A young girl from Pakistan has won the 29th World Memory Championships global finals, beating more than 300 competitors from all over the world
Repositioning India as the Capital of Buddhist Tourism: A Blueprint for a Global Destination
Buddhist tourism as an important tool of India’s soft power. The shared Buddhist heritage can help develop cultural ties with Japan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Mongolia, South Korea, Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, and several other Buddhist-majority nations through cooperation in archaeology, monk-to-monk dialogues, youth programs, academic exchanges, and cultural festivals
Mohenjo-daro’s ‘Dancing Girl’: The Silence Surrounding Women in Public History
Mohenjo-daro offers South Asia an opportunity to look backwards without dividing the past into national possessions, and to recognise that the region’s cultural memory is older and more interconnected than its modern inheritors.
How a Film by a Boston-Based Immigrant is Dismantling the Model-Minority Concept
Jam Boy represents a much-needed question for the South Asia diaspora, about why it takes a third aggressor for us to see the common struggles that we share, and why it is only in these situations that we remember that our ideas of home are the same.
Goals Beyond Borders: Can Bangladesh Leverage its Football Craze as a Soft-power Tool?
Beyond the ambassadors of Brazil, Argentina, and Norway, the ambassadors of France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Morocco, and Egypt have also been drawing on their countries' football heritage to deepen cultural engagement with the football-crazy people of Bangladesh.
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Sri Lanka's cinema theatres to get grace period for settling bills
Sri Lanka's Minister of Power and Energy – Dullas Alahapperuma has agreed to grant a one year grace period for cinema theater owners to settle due electricity bills, Sri Lanka National Film Corporation announced on Friday (Jan. 01)
Of Pakistan’s continued obsession with good, bad and ugly of Bollywood
The welcome news of ancestral homes in Peshawar belonging to Bollywood legends Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor being restored to eventually become tourist attractions in Pakistan seems to have helped in the yearend realisation of the common cultural heritage of both countries, despite their perennial political antagonisms and military rivalies
Afghan minaret listed as ICESCO heritage site
Minaret of Jam, located in western Ghor province, becomes the first site inside Afghanistan to be listed among the Islamic World Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ICESCO) heritage sites, TOLOnews reported
Cricketer Rashid Khan brings joy on Afghan faces
Afghan cricketer Rashid Khan brought rare joy to the faces of not only Afghan cricket fans but for the entire nation caught in a vortex of war and violence
Kathmandu’s umbrella street brings cheers and jeers
While the streets of Kathmandu reverberate with slogans against Nepal PM Oli government’s decision to dissolve the House of Representatives, a road section in the heart of the city echoes with laughter and chatter
Three daughters of a farmer script history, get Ph.D. together in Rajasthan village
Born to a farmer who tilled the land at night and worked at his shoe shop in the day, three sisters from a Rajasthan village scripted history as they were awarded Ph.D. degrees together from a university situated in Jhunjhunu district in India's desert state
This dog lover uses discarded TV sets to house strays
Discarded domestic items need not always be thrown away; these can also be utilized to build animal shelter homes
Bangladesh’s Osama listed as Asia's Top Outstanding Youth Marketer 2020
Youth Opportunities co-founder Osama Bin Noor has been recognized as one of Asia's Top Outstanding Youth Marketer of the Year 2020
Indian envoy seeks more bilateral collaboration through art with Bangladesh
Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram K Doraiswami today laid emphasis on an increased collaboration between Bangladeshi and Indian young artists to put together new ideas of art and reach out to more people through art
Christians in Pakistan celebrate Christmas
Christians in Pakistan celebrated Christmas on Friday, with special prayers held across the country
Sri Lanka to reopen movie theaters from January 1
Movie theaters across Sri Lanka will be reopened from January 1, 2021 with limited seating capacity, the National Film Corporation said
Overcoming 'hesitations of history': Uniting South Asia through 'symphony'
“Let us sweat in peace, not bleed in war,” the famous words of Indian Ambassador Vijayalakshmi Pandit before the United Nations has been the motto of The South Asia Symphony Foundation, a Bengaluru-based foundation that works toward building peace and mutual understanding in the disunited South Asian region through the medium of music
Bollywood veteran Dharmendra honored by New Jersey Senate
Bollywood veteran Dharmendra was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the State of New Jersey in the United States by a Joint Legislative Resolution passed by the Senate and the General Assembly
Role reversal: Indian farm protests shatter many stereotypes
In the 'Tent City' near the Singhu border of Delhi, the 'ground zero' of the weeks' long Indian farmers' swelling protests, Kanu Priya, 24, is giving instructions
