Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree credited her English translator: Here's why they deserve all the praiseTranslating literature isn't a mere technical exercise, subbing one word for another.
31 May, 2022, 06.47 PM IST
Jhumpa Lahiri's latest is a book on translation, will hit the shelves next spring"To be a writer-translator is to value both being and becoming," Lahiri writes in the book.
14 Sep, 2021, 03.48 PM IST
Pulitzer prize-winning Jhumpa Lahiri's new book will release in April'Whereabouts' is the story of a woman protagonist and her journey through life.
04 Feb, 2021, 03.31 PM IST
How Indian Americans have failed to make a strong impact on US mainstream cultureIn movies, music, and theatre, the Indian-American immigrant experience is still a long way from making an impact in mainstream popular ent...
31 Mar, 2018, 11.15 PM IST
Two authors, romance novels, and over-the-top gestures: Meet Durjoy Datta & Nikita DeshpandeThe authors tell us what it takes to make it to print.
07 Jun, 2017, 02.35 PM IST
Rising intolerance in India is alarming: Saad Z HossainHossain said that the more alarming thing is that the government isn't refuting the intolerant views being bandied about.
27 Nov, 2015, 11.43 AM IST
David Baldacci keen to write novel set in IndiaDavid Baldacci fans have something to cheer as the celebrated American crime writer is eager to pen a novel with an India setting.
25 Oct, 2015, 02.12 PM IST
US President Barack Obama's love for Jhumpa Lahiri highlights desi successPresident Obama on Friday honoured Jhumpa Lahiri with the National Humanities Medal for her works of fiction at an elegant White House even...
14 Sep, 2015, 11.49 AM IST
Jhumpa Lahiri's novel among Obama's summer reading listJhumpa Lahiri's second novel 'The Lowland' is among the six books which are part of the summer reading list of US President Barack Obama.
14 Aug, 2015, 06.21 PM IST
Jhumpa Lahiri wins the $50,000 DSC Prize for her book 'The Lowland'The Prize celebrates writing on the South Asian region from writers across the globe and is given to the best novel or translations into En...
22 Jan, 2015, 09.58 PM IST
How the big fat Indian lit fest is wooing global writersWriters are known to have good imaginations. It's no wonder, then, that writer & festival director William Dalrymple thinks up creative way...
20 Jan, 2015, 12.03 PM IST
Jhumpa Lahiri, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi in DSC Prize shortlistLahiri's "The Lowland", an intimate portrayal of two brothers and political passion was earlier on the 2013 Man Booker Prize shortlist as w...
28 Nov, 2014, 05.27 PM IST
Can CEA Arvind Subramanian fit into India's policy making?CEA Arvind Subramanian may find that making policy for a country like India is vastly more difficult than giving logical policy recommendat...
22 Oct, 2014, 07.25 AM IST
British-Indian writer's novel shortlisted for Man Booker Prize 2014British Indian writer and Kolkata born Neel Mukherjee's latest novel The Lives of Others has been shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booke...
24 Jul, 2014, 11.19 AM IST
Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Lowland' shortlisted for top UK prizeLowland is about the lives of brothers Subhash and Udayan, their choices and their fate. A novel about how political passion can destroy li...
08 Apr, 2014, 11.49 AM IST
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16 Jan, 2014, 05.17 AM IST
Kobo enters Indian market with launch of four devicesCanada-based e-reader maker Kobo entered the domestic market with the launch of four devices in the range of Rs 7,999 to 13,999.
17 Oct, 2013, 04.13 PM IST