Category: Arts
Mere Apne : Meena Kumari’s tearful goodbye
‘Mere Apne’ is one of those Gulzar films which stays with you long after you have seen it. It is about youth unrest and changing values in independent India.About an […]
Himachal Kullu Nati sets Guinness Book record
Shimla : A colourful Himalayan valley dance has made it to the Guinness World Book records as the largest group dance of its kind. Nati is the pahari dialect word […]
Folk singer Het Ram Tanwar no more
Shimla: Famous folk singer and President’s award winner Het Ram Tanwar passed away in his native village of Hatkot in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh. Reports reaching late here said […]
Shimla to have Book Cafe soon
Shimla is all set to have a book cafe in the heart of the hill station. Here people can read books along with tea, coffee and snacks. “This will be […]
Kullu Natti to enter Guiness Book
More than 13,000 Kullu Natti dancers men and women are getting ready for a mass dance in Kullu’s Dhalpur ground on Oct 26 and enter the Guiness Book of World […]
Dalrymple shines at Kasauli Lit Fest
Day 2 of the Kasauli Literary Festival was dominated by William Dalrymple as he held the audience spellbound with his talk on his most recent book The Return of a […]
Khushwant tributes flow at Kasauli Lit Fest
The opening day of the Kasauli Literary Festival was dominated by tributes to Khushwant Singh here Friday.This year he would have turned 100. The speakers included his son Rahul Singh, […]
Highway of Imtiaz Ali
Spectacular photography in real locations across six states. From the deserts of Rajasthan across crowded Delhi, the Punjab and then Himachal’s Kinnaur, Spiti, Chamba and finally Kashmir. Imtiaz Ali’s Highway […]
Safar the unforgettable classic
In an era of melodrama this is one film which stands out for the lack of melodrama. It stands out for controlled performances by Rajesh Khanna,Sharmila Tagore, Feroz Khan, I […]
Himachal’s mesmerising Nati dance
Nati is to Himachalis what bhangra is to Punjabis.But the pace of a Nati dance can be slow as a snail and as fast as a hare. The most common […]