Pulitzer-prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri's new collection of short stores, Unaccustomed Earth, has gone to number 1 in The New York Times bestseller list less than two weeks after its publication on April 1. She is the only Indian novelist after Salman Rushdie to achieve the feat.
'Image-conscious India surely will have an eye on him, the highest-ranking political figure of Indian heritage in America. And that could be an advantage for Louisiana,' The Times-Picayune reported.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, who began his career as a Paris stringer for the US showbusiness publication Variety, had a leg removed due to complications from diabetes in January 2006.
'I don't think we can force the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds to live together if they don't want to live together peacefully,' says US Congressman Bobby Jindal.
This year, there was no Pulitzer awarded for drama.
Asha Damle's Marathi translation of American Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's ground-breaking novel, Beloved.
Popular film critic Roger Ebert has given a four out of four rating to Vanaja.
The Indian-American author serves as one of the jury members this year.
This is one of the largest monthly increases in the labour force, observes Mahesh Vyas.
Notwithstanding the recent uproar over the UK data theft, a well-known US author has said that America is a huge beneficiary of outsourcing.
Director Mira Nair talks about The Namesake and her next, really big film.
Geeta Anand has shared it with the staff of the Wall Street Journal, for which she works.
'No two countries that are part of a global supply chain will fight ever a war against each other as long as they \n\nare each part of the supply chain.'
'India is developing call centres and Saudi Arabia is developing madrassas. One is calling the world, in a perfect accent, the other is calling God, in only one language.'
Subhash Ghai on the highs and lows of his career.
Miller, whose most famous fictional creation, Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman," came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry, died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury on Thursday night.
Deepika Padukone recently inaugurated a lecture series to promote mental health awareness in India.
The 23 year old from Telangana will represent India at the Miss World pageant.
Rediff.com presents a selection of the Pultizer Prize winning images that unveil Europe's massive refugee crisis.
Pradeep Sharma, mechanical engineer at the University of Houston, Kavita Ramanan, professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, Dilip Da Cunha, architect, planner and teacher at Harvard University and Columbia University, Mukul Sharma, professor of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College, and Tahera Qutbuddin, professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago, have been awarded the 2020 Guggenheim fellowships.
Two Nobel Laureates, four listed writers of this year's Man Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists, winners of Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Crossword Prize and film stars will be the attraction at the most sought after literary event in India -- the Jaipur Literature Festival.
'India has given assistance that we required, otherwise we would not have been able to survive this far.'
Does Reuters want to cover news at 'all costs' -- even at the cost of human lives? asks Sudhir Bisht.
Robust military preparedness along the entire perimeter of our nation is the only iron-clad permanent guarantee for our security, asserts Vivek Gumaste.
'All imaginary figures are pushed by government bureaucrats.' 'They never showed that the production of wheat was less this time.'
Trump paid an effective tax rate of 24 per cent and saved millions of dollars in additional taxes by claiming the losses, according to the document, the first two pages of which were obtained by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston and first shared on "The Rachel Maddow Show.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Salopek is on an intercontinental journey of 24,000 miles, tracing humankind's movement out of Africa right down to South America.
The author of 11 novels, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, having published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970.
All the action from the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival.
'I always feel that to shake up human beings, you have to go a little extreme.'
"It is a bumper harvest this year," Jaipur Literature Festival producer Sanjoy Roy told Rediff.com while describing the spectacular line-up of authors at the grand carnival this year.
Remember the heartbreaking image of the dead 3-year-old boy washed up on a beach?
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