Rani Mukerji’s memoir to be released on her birthday in 2023
Mumbai-- Marking her debut as an author, actress Rani Mukerji tells it all in her candid autobiography, which is set to release next year...
Bookends: Ample romance, stories of power and beauty
New Delhi-- Flick through an exciting school romance, the difficult love affair of a ballerina, the struggle of a girl dealing with the gravitational...
Making our futile but necessary lives meaningful Camus’ Absurd way
By Vikas Datta
All religions are based on fate, or some divine design and control over humans, and so are some philosophies (the universe conspiring...
Indian-American writer in Wellcome Book Prize list
London-- Pulitzer Prize winning Indian-American writer Siddhartha Mukherjee's latest book 'The Gene' has made it for the longlist of this years Wellcome Book Prize.
Mukherjee...
How writer Jeet Thayil was inspired by soothing sound of his father’s typewriter
By Saket SumanĀ
New Delhi-- The clickety-clack from the typewriter of acclaimed writer-journalist T.J.S. George night after night was so soothing that it would lull...
Arundhati Roy wows Delhi readers; announces Hindi, Urdu translations of 2nd novel
New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) "Because I love you," was the sublime response of Booker-winning writer Arundhati Roy to her readers when asked why...
Scientists decode what makes a New York Times bestseller
By Allie Nicodemo
News at Northeastern
Landing a book on The New York Times bestseller list is one of the loftiest achievements an author can hope...
In search of a suitable girl
By Saket SumanĀ
Hardly has any novel been awaited with as much curiosity and anticipation in recent times as Vikram Seth's sequel to the monumental...
Of the Mahabharata, 2019 tarot readings,love on ships and fiction from a resistant Tibet
New Delhi-- In 2018's last weekend, discover what French playwright Jean-Claude Carriere learnt about the Mahabharata from his notes from his India trip; flick...
Banned by British, Nanak Singh’s scathing critique of the Raj to be launched in...
New Delhi-- Nanak Singh, widely regarded as the father of the Punjabi novel, was present at the Jallianwala Bagh on April 13, 1919 ,when...