The book could not have come at a better time. This is a well-written story of the rise, fall (crash?) and most dramatic rise of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)....
The pioneer was Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" (1764), the first modern novel to encompass supernatural elements, but it was Clara Reeve (1729-1807) who moved the genre forward. In "The Old English Baron" (1777), she took Walpole's plot only but balanced the fantastic elements with realism to make it more believable....
Stories picked up from Ruskin Bond's body of work to a journey into the intoxicating city of Varanasi -...
Obituary : Nobel laureate Gunter Wilhelm Grass, best known for his 1959 novel "The Tin Drum", has died in a hospital in Lubeck at the age of 87. ...
Disproving Percy Bysshe Shelley's description of poets as "unacknowledged legislators of the world", he combined his illustrious poetic career with membership of the Constituent Assembly that drafted free India's constitution. This responsibility followed a four-decade stint as an outspoken, unbending freedom fighter across the politic...
The auction will be conducted as part of KBF's efforts to create a corpus to make the biennale self-sustaining and will largely help in dispelling organisational hitches, a statement said on Saturday....
It is an undisputedly history-rich bouquet of books that IANS is offering to its readers this weekend, covering the most debated topic of India-Pakistan rivalry to juxtaposing the neighbour's state of affairs in global politics. And then there are some gems from history repolished through the eyes of foreigners. Take a look....
A realm of unimaginable riches or knowledge, or where time stands still and aging stops... mankind always had a penchant for dreaming up places like Atlantis, El Dorado, Shangri-La, Iram of the Pillars and the like and then making huge efforts to find them. Conversely, some actual places achieved fabled status due to hazy information - ...
The nightmare of being the mother of a 27-year-old, looking at a relationship through the lens of virtual reality and a journey through Nepal are some of the hand-picked gems IANS is treating its readers to this weekend. Take a look....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's defining trait is determination and an absolute commitment to success, says British author Lance Price, noting that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader has the potential to transform India's politics....
