Twelve years ago, when Arundhati Roy got a 1.6 million pound advance for her debut novel, The God of Small…
There are many compelling stories wrapped in the pages of Fugitive Histories but none more so than Yasmin?s.
Last year, the film industry blamed a series of flops on cricket. It is a fact that season one of…
It?s a shame, really, that non-Bengali readers have little access to the writings of Buddhadeva Bose, one of the greatest…
At the Indian Premier League of cricket?s auctions in Goa this year for season 2, two owners, Preity Zinta of…
Men don?t like to see women at work and that is the focus of the mainstream Bollywood films
When Rana Dasgupta?s Tokyo Cancelled was published in 2005, it took the literary world by storm. Critics saw a bit…
In Delhi 6, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra has Delhi, the city, as one of the characters. In the last two years…
In old pictures,? writes Basharat Peer in this first-hand, chilling account of Kashmir in war, ?Srinagar is elegant; latticed houses,…
Over the past few weeks the buzz around Danny Boyle?s Slumdog Millionaire has reached a crescendo and film critics around…
After two years of heartbreak, the international Kolkata Book Fair is back. Will it help the city become a Unesco…
Towards the end of Tarun Tejpal?s ferocious new book on India and its areas of darkness, the narrator is told:
It?s Hollywood?s most ambitious foray into Bollywood and producers Fox Star studios are pulling out all stops to ensure Slumdog…
Glamour, big names and a multiplicity of languages may just take literary festivals to far bigger audiences
In the run-up to the 15th Star Screen Awards, slated for January 14, 2009, The Financial Express looks at Bollywood…
In the end, intimations of mortality prompted Gerald Martin to end his 17-year obsession with Gabriel Garcia Marquez and write…
In 2007-08, IT bellwether Infosys spent Rs 4 crore on commissions and sitting fees for its eight independent directors, which…
It?s chilling. The letter Chairman and founder Ramalinga Raju wrote for the annual report of 2007-08, is still on the…
