New Delhi: Contemporary Indian popular fiction that narrates "desi" cosmopolitan stories has been mirroring the changing man-woman relationship in a more open and accepting urban India, a leading literary agent says. Even 10 years ago, romantic novels spun stories about a man and one woman, whose sacrosanct monogamous love twisted and turned its way to the altar after epic struggles. Brazen romantic love as a subject of mass fiction was...
01:54 PM, May 16, 2012
Kolkata: His mornings begin with penning a play, in the afternoon he switches to writing a book and in the evening he concentrates on scriptwriting. This is how Anuvab Pal, an internationally-acclaimed playwright, divides his time during a day as he loves to transverse the boundaries of various mediums. He has translated two of his own English plays 'Loins of Punjab Presents' and 'The President is Coming' for the celluloid....
03:23 PM, Dec 05, 2011
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06:45 PM, Oct 07, 2011
London: Romantic novels like Mills and Boon are a danger to relationships and sexual health, a British medical journal has said. They are also a cause of marital breakdown, adulterous affairs and unwanted pregnancies, the Daily Telegraph reported Thursday quoting the journal. An article in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care said that women struggle to distinguish between romantic fiction and real life. Susan Quilliam, a relationship...
11:33 AM, Jul 08, 2011
New York: A romance imprint that helped started the careers of such writers as Janet Evanovich and Tami Hoag is being revived. The Random House Publishing Group announced Wednesday that Loveswept will be back in business this summer as a digital-only imprint after a 12-year hiatus. Loveswept was highly popular in the 1980s and 1990s and will relaunch in August with eight new works. They include one by best-seller Iris...
11:10 AM, Jun 23, 2011
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I have always believed that Draupadi was lucky. After all, she was legalized as the wife of five men. She really didn't need to fake ...
07:06 PM, Jun 09, 2011
First published in 1847, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights ranks high on the list of major works of English literature. A brooding tale of passion and revenge set in the Yorkshire moors, the novel has inspired no fewer than four film versions in modern times. Early critics did not like the work, citing its excess of passion and its coarseness. A second edition was published in 1850, two years after the...
08:06 PM, Feb 12, 2011
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