She arrived in the city in 1955 to study at Mount Carmel College.

This was decided by the Akademi’s executive board which met on Thursday to announce annual awards for 2015 to litterateurs from across 23 I...

Noted writer Shashi Deshpande, said the present scenario bore a "dreadful resemblance" to the McCarthy era in the US, when nobody was exemp...

The veteran writer, who relinquished her post at the Sahitya Akademi General Council over intolerance, also expressed concern over writers ...

This move comes in the wake of festival director and author Vikram Sampath's public stand against writers returning their awards and agains...

The Forum will hold a series of public meetings across the country to discuss matters ranging from killing of dissent to beef politics and ...

Introduction of literary awards in three categories -fiction, nonfiction and literary achievement in Kannada -will be the other highlight.

Nayantara Sahga said the “PM and not Rajnath Singh” needs to address the concerns being voiced collectively by many sections of people.

Writers wrote to the National Academy of Letters urging it to build on the resolution passed and respond in a 'strong, humane and robust' m...

Nayantara Sahgal and Shashi Deshpande today sought a strong condemnation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi of Dadri lynching incident.

Prasad's remarks comes after eminent author Shashi Deshpande said that PM Modi's comment on the Dadri lynching incident was "far too weak."

Eminent author Shashi Deshpande today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comment on the Dadri lynching incident were "far too weak."

The president of Adbee Markaz Kamraz (AMK), a body of 25 literary and cultural organizations from north Kashmir, Shujaat Bukhari, said in a...

"This is to say that it 'it was a stilling of a different voice, a different way, a different faith and a different kind of food", the form...

Shashi Deshpande resigned from the Sahitya Akademi General Council expressing "a sense of strong disappointment" over the literary body's s...

The city, however, is much more. From time to time, it has assumed many identities, resulting in people from multiple cities and of diverse...

With Indian writers reaping awards and topping best-seller lists worldwide, this year's Paris book fair is putting the spotlight on the cou...