IBNS: Author, administrative officer, litterateur and conversationalist, Yatish Kumar, conducted an hour-long lively discussion on translating from Hindi and Urdu to English with Daisy Rockwell, Baran Farooqi and Poonam Saxena during the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Festival 2023 at the lawns of the iconic Victoria Memorial, Kolkata. Excerpts of the…

IBNS: Fatima Shaik, award-winning American writer, was till recently teaching in a college in New York. In search of her roots, a few years back she came to Kolkata, from where her grandfather had migrated to the US. This forms the core of a documentary The Bengali. In a tete…

IBNS: It was an evening dedicated to valour and sacrifice of those who showed exemplary courage in the face of death while fighting for their Motherland. Purnima Sharma reports the launch of ‘India’s Most Fearless 3 — New Military Stories of Unimaginable Courage and Sacrifice’ at an event that brought…

Kolkata/IBNS: Starting on February 3 this year is the fourth edition of the Behala Art Fest, a street art festival, in the southern part of Kolkata. Although a baby compared to one of India’s most established street arts festival — the Kala Ghoda Festival of Mumbai — the Behala Art…

CMEDIA: Creators of 16 films by National Film Board of Canada (NFB) are being featured in the 2023 Available Light Film Festival (ALFF) in Whitehorse from February 9 through 19 — including a powerful selection of new and classic Indigenous and Northern works. Yukon premieres Ever Deadly by Tanya Tagaq…

IBNS: 2022 is over and so Fareportal online travel agency brand CheapOair is sharing its take on the travel and tourism trends shaping up for 2023. …

Toronto/CMEDIA: International Youth Canada (IYC) organized a special event”Chai with CG” on January 24, in Toronto bringing together 22 student leaders from Ontario Colleges and Universities, educators , and members of the community youth groups. In ‘Chai with CG’, a platform that has come up as the inspiring driving force for international students in Canada, several key issues and challenges faced by international students in Canada were discussed by the Student leaders with Apoorva Srivastava, Consul General of India Toronto.

IBNS: With the number of social media users expected to touch six billion in 2027, a new, dynamic market is emerging. South Asian women entrepreneurs are here to reach that whole new world of consumers as they break the stereotypes and patriarchal norms. Anum Hanif, Lubna Jerar Naqvi…