New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) Paris-based Indian dancer Rukmini Chatterjee, who is bringing together European classical ballet, Bharatnatyam and Kathak for the Bonjour Festival here, says she is not in favour of fusing dance forms and each style should retain its identity on stage.
The Bharatanatyam exponent also reveals that her next choreography, set to premiere [...]
Kathmandu, Nov 26 (IANS) Tales of immense cruelty and imperviousness to suffering began to surface Thursday after the ritual slaughter of thousands of animals and birds at the world’s largest killing fair ended in Nepal’s Terai plains with animal rights activists condemning it as legitimisation of violence.
Hundreds of carcasses of butchered water buffaloes, goats and [...]
Kathmandu, Nov 24 (IANS) A prosperous farmer from India’s Bihar state led the bloodbath at Nepal’s largest animal sacrificial fair Tuesday, ignoring calls for non-violence from animal lovers worldwide including his own country.
Raman Thakur from Sitamarhi district bordering Nepal’s Terai plains shot to limelight at the controversial fair of Hindu goddess Gadhimai in Baraiyapur village [...]
Kathmandu, Nov 15 (IANS) With Nepal’s coalition government refusing to ban the biggest slaughter of animals ever at a religious fair in the Terai plains, the republic’s animal lovers are now pinning their faith on neighbour India putting a brake on the killings.
Two animal rights groups in Nepal that are spearheading a campaign to stop [...]
Bariyapur (Nepal), Nov.4 (ANI): Plans by Hindu devotees to sacrifice over 500,000 animals during a two-day festival in Nepal this month has angered animal rights activists, who are demanding that the 300-year-old ritual to be banned.
Every five years the tiny village of Bariyapur near Nepal’s southern border with India is swamped with blood as hundreds [...]
Washington, Nov 1 (IANS) Indian American residents of a Washington neighbourhood are up in arms against some picky burglars who seem to be targeting their homes for a cool haul of gold and diamond jewellery.
Desis – as people of South Asian origin are referred to in the US -
of Fairfax, a suburb of [...]
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Her voice is husky and sensual, very different from that of the singing legend Lata Mangeshkar, but playback singer Rekha Bharadwaj still considers the nightingale of India her idol and describes Lata as Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of learning.
‘Lataji is my Saraswati. I am very fortunate that I got a [...]
Kuchipalli (Orissa), Oct. 22 (ANI): In a significant development, tribals of Kuchipali village in Orissa’s Bargarh District have shunned their old practice of animal sacrifice and instead opted to offer a mixture of puffed rice and jaggery a.k.a [...]
Mumbai, Oct 17 (IANS) A key index of Indian equities markets Saturday closed flat after the 60-minute special Diwali trading session — also called muhurat.
The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) opened at 17,452.56 points and shut shop 17,326.01 points, 0.02 percent or 3.19 points higher than Friday’s close at 17,322.82 [...]
Mumbai, Oct 17 (IANS) Indian stock markets opened flat at 6.15 p.m. Saturday for a 60-minute special Diwali trading session — also called muhurat. Five minutes into trade, a key index was ruling 0.3 percent higher.
The special session, conducted to pay obeisance to Lakshmi — the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity — also marked [...]
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) Diwali, the festival of lights, was celebrated across India Saturday with prayers, fireworks and frenzied shopping but it was marred by tragedy in Tamil Nadu.
With the economy slowly recovering from the recession that badly hit Diwali last year, people celebrated the festival with fervour and with greater enthusiasm.
Many thronged temples, [...]
Ahmedabad, Sep. 27 (ANI): People in Ahmedabad enjoyed the traditional vibrant folk dance of Garba with full fervour on the eighth day of Navartri.
Clad in traditional colourful dresses with a lot of mirror and handwork, boys and girls danced to the fullest [...]
Dhaka, Sep 24 (IANS) Over 21,900 `mandops’ (marquees) have come up across Bangladesh as Hindus Thursday began Durga Puja celebrations. The number of marquees was higher than last year, a media report said.
President Mohammed Zillur Rahman of the Muslim majority nation described Bangladesh as ‘a bright example of communal harmony’ and in a message on [...]
Kathmandu, Sep 22 (IANS) As Nepal’s parliament remains paralysed due to bickering among the major parties and the task of drafting a ground-breaking constitution by next year seems doomed to fail, a stone’s throw away from the august house Sukmaya Rokaya is working a silent but real revolution.
The 43-year-old is the priest at the Chhakkubakku [...]
Kolkata, Sep.20 (ANI): A group of artists in Kolkata have prepared a Puja Pandal using nearly 10,000 Tablas or, Indian percussion instrument, on the occasion of Durga Puja festival, dedicated to the Hindu Goddess of power.
The ‘Tablas’ have been used [...]
Mashobara (HP), Sep 18 (ANI): Raging he-buffaloes locked horns in Himachal Pradesh to add zest to a post-harvest fair.
Unlike Spain’s famed bullfights where a matador parades his skills against a bull, the Indian version sees a pair of enraged buffaloes pitted against each other.
Hundreds [...]
Surat, Sept 15 (ANI): As the nine-day festival of ‘Navratri’ approaches, the craze for ‘Garba’, a folk dance, has picked up amongst women in Gujarat to shed a few kilos before the much-awaited festive season.
Kripa Patel, a Garba trainer, said that ladies [...]
Washington, September 7 (ANI): A film adaptation of DC Comics character “Deadman” will reportedly feature a Hindu goddess giving second life to a dead man, and helping him win a battle against evil.
Nikolaj Arcel (Kongekabale) will helm the Warner Bros project that apparently mentions a “Hindu goddess” and “Rama” in the storyline.
Guillermo del Toro (El [...]
Srinagar, Sep 4 (ANI): An ancient sculpture of Hindu Goddess of wealth Gajalakshmi has recently been discovered at Nagbal Lesser village in Jammu and Kashmir.
The sculpture, carved out of brownish limestone, is now kept for further examination at the office of Archives Archaeology and Museum in Srinagar. It will be shifted to Sri Pratap [...]
Mumbai, Aug 16 (ANI): Maharashtra is gearing up to celebrate “Ganesh Chaturthi”, the popular festival that celebrated the birth of Lord Ganesh.
The festival begins August 23 and would continue for ten days. At the end of the 10-day long festival, idols of Lord Ganesha are [...]
