Far-right Hindu nationalists in Mumbai have doused the head of an Indian think-tank in black ink in protest at the...
Month: October 2015
India: Writers returning Sahitya Akademi awards is a landmark moment…more should do so: Gopal Gandhi
Former Bengal governor and Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi has hailed writers for returning their Sahitya Akademi awards as a...
Gujarat-based writer Ganesh Devy, 'Yuva Puraskar'-winning author Aman Sethi and four other eminent writers from Punjab returned their Sahitya Akademi...
The sixth edition of the 'Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest' will be held in the city from October 29...
An initial list of 165 authors, including global writers set to participate in the mammoth Jaipur Literature Festival scheduled in...
It's a plot that could almost have come from Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, the wildly popular author known for writing...
After writer Nayantara Sahgal returned her Sahitya Akademi award protesting against what she called a "vicious assault" on India's diversity...
Craig Mod has a fascinating article for Aeon, talking about the unfortunate stagnation in digital books. He spent years reading books...
Minister says The Satanic Verses author’s scheduled address next week ‘crosses one of our red lines’: The Guardian Iran is...
Her protest is "in memory of the Indians who have been murdered, in support of all Indians who uphold the...
