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)....
Title: Shades of Difference - Selected Writings of Rabindranath Tagore; Edited by: Radha Chakravarty; Publisher: Social Science Press and 9.9 Media; Pages: 291; Price: Rs.850...
“Harry Potter†author J.K. Rowling is worried she will die before she finishes writing her new children's books....
Book Review:Title: The Turn of the Tortoise: The Challenge and Promise of India's Future; Author: T.N. Ninan; Publisher: Penguin Books/Allen Lane; Pages: 368; Price:Rs.699...
Can one outrun the vengeful past and escape inequality, gratuitous violence, and exploitation in a foreign land, or will these inequities stick as fast and close as a shadow no matter where one is? Is an unskilled immigrant's life any better than a one-step-ahead-of-poverty existence in one's homeland? These are hard but releva...
New Delhi, Sep 17 : The Jaipur Literature Festival will open its account in the US with its first ...
The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), based here in Himachal Pradesh, on Tuesday asked China not to go ahead with its plan to pick the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, saying there would be an international pushback....
After giving authorities the slip for nearly 16 years, an Indian-origin man accused of killing a person outside a New York wedding in 1999 has finally been arrested in Trinidad, media reported....
The tendency to want food may be 'hard-wired' into the brain of overweight people, says a new study that supports the theory that brain mechanisms underlying obesity may be similar to those in substance addiction....
A man who moved the Delhi High Court to bring back his wife from the custody of her parents disappeared with the woman from the court complex after they were allowed to meet each other....
