Confessing to have been enamoured by tales of Kerala, Booker winning Nigerian poet and novelist Ben Okri attributed it to...
Month: October 2012
IN 1972, philosopher Hubert Dreyfus published a manifesto at a time when researchers were proposing a theory for general problem...
Bertelsmann, the German media company, and Pearson, its UK rival, are merging Random House and Penguin, their respective publishing units,...
Did you know the English word ‘caste’ comes from the Portuguese word for varna or tribe, ‘casta’? Or that Shahjahan...
Look at what’s going on,” says the young Grace in Laitlum, a short story which appears in the middle of...
Guan Yifan, 90, the father of Chinese Nobel laureate writer Mo Yan, in front of Mo's childhood home at Ping'an...
Banking is an industry with its influx of big money, shady deals, onus on maximising profits that could well be...
The annual autumn buzz here in Tokyo for the Nobel Prize in Literature was more intense last week than in...
Prolific Bengali writer and Sahitya Akademi president Sunil Gangopadhyay passed away on Tuesday morning in his Kolkata residence. He was...
Walking around with a copy of Janaki Lenin’s My Husband and Other Animals is a great way to start a...
