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Freedom of expression under threats worldwide, including India, warns Rushdie

Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie has warned against the “alarming” threats to freedom of expression around the world, including in India, as he accepted the Freedom to Publish......

Confessions of a 'Khan Market gang' member

'If Khan Market today -- a neon-drenched spectacle of blingy shops and pricey eateries -- is what it is, it's not due to the dramatic shift in political dispensations, but because free-market India......

The most delayed train in India

With a 20 hour average delay, the New Jalpaiguri Express is the queen among late-running trains.Shine Jacob reports from New Jalpaiguri. IMAGE: New Jalpaiguri station. Photograph: Kind courtesy......

MUST READ: 10 things you didn't know about Stephen Hawking

Image: File image of Stephen Hawking addressing a public meeting in Cape Town. Photograph: Reuters. On Wednesday, world-famous theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking passed......

When Ishiguro spoke to Rediff.com

Celebrated novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, who has just won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature, spoke to Arthur J Pais of Rediff.com in 2009, recalling his wonderful association with Sonny Mehta,......

Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO; Andy Jassy named successor

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon as an online bookseller nearly three decades ago, will step down as the CEO of the $1.7 trillion global retail giant in the third quarter of 2021 with......

How COVID is changing the game plan for booksellers, publishers

In the future, publishers will need to think of digital immersive marketing just like marketing a movie or show on Netflix is an immersive experience. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com After......

Why RSS affiliate is against Walmart-Flipkart deal

'If you allow Walmart to operate in India, our manufacturing will finish completely.''What will happen to Narendra D Modi's dream then? There will be no Make in India.' IMAGE: Walmart CEO Doug......

Any idea why economists don't write autobiographies?

For a bunch that fancies itself so greatly and does not hesitate to express an opinion on everything, this is very odd behaviour, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan. Illustration: Dominic......

What ails the Chinese economy?

Beijing needs to prevent things from getting more interesting, notes Rahul Jacob 'So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice began to think that very few things indeed......

How I braved rains to bring Harry Potter home!

We asked readers to write in their favourite Harry Potter moment, and we got quite a response.Reader Neha Mukherjee, 21, writes in her experience of buying Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince......

Wuthering Heights gets a boost from this vampire!

American author Stephenie Meyer's vampire saga has helped put Emily Bronte's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights at the top of the Waterstone's classics chart. Meyer's Twilight has made Bronte's novel......

Q & A makes it to bestseller list

In its original version, Vikas Swarup's novel Q & A, did not create a stir in America. The reviews for the book, which this week jumped into the top 15 paperback bestsellers list in The New York......

Cool DVDs out now in stores!

One of the most eagerly awaited movies this year, the new James Bond adventure Quantum of Solace is only a few weeks away from hitting more than 3,500 movie theatres across America and Canada. But......

Rowling pens Harry Potter prequel

British author J K Rowling has written an 800-word prequel to the Harry Potter series for charity. The book, which was written almost a year after the seventh and last book Harry Potter and the......

All roads lead to Paris in 2024

IMAGE: Paris is will continue to be dogged by the usual gripes about staging the greatest show on earth. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentesi/Reuters All sporting roads lead to Paris next year with......

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