DIVYA MATHUR Alchemy is Southbank Centre’s annual festival celebrating the best of music, debate, film, dance, literature, fashion and design that is from the Subcontinent in origin or influence, exploring what this culture is or can be and examine the wider debate about the social context in which art is made. ...

Vanbrugh Theatre at The King’s School, Chester was jam-packed with audience for the inauguration of the 2012 SIA’s Season of Art and films. Sarika Kaushik, the chair-person of the association welcomed the guests and the Chief Guest Dr Jay Nankani, chairman of the area medical advisory committee and president of North Wales Division of British ...

Kolkata, April 10: East will meet West at a music festival in Munich next week when a 10-member ensemble from Kolkata teams up with performers from Germany in a concert featuring Rabindra Sangeet. Christened Der Gasteig Brummt, the festival would for the first time feature Tagore's compositions in orchestral format blended with ...

Mumbai, April 8: Social crusader Anna Hazare travelled from his native village Ralegan-Siddhi Mumbai for inaugurating an exhibition of photographs taken by the driver of a TV OB (outside broadcast) van. The exhibition showcases 67 photographs taken by Vishal Yadav, 32, on Hazare's nationwide anti-corruption movement last year. Entitled "Anna Hazare - Ralegan-Siddhi ...

Adelaide, April 9: Hughes Gallery in Fullarton suburb of Unley (South Australia) is displaying traditional Hindu artworks till April 15 in an exhibition titled “Lukisan Wayang Beber”. These traditional complex Java paintings on fabric by renowned master artisan K. Raden Tumenggung Sihhantodipuro measure up to five meters in length. Wayang Beber paintings ...

Agartala, April 7: As a tribute to Rabindranath Tagore, artists of India and Bangladesh have begun jointly performing various cultural shows, including drama, on the themes penned by the Nobel laureate bard. Bangladesh's Monipuri Theatre group staged Tagore's noted drama "Debotar Grash" here Friday night. "A 32-member Bangladesh artists' troupe along with a ...

London, April 6: A list of Leonardo da Vinci's "things to do", including reminders for works like "observe a brain", is all set to be publicly displayed at Buckingham Palace from May 4. The artist's "to-do" list suggests it also meant to remind the Italian painter, sculptor, scientist, and anatomist to have ...

Human Rights Defense International (HRDI) is an organization committed to the human rights concerns of Indian Diaspora. HRDI has always supported the right of Tamils to have equal opportunities in all spheres of life in Sri Lanka. HRDI has come across the news of mass killing of civil population in Sri ...

New Delhi, April 4: Tango from Argentina, salsa from Colombia and much more will be on shown at the three day Latin American dance and music festival that starts here Saturday. The event will bring to India three leading contemporary dance and music troupes from Latin America to promote understanding of Latino ...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 31: Kerala has made huge strides in the field of biodiversity, and is now set to participate in the 11th Conference of Parties (CoP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) slated to be held in Hyderabad Oct 1-19, said an official Saturday. Both CoP (Conference of Parities) and MoP ...