My take aways from the Jaipur LitFest

'Surprised by the absence of any sloganeering or even mild protest in an ambience so free and self-regulated, I asked a friend from Delhi whether he too, with sharp political antenna, was surprised......

Desai, Mishra on New York Times' Top 100 books

Six weeks after winning the Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai is hardly out of the news. She appeared with her mother, the novelist Anita Desai, last week......

Review: Eat Pray and Snooze!

Preeti Arora reviews Eat Pray Love.From book to screen for even a work of fiction is a daunting task. The novelist has time on his hands as compared to the poor director who works with far too many......

Julia Eats, Prays, Loves (and goes home)

For the longest time, I thought the 2006 bestseller Eat, Pray, Love was a sequel to the 2004 bestseller about punctuation Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Now I am enlightened. One is about the search for......

Julia Roberts loving her new curves!

Pretty Woman star Julia Roberts has revealed she loved every pound she gained due to the 'eat' portion of her latest movie Eat Pray Love. Directed by Glee's Ryan Murphy, the movie is based on the......

Chasing Julia Roberts in Pataudi

"She's the star of Pretty Woman. She won an Oscar. She's very, very famous. Hurry! I have to see her today," I told Mishra, my inimitable Delhi-born taxi-wallah, as we sped down the National......