Jaipur: There was Standing room only by the time Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk's session got underway on Day 1 of the Jaipur Literature Festival. And he certainly lived up to all the hype, and was surprisingly even funny. His girlfriend Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai, demure in the background, will be on a panel with him come Saturday. This festival is getting bigger each year. They are expecting 50...
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New Delhi: India is high on literature. If 2010 saw the Kovalam Literature Festival grow bigger and the Hay Festival make its debut in Kerala, the start of 2011 will see a lavish shows of literary glitz in Jaipur when the city unveils its annual literature festival. Described by columnist Tina Brown of the Daily Beast as one of the biggest literary shows on earth, the sixth edition of the...
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Celebrity Big Brother. ...
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02:14 PM, Nov 03, 2006
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The Inheritance of Loss. ...
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Be it Salman Rushdie, Indira Nooyi or Amartya Sen, success came their way with recognition in the West. ...
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