Jaipur Literary Festival
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Dia Mirza breaks down remembering basketball star Kobe Bryant at Jaipur Literature Festival 2020
Celebrities | Jan 28, 2020, 11:29 AM ISTDia Mirza broke down during a panel discussion on climate change at Jaipur Literature Festival. On being asked what made her emotional Dia referred to the news of the death of basketball star Kobe Bryant in a chopper crash.
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'Nari Shakti' declared Hindi word of 2018 by Oxford dictionaries
India | Jan 27, 2019, 07:11 AM ISTAccording to the Oxford dictionaries, the word has been derived from Sanskrit and is used today to symbolise women "taking charge of their lives".
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Jamia, DU teachers rally behind Ashis Nandy
India | Jan 28, 2013, 06:08 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jan 28: Teachers of Jamia Milia University and Delhi University have rallied to the support of social scientist Ashis Nandy whose remark linking Dalits, tribals and backward classes to “corruption” was pilloried at
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Rushdie Targets Congress
India | Mar 18, 2012, 07:34 AM ISTNew Delhi, Mar 18: In India two months after being forced to skip Jaipur Literary Festival, controversial author Salman Rushdie on Saturday hit out a Congress, suggesting that his presence there was blocked because of
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India Has More To It Than Poverty, Feels Oprah
Hollywood | Jan 22, 2012, 07:19 PM ISTJaipur, Jan 22: The traffic manners may have left her aghast, but the world's most celebrated talk show host Oprah Winfrey says she was impressed by India's “glorious” family tradition and would love to return