New Delhi: Song writers, artistes and performers, deprived of their dues so far, can now claim royalty for their creations with Parliament today approving a law to provide much-delayed justice to them. The Copyright Act (Amendment) Bill, 2012 was passed by the Lok Sabha, which witnessed unusual unanimity on the matter with members from all parties supporting the measure for creative artistes whose benefits are cornered by producers. The bill,...
03:23 PM, May 22, 2012
Mexico City: Carlos Fuentes, a towering literary figure in the Spanish-speaking world, died on Tuesday at a hospital in the Mexican capital. He was 83. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed, but the writer was known to suffer from heart problems. An acclaimed novelist and essayist who taught at Princeton and other elite universities, Fuentes also served Mexico as a diplomat, though he often despaired over his country's...
01:46 PM, May 16, 2012
Saadat Hasan Manto, the celebrated Urdu writer, is best known for highlighting hypocrisy and evils of the society through his short stories. Saadat Manto is known to have written more than 200 stories in a span of not more than 2 decades. Toba Tek Singh, the story that captured the aftermath of the partition, is perhaps one of his most popular works even today. In fact, after 1947, Manto was ...
06:03 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Literary icon Saadat Hasan Manto finds few takers among young readers because the stories are dark, disturbing and reflect a time they cannot relate to. But for the older generation of Indians, he still remains one of the most powerful writers of the 20th century. The writer, who died at the age of 43 in Lahore while struggling to keep the literature of truth alive, was born on...
05:56 PM, May 11, 2012
Mumbai: The city surfaced in his stories. He even wrote scripts for its famous film industry and starred in some movies. Now, 100 years after Saadat Hasan Manto's birth, Mumbai is gearing up to remember the eventful time that the legendary Urdu writer spent here. Born May 11, 1912 in Samrala, Punjab, Manto arrived in Mumbai in the 1940s and spent four to five years here. Though not much is...
01:25 PM, May 11, 2012
Kolkata: Writers' Buildings, the state secretariat, has turned into a virtual fortress as part of heightened security ahead of the meeting of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on May 7. The meeting will take place in the morning hours, a secretariat source said. American Center officials were yet to confirm the time of Clinton's arrival from Dhaka on Sunday and her programmes...
08:08 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: May 2 marks the 91st birth anniversary of legendary auteur Satyajit Ray, considered one of the world's best. Many consider the visionary and extremely talented Ray to have inherited the legacy of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. He was not just a film director but also a writer, illustrator, graphic designer and music composer. The illustrious Ray family has contributed to Bengal's art, culture and music for over a...
10:41 AM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: How do you start a serious discussion on contemporary literature with a Pakistani author who taught Argentine tango to Canadians in Toronto, flipped pizzas and worked at an assembly line to make a living while translating Urdu fantasy fiction to English in his spare time? You don't. You let him regale you with hilarious anecdotes from his tango teaching days as he tries to make light of his...
11:05 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Kozhikode: Thousands turned up to bid adieu to eminent scriptwriter T Damodaran, who passed away on Wednesday, at the Town Hall on Thursday. Damodaran's body was later cremated with state honours at the crematorium on Mavoor Road. Earlier, personalities from social, political, literary and film spheres came to pay their last respects to Damodaran. Film directors Hariharan, Sathyan Anthikad, Jayaraj, Siddique, Suveeran, Ali Akbar and V M Vinu, scriptwriters S...
02:53 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Kozhikode: T Damodaran, known for scripting successful films like "Angaadi", "Ee Nadu" and "Avanazhi", died on Wednesday at his residence here, according to family sources. He was 77. He is survived by three daughters, including Deedi Damodaran, an upcoming scriptwriter. In a career spanning more than three decades, he scripted close to 50 Malayalam films. He is billed to have created the current superstars of Malayalam cinema - Mammootty, Mohanlal...
12:24 PM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: Tamil writer A A Manavalan has been chosen for the 'Saraswati Samman' 2011 for his book on Ramayana, the K K Birla Foundation announced on Thursday. Manavalan, 75, a retired professor and head of the department of Tamil in Madras University, will be bestowed with the prestigious award for his 2005 work 'Irama Kathaiyum Iramayakalum' (Ramakatha and Ramayanas). The award-winning book is a comparative study of 48 Ramayanas...
04:38 PM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: Literature is best left alone in the spirit of celebrated French-Swiss filmmaker Jean Luc-Godard's philosophy that good literature makes bad cinema, says filmmaker and writer Saeed Akhtar Mirza. "I feel as a form literature exists in the written word - let it be here as the raison d'etre why somebody writes. Whenever I read a good book, it never crosses my mind to make a film," Mirza told...
01:55 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Clad in denims, a cotton kurti and a big blue "bindi" and with a marked Kannada accent, the dusky model, movie actress and doctoral fellow from Bangalore is an unlikely political commentator. Meet Lakshmi Priya, an emerging writer who released her political comment, "Rahul Gandhi: The Great Warrior of Indian Politics" at the 20th World Book Fair. "When I met Rahul Gandhi in 2007, his style of functioning...
05:04 PM, Feb 27, 2012
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