Tracing a Legend

Noted film and theatre director Jabbar Patels National Award-winning biopic Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar will be screened at a centenary film festival at Delhis Jawaharlal Nehru University to mark the birth anniversary of the iconic Dalit leader that falls on April ...

Countercurrents.org Vijaya Mehta, well known actor and director, has this interesting observation in her recently published autobiography. There was a true flowering of art and theatre in the Bhulabhai Memorial Institute at Warden Road in the early ...

IT is one thing to express admiration for a master whose work has inspired filmmakers not of his own generation but those who have followed him. Directors from Shyam Benegal to Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shekhar Kapur to Jabbar Patel have, on one ...

For the workers who toil in Bangledeshs garment factories, making clothing for brands like Benetton, Nike and Levis, a number of things are taken for granted but not basic human rights. By KHADIJA PATEL. Getting clothes made in Bangladesh is cheap.

First Asian Business Awards Midlands celebrates achievement in the region Name : admin Time : 08.33 BST ENTREPRENEURS in the midlands were celebrated last night at the first ever Asian Business Awards (ABA's) dedicated to the region. They were ...

ISLAMABAD: Results of Election 2013 with detail of contesting candidates and party positions in Karachi. NA-239 Total Candidates: 26 S. NO CANDIDATES PARY SYMBOL 1 Akhtar Mohmmad Mehsood Jamat e Islami Scale 2 Subhan Ali ...

Don't be taken in by Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia's cherubic smile; behind it lurks a wicked sense of humour. Initially, people called me Hari, then Hariprasad, then Hariprasad Chaurasia and now they call me Pandit' Hariprasad Chaurasia.... But then, ...

Seven persons, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed when the SUV they were travelling in collided head-on with a speeding private bus at Mardhan Chowk on NH-33 on Friday afternoon. The accident in Tamar, which is 70km from Ranchi and 55km ...

Countercurrents.org April 12 marks the birth anniversary of Safdar Hashmi, the radical theatre actor, who was murdered by Congress supporting goons near Delhi in 1989 during a street theatre performance. The day is observed as the national street ...