Writers run the risk of didacticism if they turn into activists, says Marlon James, the first Jamacian to win the Booker Prize in 2015. ...
Embark on a journey that deals with different shades of human existence. Read on!...
Title: The Private Life of Mrs Sharma; Author: Ratika Kapur; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing; Pages: 192; Price:Rs.299...
Title: The Mughal High Noon - The Ascent of Aurangzeb; Author: Srinivas Rao Adige; Publisher: Rupa Publications India; Pages: 185; Price:Rs. 195...
Navtej Sarna, the newly appointed Indian High Commissioner to the UK, belongs to the crop of writers who have come to be known as the 'MEA school of literature'. However, he can also claim the distinction of separating his professional and literary life in a succinct way....
Ab'ul Hasan Yamin ud-Din Khusrow (c. 1253-1325) or Amir Khusro, as we usually know him, seemed to epitomise the assimilative nature of India....
The Nobel Prize in Literature brought another talented author to the world's attention, a gifted Indian-origin writer came tantalisingly close to the Booker Prize, an iconic character seemed to have lost his heroic sheen in the second work by his reclusive author coming over five decades hence - and the world of ...
About a decade ago when India witnessed its first literary fest, little would the nation have imagined the extent to which it transcended over this time - to nearly 90 such a year! Literati call these fests "stimulants of a reading revolution" in India. ...
Writing helps him in his job as a police officer, feels Kuladhar Saikia, winner of this year's Sahitya Akademi award for his collection of short stories - a rare honour for a cop. ...
Though it's an honour, it’s painful to accept a Sahitya Akademi award at a time when country is witnessing increasing attacks on the right to dissent, said noted writer K.R. Meera, who has been cited this year for Malayalam novel ‘Aarachar’ (Hangwoman)....
