Arts

Chicago, March 8 (newsin.asia): Professor Balkrishna Doshi, of India, has been selected as the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, announced Tom Pritzker, Chairman of Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the award that is known internationally as architecture’s highest honor. Architect, urban planner, and educator for the past 70 years, Doshi has been instrumental in shaping the discourse of architecture throughout India...

New Delhi, March 2 (DD News India): India is undertaking a project to have its  own clothing sizes. The National Sizing Survey will be done by the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) using anthropometric data from a sample group between of 15 and 65 of age. The approximate cost of the project is Rs 300 million (US$ 4.6 million).. These...

Colombo, February 16 (newsin.asia): Sri Lanka and Bangladesh both which are founded on pride in their mother languages, Sinhala, Tamil an Bangla, will celebrate the International Mother Language Day in a colorful manner here on February 21. The event, to be held at the Vihara Mahadevi Park in the center of Colombo, would be organized by various Sri Lanka and...

Lahore/Karachi, February 9 ( The Express Tribune): Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat is facing  another censor board review in Pakistan even as it is running well in theaters there. In response to a petition in the Lahore High Court seeking its ban for   portraying Muslims in a negative light, the court asked the  Provincial Censor Board to see the film again and take...

Colombo, February 8 (newsin.asia): Wednesday’s stunning performance by a symphony orchestra comprising Sri Lankan and Indian musicians under the baton of Indo-American Viswa Subbaraman, led the audience to believe that it was time South Asia, torn by conflicts for the last 70 years, eschewed animosities and conflicts and got together to revive those strands of South Asian history which had...

Islamabad, February 7 (The Express Tribune): Pakistani Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has been recognized quite a few times for her activism in girls’ education. Thee 20-year-old, who is currently studying at the Oxford University, was recently honored in India with an epic mural painting, with the likes of famous singer Lata Mangeshkar and sportswoman Mary Kom. However, this is not...

Jaipur, February 7 (newsin.asia): After the Rajput Karni Sena took on the Sanjay Leela Bhansali's  film Padmavati, it is not the turn of the Sarva Brahmins of Rajasthan to raise objections about a Bollywood movie,  Kangana Ranaut’s upcoming period drama Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi. The script is based on the life of the 19th century queen of Jhansi, Rani Lakshmibai ,who...

By Purnima Pilapitiya Colombo, February 5 (Sunday Times): When Bangladeshi band Chirkutt took the stage at the 2018 Fairway Galle Literary Festival, audiences were treated to a unique brand of Bangla music which may even strike a chord at home in Sri Lanka. Many have tried to label the internationally acclaimed band from “urban folk”, to “bluegrass”, but its members...

By Lopamudra Maitra Bajpai As you walk into the spacious corridors of the first floor of Independence Square Arcade in Colombo, the din from the main road outside gradually fades into a soliloquy of architectural grandeur. A covered verandah or colonnade leads to the popular Independence Arcade movie theater across the right hallway over a wooden floor. The subtle and...

By Sadaf Haider/Dawn Padmaavat is based on Sufi poet Malik Mohammad Jayasi’s medieval poem about the beautiful Sinhalese princess who becomes the wife of Raja Rattan Singh. When a disloyal Brahmin is thrown out of the Raja’s court he seeks revenge by carrying tales of the Rani’s flawless beauty to the powerful Sultan of Delhi Alauddin Khilji, a passionate collector of...