Sujatha Gidla's scathing observations about Mahatma Gandhi and other highlights from Jaipur Literature Festival 2018.
Atwood's The Testaments and Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other earned each author an equal share of the 50,000 prize.
The poet and professor's 'life breath is now in the hands of those sworn to uphold his Constitutional right to life.' 'Will they be true to their oath?', asks Jyoti Punwani.
The researchers noted that transmission rates of SARS-CoV-2 are much higher indoors than outdoors, and transmission is greatly reduced by indoor ventilation.
"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 PM said that countries sponsoring, aiding and funding terrorism must be held accountable.
A Ganesh Nadar meets M Radha, the first transgender candidate in the fray for Lok Sabha elections from Tamil Nadu.
British author and Nobel Literature laureate Doris Lessing died in London on Sunday, BBC reported. She was 94.
Savarkar believed Swarajya is more than the mere geographical independence of a stretch of earth called India. There was no point in fighting and sacrificing one's life for a Swarajya (mere territorial independence) at the cost of our Svatva (self-existence) or Hindutva itself! A revealing excerpt from Uday Mahurkar and Chirayu Pandit's Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition.
'Soli steadfastly believed in Voltaire's famous dictum that he would disagree violently with anyone but defend to death that person's right to disagree with him.'
Those who know Alapan Bandyopadhyay describe him as measured, tactical and extremely focused on achieving what he sets out to do. To many it came as a surprise that he would cut short a meeting with the prime minister.
Jaipur Literature Festival 2011 Diary: Day One
He took up the causes of tribals marginalised after their lands has been taken over for dams, mines and townships, often without their consent.
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.
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
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.
'If it hits the right notes, actors will start trusting me with new stories.'
Rediff.com correspondent Abhishek Mande was attending the Jaipur Literature Festival, considered Asia-Pacific's leading literature event. He shares vignettes of Day 3.
The 40-year-old Vijay Kumar was arrested at George Bush Intercontinental airport on Friday after "acting suspicious," when screeners thought they saw a possible handgun in a scan of his baggage. Investigators found the brass knuckles, a manual for a handgun and Islamic literature in Kumar's checked luggage
Investigation has revealed that the two had planned to attack the famous temple at Chotila town of Surendranagar district.
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.
Writer-director Suparn Verma, and Rediff.com correspondent Abhishek Mande are attending the Jaipur Literature Festival, billed as the 'the greatest literary show on earth'.
The JLF has also become one of the most preferred platform to launch new authors and network. It is no surprise then that prominent publishing houses vie for space at the venue. In its 2011 edition, the JLF will see some young and old names gathering again to discuss books, lock horns and back slap each other.Writer-director Suparn Verma, and Rediff.com correspondent Abhishek Mande are at Jaipur attending the festival.
Respondents said their orgasms were better than those from sex.
'Throughout the nearly 20-year US-led war, State sponsorship from Pakistan has been a constant.'
Join Pakistan's Cabinet, BJP targets Sidhu over his comment.
'Serial testing is much more valuable than a single test which reflects just a point in time.'
Naipaul's views against the commonplace perception towards colonised countries and their people were not the only thing controversial about the famed author.
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.
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The National Investigation Agency has arrested a suspected Myanamar national, who was allegedly trained by Pakistan-based terror group Tehrik-i-Taliban, from Hyderabad in connection with the Burdwan blast case.
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.
Noted Hindi writer Nirmal Verma dead.
None of them had anything to do with the violence at Bhima Koregaon, where they were not even present, points out Aakar Patel.
He was known for his work in Mumbai Dinank, which was his first novel, and the book Simhasan, which was adapted into a Marathi film.
Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa is at the festival, watching the event unfold from the sidelines, posting live updates as they happen. Follow what's the latest from Jaipur on Vicky Nanjappa's MyPage!
'...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.
The Indian author was born August 21, 1915.
'She exists alongside Sita, the archetype of the ideal woman,' notes Arundhuti Dasgupta.
'These charges of the prosecution will fall to the ground and I am 100 per cent sure of that.'
