Advance booking: What to read in 2008

Some 'big books' to look forward to in 2008...FictionThe acquisition of Amitav Ghosh's forthcoming Ibis trilogy by Penguin India made big news in literary circles earlier in the year and the first......

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......

Samit Basu, weaving fantasies galore

Samit Basu, popularly known as the Boy Wonder in literary circles, was barely 23 when he completed The Simoqin Prophecies, a cheeky, wonderfully imaginative book that was billed as India's first......

'Juhi, Ayesha, Konkona are the best'

We often have directors over for chats, but director Anurag Kashyap enjoyed his chat with rediff readers so much he wasn't ready to say goodbye -- the conversation went on well past the appointed......

Asylum sex scenes made Natasha cry

The sex scenes in the harrowing, riveting movie Asylum were so strong, confesses actress Natasha Richardson, that she cried a couple of times in her trailer to let off the tension."They were raw,......

The Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban spell

Broomsticks will fly, paintings will whisper and menacing villains will have their comeuppance on more than 6,000 screens across North America when the third instalment in the Harry Potter series......