Indian writers are quite adventurous

Who will win the 2008 Man Booker Prize? The trade offices of literary fiction have not shaken off the miasma of Midnight's Children winning the Booker of Bookers in July. Reviewers will not let us......

My bid to embrace Islam was pretence: Rushdie

Controversial Indian-origin writer Salman Rushdie has said that he pretended to 'embrace Islam', the religion of his birth, almost 18 years ago in the hope that it would lessen the threat to kill......

'Literary critics will never grow up'

Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru has never had a problem speaking his mind. A great many people found that out on November 20, 2003, when his debut novel, The Impressionist, won the 5,000 John Llewellyn Rhys......

The infinite grace of O V Vijayan

I wish to escape nothing, Ravi answered from within his silence, I want to be the sand of the desert, each grain of sand; I want to be the lake, each minute droplet. I want to be the laya, the......

Court rejects Azhar's plea, BAI election on Sunday

Former India cricket captain Mohammed Azharuddin's bid to unseat Badminton Association of India's long-standing president V K Verma received a setback on Friday after an Andhra Pradesh court......