Mistress of arts
Whether comedy or drama, Manorama’s success sprang not just from her remarkable talent but also her amazing ability to adapt.
Whether comedy or drama, Manorama’s success sprang not just from her remarkable talent but also her amazing ability to adapt.
Actor Manorama’s career could be divided into two phases. In the first half, she essayed some of the finest comic roles in Indian movies by a woman, at times outdoing male lead comedians such as N...
Describing Manorama as her elder sister, Tami Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa said the veteran actor’s demise was an irreparable loss and the vacuum created by her passing away cannot be filled b...
Manorama was probably the last of a tribe that had the skills required for both theatre and, later, films. It was her singing talent that opened for her the doors to the stage, and later, films —...
In returning their awards, Nayantara Sahgal and Ashok Vajpeyi have reminded Modi of two duties he has neglected — that of upholding a citizen's right to life and of protecting an artist’s right to creativity. Their angst is also directed at the silence of fellow writers and literary institutions.A writer not only seeks to reform a particular injustice in society. She is a tuning fork, a warning signal about the spirit of a civilisation, a trustee of the times.The BJP keeps two registers. When Nayantara Sahgal objected to the Emergency... Читать дальше...
The award of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize to the National Dialogue Quartet comprising the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA),...
The growing unrest over the beef ban is once again deepening the wedge between Jammu and Kashmir, leaving the PDP-BJP government in a precarious position. A day after protests and shutdown...
Continuing their protests against “rising intolerance” and “communal” atmosphere in the country, noted writers on Sunday announced returning of their awards. Two writers from Karnataka,...
After returning her Sahitya Akademi award last week as a mark of protest against the increasing climate of intolerance in the country, author Nayantara Sahgal has now returned the award money.
What the Shiv Sena could earlier do only with threats of violence, it can now do with a mere letter or an appeal. The organisers of concerts planned in Mumbai and Pune by
Government sources told The Hindu that at PDS packaging centres, new unbranded bags were being replaced with used ones.
Family members of a four-year-old girl who was brutalised in Keshav Puram on Friday said they suspected two men who had offered toffees to the girl in the past. The police have zeroed in...
For the first time in 8 years, India’s fiscal balance turned from deficit to surplus in the month of August, the latest data from the Controller-General of Accounts (CGA) show. The fiscal deficit,...
Former Pakistan Foreign Minister reaches Mumbai.
‘Is betraying a sign of correct politics?...Are they politicians?’
In the video, Minister was shown allegedly taking Rs. 4 lakh as bribe from a person.
The force is focussing on Naxal-hit areas in State
Arguing that the BJP had done more to preserve the legacy of Dr B.R. Ambedkar than its political rivals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, ruled out scrapping of reservation system and attac...
Felicitates L.K. Advani, Subramanian Swamy, others for fighting the measure.
Nitish-Lalu led alliance reduces lead enjoyed by BJP-led coalition.
The Army on Sunday said it killed one militant in an ongoing counter-insurgency operation in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district.According to Srinagar-based defence spokesman, the operation wa...
Sunjeev Sahota, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, says issues that have a nexus between the personal and the political are likely to continue to dominate his work.
Shocked, shaken and deeply divided after the lynching of a man over rumours about eating beef a fortnight ago, Bishahra village, near Dadri, turned a new leaf on Sunday with Hindus joining Muslims...
Two days after Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh witnessed tension and violence over rumours of cow slaughter, senior police officers have said that they might well be a “sort of warning or reply” to Sama...
A total of 587 members had cast their votes. Lawmakers were not allowed to stay neutral during the voting