In picture: Oliver Stone's son Sean Stone Dubai: Sean Stone, son of Oscar-winning U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone, has converted to Islam while on a visit to Iran, the semi-official Fars news agency...

Arundhati Roy is India’s best-known polemicist. That she is intelligent, articulate, camera-friendly and media-savvy too has helped, in no small measure, to build her image as an iconic writer,...

Brussels – Senior European and Asian officials will meet in Hanoi on October 3-4 for the Green Growth Forum, an ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) initiative to discuss moves towards a green, low-carbon...

A slim 47-page booklet forms the kernel of this book; the rest is mere padding in the form of introduction, appendices and notes. However, the 47 pages of Iqbal contain much that is illuminating and...

It was with great pride that I watched Shahryar receive the country's highest literary award, the venerable Jnanpith, being conferred upon him on Sunday, 18th September 2011. That the person giving...

BOOK REVIEW--From Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History by Tariq Rahman (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan), 2011; pp 456, Rs695. One of the unprecedented phenomena in the history of the...

New Delhi: Zehra Nigah is a much loved and highly respected poet in Pakistan. In India she is an eagerly awaited figure on the mushaira circuit, especially the annual Indo-Pak mushaira hosted by the...

A good storyteller is unlikely to be short of friends, or at least of a group of people gathered curiously around. But if the story told is so distressing as to repel its listeners, then it is up to...

A trip to Lahore is incomplete without a visit to Faiz Ghar. Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911-1984) wrote poetry that was at once passionate, direct, impetuous, that appealed with a startling near-prophetic...

Mecca: Come Ramzan, beggars are seen like bacteria swarming into mosques. An obnoxious sight which not only puts us off while going to a mosque but hurts us from within as to why only mosques are...

DUBAI – In his desperate search for happiness, the life of Chauncey Lamont Hawkins, a former US rapper who enjoyed life luxuries of fame and money, has totally changed after a visit to the Gulf...

According to a South African Newspaper Independent Online, Wayne Parnell has converted to Islamic faith. Wayne Parnell has converted to Islam after a period of personal study and reflection and will...

London: British Actress Myriam Francois-Cerrah has recently embraced Islam after she was inspired by the life of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad S.A.. Cerrah is one of top actresses on Britain and popular...

Bollywood's style icon of the 50s and who was one of the first true blue superstars Shammi Kapoor died around 7 a.m. this morning at Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital. The veteran actor was serious...

I am a child of the sixties. I grew up in a country that still had vestiges of Nehruvian idealism and traces of the self-sufficient self-assurance that helped win its freedom. Universities and...

Ahmad Faraz once told me a very interesting anecdote. I was driving him to the Delhi airport, we were stuck in traffic and I was worried he might miss his flight. Faraz sahib, in his...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Oil prices were bouncing back Tuesday morning after a dramatic plunge to a year low the day before, as anxiety over a double-dip recession found some relief ahead of the...

The October contract on the Multi Commodity Exchange of India was at Rs 25,540, up Rs 298 from its previous close. In morning benchmark gold futures extended gains by more than 3 per cent and hit...