
New Delhi: A series of sneak peeps into new books by top Indian writers will be the cornerstone of a festival of literature, "Spring Fever", to be held March 16-24 at the India Habitat Centre. An annual feature of Penguin-Books India, the festival will preview several new titles by authors like Vikram Seth, Gurcharan Das, Shobhaa De, Gulzar, Shashi Tharoor, Amit Chaudhuri and Devdutt Patnaik, who will discuss their books...

03:36 PM, Mar 12, 2012

Bangalore: The Malgudi days are here again. And so is the 'Malgudi Express' - chugging between Mysore and the Yashwantpur station of Bangalore. Fiction? No. In a tribute to RK Narayan, who created Malgudi in his superfine mind and gave the world the endearing Swamy and his friends from this imagined village in Mysore, the railways have decided to run the 'Malgudi Express'. 'The Mysore-Yesvantpur-Mysore Express is named with immediate...

01:06 PM, Sep 26, 2011

Pune: Sourav Ganguly will not be part of the playing eleven in Pune Warriors India's remaining three matches of the Indian Premier League season five and will serve only as the team's mentor from the next season, team owner Subrata Roy said on Thursday. Sourav wants to give youngsters a chance in the last games, Roy said. Ganguly has been under the scanner for his failure as a batsman in...

05:53 PM, May 21, 2008