Lithium-ion batteries have revolutionised our lives since they first entered the market in 1991.
Atwood's The Testaments and Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other earned each author an equal share of the 50,000 prize.
'Throughout the nearly 20-year US-led war, State sponsorship from Pakistan has been a constant.'
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'When you ask one of the established industrialists to execute a large project it is exactly the same as your not asking your neighbourhood dhaba-owner to cater at your daughter's wedding dinner which will be attended by a thousand guests,' notes T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
Thousands of people from all walks of life on Friday filed past the body of Mahasweta Devi to pay their last respects.
2020 could well have been a year of biopics with females taking centre-stage. After Chhapaak, it was time for Shakuntala Devi and Gangubai Kathiawadi to release later in the year with many more in the pipeline for 2021.
Connor will take up the post on October 1 next year, pending approval by the Club's Members, as Sangakkara has been invited to remain in the role for a second twelve-month tenure due to the impact of COVID-19 on the cricketing landscape
Salman Rushdie may have skipped the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival, but his controversial novel The Satanic Verses continued to create a buzz at the event.
Disappointed at Salman Rushdie not attending the Jaipur Literature Festival, Pulitzer prize-winning author David Remnick has said the "persecution" meted out to the India-born writer is an "outrage" against free expression.
Sujatha Gidla's scathing observations about Mahatma Gandhi and other highlights from Jaipur Literature Festival 2018.
The PM said that countries sponsoring, aiding and funding terrorism must be held accountable.
None of them had anything to do with the violence at Bhima Koregaon, where they were not even present, points out Aakar Patel.
A Ganesh Nadar meets M Radha, the first transgender candidate in the fray for Lok Sabha elections from Tamil Nadu.
'These charges of the prosecution will fall to the ground and I am 100 per cent sure of that.'
'When I started reading Tamas I instantly knew it had to be made into a film. I could relate to the tragedy in the lives of the characters.' Govind Nihalani remembers Bhisham Sahni on his centenary.
Renowned Marathi poet and firebrand activist Namdeo Dhasal passed away in Mumbai on Wednesday after a prolonged illness.
On a visit to India in 2013, writer Ved Mehta -- who passed into the ages on Sunday January 10, 2021 - gave Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel a rare glimpse into his state of mind and what he thinks of the changes he encounters in his motherland.
It has been a helluva Day One at the Jaipur Literature Festival. In perhaps what has been one of the most stellar line-up of the festival, rediff.com saw some of the greatest names in literature and journalism walk the grounds of Diggi Palace, the venue of the festival. Abhishek Mande reports.
Rediff.com's Abhishek Mande, who is attending the Jaipur Literature Festival, brings forth all the details of a 'rather slow' Day 2 of the festival.
Cheered on by the audience, authors read out passages from The Satanic Verses on the first day of the Jaipur Literature Festival, reports Abhishek Mande.
The Nobel Prize in Physics was on Tuesday awarded with one half to James Peebles for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for discovering an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.
'...but from those who control the narrative.' Powerful nations have mastered this art of narrative building. Those nations who aspire to become global powers must do so, observes Shanthie Mariet D'Souza.
'Many Indians are not voting mostly on the basis of issues like the economy and their own well-being as measured by data provided by the government.' 'They seem to be as concerned and perhaps more concerned about other things, especially those that have to do with the harassment of India's minorities,' asserts Aakar Patel.
"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.
The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Gujranwala issued the warrant during a hearing in a terror financing case instituted by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab police against some members of the JeM.
People aged 45 and above account for about 88 per cent of all COVID-19 deaths in India making them the most vulnerable section, the Union health ministry said on Wednesday, a day after the government opened up vaccinations for all those in the age bracket from April 1.
Dylan is not really a writer and awarding the prize to him in the literature category is a "great insult to all the writers who have already received the award and also to those who rightly deserve it", the author said.
Taking a dig at the T20-driven shorter formats of the game, he said players with incomplete or bad action are winning Man-of-the-Match awards these days.
Join Pakistan's Cabinet, BJP targets Sidhu over his comment.
The relative ranking of castes can vary across regions and localities and depends on a number of factors including control over land, wealth, and political power. Castes have often tried to 'upgrade' themselves (a process sociologists refer to as Sanskritization), and sometimes get 'downgraded'. A revealing excerpt from Upinder Singh's Ancient India: Culture Of Contradictions.
'Rather than cutting and pasting from advanced economies, we should use basic economic principles to think about what is right for India at the stage of development at which we are,' says Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian.
British author and Nobel Literature laureate Doris Lessing died in London on Sunday, BBC reported. She was 94.
Respondents said their orgasms were better than those from sex.
'She exists alongside Sita, the archetype of the ideal woman,' notes Arundhuti Dasgupta.
Investigation has revealed that the two had planned to attack the famous temple at Chotila town of Surendranagar district.
Jaipur Literature Festival 2011 Diary: Day One
Naipaul's views against the commonplace perception towards colonised countries and their people were not the only thing controversial about the famed author.
'What a saint he was. What a godly person he was.'
