A trained bharatanatyam dancer and a marathon enthusiast, Lata Gwalani, author of Incognito, talks about women, writing, emotions and the many facades of feminism.
KABUL: Leading Afghan women’s rights champion, author, lawmaker Fawzia Koofi is a presidential hopeful in what is a man’s land. Named this year as one of the world’s “150 Fearless Women” by US website The Daily Beast, Koofi, 36, is a widow with two young girls. Talking about the opposition she faces in Afghanistan she [...]
‘The Aishwarya connection’, is how author Valerio Massimo Manfredi is of late being described. Well, Manfredi is known for a lot more than just that. Author of The Last Legion, Manfredi talks about his connect with India Madhusree Chatterjee The Taj Mahal, actress Aishwarya Rai and Alexander the Great bind famous Italian archaeologist-historian, television presenter [...]
Christopher Kloeble, noted German author and screenplay writer takes inspiration from even the most mundane objects, people, or even a sentence he reads in a book. In a tete-a-tete with Postnoon, he reveals his passion for writing, and how building words into sentences balances him mentally. “When I was in the US to participate in [...]
New Delhi: Breaking a minor jinx in India which began with last September’a failed Harud Festival in Kashmir, celebrated writer Salman Rushdie will attend the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival from January 20-24, the organisers said on Tuesday. The writer, who was reportedly scheduled to attend the festival last year, had whipped up a storm among [...]
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Ajay Hotchandani As is the routine every morning, I wake up, toss and turn for about an hour trying to find the motivation to get out of bed. Somewhere between eating and showering, I check my email and have a glance at the news on Google. Later that day I had to go pick my [...]
According to a survey of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation officials, there are about 620 buildings and another 100 on the outskirts that need immediate demolition in the twin cities. The GHMC engineers’ wing has certified that these 700 old buildings including 200 in Secunderabad could fall any time. Do we need to lose a [...]
The forest department has taken to task many of Hyderabad’s fortune-tellers for the alleged torture and cruel treatment of parakeets under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. Raids were conducted by the State Forest Department officials and members of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau in Chirkur, Kukatpally and Ameerpet areas that led to the rescue of [...]
One step forward, two steps back
There are positive signals from the G8 summit regarding the plan of action that must be pursed in Syria. Russian leader Vladmir Putin, the man who is the main hurdle to the creation of some means formidable to bringing down Assad, has hinted that he may allow removing Assad provided there is a plan for [...]
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