New Delhi: The year 2011 saw a lot on the writing front but prominent writers like Aravind Adiga, Tabish Khair and Manu Joseph, who were also reading a lot. "I've enjoyed "The Essential Tagore," an anthology published by the Harvard University Press, which has selections from Tagore's essays, poems, and plays. The novelist Amit Chaudhuri has written an excellent preface to this book," says Adiga. The 2008 Booker prize winner...
07:37:47 PM Dec 28, 2011
Srinagar: Noted Kashmiri poetess Naseem Shafaie has been chosen for this year's Sahitya Akademi awards for her poetic collection, becoming the first Kashmiri woman to get the prestigious literary award. Her poetic collection titled 'Na Thsay Na Aks' (Neither shadow nor reflection) has been listed for this year's Sahitya Akademi Award in Kashmiri literature, the announcement for which was made in New Delhi on Wednesday. The award function will be...
08:49:43 PM Dec 22, 2011
Los Angeles: Comedian Frank DeCaro is best known for his stint on 'The Daily Show with John Stewart' but the comedian and talk radio host is now dishing out recipes. In his third book, 'The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: A Resurrection of Recipes From More Than 145 Stars of Stage and Screen,' DeCaro provides the ingredients for actress Mae West's fruit compote and comedian John Ritter's favorite fudge along with other...
02:04:13 PM Dec 21, 2011
Model turned actress Yana Gupta has written about the difficult relation with food in her new book. ...
09:31:01 AM Dec 20, 2011
Model turned actress Yana Gupta talks about her book 'How to Love Your Body and Get The Body You Love'. ...
03:47:51 PM Dec 19, 2011
Washington: 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 on Thursday night after a long battle with cancer. He was 62. Hitchens death was announced in a statement from Conde Nast, publisher of Vanity Fair magazine. The statement says he died on Thursday night at MD Anderson...
11:18:05 AM Dec 16, 2011
It is said that Chambal is the valley where the lions breed. This is the opening line from The Red Brick House, the first 'Bahadur' comic which was released by Indrajal comics on December 1, 1976. The comic was an instant hit during those days because it was a realistic portrayal of the situation in India. The presence of dacoits, the absence of individuality and the general atmosphere of the...
03:01:37 PM Dec 12, 2011
Mumbai: Like most cartoonists, Mario de Miranda appeared to be a serious, shy, no-nonsense but soft-spoken person to a first-time acquaintance, but gradually warmed up. Born in 1926, Mario displayed a keen love and interest in sketching and caricatures - using the walls in his own house in Loutolim for practice! Until his horrified mother brought him a book Though never formally trained in the fine art of drawing, Mario...
12:05:55 PM Dec 12, 2011
New York: For more than 40 years actor Martin Sheen has inhabited complex characters from the troubled Capt. Willard in the Vietnam film 'Apocalypse Now' to US President Josiah Bartlet on the hit TV drama 'The West Wing.' But for one of his latest projects, Sheen, 71, did not have to reach far. The devout Catholic narrated the audiobook of 'Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World,' a new book...
07:50:37 PM Dec 09, 2011
This is more like a book of history and quotations. How much of it is first hand reporting? Satyajit Das: I started this book in 2005. During the past six years, the entire financial crisis played out. A chunk of the book is first hand reporting. I did not want to write about the global financial crisis and preferred going back 40 years. Finance has become a different beat during...
11:02:44 AM Dec 09, 2011
Kolkata: Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju on Tuesday strongly advocated awarding 'Bharat Ratna' to late Bengali novelist Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, describing him as one of the greatest writers of the world. "I would appeal to (West Bengal Chief Minister) Mamata Banerjee to take up with the President of India for awarding Bharat Ratna to Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay,'' he told newsmen on the sidelines of an interaction with members...
04:40:23 PM Dec 06, 2011
New Delhi: Another honour for India born doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee. He has bagged the 10 thousand pound Guardian First Book Award for his book on cancer. 'The Emperor of All Maladies' which won the Pulitzer prize earlier in April, was the only work of non-fiction on the shortlist. Mukherjee is an oncologist who treats cancer patients at the Columbia University Medical Center. ...
03:18:16 PM Dec 02, 2011
Kolkata: The scalpel gives way to a harmonium and the surgeon in 80-year-old Samir K Gupta steps aside for the artist as he gives musical life to some poems of 'Gitanjali' by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Gupta, who runs a city orthopaedic clinic, is a devoted doctor during the day and spends long hours of his nights composing music and writing books. " 'Gitanjali' has 157 poems, of which Tagore...
03:57:33 PM Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: Ailing Assamese writer and Jnanpith award winning litterateur Indira Goswami died on Tuesday morning after a prolonged illness. The former Delhi University professor was admitted to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital following lung infection and breathing problems. Earlier this year, the noted writer suddenly fell ill at her residence and was shifted to the GMCH on February 13. The 70-year-old writer, appointed by ULFA to represent it in...
08:45:16 AM Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: Rahul Bhattacharya, author of 'The Sly Company of People Who Care' talks about his book, his literary inspiration and more with CNN-IBN Books Editor, Amrita Tripathi. He also won the Hindu Prize for fiction recently. CNN-IBN: I'm going to start with the question most novelists hate -- How much of this book is you? Insofar as it draws from your experiences living in Guyana for a year, it's...
03:52:05 PM Nov 21, 2011