External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar attended the launch of Vikram Sampath's book on Tipu Sultan, highlighting the ruler's resistance to ...

The Foundation for a Historical and Cultural Research (FIHCR) led by historian Vikram Sampath introduces the Sir Jadunath Sarkar Fellowship...

Vistara faced pilot shortages leading to the cancellation of over 45 flights, causing passenger dissatisfaction. Pilots reportedly reported...

Historian Vikram Sampath has hailed the manner in which the 400th birth anniversary of 17th century Ahom general Lachit Barphukan was celeb...

"I'd have called Nehru as Veer (brave) if he had survived jail for 14 minutes against Savarkar who stayed in prison for 14 long years," Tha...

Other participating artists include Magsaysay awardee TM Krishna, chitravina player Vidwan T Ravikiran. The event is non-ticketed and is op...

Gauhar Jaan was the first Indian voice to be recorded on the gramophone back in 1902. She cut close to 600 records in 20 languages.

The topic of discussion 'Are We Heading Toward an Intolerant India Today?' reached no real conclusion and the panelists taking political po...

Noted writer Shashi Deshpande, said the present scenario bore a "dreadful resemblance" to the McCarthy era in the US, when nobody was exemp...

Historian Ramachandra Guha, who came forward to support the BLF, says that in today's day and age, politics and ideologies are inescapable

BLF Director speaks out about the controversy around the festival and how it has overcome lows to stand up this weekend.

After Kannada poet Arif Raja and writer TK Dayanand, senior writer and literary critic OL Nagabhushana Swamy withdrew from the Bangalore Li...

Following three Kannada writers - TK Dayanand, Airf Raja and OL Nagabhushana Swamy - boycotting the Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF) in ...

This move comes in the wake of festival director and author Vikram Sampath's public stand against writers returning their awards and agains...

Introduction of literary awards in three categories -fiction, nonfiction and literary achievement in Kannada -will be the other highlight.

A task team is working towards creating a "worldclass curriculum" that will make heritage-management an academic discipline.

BLF seeks to democratise literature with balanced representation of English and regional languages to encourage a new generation of readers...