PLAY WITH WORDS: Read and learn how words from India came to be used by the English. (pic: representative)
The borrowed history of English language
In The Secret Life of Words, Henry Hitchings argues that English was forced to borrow from invaders - Romans, Norse and French who came to Britain. Then it borrowed from people that the English traded with - Portuguese, Spanish, Italians and Arabs. Finally when the British Empire spread its wings it borrowed from communities it conquered.
'Lost' UK Booker Prize from 1970 to be awarded
A panel of three judges will decide on shortlist of six novels to be announced in March.
Reclusive US author JD Salinger dies at 91
Salinger wrote the post-war literary classic The Catcher in the Rye.
Art world gathers at the Jaipur Literature Festival
CNN-IBN quizzed festival co-directors Namita Gokhale and William Darlymple.
My children led me to write: Roddy Doyle 
He is among the prominent visitors at the Jaipur Literature Fest.
Book reviews
- 1. The Lost Symbol
- 2. Two States: The Story Of My Marriage
- 3. The Associate
- 4. The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay
- 5. Have a Little Faith
- 6. Gone tomorrow
- 7. Twenties Girl
- 8. The Empire of the Moghul
- 9. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest
- 10. Wolf hall
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