Indian languages fest ends

Last Updated: Monday, December 19, 2011, 09:06

The literary fraternity is committed to promote Indian writing.

Modern translations of Rumi by Americans are trash: Dhondy

Last Updated: Sunday, December 18, 2011, 13:07

Many of the modern translations of Jalaluddin Rumi poems are in bad English, the metaphors don`t make sense and there is no Sufi feeling in them, says Indo-British writer Farrukh Dhondy.

Underworld, Tagore and charity on book shelf

Last Updated: Sunday, December 18, 2011, 09:35

The book cart this weekend is a reflection of the diversity of new Indian writing.

Stephen King’s ‘11/22/63’ tops best-sellers list

Last Updated: Saturday, December 17, 2011, 09:12

Stephen King’s ‘11/22/63’ jumped to the top of the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list on Thursday.

‘Young’ Charlotte Bronte’s manuscript fetches £690k at auction

Last Updated: Friday, December 16, 2011, 19:33

Bronte’s manuscript written when he was a teenager was sold at an auction.

Author Christopher Hitchens dead

Last Updated: Friday, December 16, 2011, 14:46

Author Christopher Hitchens dead Christopher Hitchens, the author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right and wrote the provocative best-seller God is Not Great died Thursday night after a long battle with cancer. He was 62.

Captain America co-creator Joe Simon dies in NYC

Last Updated: Friday, December 16, 2011, 09:32

Joe Simon, who along with Jack Kirby co-created Captain America and was one of the comic book industry`s most revered writers, artists and editors, has died at age 98.

Founder of famous Paris bookstore dies at 98

Last Updated: Thursday, December 15, 2011, 08:47

George Whitman`s life was packed with the type of adventures that filled every nook and cranny of his bookshop, Paris` iconic English-language Shakespeare and Company.

SRK desperate to read books

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 15:57

Shah Rukh Khan is missing the joy of catching up on books.

Mark Tully’s book launched

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 09:05

‘Non Stop India’, penned by former BBC Journalist Mark Tully was launched yesterday.

Corruption has ‘taken over India’ but can be eliminated

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 09:43

Corruption has virtually enveloped India, growing annually by over 100 percent, but systemic graft can be ended for good, says a new book by two economic experts.

Book planned in 2014 about 1964 Civil Rights Act

Last Updated: Monday, December 12, 2011, 09:58

A veteran Washington reporter`s book about the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act will be released upon the legislation`s 50th anniversary.

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