Noted economist and Nobel laureate Dr Amartya Sen has criticised Muslim groups for raising a hue and cry over author Salman Rushdie's proposed visit to Kolkata for the Literary Meet. Dr Sen, who is attending the Literary Meet, said, "There are a lot of people who are enormously disadvantaged. There are a lot of reasons to complain about other things. I think when Muslim groups are taking up these issues......
07:44 PM, Feb 03, 2013
Ganguly feels ultimately a player is remembered for his performances in Test cricket which is entirely a "different ball game". ...
11:24 PM, Feb 02, 2013
Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor said he was worried that segments of society claimed the "right to be offended" and pointed out that the expression of heretical views was often necessary for an "evolution of culture". ...
12:53 PM, Feb 02, 2013
Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore Friday opposed capital punishment for rape saying death is neither the ultimate punishment nor a deterrent. "I don't think death is the ultimate punishment. It is not a deterrent because when the person is committing the crime, he thinks that he is not going to be caught. ...
10:02 AM, Feb 02, 2013
Author Salman Rushdie hit out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accusing her of blocking his visit to Kolkata. Reacting on Twitter, Rushdie blamed Mamata Banerjee for ordering the police to block his arrival. Rushdie's trip to Kolkata on Wednesday was cancelled as the venue for his press conference could not be confirmed. ...
12:55 PM, Feb 01, 2013
Kolkata: Darkness descended midway through former Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan's interaction with the media at a venue during the Kolkata Literary Meet on Monday but the organisers of the programme said it was a deliberate act to fend off media chaos. "Power was switched off because there was too much chaos in the auditorium", Secretary of the Publishers and Booksellers Guild, the organisers of the literary meet, Tridib Chatterjee, told...
10:38 PM, Jan 30, 2012
The Speech upon Inaugurating the First Kolkata Literary Meet, 26 January 2012 Thank you very much for inviting me this Republic Day to inaugurate the first Kolkata Literary Meet - or KLM - or (most aptly of all) 'Kolom'. By the word 'kolom' I imagine we mean not only the pen but also the typewriter and the computer - in other words, any means of writing. The 'kolom' represents them...
12:23 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Kolkata: Opining that banning books is a sin, popular novelist Chetan Bhagat on Saturday said that the people should appreciate the diversity of opinion in our society. "Different people have different views. We must appreciate that. Nothing is absolute in this world," Bhagat said at the Kolkata Literary Meet. While talking about the freedom of speech and expression in books written on religion, he said, "there should be no ban...
09:05 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Kolkata: Criticising the government for the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival, novelist Vikram Seth on Thursday said the affair was whipped up because of "power", "politics" and "misuse of religion". "The whole affair was whipped up because of power and politics and because of the misuse of religion. And the government did nothing. Frankly this is madness," he said at the Kolkata Literary Meet. "We...
08:12 PM, Jan 26, 2012
