Kiran Desai's novel makes Orange list

India-born writer Kiran Desai's Booker Prize-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss has been included in the field of contenders for this year's Orange Broadband Fiction Award, in a break with......

Indian diplomat wins 2006 Boeke Prize

Writer Vikas Swarup, better known as India's Deputy High Commissioner to South Africa, has won the 2006 Boeke Prize for his novel Q&A.Swarup's novel, which has been translated into 25 languages and......

Tales from the underworld

Vikram Chandra took seven years to complete Sacred Games, an epic 900-page novel of love and betrayal. It is a massive work that deserves to be read, not merely for Chandra's widely respected......

Bajwa's rich brocade of realism

She sounds a lot like my grandmother. That's the first thought I have whenever Rupa Bajwa picks up the phone. It's a quiet, world-weary 'Hello' that comes across the line, all the way from......

Emmy 2015: Veep, Games of Thrones, Viola Davis create history

The 67th annual Primetime Emmy Awards took place at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, on September 20.It was a special night for American prime time television,......

Golden Globe 2015: The awards that will go WRONG

Golden Globes that could go wrong. The Golden Globes frequently come with their share of pre-Oscar disappointments. But this time, while predicting who will win, we decided also to look at ones who......