Bangkok: For people who have stood at a monument or scanned a landscape - the Great Wall of China, for instance, or the US Grand Canyon - and wondered how it looked 100 or more years ago, there is now an app for you. Historypin, on iOS and Android platforms, strives to create a collection of memories about locations by counting on people to dig up and digitise old photographs...
07:08 PM, Sep 12, 2011
Mumbai: A television serial based on Mahatma Gandhi's life will soon be telecast on Doordarshan. The serial titled 'Gandhi - a journey of Mahatma', will have over 300 episodes depicting the life of the Father of The Nation. Rajendra Upadhayay, a well known theatre activist, who has done extensive research for 15 years on the life of theMahatma, has scripted the mega serial. Legendary singer Jagjit Singh has sung the...
12:35 PM, Sep 12, 2011
CNN-IBN in association with History channel presents an exclusive documentary on ten years of the attack that changed the world forever. ...
11:34 AM, Sep 08, 2011
The primary protagonist is an albino, a mute, a poet in an age of Inquisition, and a woman, a young one at that. Whats more is that the young girl has quite a concept in place about freedom and the status of women in society. Auda, as she is called, is very much a contemporary feminist woman, who believes that women should have a choice of men they wish to...
06:59 PM, Aug 17, 2011
I can say with certainty that 'River of Smoke' will and does not disappoint fans of the Ibis saga. Ghosh has crafted a book that draws the reader into the personal stories of his characters, while giving us a rarely-described perspective on history. In some ways, this is a fabulous piece to read with books like Heart of Darkness (what did the communities on the shore think?) or even Confessions...
12:20 PM, Jul 26, 2011
Amitav Ghosh in a special interview to CNN-IBN speaks about on his new book 'River of Smoke', the sequel to 'Sea of Poppies'. ...
03:12 PM, Jun 19, 2011
New Delhi: Indira Gandhi was responsible for Congress' downfall in North India, says an official book sanctioned by the party and edited by senior party leader and Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukharjee. The book titled 'A Centenary History of the Indian National Congress', meant to commemorate 125 years of the Congress, has blamed the former prime minister for the damage caused to the party's electoral base in north India, particularly...
11:27 AM, May 30, 2011
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama once commented on George Bush by saying, "He brings out the Muslim in me." Put with all the delicacy and ...
06:31 PM, May 20, 2011
London: A letter penned by the future King Edward VIII to his mistress depicts him as a starry-eyed, incurable romantic, years before his sensational decision to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson cost him the British throne. The hand-written letter sent to married socialite Freda Dudley Ward shows him to be head over heels in love 17 years before his devotion to Simpson plunged the monarchy into crisis. His decision to abdicate...
05:02 PM, Mar 25, 2011
New Delhi: Historian and professor Niall Ferguson's latest book 'Civilization - the West and the Rest' looks to pack in 600 years of history into 300-odd pages. Examining the predominance of the west and why that may be coming to an end. Ferguson said, "I wanted to write a book of history of the past 600 years. In my new book civilisaiton I argue that there are six killer applications,...
08:47 AM, Mar 25, 2011
London: Britain may have masterminded a plot to kill Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin after the First World War, new documents suggest. For a century, the story was dismissed as fiction. But 90 years on, new documents indicate that Robert Bruce Lockhart -- London's representative in Moscow -- was involved in a plot which saw Lenin shot twice by a Russian woman in 1918. The story of this plot was taught...
05:27 PM, Mar 22, 2011
London: A five-year-old girl in Britain has found a massive 160 million-year-old fossil while digging with her plastic beach spade. Emily Baldry found the pre-historic specimen at Cotswold Water Park in Gloucestershire, Daily Express reported Friday. She was digging when her plastic spade struck something hard. Her father Jon and palaeontologist Neville Hollingworth helped Emily dig it out and were left amazed to find a rare fossil. It was of...
05:46 PM, Mar 18, 2011
Jerusalem: The archive of Albert Einstein will be digitised and made accessible online within a year, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said on Monday. Einstein, who died in 1955, bequeathed his papers to the university, which he co-founded. The archive holds more than 80,000 documents of the Jewish, German-born scientist regarded as the father of modern physics. "It is the most important collection of his papers and an important collection...
10:34 AM, Mar 15, 2011
Moscow: A love letter by Napoleon Bonaparte, addressed to his first wife Josephine de Beauharnais in 1796, will go under the hammer Saturday in Moscow. In his letter, the future French emperor and military genius, then 26, confesses to Josephine, then 32, that glory is a value to him only because it flatters her, and complains that her feelings toward him are nothing but a whim. The love letter of...
10:35 AM, Feb 26, 2011
London: Neanderthals may have had used feathers as ornaments 44,000 years ago, claim archaeologists, adding fuel to the debate whether our distant cousins were simple brutes or a bit cultured. A team, led by Marco Peresani of University of Ferrara in Italy, has based its findings after finding nearly 660 bird bones mixed with Neanderthal bones in Fumane cave in northern Italy. Many of the wing bones were cut and...
04:51 PM, Feb 22, 2011
New York: Having a parent with a history of heart disease almost doubles a person's risk of also getting heart disease, regardless of ethnicity or country, according to an international study. The study, which involved patients in 52 countries and appeared in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, also suggested that if your parents had a heart attack, changing your behavior to more healthy patterns, while helpful, isn't...
10:31 AM, Jan 27, 2011
Hyderabad:The demand for Telangana is one of the oldest concerns for a separate state in independent India. It has seen its share of talks and violence since the early 1960s. Here's looking back to understand what the Telengana agitation is all about. Telangana is a region comprising ten of Andhra Pradesh's 23 districts. Originally, the region was part of the erstwhile Nizam's princely state of Hyderabad. In 1948, India put...
11:03 AM, Jan 06, 2011
History of Hate by Kanishka Gupta, a literary agent who runs the Writer's side - India’s first manuscript assessment and editing service for both first-time and established writers, will be published by Rupa & Co in 2010. An excerpt from the novel: They start walking towards the exit when a young man with belts dangling from his hands stands right in front of them. ‘Pure leather at a very cheap...
05:47 PM, Sep 21, 2010
The new joint venture between AETN and Network18 will now launch History and BIO in India. ...
12:53 PM, Aug 04, 2010
