In the run-up to this investor meet in Singapore, Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) worth about INR 12.5 trillion (about USD 148.9 billion/ SGD 195 billion) were signed between Rajasthan and companies within and outside India.
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EXCLUSIVE: Something sparked when Dev Anand, Vijay Anand came together, says ‘Hum Dono The Dev and Goldie Story’ author Tanuja Chaturvedi
Asked how the book came about, Tanuja says it started six years ago. This, too, was by chance. Tanuja, who taught at a film school, says she was appalled to see the lack of knowledge amongst students about renowned film makers like Guru Dutt. She took it upon herself to educate her pupils about Indian cinema.
Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan urges “return to basics” for UN system amid “deficit of global leadership”
Balakrishnan delivered Singapore’s national statement at the General Debate of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York on 28 September 2024. In this speech, he reiterated several times that Singapore was a “small state” and, as such, saw a rules-based world as an absolute necessity, not an optional luxury.
Harried To Be Married: Pushpendra Sharma’s debut novel is a culmination of his longstanding curiosity about arranged marriages
Set in the mid 1990s, the story follows Nikhil Jha — a Wall Street investment banker — and the emotional blackmail he faces from his mother, who wants nothing more in the world than to see her son get married.
A for India: Bill Gates impressed by nation’s focus on eliminating malnutrition
The Gates Foundation’s Goalkeepers Report is an annual document that tracks progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Foundation is one of the biggest funding agencies in the global efforts to bring down malnutrition.
I live my acting dream via writing, says Singapore Indian playwright Tanuj Khosla, creator of solo act thriller My Dear Arvind
The remarkable thing about the play is how well Khosla, a male playwright, has captured a woman’s hopes and expectations and disappointments normally associated with a female hand penning the words.
Bangalore’s Cubbon Park poet Ruby Naaz asks mums to pull down patriarchy in heartfelt open letter
Ruby, who collaborated with Connected to India for the poem, titled, Hello Mother, wrote it amid the growing violence and atrocities against women in India, the recent being the brutal rape and murder of a junior lady doctor at the state-run RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata, the state capital of eastern India’s West Bengal.
Author Savie Karnel shares a 14-year-old spy’s story that was 14 years in the making
Though she knew with conviction that the young Laxmi Panda’s story would also have to be told, Savie Karnel began work on this book only in 2022, following that first interaction in 2008.
Filmmaker Vikram Singh’s ‘happy accident’ led to his debut novel Sinema: The Bollywood Bungle of Andy Duggal
The 360-page book is an insider’s take on Bollywood — India’s glittery cinema industry based out of Mumbai — without getting either too preachy or sycophantic about the industry where he has worked in excess of 30 years.
How to reject casual racism? SM Lee Hsien Loong tells Singapore youth ahead of National Day 2024
Upon witnessing an instance of casual racism, SM Lee said, “we have to express disapproval, and if it is done with ill intent, we have to be quite firm to come down and put it down”. At the same time, he advised, “we should not become hypersensitive”.
