New Delhi: Contemporary Indian popular fiction that narrates "desi" cosmopolitan stories has been mirroring the changing man-woman relationship in a more open and accepting urban India, a leading literary agent says. Even 10 years ago, romantic novels spun stories about a man and one woman, whose sacrosanct monogamous love twisted and turned its way to the altar after epic struggles. Brazen romantic love as a subject of mass fiction was...
01:54 PM, May 16, 2012
Author Niven Govinden's 'Black Bread White Beer' captures the inner lives of this thirty something, upwardly mobile couple as it deals with festering, unaddressed issues-mixed-race marriages, parental pressures, the tension between humanism and organized religion-and the loss of their unborn child. With Amal and Claud on the verge of true commitment and true adulthood, 'Black Bread White Beer' casts a critical eye on a society in which, despite never-ending advances...
05:20 PM, May 10, 2012
Over the past 3 years or let's say after the birth of my daughter Sia, I have made quite a set of new friends. That's ...
10:52 AM, May 07, 2012
London: A woman dentist in Poland is facing jail after she allegedly pulled out all her former boyfriend's teeth because he dumped her for another woman. Anna Mackowiak, 34, took revenge on 45-year-old Marek Olszewski when he turned up at her clinic with toothache just days after breaking up with her, the Daily Mail reported. She gave him a heavy dose of anaesthetic and plucked all his teeth out. She...
07:34 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Mumbai: With the arrest of Kamlesh Khairnar (37) and two of his relatives, the Ulhasnagar Crime Branch officials have solved the Damyanti Dattatray Khairnar murder case. A former assistant sub-inspector with the Thane rural police, Damyanti (56), was found murdered at her residence on April 17. She was a widow and lived alone. According to the police, Kamlesh, Damyanti's son, killed her over her relationship with a retired sub-inspector. The...
08:45 AM, Apr 22, 2012
Jalgaon: In a suspected case of honour killing, a 19-year-old girl was allegedly strangled to death by her father, uncle and grandmother, in Jalgaon, Maharashtra, for reportedly having a relationship with a neighbour who, the family says, belonged to a different caste. Manisha, the victim, was strangled to death on the night of March 12, as she lay asleep. Her body was dumped around 30 km away. The incident came...
09:29 AM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: India should have sent its troops back to Sri Lanka to kill or capture Prabhakaran and the LTTE leadership after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, says a new book by a former US diplomat. Rajiv Gandhi's killing was an attack on India's status as a regional power. Forcibly bringing Prabhakaran to India to face trial would have sent a clear message to the region, and the world, that...
11:37 AM, Apr 03, 2012
We, as adults, often reminisce about our adolescence with fondness. Those great years with no worry about life and career, the first crush, the first ...
11:48 AM, Mar 28, 2012
London: Reality TV star Kim Kardashian says she still believes in the power of love. The 31-year-old, who split from basketball player Kris Humphries last October after just 72 days of marriage, is still hopeful of falling in love again, reported Showbizspy. "I learned so much, and the things I care about in my life have completely changed. I still believe in love. I am in love with love. I...
01:56 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Islamabad: The crucial joint session of Pakistan Parliament that will endorse new terms of engagement with the US began in Islamabad on Tuesday following a string of crises, including the November 26 NATO strike, that took relations to an all-time low. The joint session of the Senate and National Assembly, summoned by President Asif Ali Zardari, will debate the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security for revamping the...
02:53 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Washington: The US is unlikely to achieve much beyond resumption of logistic support from Pakistan, two former diplomats have warned. The warning comes ahead of the crucial meeting of Pakistan Parliament's discussion on its relationship with the US. "The hope of a common strategy in Afghanistan is completely unrealistic," Teresita and Howard Schaffer wrote in their latest piece on the website of the Foreign Policy magazine. They were recently in...
07:37 AM, Mar 20, 2012
Nagpur: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Friday said live-in relationships must be discouraged in the country as it is 'against humanity and Indian culture'. "The Sangh is against live-in relationships because it is against humanity, and also against the Indian traditions and culture," RSS joint secretary Dattatraya Hosbale said, speaking to reporters on the first day of 'Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha', the outfit's highest decision-making body. Live-in relationships should be...
06:12 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Ghaziabad: Batting for "live-in relationships", Team Anna member and former Union minister Shanti Bhushan has said people should accept it in the context of changing society rather than protest. "Social values are changing fast and we should accept it (live-in relationships) rather to protest or go against these values," Bhushan, who was here to attend a function last evening, said. Referring to the Assembly polls' results in five states, he...
06:01 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Democracy is rough road littered with potholes. Either you avoid them and play safe, or you fill them up for a smoother ride in the ...
01:16 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Amritsar: A young girl into a live-in relationship for the past one year, was allegedly beheaded by unidentified assailants in Maqboolpura locality in Amritsar, police said on Thursday. Parveen, 20, was living with a man named Luvjeet, who was recently put behind bars in connection with a rape case. On Wednesday, when the girl was alone in the house, unidentified miscreants beheaded her and kept her body in another corner...
03:46 PM, Mar 01, 2012
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