"Being a magician is very much like being a musician. Nobody is born able to play the chords and scales of any instrument, but they are born with the passion that will carry them through many years of commitment required to learn them," says DMC.
"With love bombing, the constant attention, flattery, seduction, gifts make it hard to process that you’re overwhelmed. And when you’re overwhelmed, you don’t see danger.”
“When they see something on social media, they say my wedding should be like this, too. Everybody wants to become a film star," says Mayjohn PJ, owner of a leading wedding management agency on the new South Indian wedding.
Greece hopes the 2,500-year-old marble fragment, which arrived on loan from an Italian museum, may lead to the reunification in Athens of all surviving Parthenon Sculptures — many of which are in the British Museum.
There are some things Remo Fernandes is embarrassed about but he wants to acknowledge in his memoir they did happen. The sexual repression that resulted from his Catholic upbringing is a big theme in this book.
“We feel better communally, and that insight over time is getting lost with individual counselling. As per Western standards, healing is considered to be this isolated thing you do, and you do it yourself but we’re not culturally brought up that way."
Tennis Australia and Novak Djokovic have not been each other’s best friends of late, but this public persecution of Tennis’ biggest star is more bureaucratic hubris than the enlightened response it wants to dress up as.
"We remain committed to bring the Festival back to Jaipur as an on-ground," organisers said in a statement.
"While conscience is good for spurring a change, it is less effective in sustaining a change. That’s why we need good economics and design to come in to sustain the action we want to see," says Mridula Ramesh.
“During the lockdown, disposable incomes of the high-end groups and businessmen had grown because they weren’t travelling, partying or attending weddings. Speculators disappeared, and serious collectors gained ground," says Dinesh Vazirani, CEO, Saffronart.
With his biography on Raj Kapoor, Rahul Rawail is not looking to ruffle feathers or provide cheap thrills. He is clearly in awe of the person that he is writing about, and this subjectivity is central to the book.
"If these white women start using this hashtag, and it gets popular, they will never believe that a Black woman in her 40s from the Bronx has been building a movement for the same purposes, using those exact words, for years now."
Long before the first European universities appeared, India already had multidisciplinary centres of learning that fuelled a knowledge revolution around the world. So, why this mess now?
The book would appeal to various kinds of people – those who enjoy reading about sports, those who like books on leadership, those who are curious about the lives of famous personalities, and those who thrive on self-help.
Thiebaud had started out as an animator for Walt Disney and later worked as a poster designer and commercial artist in California and New York before becoming a painter
He-man was the muscled frontman for toy manufacturer Mattel's Masters of the Universe franchise, which later spawned a popular animated series
She established a distinctive voice in American fiction before turning to political reporting and screenplay writing. But it was California, her native state, that provided her with her richest material.
Soon after wedding of Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal, the Internet went on fire with aspersions on how the actress footed the whopping wedding expenses
"Rumi's poetry for me is like an extension of the Indian ethos."
The right way to understand the difference between whisky and whiskey lies in its history and how one makes the spirit.
The bar is carefully checking COVID-19 health passes as visitors from Australia, Egypt, and beyond gather to sample the famed drink at Harry’s, whose patrons over the past century have included writers Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
“We did it,” Saisha Shinde wrote in an Instagram post soon after the news of the big win made headlines.
All 22 chapters of this book are bursting with anecdotes from Sanjeev Kumar's professional life. However, there is a chapter on his landmark films that also discusses his most fruitful collaboration with filmmaker Gulzar.
There is a crime, and there are clues, but the writing is not geared towards leading you to the culprit; there is a lot more going on in this novel
Backlash against Vishal Garg is indicative of how we misinterpret capitalism when employee rebellion is considered an avante garde act of artistic mutiny, whereas tacit survival instincts displayed by the captain of the ship are almost always framed as evil.
Abanindranath Tagore’s idea of Indianisation of art and Rabindranath Tagore’s essay The Hermitage inspired Jamini Roy into nationalism and searching for his roots.
The Goa Banyan Project places great attribution to Ostrom’s theory which utilises the idea of social capital, the latter referring to the idea of a set of shared values that allows individuals to work together in a group to effectively achieve a common purpose within the natural resources governance field.
The book’s title comes from a tattoo on Raina’s arm, which says, “BELIEVE”. It was inked to remember Tendulkar’s advice to him.
Salman Khurshid seems to be imbibing the Jinnah syndrome, assimilating the two contradictory traits, with the clear ascendancy of the faith over everything else
India, the hub of the South Asian publishing market, was growing in unprecedented ways before the pandemic caused the harshest possible operational disruptions