If you want to read a best-selling novel, but don't like the cuss words in it, this app is for you....
Writers should get rid of fear from their mind, courageously stand against authority and figure out different ways to send out strong messages, Sahitya Akademi award winners said here on Wednesday. ...
The Sahitya Akademi's prestigious Bhasha Samman will be conferred on two scholars who have contributed significantly to the enrichment of classical and medieval literature (northern) and Bhili language respectively, it was announced on Wednesday....
Translations of popular books like "The Immortals of Meluha" "The God of Small Things" and "Mujhe Chand Chahiye", among others, have been selected for the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize 2014, the organisers said here on Wednesday. ...
After analysing one of the greatest works by famous Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, Belgian scientists have identified a very rare mineral that is turning his paintings white....
If celebrated journalist-writer Khushwant Singh is to be believed, there is no god; the concept of karma is all hogwash. One reason for his insistence is that no one, at any time, has seen god. "Even if I came face to face with Him, I would not recognise him," he says in this collection of writings. And that's why, he says proudly, he is an agnosti...
More than 170 writers and scholars from across India have converged at the ongoing annual festival of Sahitya Akademi to deliberate over the challenges Indian languages are facing and the role of literature in society....
The Night it Rained Guns: Unravelling the Purulia Arms Drop Conspiracy; Author: Chandan Nandy; Publisher: Rupa; Pages: 272; Price: Rs.295...
If the US president is the world's most powerful leader, his secretary of state (or foreign minister) is a close second though maybe not as well-known. Of the 68 secretaries since 1790, few are recognised names - even in America - though six, right from the very first (Thomas Jefferson), went on t...
Although not a newcomer to auction houses, Tintin, the immortal comic book-turned-cartoon character, topped bidding prices in March on works exhibited in Christie's and Sotheby's auction houses....
