The author battled cancer for four years.

All 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...

Norman was hired to compose the theme for the first James Bond film, 'Dr. No' in 1962.

The book 'Peerless Minds' defies contemporary trends and features long-form interviews.

Sunil Kanti Roy was behind the acclaimed corporate film on Peerless.

According to Naipaul, fiction never lies and reveals a writer totally. But an autobiography, he felt, "can distort; facts can be realigned".

Dr Arvind Subramanian, who recently delivered the third annual Literature Live! Independence Lecture in Mumbai, on his favourite non-academ...

Singh, while eulogizing Maharana Pratap, said the Mewar king was not a monarch for a particular caste or community but fought for the count...

Rajnath Singh today welcomed Rajasthan government's decision to include a chapter on iconic figures like Maharana Pratap in school textbook...

CEO Arvind Subramanian and Niti Ayog chief Arvind Panagariya will be speaking at the eighth edition of the 5-day Jaipur Literature Festival.

Writers are known to have good imaginations. It's no wonder, then, that writer & festival director William Dalrymple thinks up creative way...

The online retailer plans to start a section where authors will write about their work, inspiration and books that had an impact on them al...

Mumbai’s Marathi-speaking poor loved Bal Thackeray. And his xenophobia was unmistakably a part of his championing their cause. But his mess...

Friendships are temporary arrangements. Any student of Indian politics would be aware of Amma's political whimsies of supporting and withdr...

There is clearly method in the cultivated aura of genteelly-enunciated controversy. He can't quite ladle out the same nasty curry about Ind...

They could all learn a thing or two from the curmudgeonly Sir VS Naipaul and the nonagenarian Khushwant Singh.

India-born writer Kiran Desai, who clinched the prestigious £50,000 Man Booker prize for this year, said her win felt like a family endeavo...