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
Thiruvananthapuram: The second edition of the Hay Festival, a three-day cultural fete featuring poets, storytellers, novelists, journalists and filmmakers, begins on Thursday. The highlight of this year's edition will be presentations of various poetic works from across the globe and a Poetry Gala with K Satchidanandan, Simon Armitage, Twm Morys, Anupama Raju, Eurig Salisbury and others. Lyndy Cooke, executive producer of Hay Festival Kerala, said this year's programme celebrates the...
06:21 PM, Nov 16, 2011
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What is it about literary festivals? The thought of one can drive some people into rhapsodies, or have others pull their hair out, and that's ...
01:19 PM, Oct 05, 2011
Bhopal: One makes tea, the other serves it. Both work in the same canteen. But that is not where the similarity ends. Both are writers, with several of their novels already in the market. Meet Nandkishore Kushwaha, a waiter, and Kuwar Dheer Bahadur Singh, a middle-aged half-cook. Both work at the canteen of Bharat Bhavan, a multi-cultural activity centre in Bhopal. While Nandkishore, 31, has a masters degree in sociology,...
01:20 PM, Sep 27, 2011
New Delhi: Simon & Schuster, a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, providing consumers worldwide with a diverse range of quality books across a wide variety of genres and formats. It is the publishing operation of CBS Corporation, one of the worlds premier media companies. S&S Director of Sales and Marketing, Rahul Srivastava spoke to IBNLive about the company, its strategy and future course of plan in...
08:10 PM, Sep 14, 2011
New Delhi: HM Naqvi, the Pakistan-based novelist whose book "Home Boy" won the first DSC South Asian prize for literature, will tour Bangalore, Chennai and Mumbai July 5-7 to promote awareness about contemporary South Asian literature. Naqvi, who will read out from his novels, will also discuss trends in new South Asian literature with Rakesh Khanna, editor of Blaft Publishing and writer Lavanya Sankaran, a statement said Thursday. The DSC...
05:55 PM, Jul 02, 2011
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