12 Jan, 2025 11:19 AM
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) His contribution to Hindi film music, spanning classical to casual, is considerable, but composer C. Ramchandra's biggest endowment was to the nation, in creating the haunting, heart-rending, yet inspiring strains of its best-known patriotic song - that left a Prime Minister in tears on its first rendition.
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10 Jan, 2025 9:39 PM
Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Friday rejected the plea by a leading human rights group for allotment of a stall for the Kolkata International Book Fair 2025, scheduled to begin by the end of this month.
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01 Jan, 2025 9:34 PM
Agartala, Jan 1 (IANS) Amidst the unrest followed by the political changes in Bangladesh, no booksellers or publishers from the neighbouring country will participate in the Agartala Book Fair, beginning from Thursday, officials said.
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01 Jan, 2025 12:53 PM
New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) Soon after the ban on Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' was lifted after 36 years, the mercurial excitement of readers drove them to bookstores in select cities to fetch a physical copy of the controversial novel.
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26 Dec, 2024 1:51 PM
Kozhikode, Dec 26 (IANS) Kerala mourns the loss of its literary titan, MT Vasudevan Nair, who passed away at a private hospital on Wednesday night. As a mark of respect, the state government has declared a two-day mourning, canceling all official functions on Thursday and Friday.
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25 Dec, 2024 9:22 PM
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie's controversial novel ‘The Satanic Verses’ has quietly reappeared in India, 36 years after it was banned by the Rajiv Gandhi government under pressure from religious groups.
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25 Dec, 2024 11:23 AM
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) The only one to have composed for Hindi film superstars from K. L. Saigal to Shah Rukh Khan, he was skilful at seamlessly combining the melodies of Indian classical, the cadences of folk music from all over the subcontinent, and the harmonies of Western classical strains to entrance listeners, but Naushad had other accomplishments to his credit.
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24 Dec, 2024 4:40 PM
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) An unparalleled voice in Hindi films, this playback singer, who had already sung for many generations of heroes for nearly three decades, once came home extremely delighted, gathered all his family, and excitedly told them that he just had the pleasure of singing for Amitabh Bachchan.
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22 Dec, 2024 2:52 PM
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 22 (IANS) The health condition of renowned Malayalam writer and Jnanpith awardee M. T. Vasudevan Nair, who is undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Kozhikode, remains critical.
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20 Dec, 2024 1:06 PM
Kozhikode, Dec 20 (IANS) Renowned 91-year-old Jnanpith awardee and one of Kerala’s most celebrated literary figures, M.T. Vasudevan Nair, is critically ill and undergoing treatment at a private hospital here, according to his close friend, M.N. Karissery.
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