Christopher Marlowe to receive co-author credit for Shakespeare plays
An international team of 23 academics have decided that Christopher Marlowe’s work on the plays of William Shakespeare was ...
Nobel prize-winning Italian playwright Dario Fo dies
London, Oct 14 : Italian actor/playwright Dario Fo has died at the age of 90.
The star passed away of a respiratory disease in Milan ...
Mahasweta Devi, eminent writer and social activist, dies
The Jnanpith, Padma Vibhushan and Magsaysay awardee died on Thursday at a Kolkata hospital following prolonged illness.
She ...
English language may be dropped by EU after Brexit
London : The English language may be one of the casualties of Brexit as it emerged that no state other than the UK has ...
Of Abhinav Bindra, fear, pizza pole and Olympic gold
New Delhi : Abhinav Bindra’s insane search for perfection had pushed him to climb, as a simulation of sorts, a 40-feet ...
Hindi film based on Tagore’s Ghare Baire next month
Kolkata : More than three decades after Satyajit Ray made a film on Rabindranath Tagore’s eponymous work “Ghare ...
Rare papers of George Orwell, Virginia Woolf now online
Letters and manuscripts of Virginia Woolf, Ted Hughes, TS Eliot, George Orwell and other 20th century literary greats have been ...
I am working harder than ever: Ruskin Bond
New Delhi, May 19 : India’s beloved author Ruskin Bond, who celebrates his 82nd birthday today, says he is working ...
Kalidasa’s ‘Raghuvamsam’ now in English
New Delhi, May 6,2016 : One of Kalidasa s greatest Sanskrit works ‘Raghuvamsam’, which recounts the legendary tales ...
IITs asked to offer Sanskrit as elective: Irani
New Delhi, Apr 28 ,2016: The HRD ministry today said IITs have been requested to offer Sanskrit as an elective subject or as a ...