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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...- Reading, it's a pleasure you got to work forEngaging with a text requires dedication and focus rather than mere relaxation. While AI has the ability to generate text, it lacks the cap...
- Remaindered of the Daryaganj dayIn Daryaganj, Old Delhi, bookstores sell a wide range of Indian and international books by weight at low prices, offering everything from p...
- Noted British historian & VS Naipaul biographer Patrick French passes away at 57The author battled cancer for four years.
- Sachidanand Hiranand Vatsayan 'Agyeya': Wrapped in the trappings of his overcoatAll through the book, Mukul notes Agyeya's sartorial elegance. It is one of the things that was held against him in the austere 'bhasha' wo...
- British composer Monty Norman, known for James Bond theme, passes away at 94Norman was hired to compose the theme for the first James Bond film, 'Dr. No' in 1962.
- From Geetanjali to Arundhati: The Indian Connection To Booker prize
- Interesting quotes from VS Naipaul's worksFor more such web stories click on the ET icon below.
- Talking to India’s most famousThe book 'Peerless Minds' defies contemporary trends and features long-form interviews.
- Peerless MD’s festive gift: Interviews with the who’s who; only 800 copies availableSunil Kanti Roy was behind the acclaimed corporate film on Peerless.
- Why VS Naipaul never wrote his autobiographyAccording to Naipaul, fiction never lies and reveals a writer totally. But an autobiography, he felt, "can distort; facts can be realigned".
- India’s chief economic advisor Dr Arvind Subramanian's top 10 booksDr Arvind Subramanian, who recently delivered the third annual Literature Live! Independence Lecture in Mumbai, on his favourite non-academ...
- Rajnath Singh says if Akbar is ‘Great’, so is Maharana Pratap, wants history books correctedSingh, while eulogizing Maharana Pratap, said the Mewar king was not a monarch for a particular caste or community but fought for the count...
- CBSE should include chapters on icons like Maharana Pratap: Rajnath SinghRajnath Singh today welcomed Rajasthan government's decision to include a chapter on iconic figures like Maharana Pratap in school textbook...
- 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...
- Flipkart to rope in authors at Jaipur Literature Festival to write on booksThe online retailer plans to start a section where authors will write about their work, inspiration and books that had an impact on them al...
- Mystique of Bal Thackeray & problems his heirs will have to faceMumbai’s Marathi-speaking poor loved Bal Thackeray. And his xenophobia was unmistakably a part of his championing their cause. But his mess...
- Funny Business: Jayalalithaa and Sasikalaa's 30-year friendship souredFriendships are temporary arrangements. Any student of Indian politics would be aware of Amma's political whimsies of supporting and withdr...
- Bad old boysThey could all learn a thing or two from the curmudgeonly Sir VS Naipaul and the nonagenarian Khushwant Singh.
- The inheritance of wit & wisdomIndia-born writer Kiran Desai, who clinched the prestigious £50,000 Man Booker prize for this year, said her win felt like a family endeavo...
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