Dubai International airport (File Photo AP) DUBAI: Long-haul carrier Emirates reported on Thursday that it earned annual profits of USD 5.2 billion, making it one of the world’s most-profitable airlines. The Dubai-based carrier served 53.7 million passengers out of its hub of Dubai International Airport, compared to 51.9 million passengers in the fiscal year prior. […]
Sonam Kalra wants to heal the world through music | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement “In February 2010, I was invited to perform at the Urs of Sufi Inayat Khan’s dargah in Delhi. It proved to be a turning point in my musical journey,” says singer Sonam Kalra. “A Sikh girl singing Gospel music being welcomed into an Islamic […]
After grandly unveiling lead actress Shubhangi, the maker has now released a poster featuring Game of Thrones star Iain Glen as Michael Simmons. Taking to social media, producer and director Anupam Kher shared, “I acted with Iain Glen (Game Of Thrones) in a #BBC three part series #MrsWilson. We became friends after the shoot. So […]
Change is inevitable, and more often than not, unpredictable and unconforming. It is the only thing that can challenge the status quo, and enable transformation. In his latest exhibit titled Metamorphosis, Phaneendra Nath Chaturvedi, 44, holds on to this idea of change and celebrates it through 59 pieces of carefully composed artworks. “For the last […]
A poster for ‘Bhool Chuk Maaf’ | Photo Credit: Prime Video Rajkummar Rao and Wamiqa Gabbi’s upcoming film Bhool Chuk Maaf will no longer release in cinemas as planned. The makers have decided to forgo a theatrical debut and will instead premiere the film directly on Prime Video on May 16. The shift in release […]
TIRANA: Albanians vote for a new parliament on Sunday, with socialist Edi Rama hoping to be prime minister again, stopping right-wing veteran Sali Berisha from a return to power.Leftist Prime Minister Edi Rama, a former basketball player who went to art school in Paris, is seeking his fourth term in office on a pledge to […]
Drishya Ashok with her winning poster By the third day of WAVES (World Audio Visual Entertainment Summit), the recent sarkari symposium held in Mumbai, I was tuckered out. Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered the inaugural address; thenceforth, sessions upon sessions — about cultural soft power, about innovation and the ‘orange economy’, about how Netflix created […]
Abraham Karimpanal (left) and Rohit Dave in the play The Train Driver staged by Gnatak | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT In 1979, a group of young people in Bengaluru — undergraduate students, doctors, engineers, and scientists — came together to form Gnatak, a theatre collective staging English plays that highlighted the lives of those on […]
Members of Last Minute India at a show | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Last Minute India’s new track ‘Main Sach Kahun’ is raw, real and emotional. The song is a heartfelt reflection of songwriter and composer Subodh Gupta’s emotional and psychological battles with alcohol addiction. Subodh, the founder of Last Minute India, and also the […]
For siblings Jeffrey Kochuveettil and Jonathan Kochuveettil, born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, a chenda (traditional Kerala percussion instrument) brought to the US by their grandfather Thomas Vattakatt during one of his visits in the ‘90s was not a mere novelty item but a relic of their roots in Thodupuzha, Kerala. The instrument slowly evolved […]
