New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil plans to write her autobiography after she retires in July. India's first woman president will be completing 50 years in public life this year and is contemplating to tell her story in a book, Rashtrapati Bhawan sources said. In 1962, young Patil had become for the first time a Congress MLA from Jalgaon city constituency of Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. After her speech at a...
12:58 PM, Apr 29, 2012
It is sometimes sad to know that readers (most of them) only remember Ismat Chughtai for 'Lihaaf' or 'The Quilt'. She has written a lot more and the 'more' is even more interesting than 'Lihaaf'. I remember the first time I was introduced to her works. I had turned twenty-three and my friend had taken me to watch a play, 'Manto Ismat Hazir Hain' produced by Motley, - which featured...
01:45 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Kolkata: Robbed of a home and a peaceful life, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen feels that religious fundamentalists apart, the responsibility for her sufferings lies on the "politicians of the Indian subcontinent" who have labelled her anti-Islam and banned her books. "When the government bans your book, then the fundamentalists are enthused. They feel inspired and take you as a soft target. They feel the government will side with them," Taslima...
07:49 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Mumbai: The veteran actor will soon pen his autobiography and promises to be extremely candid about the facts of his life. Fast approaching his 60th birthday, in September, Rishi Kapoor is all set to pen his autobiography. And buzz is that three leading publishing houses are all vying to clinch the rights to this book. Apparently the actor has more or less already zeroed on the publisher he wants to...
01:35 PM, Feb 22, 2012
This will be the third but not necessarily the last stage in Julian Assange's attempts to resist extradition to Sweden. ...
09:02 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Brett Lee has come out with his autobiography 'My Life' in which he supports Harbhajan Singh against Andrew Symonds. ...
05:24 PM, Dec 25, 2011
London: The 'Great Train Robber' Ronnie Biggs has finally apologised for the death of the train driver coshed in the infamous heist of 2.6 million pounds in the UK. Victim Jack Mills died in 1970, some seven years after the Great Train Robbery which was committed by a 15-member gang on 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge in Britain. Biggs, now 82, who has never before shown remorse for...
02:54 PM, Nov 15, 2011
After the storm and hype that surrounded its release, Shoaib Akhtar's 'Controversially Yours' falls short in delivering what it promised, ironically just as its subject himself did throughout his mercurial career. Perhaps unintentionally emulating Shoaib's time in cricket, the book is short, enjoyable and at times even amusing; yet it is also often inconsistent and, frustratingly, leaves one asking for more. The story begins right at the start, with his...
11:19 AM, Nov 10, 2011
Palo Alto: The release date for a Steve Jobs biography has been pushed up to October 24, according to a spokesman for Simon & Schuster, the publishing house behind the long-awaited book. This marks the second time that the publisher, owned by CBS Corp, has moved the publication date. It was slated to come out November 21. Walter Isaacson, the former managing editor of Time magazine and current chief executive...
12:24 AM, Oct 07, 2011
London: The Unauthorised Autobiography of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange could not drum up interest of readers, as the first three days of its arrival in the market have seen sales of just over 600 copies. It was the book the founder of WikiLeaks said was published to "screw" him for cash but despite huge publicity surrounding its release, it has become a sales flop. Titled 'Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography',...
12:04 PM, Oct 01, 2011
Washington: He laid bare the secrets of governments and corporations. But until now, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fiercely fought demands for more transparency in his own personal and financial affairs. But a bizarre dispute between Assange and a Scottish publisher who last week released an "unauthorized" version of Assange's autobiography has prompted the WikiLeaks frontman to make public some of his own secrets. Late on Tuesday, WikiLeaks published a sheaf...
11:23 AM, Sep 29, 2011
New York: Arnold Schwarzenegger is writing a memoir about his rise to fame and unlikely transition from Austrian-born champion bodybuilder to Hollywood action star to California governor, his publisher said on Thursday. Schwarzenegger, 64, who in May announced his separation from wife Maria Shriver after admitting to fathering a child out of wedlock, is "chronicling his embodiment of the American Dream" in his second autobiography, publisher Simon & Schuster said....
04:16 PM, Sep 23, 2011
Belgian writer Dirk Collier has just written The Emperors Writing - what he calls a "Fictional autobiography" of Akbar, written in letter format. Here's a Q&A with the author. 1) What interested you in Akbar in the first place? Dirk Collier: In the year 2002, when I happened to be reading about the colonial history of Goa and its inquisition, I found that near the end of the 16th century,...
12:53 PM, May 05, 2011
London: A rare copy of Adolf Hitler's autobiography 'Mein Kampf', signed by the dictator himself, will go on sale soon -- and is expected to sell for 30,000 pounds. The first edition of the book, which the Nazi ruler wrote while he was in the Landsberg prison in Germany in 1925, would go under the hammer this month, the Daily Mail reported. The signed book is one of just 20...
12:16 PM, Apr 13, 2011
This is one of the most enjoyable books I have read in a long time. Partly that is because of the subject matter, since I have been a long time Stones fan and recognize that Keith is the backbone of the band. But his autobiography approaches that subject matter in a particular way I found most compelling. The best part of the book is where Keith talks about the experience...
11:55 AM, Feb 10, 2011
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