It may be age of the iPad or the game console, but India's most popular President, APJ Kalam, showed the way - that with great books comes great imagination. ...
03:41 PM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: Bollywood celebrity and activist Gul Panag unveiled young novelist Sachin Garg's latest book "Never Let Me Go" at the ongoing World Book Fair (WBF) and said it will strike a chord with readers of all age groups. Loosely based on Garg's own life, the book reflects the ups and downs faced by a young engineering student and how he runs away to Goa and tries to start a...
06:02 PM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: Reado, a website of one of India's biggest audio books company, Think Ink Media Inc, was launched at the World Book Fair 2012 with 100-plus leading book titles which have been converted into downloadable audio books. An offshoot of Eagle Home Entertainment, Reado retails its audio books from over 200 stores across India which includes online retailing through Flipkart.com and leading books stores like Crossword, Landmark, Reliance Time...
12:21 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: Clad in denims, a cotton kurti and a big blue "bindi" and with a marked Kannada accent, the dusky model, movie actress and doctoral fellow from Bangalore is an unlikely political commentator. Meet Lakshmi Priya, an emerging writer who released her political comment, "Rahul Gandhi: The Great Warrior of Indian Politics" at the 20th World Book Fair. "When I met Rahul Gandhi in 2007, his style of functioning...
05:04 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: Cinema adaptations of novels is a challenge and helps forge new synergy between the screen and literature, speakers at a forum at the World Book Fair said. The debate over the superiority of cinema and literature in the world of adaptations is now passe, speakers at a forum "Filming Fiction" hosted by the Oxford University Press at the 20th World Book Fair in the capital said Saturday evening....
02:39 PM, Feb 27, 2012
The World Delhi book fair commemorates the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, along with books celebrating the 100 years of cinema. There's something for every book lover. ...
01:44 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Kolkata: A war of words ensued between the BJP and the Congress today over the cancellation of the official release of controversial author Taslima Nasreen's book in Kolkata with the former accusing Congress of driving the country towards a dangerous mindset and the latter saying fanaticism was intrinsic to the Opposition party's DNA. "We condemn it. Congress is driving the country towards a dangerous mindset," senior BJP leader Murali Manohar...
10:46 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Kolkata: Defying protests by 'religious fanatics' on Wednesday, the publisher of Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen's autobiography, Dey's Publishing, launched her book in front of a stall at the Kolkata Book Fair. This came as a protest against the guild's decision to cancel the book launch. The book was launched by author Nabarun Bhattacharya in the presence of Taslima's supporters and human rights activists. Nabarun Bhattacharya told IBNLive, "I was told...
03:43 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Digvijaya Singh was responding after Taslima Nasreen's book launch was cancelled at Kolkata Book Fair. ...
03:42 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Kolkata: After Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, religious fanatics have targeted Bangladeshi author Tasleema Nasreen. Taslima Nasreen's book launch at the Kolkata Book Fair has been cancelled with sources saying that the step was taken following objections from some religious extremists groups. The sources say that officials told them that a group of religious fanatics had gone to the Lalbazar police headquarters with a memorandum and were subsequently planning to...
02:32 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Kolkata: Describing the writings of Salman Rushdie as "painful" for the Muslim community, Pakistani politician and former cricket captain Imran Khan on Monday said no one had a right to humiliate someone's belief. "First of all what is painful for a human community only the human community should decide, the issue is not what Rushdie wrote (in his novel 'The Satanic Verses'). The real issue is that nobody has the...
04:21 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Kolkata: With a series of new publishing initiatives, which includes releasing of Jim Corbett's unpublished writings, the Oxford University Press (OUP) is celebrating 100 years of operations in India this year. "As a department of the University of Oxford, OUP will celebrate by showcasing its rich history in India through re-issues of classics and by launching major new centenary year publishing initiatives in 2012," OUP India's Managing Director Manzar Khan...
11:21 PM, Jan 29, 2012
![Chennai: The Book Fair on the other side of road]( "Chennai: The Book Fair on the other side of road")
CHENNAI: If you were to stop by the Chennai Book Fair at the St Georges School grounds, it would be difficult to miss the pavement on the opposite side of Poonamallee High Road. Welcome to the world of the other book fair. Bringing the glorious tradition of providing Chennais readers with second hand books forward again, close to 20 booksellers from their Mount Road and Moore Market outlets, have spread...
08:42 AM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: India's big screen will meet the fine print at the capital's 20th World Book Fair, the biggest carnival of books in the Afro-Asian region, when the 100 years of Indian motion pictures is celebrated with the theme, 'Literature and Cinema'. The Feb 25-March 4 fair, organised by the National Book Trust (NBT) every two years, aims to boost the publishing trade, promote reading and create a new segment...
02:09 PM, Jan 07, 2012
New Delhi: In a first showcase of Indian indigenous writing, a literary panorama featuring works by over 30 language writers will be on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair in a pilot exhibition for readers and publishers from Europe, the US and other countries. The literary panorama, initiated by the union culture ministry under the 'ILA: Indian Literature Abroad' project, will be held on Oct 12-16. The project aims to...
05:58 PM, Oct 10, 2011
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