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29 September 2011 9:28 AM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »

GQ India.s Men of the Year Awards, in association with Chivas, commemorated the most outstanding Indian achievers of 2011. In the third year of the awards, GQ honoured 15 extraordinary Indian men and 2 exceptional women, the finest talents in their areas of expertise, from sports to business, film, literature, art and fashion.Hosted by Vir Das, the evening was brimming with laughter and champagne-fuelled celebration; the audience was entertained by spectacular performances by Grammy-award nominee Melanie Fiona and popular Romanian artist group Akcent, who added to the exuberance of the evening.The star-studded ceremony saw winners including Shahrukh Khan (Cinematic Icon),  Farhan Akhtar (Creative Power House), A.R. Rahman (GQ Legend),  Imran Khan (Chivas Award for Outstanding Achievement), Kumar Manglam Birla (Businessman of the year), Yuvraj Singh (Sportsman of the year) and Frieda Pinto (Woman of the year) and Anushka Sharma (Excellence Award) among others. Other than the winners, gracing the red »

31 May 2011 6:55 AM, PDT | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »

New Delhi, May 31: Yesteryear actress and TV host Simi Garewal is back on the small screen with a brand new show and she will get candid with India's most desirable single celebrities like Priyanka Chopra, Ranbir Kapoor, Yuvraj Singh and Siddhartha Mallya.

Ready to go on air June 12 on Star World, "Simi Selects: India's Most Desirable" will give an insight about what makes these celebrities. »

- realbollywood

11 May 2011 1:03 PM, PDT | www.culturecatch.com | See recent CultureCatch news »

As the publisher's website explains, New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914-1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalled. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful."

Few American publishers have been more useful to the cause of poetry. Yes, Nd has published much great prose as well, both original (notably a huge number of Henry Miller essay collections), and in translation (Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, the success of which funded many other projects; Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea) or reprinted/collected (Delmore Schwartz's In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories), but poetry -- less often supported by the major presses, especially early in a poet’s career -- is where the press has made its biggest impact. »

- SteveHoltje

3 items from 2011