Aamir wows Kolkata lit fest with mesmerising speech on Abul Kalam Azad

When West Bengal Governor introduced the Bollywood star as an “icon who needed no introduction” – he seemed to sum up Kolkata’s frenzied response to Aamir Khan, reports......

Booksellers pay for Potter's magic

The booklovers are eagerly waiting for final sequence of the Harry Potter adventure series to hit bookstores across Mumbai, but sellers are worried about too much discount to be offered in the face......

Distributors cold towards book on Shivaji

The Bombay high court may have lifted the ban on American scholar James Laine's book Shivaji: A Hindu King in Islamic India, but bibliophiles in Mumbai may never get to lay their hands on a copy of......

More people taking to yoga

It has become a common sight for morning joggers in the capitals parks -- men or women rubbing their nails as they circumambulate, some inhaling through one nostril to do breathing exercises or......

Author of book on Sahara hopes to probe the group further

Tamal Bandyopadhyay was in Kolkata on Thursday evening for his book's launch at the Oxford Bookstore. Indrani Roy grabbed a few moments with him to file this report. None of the characters --......

TCS targets SMEs with cloud computing

Until a few months back, Subhasish Saha, chief technology officer, Apeejay Surrendra Group, wasn't very sure if he could trust a large Information Technologyservices firm for services and......

Publishers betting big on business books

The trailblazing India Inc. has found an admirer in book publishing companies. Some of them think that stories on Ratan Tata and Nandan Nilekani, for example, will offer greater value to Indian......

Digital publishing coming of age

When Brian Murray, group president of HarperCollins, said, "The younger generations are consuming information in a different way. They may not necessarily be going into bookshops. They are spending......

"I want to write Rajnikant's biography..."

Roopa Swaminathan, author of the National Award-winning book, Star Dust, Vignettes from the fringes of the Film Industry, calls herself a hardcore Mumbaiite who loves cinema and grew up watching......

Kohli breaks Tendulkar's record; fastest to 10000 runs in ODIs!

Sachin Tendulkar needed 259 innings to get to 10,000, while Kohli has so far batted in 205 ODIs. Besides Tendulkar and Kohli, Sourav Ganguly, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Rahul Dravid are the other......