Kiran Desai, the Booker Prize winning author of The Inheritance Of Loss, surely has a list of distinguished professors and acclaimed authors who have influenced and inspired her. But no one can......
Kiran Desai, 35, the India-born, US-educated author, has just become the youngest woman to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Inheritance of Loss (2006).'My mothertold me never to be a......
Nearly two months after her The Inheritance of Loss won the Man Booker Prize -- one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world -- the Indian community in New York finally celebrated Kiran......
India-born novelist Kiran Desai's bestseller novel The Inheritance of Loss has bagged yet another literary honour -- the National Book Critics Circle fiction award. The book has already won the......
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......
Universal basic income or social security? Economist Nitin Desai feels we need a blueprint for universal health care and pensions to help the vulnerable section. IMAGE: All Indians need access to......
Film folk mourned Zarine Khan and condoled with her family at a prayer service at Juhu, northwest Mumbai's JW Marriott hotel on November 10. Zayed Khan escorts his father Sanjay Khan to the venue.......
'Look after your own mother before looking after your neighbour's mother.''I don't believe in starving my own mother and feeding sweets to the neighbours.' IMAGE: Salman Khan, Tiku Talsania and......
A special screening of the film Kesari Veer starring Suniel Shetty, Sooraj Pancholi, Vivek Oberoi and Akanksha Sharma was held on Wednesday night. Sooraj Pancholi and Akanksha Sharma pose for the......
'Dharmendra was paying a little extra attention to me and she didn't like it.' IMAGE: Sonia Sahni in Maya. She did a kissing scene in the 1960s, and was promptly nicknamed the 'Kiss Girl'. But......
'I was very keen to make another film and I was dying to say action and cut and get back into creating characters and creating worlds.''But I just didn't have a script I was happy with.''I was......
IMAGE: Abhishek Sharma raced to his century off just 32 balls, striking 11 sixes and seven fours against Bengal. Photograph: Screengrab/X India U-19 skipper Ayush Mhatre continued his blazing......
IMAGE: Jharkhand's Kumar Kushagra smashed 23 boundaries and four sixes in his 367-ball 234 against Baroda. Photograph: BCCI Young wicketkeeper-batter Kumar Kushagra completed a brilliant......
IMAGE: Ajinkya Rahane struck a 33-ball 62 as defending champions Mumbai began their campaign in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy national T20 tournament by crushing Railways, in Lucknow on Wednesday.......
A summary of Sunday's action in the Ranji Trophy Elite group matches. IMAGE: Karun Nair smashed 233 on Day 2 of their Ranji Trophy match against Kerala -- his second century in a row. Photograph:......
Jammu and Kashmir need 222 runs on the final day to beat a star-studded Mumbai. IMAGE: Ajinkya Rahane was dismissed by J&K pacer Auqib Nabi for a duck in Mumbai's second innings on Day 3 of the......