Altaf Tyrewala is a Mumbai-based Indian, English-language writer. He studied advertising and marketing in New York, and returned to Mumbai...
Day: September 14, 2014
It’s not surprising to see foreign academic and cultural interest in the phenomenon of shut-ins. In 2012, that curiosity sparked...
The National Museum of Classic Books has officially opened to public in Beijing. This is the first museum of its...
Since the Book Bucket Challenge went viral on Facebook the trend has swept onto China's Twitter-like platform Sina Weibo. The...
President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, the eve of Teacher’s Day in China, emphasized the importance of keeping Chinese classic poems...
A group of Sinologists have "nominated" the most promising Chinese candidates for the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature, which is...
Four Reigns by Kukrit Pramoj Kukrit’s epic novel follows one woman’s life spanning the reigns of four kings – Rama...
Haruki Murakami: 'I'm an outcast of the Japanese literary world. Critics, writers, many of them don't like me', says the...
The Vietnam War is the dark shadow of Korean economic development. Just as Japan’s post–World War II economic success owes...
Hangwoman K R Meera (Translated by J Devika) Penguin 2014, pp 438 Rs. 699 Translated from Malayalam, ‘Hangwoman’ is a ...