
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

New Delhi: Gripping drama, satire and 'Kerala neuroses' - these are the main ingredients of poet-turned-novelist C P Surendran's latest book 'Lost and Found'. Set in Mumbai, the novel tells the story of Lakshmi, an online writer, who kidnaps a journalist named Placid Hari after a drunken party because she believes he had raped her 16 years ago. But Placid Hari turns out to be the wrong guy. The day...

04:12 PM, Dec 09, 2010

Carol Ann Duffy will be expected to compose poems for major state occasions. ...

05:56 PM, May 01, 2009
Nagpur: The Event Technical Committee of the ICC on Sunday allowed the West Indies team management to replace injured Carlton Baugh and Adrian Barath with Kirk Edwards and Devon Thomas respectively in their World Cup squad. "The confirmation was conveyed to the West Indies Cricket Board on behalf of the committee," ICC said in a release. Any injury-based replacement requires a written submission to the event technical committee along with...

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