Last Updated: Thursday, December 27, 2012, 09:43
Books authored by scientists and those involved in science are "small edifices" that can bridge the gap between science and art, Dadasaheb Phalke awardee actor Soumitra Chatterjee said here Wednesday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 26, 2012, 10:56
President Pranab Mukherjee will formally inaugurate the fourth World Telugu Conference at Tirupati on Thursday.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 25, 2012, 09:54
A book by a former BBC journalist based on interviews with those who survived the Sri Lanka war says more than 40,000 civilians died in the end stages of the bloody conflict.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 23, 2012, 10:40
New Delhi: As a 23-year-old brutalised and gangraped victim fights for her life in the capital, novelist Madhuri Banerjee ascribes the rise in gender crime in India to the bias against the girl child.
Last Updated: Saturday, December 22, 2012, 13:26
A spate of non-fiction about India`s transformation as a secular nation and an emerging superpower scored yet another hit on the bookshelf this year with a flood of mass market fiction.
Last Updated: Saturday, December 22, 2012, 10:47
A 92-year-old scholar was among those conferred with the Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil by President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan Friday for outstanding contribution to classical Tamil language and literature.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 09:46
Where was Goswami Tulsi Das, creator of Ramcharitmanas and the Hanuman Chalisa, born? At Soron in Etah district or Rajpur in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh?
Last Updated: Sunday, December 16, 2012, 08:52
The 2013 Beijing Book Fair will open on Jan 11, featuring 500,000 books by over 650 publishers, including more than 60 overseas publishers including from India.
Last Updated: Saturday, December 15, 2012, 10:44
The bookshelf this week is a mix of glamour, adventure and redemption...
Last Updated: Friday, December 14, 2012, 13:04
According to experts in Denmark, they might have discovered the first fairytale written by Hans Christian Andersen.
Last Updated: Friday, December 14, 2012, 10:05
Leading British light artist and poet Robert Montgomery has crafted a poetry installation in light on the wall of a heritage spice trading house facing the sea.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 13, 2012, 14:41
The Tamil version of the book ``Pranab Mukherjee: The All Season Man`` has been released.