Vipasha Sharma, Author at Media India Group

Vipasha Sharma

Anay Saxena- the nine year old author

February 28, 2020

Anay Saxena, a nine-year-old from Jaipur, has already authored two books. A voracious reader of the works of Dav Pilkey and Jeff Kinney, he aspires to write like them someday. Saxena wrote his first book at the age of seven. Find out more about this young author, who is busy penn...

Fate of print media in the digital world

February 23, 2020

Magazines have always had a glamour and charm of their own. However, with the advent of internet and digital space, magazines and other print media has been facing challenges like loss of readership and dwindled sales. Nicholas Coleridge, former president of Condé Nast Internat...

Weekend wandering in Wetlands

February 22, 2020

Wetlands are disappearing three times faster than the forests due to human activities and global heating, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). With their disappearance, not only will the ecological aspects be lost but the immeasurable amount of scenic bea...

Recreating women empowerment

February 19, 2020

In a befitting tribute to one of India’s greatest painters, Raja Ravi Varma, a Chennai-based photographer G. Venket Ram has recreated 12 of Varma’s iconic paintings into photographs, in line with the theme of ‘celebrating the spirit of Indian Womanhood’. The project was t...

Lesser known heritage jewels of India

February 11, 2020

Though India has 6th largest number of sites in the world, recognised as World Heritage Site by UNESCO, tourists mainly flock to a handful, while a large number of other jewels of Indian heritage remain largely unexplored.

Union Budget 2020-21: Empowering the Digital Economy

February 6, 2020

In this age of digitilisation where every business, mega or minute, is finding its own digital space, what did the Union Budget 2020 have in store for this sector?

Coronavirus epidemic

February 3, 2020

With three identified cases of coronavirus in the returnees from Wuhan, is India up to the mark in tackling this menace? Is India equipped with the necessary healthcare capabilities required to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to a public health emergency? The second airlift ...

Disappearing Naga Literature

February 3, 2020

Naga literature has traditionally been passed over the generations orally. However, with the tribes moving outside Nagaland in search of jobs and new settlements, the rich Naga literature stands on the verge of disappearance. Easterine Kire, who happens to be the first one to d...

A wrap up of the 13th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival

January 28, 2020

Already a benchmark for literary festivals in Asia, the 13th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival that concluded on Monday in the pink city had a lot on its plate. From climate change and socio-economic challenges to regional literature, the festival also addressed the ongoing a...

The women warriors of Shaheen Bagh

January 22, 2020

For nearly two months now, hundreds of women, many of them grandmothers, have been leading a peaceful protest against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act in a part of New Delhi that has become icon of the rebirth of peaceful resistance against an autocratic power, exactly...

Gateway of Gateways

January 8, 2020

Historical Value The historical importance of the 26 metre (85 feet) high monument makes it worth visiting again and again. Made of yellow basalt and reinforced concrete, combining Indo-Saracenic style with 16th-century Maharashtrian architecture, the Gateway of India was ...