Indian-American writer Akhil Sharma has won the second annual Folio prize for fiction for a novel which charts an emigrant family's heart-wrenching search for the "American dream", said a media report....
Oxford Bookstore on Tuesday announced the institution of India's first "Book Cover Prize" to honour excellence in book design. The prize will be announced at the 2016 Jaipur Literature Festival....
The life and times of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's eldest son will come alive through music, theatre and story telling sessions during a festival that will begin here from March 27....
An Indian-origin author attacked in South Africa for praising the controversial writer Salman Rushdie said on Monday that the incident left her traumatised and needing psychiatric help, according to media reports....
Painter Shuvaprasanna Bhattacharya was on Monday grilled for nearly five hours by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a business deal he made with Saradha Group chief and now jailed scam kingpin Sudipta Sen....
The Indian publishing industry is keeping the written word alive in different formats but the gradual decline in readership is posing many challenges for the industry. To reinvigorate this complex relationship, one of India's leading publishers says the trick lies in making readers fall in love with the solitary act of reading...
Gold, silver, iron, platinum, aluminium, tin, copper, zinc, mercury, iodine and carbon are elements likely to have been seen and even held in the hand, while oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, neon, helium, neon and chlorine are known but not seen and sodium, lithium, potassium, flourine, calcium, silicon and sulphur are among those used in compound form...
Veteran poet and film personality Yusufali Kechery passed away at a private hospital here on Saturday evening, said family sources. He was 80....
Very little is known about Gandhari, wife of Dhritarashtra in the Mahabharata epic, expect for the fact that she voluntarily blindfolded herself throughout her married life. But, what was she in person and as a woman? Exploring these unknown aspects of her life is a theatrical production that will be staged in the capital on S...
Those who have read Hindi author Dharamvir Bharti's works must be familiar with one of his masterpieces, "Gunaho Ka Devta". For the first time, this classic novel has been translated into English. This passionate tale of star-crossed lovers, along with a novel by a Man Booker winner and a slew of other stories, is wha...
