By Mousumi Ghose She is loved every night a thousand times, Thrown away in the morning. .. Like a rotten fruit or, An empty basin. Her velvet berth is painted red, Yet she longs for that pristine white bed…. Ruffled with her passion And fragrant from her lover’s breath. Before she can respond. … They […]
By Nidhi Kumari Prerna Bakshi, a writer, poet and activist of Indian origin from Australia, a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and the author of the recently released full-length poetry collection, Burnt Rotis, With Love, long-listed for the 2015 Erbacce-Press Poetry Award in the UK, gets candid in an exclusive interview with Indus Age. “Burnt Rotis, with love” a title good enough […]
By Sanjay B Jumaani All eyes are on the outcome of the 58th US Presidential elections; many have asked us to predict what lies in store for the most ‘Powerful’ country in the world. What do their Numbers depict? Will it be Donald who will blow his ‘Trump’et? Or Hillary have the last, hilarious laugh? […]
To suit the present times, mythology has its own interpretations by present generation writers. Read this unknown side of Shakuntala, a little different from what the Mahabharata had to say. Also to read are tales on the Allahabad of yore and of underage CEOs who are raising their ideas into careers. 1. Book: Shakuntala: The […]
Bengali poet Mandakranta Sen, who recently returned her Sahitya Akademi award, on Monday said the Akademi has written to her requesting she take it back, but that she will follow through with the ‘award wapsi’. “My stand remains the same. I still refuse to take it back. Even though the Akademi has condemned the killings […]
Veteran actress Shabana Azmi says the decision of several artistes and filmmakers to return their awards in protest against “a culture of intolerance” is a “symbolic gesture” of bigger things to come. “It’s not an either or. Artistes returning awards will also reflect their concern in their work but making a film, writing a book […]
Late former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was instrumental in making India touch the lunar surface on its maiden mission to moon in November 2008, a senior space scientist said on Friday. “When we made a presentation to President Kalam in 2004 on Chandrayaan-1 mission which was to orbit the moon at 100 km from its […]
By way of relief from the cacophony that passes for debate on prime time television, India’s ace anchor, Barkha Dutt, did a memorable interview the other night with historian Romila Thapar. It was memorable because the context against which this thoughtful conversation took place was so shoddy, and bleak. A man had been lynched at […]
Being an aide, a favourite student and a co-author with former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam for nearly a decade, Srijan Pal Singh says he meant much more to him than the world knew about him. “I miss Dr.Kalam every day. In fact, there’s a mobile phone that used to have only his number. This was […]
With UNindian all set to release on the 15th of October, the team of Indus Age who has been following the star cast of UNindian, caught up with Supriya Pathak Kapur, one of India’s highly regarded actresses and actor Akash Khurana who has made a mark in the Indian film industry with his impactful performances, […]