Last Updated: Friday, January 25, 2013, 15:54
The sixth edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival is running on a negative budget of over Rs.1.5 crore (approx $278,000) with several sponsors pulling out in the last three weeks citing financial constraints, said organisers.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 24, 2013, 17:08
Nearly one year after Whitney Houston’s shocking death, her mom Cissy Houston has written candidly about her daughter’s severe drug problems and the downward spiral that led to her death by drowning in a hotel bathtub with traces of cocaine still in her system in a revealing new memoir, ‘Remembering Whitney’.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 24, 2013, 14:14
Differences over royalty payment on their duets led to Lata Mangeshkar falling out with Mohammed Rafi and they stopped singing together for nearly three years, a biography of the late singer says.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 15:50
Did you know that passengers would let buses go empty and wait for the one where Rajinikanth was on duty as the superstar, who was then a bus conductor, amazed people by issuing tickets and returning the change in his trademark style?
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 09:33
Taylor Swift has donated 2,000 books to the Pennsylvania hospital where she was born.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 22, 2013, 13:39
Narendra Kumar has added another feather to his cap by becoming the only Indian designer to enter Britain`s ‘Esquire Big Black Book of Style’.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 22, 2013, 08:55
Jessica Alba has written a book on lifestyle and parenting to provide an honest account of everything.
Last Updated: Monday, January 21, 2013, 16:04
Ahead of the Jaipur Literature Festival, Muslim groups today warned organisers against inviting authors who hurt religious sentiments of the community, including the four who had read out passages from Salman Rushdie`s banned Satanic Verses at the event last year.
Last Updated: Monday, January 21, 2013, 09:29
Literature, clashing cultures and global performance genres merge quaintly on the Indian stage.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 20, 2013, 11:26
The bookshelf this week is mixed, with food, religion and drama all finding space. Sift the shelves with IANS...
Last Updated: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 09:07
The third edition of the Hyderabad Literary Festival (HLF) began here Friday with the participation of over 100 writers, artists, scholars, publishers from India and abroad.
Last Updated: Friday, January 18, 2013, 13:22
A copy of Adolf Hitler`s autobiography `Mein Kampf`-believed to be the last one signed by the Nazi dictator-is expected to fetch 5,000 pounds at an auction in London