Em and The Big Hoom is Jerry Pinto's first novel published by the Aleph Company. ...
07:18 PM, Feb 17, 2013
Chennai: G Kasturi, former editor of The Hindu group, passed away here on Friday, said a family member. He was 87. He was also the former managing director of Kasturi and Sons Ltd that owns the paper and other publications from the group. He passed away peacefully early morning, N Ram, a relative and former editor-in-chief of The Hindu and other group publications and a director in Kasturi and Sons,...
03:24 PM, Sep 21, 2012
General VK Singh said that he was offered a bribe worth Rs 14 crore by an equipment lobbyist. ...
10:23 AM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has filed a defamation case against Tamil magazine Nakkeeran for reportedly carrying a report about her eating beef. Nakkeeran reportedly published a cover story about the chief minister eating beef and The Hindu carried the article the very next day. Enraged AIADMK workers vandalised Nakkeeran's office after the story went viral. ...
07:24 PM, Jan 23, 2012
New Delhi: Rahul Bhattacharya, author of 'The Sly Company of People Who Care' talks about his book, his literary inspiration and more with CNN-IBN Books Editor, Amrita Tripathi. He also won the Hindu Prize for fiction recently. CNN-IBN: I'm going to start with the question most novelists hate -- How much of this book is you? Insofar as it draws from your experiences living in Guyana for a year, it's...
03:52 PM, Nov 21, 2011
The Hindu Bureau Chief Praveen Swamy speaking on the meet between Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart said its important that tensions don't flare up between both the countries. ...
10:46 AM, Nov 18, 2011
The 'Sly Company of People Who Care' is a book that lives up to its evocative title. Published earlier this year, it's recently won The Hindu Prize for best fiction. A disclaimer at the start -- I've known Rahul Bhattacharya for a few years, meeting him after his first book 'Pundits from Pakistan' was published. But there's a difference between knowing someone socially, and knowing them through their writing, and...
06:09 PM, Nov 16, 2011
The annual music event organized promises to be a treat with a performance by U Srinivas, the Mandolin maestro. ...
10:02 AM, Nov 11, 2011
New Delhi: A debut novel won The Hindu's Literature Prize in the 'Lit for Life' literary festival for the second successive year. Rahul Bhattacharya bagged the 'The Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction 2011' for his 'The Sly Company of People Who Care'. The award carries a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh. In his book 'The Sly Company of People Who Care' Rahul Bhattacharya captures the heady adventures of...
12:50 PM, Oct 31, 2011
Chennai: The family that runs The Hindu, is slugging it out in court on the question of management. In the course of the legal battle the counsel for Nirmala Lakshmanan, Joint Editor of The Hindu said in a hearing at the Madras High Court that N Ram wanted to exit by selling his shares at a premium for which he was looking for an investor. N Ram responded to the...
08:32 AM, Jun 22, 2011
Chennai: Serious Men by Manu Joseph has bagged The Hindu Best Fiction Award 2010. Writer and historian Nayantara Sahgal presented the award, which carries a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh to Manu Joseph. Manu is the Editor of Open magazine and Serious Men is his first novel. The award was instituted by The Hindu Literary Review as a prelude to celebrating its 20th year in 2011. Seventy-five entries from...
05:53 PM, Nov 02, 2010
