita Biswas
Spinning it the right way: From Calcutta to Cape Town
May 13, 2016, at 10:39 pm
Yudhajeet Barua is a 20-year old club cricketer, who plays Grade A cricket for Green Point Cricket Club, based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a young prospect and is hopeful of making it big. Barua is also a regular in the Cape Cobras net session. In a special chat with IBNS correspondent Sudipto Maity, who has watched him grow as a cricketer and a person, the leggie opens up about his cricket and life beyond the sport.
May 11, 2016, at 06:07 pm
Female impersonation as a genre in stage performances has a long history in India. Today, that tradition is all but dead but its contribution to the field of performing art cannot be ignored, says Shoma A. Chatterji
M F Husain: Economy of lines his forte
Apr 21, 2016, at 08:00 pm
M. F. Husain’s favourite city Kolkata recently paid tribute on his birth centenary year with a multi-layered event ‘Husain 100’. Uttara Gangopadhyay reports
Apr 17, 2016, at 11:56 pm
Gauhar, a play, was recently staged in Kolkata organised jointly by Master Minds Theatre and Weavers Studio, Kolkata, bringing alive the history of recorded music in India on the one hand, and the story of a woman whose life seems like pages out of a film script. Shoma A. Chatterji reports
Rajasthan: Transgender Ganga battles for police placement
Mar 29, 2016, at 04:00 am
Despite the Supreme Court ruling on transgenders being the ‘third gender’ and that they be given employment on the basis of third gender category, Ganga, a transgender from Rajasthan’s Jalore district, who has cleared her police recruitment exam in 2013 still awaits her posting. Rajasthan Post correspondent Rekha Pal traces her journey from her small, progressive village, where she had a normal childhood and growing up to the city arclights, where she is having to face a discriminatory policy regarding her gender.
Mar 29, 2016, at 03:54 am
Renu Khator is the first Indian American to head a comprehensive research university in USA. California-based SPAN writer Steve Fox reports
Mar 15, 2016, at 05:13 pm
In the relentless move to steamroll old houses a piece of history might get lost forever as a recently released book on Kolkata’s old houses highlights even as a citizens’ movement to stop the trend gets momentum in the city, reports Ranjita Biswas
Boredom drove me to open my own company: Chaity Ghosh
Mar 10, 2016, at 07:25 pm
Boredom drove her to seek unchartered territory as she left her well salaried job to start her own event management company and thus Phreedom 4ever was formed. Chaity Ghosh has headed the health insurance sector, followed by the financial sector and entertainment business. The entrepreneur's next endeavor is film production. IBNS correspondent Sudipto Maity finds out what keeps her ticking.
Feb 26, 2016, at 07:58 pm
In royal Rajasthan, the walls are no longer empty spaces. They speak through their vibrant colours and tell a story. From dreary, boring railway stations to splashy coloured auto rickshaws, one can now encounter art at every nook and corner of the state’s bustling towns. Rajasthan Post-TWF writer R Pal reports
Feb 22, 2016, at 06:02 am
Laxmi was 15 when she rejected a 32-year old man’s offer of marriage. He decided to get even; he disfigured her by throwing acid on her face. That is whereLaxmi’s advocacy started: speaking out against the unregulated sale of acid in India and campaign for harsher sentence for those guilty of acid attacks.
We campaign to abolish triple-talaaq: Zakia Soman
Feb 13, 2016, at 06:59 am
Zakia Soman, the co-founder of Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), which now has over 70,000 members, is a gritty woman standing behind women qazis of Jaipur and for empowerment of Muslim women with a model nikahnama. She is spearheading a silent social revolution in the backward Muslim community to stand up against injustice and patriarchy. Rajasthan Post/TWF correspondent Rekha Pal speaks to her in Jaipur
Jan 31, 2016, at 06:04 pm
Folk songs are an integral part of any society. However, under relentless pressure of industrialisation and globalisation many formats seem to be in danger of disappearing forever. Hence the revival of people’s interest in folk music of Bengal is an encouraging sign. Uttara Gangopadhyay reports
Let children choose books, not mummy, daddy: urge authors
Jan 24, 2016, at 07:44 pm
There is something for everyone at the Jaipur Literature Festival. So when a session on Writing For Children, Writing as Children, was up with anchors like Nandana Dev Sen, Jerry Pinto, Paro Anand and Nayanika Mahtani, talk about these authors, their books, novels and their thought process was bound to be there, including some laughter and fun. But a class VI student of Jaipur's Maharaja Sawai Mansingh Vidyalaya, Jiyan Roytalukdar, who sat through the session, only wonders why are the children never asked what interests them. Here he pens a report for Rajasthan Post
Diggi diary: A small prayer before the JLF journey takes off
Jan 20, 2016, at 07:28 pm
Jaipur, Jan 20 (www.rajasthanpost.com/IBNS): India’s most democratic, free spirited literary festival, the Jaipur Literature Festival takes off two days on, at its heritage site-the Diggi Palace. But already a PIL regarding the cramped venue is in the High Court, waiting to be heard. Diggi Palace owners Thakur Ram Pratap Singh Diggi and wife Jyotika Kumari are not worried as they prepare for their annual literary sojourn. The Rajasthan Post team caught up with them
Jan 15, 2016, at 02:43 am
As Jaipur celebrates one of its biggest festivals, Makar Sankranti, on Jan 14 and 15 this year, Rajasthan Post's Iram Tasleem takes a walk down the memory lane when kite flying was a passion and capturing the King's kite could earn one a jaagir
Jan 09, 2016, at 09:12 pm
Moving from academia to starting her own business on urban transport solutions was a hard decision for Anvita Arora but it has been a rewarding experience. California based independent journalist Steve Fox reports
Dec 30, 2015, at 04:41 pm
As the world gears up to flip away the last page of the calendar, TWF/IBNS correspondent Supriyo Hazra looks back to spot the most crucial events of 2015
Dec 27, 2015, at 06:42 pm
The tradition of going for picnics in winter with family and friends has remained popular even though in different formats, finds Pramita Bose