First published in 1972, Vinod Mehta’s riveting account of Hindi film actress Meena Kumari’s life begins with her death, weeks after...
Month: August 2013
Shagufta Rafique became a sex worker at the age of 17, joined bar-dancing some years later, and now finds success...
On page 45 of Paying For It, Chester Brown’s graphic memoir—in the sense of a graphic novel, not in the sense...
The GQ magazine has come out with the New Canon: The 21 Books from the 21st Century Every Man Should...
A competition has been launched for Chinese readers to translate stories by novelist David Mitchell. The contest is part of...
How does a reader 'discover' an author/book? Today digital technology is rapidly becoming a unifying factor in the coming together...
Communist Vietnam is to ban bloggers and social media users from sharing news stories online, under a new decree seen...
Zealot Author Reza Aslan believes that Jesus probably lacked the education to read a book like the Bible. Or the...
It wasn't until I was a graduate student, in Oxford, in the late 1980s, that I began to discover Hindi...
Taiwan is gearing up for a sizeable presence at the upcoming BookFest Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, with the participation of...
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