Aravind Adiga, winner of this year's Man Booker Prize for his debut novel The White Tiger says his novel highlights the brutal injustices of changing India, which is on the verge of inheriting the world from the West. Adiga's novel is creating ripples in India for its defiantly unglamorous portrait of the country's economic miracle. Refuting that the novel was an attack on the growth story of the country, Adiga said writers like him should highlight the brutal aspects.
The prime minister wrote on Twitter, 'Sir VS Naipaul will be remembered for his extensive works, which covered diverse subjects ranging from history, culture, colonialism, politics and more.'
Filmmaker Sarah Gavron tells us how she made Brick Lane with Tannishtha Chatterjee and Satish Kaushik.
Two Booker prize winners Kiran Desai and Salman Rushdie will be the major attractions of 2007's 10-day Jaipur Heritage International Festival, which begins on January 13.
In a letter to The Guardian, Rushdie, who last week won the Best of the Bookers award, said that he had broken wine writer Malcolm Gluck's record for book signings. Gluck's claimed his record is 1,001 copies in 59 minutes, set at a wine warehouse in London in 1998.
Three Indian authors are among the 12 candidates short-listed for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, it was announced on Monday.
For Kiran Desai, her 70-year-old mother is much than an inspiration and mentor. It is her mother's humanity and example as a writer without vanity that have made the biggest difference in Kiran's life.
Rushdie, who faced flak from Muslim leaders across the world for his 1988 book Satanic Verses, is presently in the city and staying at the residence of industrialist Adi Godrej in suburban Juhu.
They do not represent the quest for human justice. That, I think, is one of the great mistakes of the left," Rushdie said.
Author Arundhati Roy leads protest march in support of Kerala farmer widows
India-born novelist Kiran Desai's bestseller novel The Inheritance of Loss has bagged yet another literary honour -- the National Book Critics Circle fiction award.
Ritesh Batra's The Sense Of An Ending trailer works, writes Raja Sen.
'Did the Nobel committee, reviled for awarding Mr Dylan, play a little inside joke this time around, by awarding another lyricist who was once an aspiring musician?' asks Uttaran Das Gupta.
Nearly two months after her The Inheritance of Loss won the Man Booker Prize, the Indian community in New York finally celebrated Kiran Desai's awesome achievement.
The director-actor says the controversial British movie does not portray Bangladeshis in bad light.
Tell us what you think the award-winning author's next novel should focus on.
Previously unseen photographs of then-US President George W. Bush during 9/11 have been released.
One is hopeful that if he becomes CM, Mr Thackeray will not be as trigger happy in calling for bans or encouraging outrage, says Uttaran Das Gupta.
Roy, however, said she did not yet know what the book would be about.
Akademi Secretary K Sachidanand said they are trying to make her reconsider.
As a penniless writer in Brooklyn, Desai shared a small apartment with a former clown, a fashion designer and a waitress.
Kiran Desai, who has just won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction is the daughter of famous novelist Anita Desai, who was shortlisted thrice for the Booker!
Kiran Desai said she owed a profound debt to her mother, Anita Desai.
Rushdie warns Muslims that their culture will be 'hijacked' by extremists if they don't speak up.
Foreign banking major HSBC plans to inject $180 million in India operations to support its growth in the country.
The Chennai-born Lakshmi reportedly told friends that she was bored with the writer.
Life Of Pi may mark the the second time Shyamalan will shoot in India. It will be the first time he will work on someone else's story.
The award, given by the Lannan Foundation, recognises her struggle for freedom, justice and cultural diversity.
Foreign banking major HSBC said on Thursday that it will decide on hiking its 14.6 per cent stake in UTI Bank after the government comes up with a policy on foreign direct investment and voting rights.
The Booker Prize-winning author wants people to join a "non-violent resistance against a very violent occupation."
Electing Union Bank of India chairman V Leeladhar as the new chief, the Indian Banks Association on Thursday said it has constituted a committee to draw up a long-term perspective 'Vision Plan' for the banking industry.
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