
A panel of distinguished international critics and writers will judge the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize. The judges are acclaimed novelist Monica Ali, prominent critic, Harvard literary authority Homi Bhabha, and award-winning writer Hsu-Ming Teo. Judges announced writers from Japan, China, India and the Philippines in the long-list for the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize. Japanese writer, Kenzaburo Oe, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994 also amongst...

07:42 PM, Dec 13, 2010

To many residents of Mumbai, Dahanu is an area slightly more of a cypher than parts of Delhi or Chennai. It is a fruit-growing, amenity-inhibited outpost that will someday be swallowed up by the city, an exurb connected to the metropolis at the very last stop on the suburban Western line. Nothing could seem further flung from the diverse, super-urbane neighbourhoods in South and Southwest Mumbai built and occupied by...

05:11 PM, Sep 17, 2010