Bestselling author Dan Brown spoke at the Penguin Annual Lecture in Mumbai on November 12. Snapshots from the evening
He might have bid adieu to cricket but Sachin Tendulkar continues to make records with the his autobiography Playing It My Way entering the Limca Book of Records for being the best-selling adult hardback across both fiction and non-fiction categories.
In a two-part interview with Ashwin Sanghi, we bring you insights from the bestselling author of The Krishna Key, Chanakya's Chant and Rozabal Line and just how a young man from a family obsessed with numbers and business found love for history and the written word.
Michigan State Police reported that one suspect had been taken into custody shortly after 6 pm (local time).
Stephen Graham won two awards at the Emmys, including Best Actor for his role in Netflix's hit drama Adolescence as well as Best Writing alongside co-creator Jack Thorne.
Amazon.com, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, announced its biggest sellers yesterday; Rowling was no surprise at No 1.
Says who? Ashwin Sanghi, the author who has been hailed as India's Dan Brown and called the master of historical noir.
An erotic book dubbed as 'mummy porn' has beaten the J K Rowling authored Harry Potter's record in the United Kingdom's book sales chart, becoming the fastest selling paperback of all time in just one week.
Angels & Demons is a satisfying serving of popcorn cinema.
I see an interesting pattern emerging, linking the dramatis personae of the UPA government and Team India, says M R Venkatesh.
Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard will have a tough time filming two key scenes in their new flick Angels and Demons, based on Dan Brown's novel of the same name, for the Vatican has banned them from entering the Holy See and any church in Rome.
the Vatican has asked a senior cardinal to debunk the novel, which it believes was deliberately written to discredit the Roman Catholic Church through "absurd and vulgar lies".
Or should it have a proper release in India, like the rest of the world? Have your Say!
Thanks to some inexplicable reasons, rubber futures contracts are witnessing a steep fall for the past few days. This has also hit the spot marker now with prices of benchmark grade RSS 4 dropping below Rs 90 a kg to close at Rs 87 on Friday.
In India, several shops opened very early in the morning to allow die-hard fans to get their copies.
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Anshu Kumar, 21, son of government school teachers from a village in Bihar, won the President's Silver Medal at the NDA. He commanded the grand passing out parade and will go on to join the Indian Navy.
Capturing the drama on Day 12 at the Tokyo Olympics.
'I grab every challenging role hungrily and try to give it my best shot,' he says.
The best-selling author explains why he gains weight every time he writes a book.
Sachin Tendulkar's autobiography Playing It My Way saw its launch in the national capital today as the event celebrated the book's crossing a record 200,000 copies.
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Edmund sailed through in straight sets 6-3, 6-4 against world number 70 Jeremy Chardy and will face fourth seed Dominic Thiem of Austria.
Inferno is a yawn, warns Raja Sen.
Delhi-based Riticka Srivastav is bringing a smile on people's faces with her second-hand books.
Dan Ticktum, who is also into his maiden Formula 2 season like Daruvala, won the race from pole position with another rookie, Christian Lundgaard, finishing second. Louis Deletraz was third.
The star was chosen to deliver the Penguin Annual Lecture.
The term binge-watching was the runner up in Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year in 2013. Indians may have come late to the party a little later, but we're making up for lost time, says Shuma Raha.
These images prove we live in a wonderfully weird world.
It's jobs and not more welfare that people want, says Republican gubernatorial challenger Neel Tushar Kashkari, who posed as a homeless job seeker for 7 days. Aziz Haniffa reports
Resurgent Spanish great Rafael Nadal will have the rare privilege of playing on a court named after him when he meets Brazilian Rogerio Dutra Silva in the last 32 of the Barcelona Open on Wednesday.
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