http://www.dnaindia.com/ dnaindia.com delivers news and information on the latest top stories, sport, entertainment, business, technology, Mumbai, India, world and more. en-us COPYRIGHT @ 2008 DILIGENT MEDIA CORPORATION LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED XML::RSS Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:10:48 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/syndication/ 10 http://www.dnaindia.com/images/logo_dna_rss.gif http://www.dnaindia.com/ 31 88 dnaindia.com delivers news and information on the latest top stories, sport, entertainment, politics, India, World and more. http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1211916 The main argument of Seema Alavi's book is quite simple and very interesting. She traces the fortunes of the Unani system Sat, 6 Dec 2008 22:05:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1211915 From the ancient representations of same-sex love (Vyas's Mahabharata) to modern day portrayals (Deepa Mehta's Fire), this book traverses a wide ground and includes many voices Sat, 6 Dec 2008 22:03:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1208624 The challenges examined by Patten are wide-ranging: he looks at the state of the world today, engages in a quick survey of recent history Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:26:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1208623 Modern India's most enduring tale deals, quite rightly, with the antics and problems of a schoolboy in a provincial town. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:25:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1208626 The nationalistic fervour that preceded India's partition isn't a subject that one encounters often in English Indian fiction. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:31:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1208625 A South Bombay acquaintance once told me about a woman in his part of the city who snootily informed her friends that she flew Business Class only. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:29:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1206769 Goa means different things to different people. To tourists, it's one of India's happening places and a hot destination for New Year bashes. Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:54:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1206768 The second book is always a problem. For one, it has to be as good as the first one, if not better. Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:52:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1206767 We will now look at his performance, and we will begin with what he did inside India. His first concern was to see that India did not fall apart. Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:49:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1204700 From left to right, Hemnat Morparia's unerring take, roadside clean-up on Pedder Road and two varieties of Mumbai fast food at Haji Ali, both by Dehejia Sat, 8 Nov 2008 20:43:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1204699 Marathi writer SN Navre recently got the GD Madgulkar award for writing on cinema. Sat, 8 Nov 2008 20:39:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1204697 Alice Schroeder not only gives a compelling account of Warren Buffet the man but also maps his tumultuous career spanning several decades in which he rose to be the richest man in the planet Sat, 8 Nov 2008 20:36:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1204698 A potted history of Hindutva sectarianism that reminds people of the pitfalls of an ideology based on hatred and violence Sat, 8 Nov 2008 19:37:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1202571 The writer of this book is not a historian. She is a medical doctor Sat, 1 Nov 2008 21:39:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1202570 The Oregon traverses the globe in search of a group of 'well-meaning' bio-terrorists hell-bent on rendering half the world sterile. Sat, 1 Nov 2008 21:38:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1202569 In the opening pages of the book, Zaheer's feisty young heroine, Safia Jafri decides to shed her purdah while entering her marital home Sat, 1 Nov 2008 21:37:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1202568 EF Schumacher wrote the cult classic Small is Beautiful based on an essay titled 'Chestertonian Economics.' Sat, 1 Nov 2008 21:36:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1202572 The photographs in this book, from the Alkazi Collection of Photography, throw light on socio-political life Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:41:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1201170 Books on art nowadays are usually hagiographic assessments of an artist's works or glossy, coffee table productions mainly produced for (someone's) vanity. Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:22:00 GMT http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1201169 I realised that history, mythology, culture and politics of India and Pakistan could be told through the Indus. The river has so many stories to narrate. Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:20:00 GMT