News & Media 2018
- Ex-secy Adhia in ‘meditation teacher’ roleYogacharya Surakshit Goswami’s meditation lesson for his audience at the Times Litfest Delhi on Sunday morning was followed by another from a teacher no one had quite expected — former finance secretary Hasmukh Adhia.
- Why it’s time for systems upgrade in 21st centuryDay two of the Times Litfest Delhi saw author Atul Khanna dwell on the Constitution where he said that our almost seven-decade-old founding document is “hugely unfit for the 21st century”.
- ‘Moditva is beyond Hindutva’“People don’t realise that here is a guy who is quite serious about religion.”
- Tharoor explains the idea behind Rahul’s temple runThe paradoxes up for discussion at the Times Litfest Delhi on Sunday morning were not limited to the ones Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has alluded to about Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his latest book.
- ‘A woman can be girly and strong-headed at the same time’Every woman has many facets and they are discovering new ones about themselves every day, said writer-advertising professional Anuja Chauhan.
- At Write India 2.0 finale, a new bookThe grand finale of Write India Season 2 concluded with the launch of a short stories book, a compilation with works by more than 100 contributors.
- The write code: It’s all in the nameWannabe writers, newbie novelists and aspiring authors made a beeline for a talk by popular writer Stephen Alter and Irish author Sean O’ Reilly.
- No such thing as absolute truth: Anand NeelakantanAnand Neelakantan burst onto the Indian literary scene with his debut novel Asura: Tale of the Vanquished, which broke into the top seller charts within a week of its launch in 2012.
- Why it’s time for a systems upgrade in the 21st centuryDay two of the Times Litfest saw author Atul Khanna dwell on the Constitution of India where he said that our almost seven-decade-old founding document is "hugely unfit for the 21st century".
- Ex-finance secy Adhia in ‘meditation teacher’ role Yogacharya Surakshit Goswami’s meditation lesson for his audience at the Times Litfest Delhi on Sunday morning was followed by another from a teacher no one had quite expected — former finance secretary Hasmukh Adhia.
- Rise of the script as the real star of Hindi filmsPeople snack on entertainment and there is always a need to get that ‘diet’ right, else there can be indigestion, filmmaker Prasoon Joshi said at the Times Litfest on Sunday.
- Missing in India’s telling of history: A woman’s voiceNew Delhi: In all the histories written in India through the ages, the feminine voice is conspicuous by its absence. The challenge for a new-age historian, therefore, is to find it.
- In Hindi films, script is now the real starNew Delhi: People snack on entertainment and there is always a need to get that ‘diet’ right, else there can be indigestion, filmmaker Prasoon Joshi said at the Times Litfest on Sunday.
- Hinduism is inclusive, aggressive political Hindutva its opposite, says Pavan VarmaThe political manifestation of Hindutva is aggressive, exclusionist and opposed to Hindu philosophy and thought, author and JD(U) member Pavan K Varma said on Sunday.
- "There's daily changes and there's daily growth" Joshua Pollock on heartfulness meditationJoshua Pollock on spoke on the benefits of heartfulness meditation and conducted a peaceful meditation.
- If children are given that space to grow they will grow: Dr Shelja SenDr Shelja Sen, Natasha Badhwar, Dr Samir Parikh and Nupur Dhingra Paiva spoke to TOI Write India winner Dr Roshan Radhakrishnan on the mental health difficulties the new generation faces.
- Why children need to cultivate the reading habit“Not only do many children lack reading skills, we also lack good materials which can make children interested in reading,” Saktibrata Sen, Program Director, Room to Read, said at Times Litfest 2018.
- The key to happiness: Not attitude but gratitudeIn the 2006 American flick, The Pursuit of Happyness, Will Smith’s character sums up the attitude of gratitude as the greater wealth to count our blessings every day.
- The write code: It’s all in the nameWannabe writers, newbie novelists and aspiring authors made a beeline for a talk by popular writer Stephen Alter and Irish author Sean O’ Reilly.
- The art of crafting a pageturnerThere are no formulae or rules of writing a pageturner but half of writing is about learning the craft and the rest is art, says crime fiction writer Clare Mackintosh.