India's transition from black and white to colour, from simple clothes to branded fancy clothes and from regional languages to Queen's English, thanks to globalisation. However, it has flip side too - ...

On Tuesday, the state education department launched the first album which sets Marathi poetry to music. The department plans to do a similar thing for poems of other languages and multiplication ...

First there was the Prabhat film Sant Tukaram. I saw it as a child. For years afterwards Vishnupant Pagnis who played Tukaram was the saint incarnate for me. My favourite song was “Aadhi beej ekale”.

Publishing poetry is a movement. We want the poetry circle to grow. Today, poetry has a strong presence in India because poetry collections are coming out in larger numbers than ever before. As a ...

Announcing the country's highest literary honour in New Delhi on Sunday, the selection board said Karandikar was "perhaps the most experimental and most comprehensive of all modern Marathi poets". The ...

Sachin Tendulkar will recite his favourite Marathi poem to mark the opening of Marathi book festival. MUMBAI: Ace cricketer Sachin Tendulkar will don a new hat of a poet on October 30, at the Shivaji ...

On Monday, at a literary event hosted by the Chetana Shikshan Sanstha, in Bandra, writers, academicians and students turned ...

Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has announced a week-long celebration October 3 to 9 to honor the recently designated status of Marathi as a Classical Language. Mumbai News: ...

The initiative, spearheaded by the Maharashtra government in collaboration with the Marathi Language Ministry, the State Marathi Vikas Sanstha and the Shirwade-Vani Gram Panchayat, follows the success ...

Marathi Bhasha Diwas is celebrated on February 27 every year. This year marks 112th birth anniversary of renowned poet Vishnū Vāman Shirwādkar.(modeindia) Marathi Bhasha Diwas is celebrated on ...

Panaji: Union Minister for Railways Suresh Prabhu on Monday said that trains are not just a medium of transport but the heart and soul of India. Mr. Prabhu was speaking at a function to pay tributes ...