We all have our literary heroes. Sometimes in the form of characters, which we have loved reading about and idolizing while reading or sometimes in the form of writers themselves, who bring stories and characters to life. For me, there are so many writers who have changed my life and the way I see things and the world around me and then there are those who stay on irrespective of...
02:06 PM, Apr 18, 2012
'If I were to choose a secret companion, an unofficial alter ego, I would most likely fasten on someone more dashing, more decisive, less unsettled than Greene.' But Greene 'took residence' inside the author's head, to the point where he had an eerie feeling that his life was playing out on the lines of the plots Greene had constructed decades ago. And so, as if instructed by an inner voice,...
06:37 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Jamil Ahmad's The Wandering Falcon has won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2011. As the name suggests, the winner is always a first-time author, and what better start to a literary career than to win an award with your first book? Ahmad, a 78-year-old retired civil servant completed his manuscript of interconnected stories set on the border of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran back in 1974. But it...
06:29 PM, Nov 28, 2011
New Delhi: Amidst all the big ticket literary prizes on the Indian landscape, the one that still has the most hearts racing is the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize. After all, as the name suggests, the winner is always a first-time author, and what better start to a literary career than to win an award with your first book? The prize, set up in memory of the talented writer and...
06:40 PM, Sep 09, 2011
SP Balasubramanian talks about his favourite RD Burman compositions as he releases the book 'RD Burman -The man, The Music' on the legend. ...
04:50 PM, Jun 15, 2011
London: Singer Lady Gaga, who is known for her bizarre dressing sense, is shown producing alien life forms in scenes from her new video for her comeback single "Born this way". The seven-minute promo to the song features Gaga simulating labour on the planet G.O.A.T., after which slimy creatures emerge from between her legs, reports thesun.co.uk. In other patches of the promo, Gaga does a jig with both male and...
10:48 AM, Mar 02, 2011
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12:47 AM, Mar 04, 2009
Twp Pak scientists reportedly met Osama before 9/11. ...
09:16 AM, Dec 15, 2008
He is selling two hotels, two Bentleys, some paintings and his title of Lord of the Manor. ...
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