New Delhi: Perceived as a byword for sex and appropriated over centuries to sell products and services with sexual implications, the Kama Sutra is shedding its 'closet status' and could soon be mainstream reading, says AND Haksar, whose book on the ancient text in now in paperback. "I feel that the book, which has been seen only in terms of sex, is receiving the kind of notice which I feel...
03:21:24 PM Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister and the Bharatiya Janata Party's potential prime minister in waiting Narendra Modi is not just the subject of debate in television studios but in the literary world as well. There are two books on the man, both written by journalists that are now out. Wherever one stands on the political spectrum, there is no question of ignoring CM Narendra Modi and that's something publishers are...
11:59:19 AM Apr 26, 2013
Author Kishwar Desai has released a book which reflects the increasing crimes against women in the country. CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose was part of the panel discussion at the launch. ...
09:08:49 AM Apr 22, 2013
Lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar launched a book by young budding poet Sanil Sachar, the grandson of Justice Sachar, in the capital on Friday. ...
06:40:23 PM Apr 13, 2013
The Commonwealth Foundation has announced shortlists for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The Commonwealth Book Prize is awarded for the best first novel, and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the best piece of unpublished short fiction. Writers from around the world have been shortlisted in anticipation of being announced as overall winners at Hay Festival, on 31 May 2013. Political, religious and social conflict...
06:10:56 PM Apr 11, 2013
Writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who won an Oscar as well as Booker prize and lived in India for more than two decades, died today in the US. Jhabvala, 85, breathed her last at her home in Manhattan after a long illness. ...
10:44:33 PM Apr 03, 2013
Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it plans to acquire the book recommendation website, Goodreads. ...
02:19:06 PM Mar 29, 2013
A book offering advice on how to protect chicken coops from goblins has won the Oddest Book Title of the Year award, organisers of the contest said on Friday. ...
02:09:49 PM Mar 22, 2013
When was the last time you visited a library, browsed through the hundreds of titles, and finally borrowed a book that evoked your interest? Online libraries that promise to offer nearly the same experience have caught the readers' fancy and are rekindling a lost love. ...
08:45:00 PM Mar 19, 2013
Online libraries that promise to offer nearly the same experience have caught the readers' fancy and are rekindling a lost love. ...
12:42:34 PM Mar 18, 2013
Penguin Books India is organizing it's fourth edition of 'Spring Fever' in New Delhi, a ten day literature festival from 15-24 March 2013. ...
01:32:31 PM Mar 14, 2013
Random House India has acquired of activist and author of The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler's powerful new memoir - In the Body of the World - to be released on 30th April 2013. ...
03:29:48 PM Mar 13, 2013
Sheryl Sandberg's 'Lean In' - part feminist manifesto, part how-to career guide - has got a lot of people talking. ...
01:00:45 PM Mar 08, 2013
Eighty-two-year Surjit Hans has finally translated all the works of the 16th century Bard of Avon into Punjabi. ...
06:29:49 PM Mar 06, 2013
Bestselling author Amish Tripathi has just signed a whopping Rs 5 crore deal for his next series. This comes as his final book of the Shiva trilogy releases. ...
09:30:56 AM Mar 04, 2013
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