The Partition Museum

Installation In Amritsar Partition Museum

Novelist, journalist Kishwar Desai, the driving force behind the first  museum wholly dedicated to the partition of India, told Hindustan Times “In the 50th year of Independence and Partition, I started working on Manto’s stories for television. It was then that I thought there should be a museum to Partition and it has taken me two decades to translate this dream into reality,”.

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October Is Sylvia Kristel

Sylvia Kristel, 28 September, 1952 - 17 October, 2012

There can be few film leads so closely associated with one role as was the Dutch actress and model Sylvia Kristel, (28 September 1952 – 17 October 2012).The title role of the sexually adventurous housewife in Emmanuelle (1974) became a reference for every part she played subsequently.

Naga: The Native Indian Cobra That Beaten Both Krshna And Buddha

In Bengal you would find the ancient serpent goddess Manasha, who was supposed to be a Kobra or a Nagin!Manasha was there even before the Vedic people came to India.Would The following picture where Vedic Godking Krshna dancing on the snake Kalya's head mean the subjuagation of pre-vedic deities!

Nāga (Sanskrit: नाग, IAST: nāgá, Burmese: နဂါး, ngar, Indonesian: naga, Javanese: någå, Khmer: នាគ neak, Chinese: 那伽) is the Sanskrit and Pāli word for a deity or class of entity or being, taking the form of a very great snake—specifically the King Cobra, found in Hinduism and Buddhism.

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Girija Devi : The Queen Of Thumri

Girija Devi, 8 May 1929 – 24 October 2017,  is regarded as the "Queen of Thumri" or "Thumri Samraggi" of this era.

Devi performing in Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal (July 2015)

Pinned Reading By Pin-Up Marilyn Monroe

"It is better to have pinned and forgotten than to have never pinned at all." Elliott Erwitt: Marilyn Monroe reading, New York City, 1956.

Mona Lisa Lips And A Fresh Book On Gay Da Vinci

Walter Isaacson, who has written on Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, says da Vinci is the ultimate example of combining art and science, whose insights, innovations and inventions were often decades, centuries and sometime half-a-millennia ahead of their time.

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Bhupen Khakhar Can Be Pleasing To Some!

You Can’t Please All,was one of the iconic work of late Indian painter Bhupen Khakhar.

You Can't Please All, 1981

Pussy Riot Protest at Trump Tower

On Monday,23rd October three members of the Russian activist group and punk rock band Pussy Riot staged a demonstration in Trump Tower to support the political prisoner Oleg Sentsov. They unfurled a banner that read “Free Sentsov” and rained down pamphlets with information on the detained Ukrainian-Russian filmmaker.

Book Thief And The Reader

Both as books and movies 'The Reader' and 'The Book Thief' deal the delights, abilities and disabilities evolving around reading.

The Book Thief, a 2005 historical novel by Australian author Markus Zusak and is his most popular work. Directed by Brian Percival and starring Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, and Sophie Nélisse the book became a war drama keeping the same name in 2013.

Felicite : African Movie Got 92% Rating In Rotten Tomatoes

Félicité is a Congolese singer who desperately needs money after her 14-year-old son Samo suffers a serious accident. She soon finds financial and emotional support from Tabu, one of the regulars in the bar where she performs.

Lincoln in the Bardo wins 2017 Man Booker Prize

Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders is named winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Lincoln in the Bardo is the first full-length novel from George Saunders, internationally renowned short story writer.

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Singing The Intimate Shots!

Adele, by Theo Wenner.November 19th, 2015.

''For her 3rd Rolling Stone cover wenner wanterd a simple, stripped-down look, one that dreaw it's power completely from Adele.When complimented on the results, Adele replied with a Beyonce reference, '' I woke up like this.'' and let loose one of her distinctive belly laughs.''