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Can there ever be a Great Indian ‘State of the Nation’ novel?Indian novels often focus on specific regions rather than the entire nation. This is due to India's immense diversity. Authors find success...- Our casual negativityCriticism is more in vogue than appreciation. Nearly 4,000 years ago, Socrates advised his disciples to ignore people's opinions. Humans of...
- Oscar-winning screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere passes away at 89A tribute will be held for him in Paris and he will be buried in his native village in Colombieres-sur-Orb.
- Iconic Fairlawn Hotel in Kolkata now in desi handsThe boutique hotel has played host to the rich and the famous over the years, including directors Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, actor Pa...
- Hotel in Kolkata mourns death of Shashi Kapoor, a long-time patronThe room Kapoor and Kendal stayed has since been christened ‘Shashi Kapoor Room’ by the hotel authorities and is in high demand among trave...
- Gunter Grass, Eduardo Galeano & Vilas Sarang: Distinct writers who were ignored by their immediate worldsOn Monday, newsfeed choked on two deaths. First was Günter Grass. The next day I got a a message of another death of a writer "Vilas Sarang...
- The Leipzig Book Fair, Germany's oldest, relies largely on its emotional connectThe Leipzig Book Fair, a favourite of writers and readers far and wide, has grown into Europe’s biggest reading fest
- Why Patrick Modiano winning the Nobel in Literature would exasperate someBy picking the French writer for the Literature Nobel, the Swedish Academy wants us to choose something on the menu most of us haven’t trie...
- Billion dollar Instagram: The culture and commerce of sharingET explores the logic of a business rooted in human instincts and analyses the defining issues of its future: the puzzles of profit and pri...
- Lubeck: Plenty of Indian connection palpabale in picturesque German townBarely 60 km away, in Germany's northern most state of Schleswig-Holstein, on the Baltic Sea coast is Lubeck, distinguished by very differe...
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