
The national capital is all set to host its very own literature festival later this week featuring book launches, interaction with authors as well as a music show. Coming close on the heels of the Jaipur Literature Festival, the two-day literary event beginning February 9 will host 10 sessions on different themes at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts. ...

10:48 AM, Feb 07, 2013

Mumbai: 'The Incredible Banker' by Ravi Subramanian has bagged the 'best popular book' award for 2011, instituted by the Economist-Crossword Book Award. 'The Folded Earth' by Anuradha Roy won the award in the Indian Fiction category while the Indian Non-Fiction award went to 'A Free Man' by Aman Sethi, '17' by Anita Agnihotri and 'The Araya Women' by Narayan jointly won in Indian language translation category, Crossword said in a...

09:37 AM, Oct 19, 2012

The "Mahabharata" has long been a gold mine for Indian writers. The richly layered stories and enigmatic characters of the epic, which so effectively blurs ...

01:41 PM, Aug 29, 2012