A regular feature in the bestseller lists, and now a regular feature in India, Jeffrey Archer was in Mumbai to launch his latest 'Best Kept Secret'. ...
06:40 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Here's some great news for upcoming writers in India, Penguin Books India has announced the introduction of its new venture Partridge, a new self-publishing imprint launched in partnership with Author Solutions, Inc. Partridge will provide new opportunities for Indian authors to get published and discovered, both in India and around the world. ...
10:09 AM, Feb 08, 2013
Vikas Swarup, the author of Q&A, the novel that inspired the Oscar-winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire', has come up with another page turner - 'The Accidental Apprentice'. As character-driven narrations go, 'The Accidental Apprentice' has the hallmarks of a successful screenplay and might just hit pay dirt as 'Slumdog' did in 2009. ...
03:41 PM, Jan 29, 2013
The maha kumbh of literature, the 8th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival kicked off to a smooth start despite warnings of protests against Pakistani writers following the recent killings of soldiers at the Line of Control. Except for Mohammed Hanif, who has skipped the festival for personal reasons, the other Pakistani authors kept their date with Jaipur. ...
08:59 AM, Jan 25, 2013
The Jaipur Literature festival began on Thursday under heavy security with Pakistani authors attending the programme as scheduled. Controversy surrounded the festival again this year with the Bharatiya Janata Party's youth-wing protesting against the participation of Pakistani authors following tension at the Line of Control. ...
11:56 AM, Jan 24, 2013
CNN-IBN's Amrita Tripathi joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on Jaipur Literature Festival. ...
11:26 AM, Jan 24, 2013
Amidst tight security arrangements in Jaipur, the Literature Festival is all set to kickstart on Thursday. After the controversies of 2012, Pakistani authors are likely to participate in the Lit Fest this year after the organisers assured that there was no threat to them. ...
10:02 AM, Jan 24, 2013
I must begin this review with a confession: I am an unabashed admirer of Khushwant Singh. I have known him for years and enjoyed many ...
01:02 PM, Jan 16, 2013
London: English writer Charles Dickens branded his own father a "jackass" for his recklessness with money, according to a newly-discovered letter. The 172-year-old, unpublished letter is expected to sell for 3,000 pounds at an auction in London on November 13. The novelist fell out with John Dickens after his father racked up huge debts so he could lead an extravagant lifestyle beyond his means. Dickens senior regularly used his son's...
03:15 PM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: Come October 11 and the world will come to know the name of the 2012 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. If betting circles are any indicators, then it's game over and Haruki Murakami is the runaway winner with the highest and lowest odds at 5 and 3 respectively as they stand at 3.40 pm (IST) on October 9. The Japanese writer is followed by William Trevor,...
02:24 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The fifth edition of the Kovalam Literary Festival (KLF) starts here on Saturday after a stimulating first leg in New Delhi. The two-day event will see a distinguished gathering that includes Indian-born British writer Farrukh Dhondy, Timeri N. Murari, Biman Nath, Sonia Faleiro, N.S. Madhavan, C.P. Surendran, upcoming Malayalam writer Benyamin, well-known film critic Anna Vetticad and Israeli authors Sarai Shavit and Dorit Rabinyan. KLF has already attracted big...
12:59 PM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: Song writers, artistes and performers, deprived of their dues so far, can now claim royalty for their creations with Parliament today approving a law to provide much-delayed justice to them. The Copyright Act (Amendment) Bill, 2012 was passed by the Lok Sabha, which witnessed unusual unanimity on the matter with members from all parties supporting the measure for creative artistes whose benefits are cornered by producers. The bill,...
03:23 PM, May 22, 2012
Islamabad: While the world continues to raise a toast to contemporary Pakistani authors, the latest author to enter the literary marathon is a genius of sorts who translates Urdu tomes and works on his own tales of fiction with equal ease. Musharraf Ali Farooqi caught everyone's attention with translations of Urdu classics "The Adventures of Amir Hamza" and the first book of a projected 24-volume magical fantasy epic, "Hoshruba". His...
04:59 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Once again a book has been banned. This time the author is American historian Peter Heehs for his book 'The lives Of Sri Aurobindo'. ...
11:51 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: While mainstream films have seen mass consumption in the country, a new breed of Indian fiction is seen doing the same. These books speak in a language which is hooking on a lot of first time readers. Indian writing in English has moved far beyond the Amitav Ghoshes, Vikram Seths and Salman Rushdies, even past Chetan Bhagat, who barged into the Indian publishing milieu and revolutionised the market....
01:00 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The year 2011 saw a lot on the writing front but prominent writers like Aravind Adiga, Tabish Khair and Manu Joseph, who were also reading a lot. "I've enjoyed "The Essential Tagore," an anthology published by the Harvard University Press, which has selections from Tagore's essays, poems, and plays. The novelist Amit Chaudhuri has written an excellent preface to this book," says Adiga. The 2008 Booker prize winner...
07:37 PM, Dec 28, 2011
