Stanford University medical professor Abraham Verghese is getting ready for another bout of book tours, this time for his bestselling novel Cutting for Stone's paperback edition. The novel, set in......
Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports on the twists and turns of the high speed, crazy literature festival It is like reading a manic, exotic novel. A luridly colourful novel which switches......
As India's involvement in the growth of the US deepens, the search for the soul of India gains momentum, says T P Sreenivasan.Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World may well be in the making as......
Rishi Mediratta is one of the 40 people across the United States chosen recently as this year's Marshall Scholars. Funded by the British government, the scholarship, which covers university fees......
Tirades against multinationals are not exactly new in India's software capital. First it was the movement against Cargill, the US seeds giant. Then it was the turn of Kentucky Fried Chicken to face......
Over a decade ago, Mira Nair turned Dr Abraham Verghese's best-selling memoir My Own Country into a well-received telly film starring Naveen Andrews. On Wednesday, Nair and Verghese met at Asia......
Mira Nair invoked a favourite mantra once again last week at I View Film, which is emerging as a significant film festival in New York. She asked, if we don't tell our own stories, who will? She......
With the future ofher Johnny Depp starrer-Shantaram hanging in the air, director Mira Nairwill start shooting another acclaimed novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist by the end of the year.She......
Actor Naveen Andrews has found redemption with the hit television series Lost, not least because it has fetched him an Emmy nomination.For many of his admirersdisappointed with his work in Bride &......
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Q. Has anyone read Abraham Verghese's new book 'Cutting the Stone'? How is the book? : A. Cutting for Stone is a tremendous accomplishment. The writing is vivid and thrilling, and the story completely absorbing, with its pregnant Indian...... more
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