Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart. In this stunning re-imagining of Homer's Iliad, Patroclus, an exiled young prince becomes friend and companion to Achilles, prince of Phthia, destined to be Aristos Achaion, best of the Greeks....
05:40 PM, Feb 04, 2013
IBN7's managing editor Ashutosh joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on Ashis Nandy's comments about Dalits at the Jaipur Literature Festival. ...
05:18 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Dalit historian Kancha Ilaiah joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on his defence of Ashis Nandy. ...
03:56 PM, Jan 31, 2013
The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature celebrates the rich and varied world of literature of the South Asian region. ...
07:27 PM, Jan 25, 2013
CNN-IBN's Amrita Tripathi joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on Jaipur Literature Festival. ...
11:26 AM, Jan 24, 2013
Amidst tight security arrangements in Jaipur, the Literature Festival is all set to kickstart on Thursday. After the controversies of 2012, Pakistani authors are likely to participate in the Lit Fest this year after the organisers assured that there was no threat to them. ...
10:02 AM, Jan 24, 2013
Jaipur Literature Festival kicks off this week but not without controversy. A group of Islamic clerics has protested the presence of any of the authors who read from the 'Satanic Verses' last year, while the RSS and BJP are reportedly asking for Pakistani participants to be kept out. ...
07:44 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Beside the international stars, the festival will host literature in 17 Indian languages as well. ...
02:12 PM, Jan 14, 2013
Women will be a powerful voice at the sixth annual DSC Jaipur Literature Festival Jan 24-28. ...
07:38 PM, Jan 11, 2013
New Delhi: Six books including "River of Smoke" by Amitav Ghosh, "Narcopolis" by Jeet Thayil and "The Wandering" by Pakistan-based author Jamil Ahmad, have been shortlisted for the DSC South Asian Literature Prize 2013. The list, announced in a gala at the Mayfair Hotel in London, it includes six writers -- three Indians, two Pakistani and one from Bangladesh -- besides an American translator for the $50,000 prize. The finalist...
11:32 AM, Nov 22, 2012
Hyderabad: A day after controversial author Salman Rushdie hit out at Congress and Rahul Gandhi, senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu said on Sunday that the Congress was adopting a "selective approach" in this regard. "That was unfortunate... Congress and pseudo-secular parties were selective in their approach," he told reporters in Hyderabad. Venkaiah was reacting to Rushdie's comment that his presence at the Jaipur Literary Festival held in January was...
06:29 PM, Mar 18, 2012
New Delhi: In India, two months after being forced to skip Jaipur Literary Festival, controversial author Salman Rushdie on Saturday hit out at Congress, suggesting that his presence there was blocked because of "useless electoral calculations" and told Rahul Gandhi that "it did not work". The renowned author, who has been castigated by fundamentalist Muslim groups for his book 'The Satanic Verses', said blocking his presence in Jaipur "led the...
10:38 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Human rights activist Kavita Srivastava on Tuesday condemned the organisations which disrupted Salman Rushdie's video link that was supposed to take place at 3.45 PM. Slamming the Jaipur-based Milli Council, she said the threat to the author and the Lit Fest was very disturbing. ...
09:09 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: Writer Mark Tully on Tuesday slammed the government for not coming clean on the Salman Rushdie issue, saying if someone has offended religion sentiments then there is law to deal with it. "Salman Rushdie should have been allowed to enter in this country because that is the law of the land. Government is not coming clean on the issue from the very begining. This is very sad indeed...
04:54 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Jaipur: An apple green sari with an embroidered black choli is what celebrity talk show host Oprah Winfrey will wear to a dinner at the City Palace as part of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival. And none other than Sabyasachi Mukherjee has designed it for her. "I am making her wear a sari because Oprah wanted to wear something Indian and special. She loves apple green. We have designed an...
05:26 PM, Jan 20, 2012
There is a heavy security cover although there is uncertainity whether Salman Rushdie will visit the fest or not. ...
08:44 AM, Jan 20, 2012
There is a heavy security cover although there is uncertainity whether Salman Rushdie will visit the fest or not. ...
08:44 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Over 16,000 writers, critics, fans, publishers are expected to reach Jaipur for the upcoming 5-day Literature Festival. ...
11:43 PM, Jan 19, 2012
