Osama issue will raise global pressure on Pak: British author

Osama issue will raise global pressure on Pak: British author

Last Updated: Sunday, May 22, 2011, 11:57

Anatol Lieven says Pakistan will now come under more international pressure.

Aminatta Forna wins Commonwealth Prize book award

Aminatta Forna wins Commonwealth Prize book award

Last Updated: Sunday, May 22, 2011, 09:02

Forna has won the Commonwealth Writers` Prize for `The Memory of Love`.

British royals dined on human flesh: Book

British royals dined on human flesh: Book

Last Updated: Saturday, May 21, 2011, 16:13

British royals who have long been famed for their love of lavish banquets and rich recipes also had a taste for human flesh, according to a book.

Controversial author Arundhati Roy`s book launch disrupted

Controversial author Arundhati Roy`s book launch disrupted

Last Updated: Saturday, May 21, 2011, 09:47

The launch of Booker Prize winning author Arundhati Roy`s new book ‘The Broken Republic’ was disrupted by a group of protesters at the India Habitat Centre here late Friday.

A bookshelf on entire range of Rabindranath Tagore works

A bookshelf on entire range of Rabindranath Tagore works

Last Updated: Friday, May 20, 2011, 12:47

Now, here is a chance to possess a bookshelf with the entire range of works of and on Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

New collection of stories from Ruskin Bond on his birthday

New collection of stories from Ruskin Bond on his birthday

Last Updated: Friday, May 20, 2011, 09:48

Novelist Ruskin Bond, who celebrated his 77th birthday Thursday, gifted his fans a brand new collection of stories about one of his most endearing characters - the eccentric, bumbling Uncle Ken.

Jeffrey Archer, Siddhartha Mukherjee bestsellers again

Jeffrey Archer, Siddhartha Mukherjee bestsellers again

Last Updated: Thursday, May 19, 2011, 09:26

Jeffrey Archer`s ‘Only Time Will Tell’ and Indian American Pulitzer winner Siddhartha Mukherjee`s ‘The Emperor of All Maladies’ again rule the fiction and non-fiction categories this week.

US novelist Philip Roth wins Man Booker International Prize

US novelist Philip Roth wins Man Booker International Prize

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 19:55

Roth was honoured with the Man Booker International Prize Wednesday.

Anna Hazare is face of anti-corruption: Kiran Bedi

Anna Hazare is face of anti-corruption: Kiran Bedi

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 12:43

Bedi has released a book titled `Anna Hazare: The Face of India`s Fight Against Corruption`.

Bangalore beckons in Mukherjee’s ‘Miss New India’

Bangalore beckons in Mukherjee’s ‘Miss New India’

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 09:36

Anjali Bose has a dazzling smile, near-fluency in American-accented English, and a gnawing hunger for life outside her rural Indian town of Gauripur, where the dilapidated Pinky Mahal bears witness to stalled progress and her stolidly middle-class parents are forcing her into an arranged marriage.

Tagore in spotlight at Indo-Bhutan literature fest

Tagore in spotlight at Indo-Bhutan literature fest

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 13:18

Tagore will be the focus of a 3 day festival at Thimpu, beginning Friday.

Movie buff? Here`s what cinema does to writers

Movie buff? Here`s what cinema does to writers

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 13:14

`I am a citizen of the world created by Bollywood`, writes Amitava Kumar.