New Delhi: Song writers, artistes and performers, deprived of their dues so far, can now claim royalty for their creations with Parliament today approving a law to provide much-delayed justice to them. The Copyright Act (Amendment) Bill, 2012 was passed by the Lok Sabha, which witnessed unusual unanimity on the matter with members from all parties supporting the measure for creative artistes whose benefits are cornered by producers. The bill,...
03:23 PM, May 22, 2012
Kolkata: Writers' Buildings, the state secretariat, has turned into a virtual fortress as part of heightened security ahead of the meeting of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on May 7. The meeting will take place in the morning hours, a secretariat source said. American Center officials were yet to confirm the time of Clinton's arrival from Dhaka on Sunday and her programmes...
08:08 PM, May 04, 2012
Because the trend of human migration has received a fillip in recent times, the problems of diaspora have begun to loom large the world over. ...
01:00 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: 'Rockstar' co-writer, Muazzam Beg is miffed as no one bothered to inform him about being nominated for an award and even after winning it. We find out why most writers are disgruntled with the way the industry treats them. Rockstar co-writer Mauzzam Beg who won an award for the best screenplay along with Imtiaz Ali at a recent function held at Macau is upset that he wasn't informed...
12:51 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Houston: British world number one Luke Donald added another accolade to his rapidly growing resume when he was named male player of the year by the Golf Writers Association of America on Thursday. Taiwan's world number one Yani Tseng, who triumphed 12 times across the globe in 2011, including two Majors, was the runaway GWAA female player of the year, while American veteran Tom Lehman was named senior player of...
03:21 PM, Dec 30, 2011
BANGALORE: Sapna Book House held a release function for 55 books in Kannada as part of 55th Kannada Rajyotsava celebrations in Bangalore on Tuesday. The books are authored by various well-known writers and cover a variety of topics. Present at the function in Shikshakara Sadan to release the books were Sri Sri Ravishankar of the Art of Living Foundation, Sudha Murty and Captain G R Gopinath among other literary personalities...
08:46 AM, Nov 02, 2011
London: It will be the world's most literary mortuary. Ten leading crime writers are competing for the honour of having a morgue named after them. Scotland's University of Dundee said Monday it will name its new morgue and research facility after whichever writer gets the most votes in an online poll and fundraising effort. Kathy Reichs, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Harlan Coben, Mark Billingham and Val McDermid are among the...
01:37 PM, Nov 01, 2011
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What is it about literary festivals? The thought of one can drive some people into rhapsodies, or have others pull their hair out, and that's ...
01:19 PM, Oct 05, 2011
Bhopal: From 11th century philosopher king Raja Bhoj to the Nawabs and Begums of the 19th century to waiter Nandkishore Kushwaha of this century, one thing has not changed in Bhopal down the ages -- people's love for penning down their thoughts. After the royal era, not only professional writers but even administrators, professors, doctors, officers of state services and journalists have penned their memoirs or done creative writing in...
01:56 PM, Oct 03, 2011
A Group of writers has launched a last-ditch appeal to save the bookshop, volunteering their time to work in the store and find a buyer. ...
10:11 AM, Aug 30, 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
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