New Delhi: Prose has for long edged poetry to the margins of contemporary Indian literature. It is only natural that the new reader is not familiar with the late Kamala Das or her bold feminist oeuvre of poetry and short story that gave her cult status in India like Sylvia Plath in the West. Now a new series to promote contemporary Indian poetry by publisher Harper Collins-India has begun with...
03:04 PM, Apr 03, 2012
'She mooned at him...' any novel that has this on line 12 has my undivided attention! It peters into: '...with her large blue eyes, fluttered her eyelashes, pouted, preened and sighed - elementary techniques that every apsara is taught during induction training.' Attention retracts. As the celestial nymph Urvashi reduces to a ho-hum 70's vamp with cheap blue contacts. Lenses, I mean. Her dialogues match. 'Trying hard!' Urvashi exclaimed. 'You...
12:34 PM, Feb 15, 2012
'The story of 'Bali and the Ocean of Milk' written by Nilanjan P Choudhury, has been derived from an old myth of the now lost Hurrian civilization, which traces its origins to the banks of the Euphrates in northern Mesopotamia. The novel reimagines the eternal conflict between the Hurrian gods and their sworn enemies, the asuras, in a wacky thriller littered with bad jokes and corpses. Here's an extract from...
03:36 PM, Feb 07, 2012
'Delirious Delhi' examines life in a city that's ecstatic, hallucinatory, mind-boggling, feverish, and vastly energizing - all at the same time. It's a full-length portrait from an outsider's perspective that helps expats demystify Delhi - and helps Delhiites demystify expats. Published by Harper Collins India. The first morning & other mysteries We knew we would love living in Delhi the moment we heard the door-to-door paella salesman. Ah, paella! The...
12:58 PM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: Writing a story to soothe her nerves while preparing for her class X board exams, little did she anticipate that she would be ready to publish her first book at the young age of 15. For Mumbai-based little girl Shreya Mathur, it was more than what she could believe when her leisure writing was picked up by Harper Collins to be published as a full fledged book. 'But...
04:59 PM, Jul 25, 2011
Hardcover books are gathering dust -- thanks to the e-book boom. Publishers say by 2015 e-books could represent 50 per cent of their revenue. And as novelist Stephen King says he's been ahead of the pack publishing a book online years before the Kindle took off. 'The Shining’, ‘Carrie’ and ‘Misery' -- the mere mention of his books’ titles evoke fear. “A lot of people think they are going to...
12:45 PM, Sep 24, 2010
Karan Bajaj's
Keep Off The Grass has sold 25, 000 copies. ...
11:31 AM, Jul 24, 2009
This will be the biggest deal struck by an Indian author in commercial terms. ...
11:10 AM, Jul 03, 2009
He was offered close to Rs 1 crore and more by Harper Collins India. ...
03:26 AM, Mar 28, 2009
Sobhraj's French and British lawyers are reading the book. ...
02:27 AM, Nov 18, 2008
Harper Collins India kick-started the year with their book
India 60. ...
05:41 PM, Aug 14, 2007
The British Prime Minister is said to have roped in Harper Collins to publish his memoirs in return of £ four million. ...
05:58 PM, Aug 29, 2006
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