'I don't see milk-and-honey goodness in the poor'

Journalist Manu Joseph's debut novel Serious Men is about an extremely intelligent but crooked man whose obsession is to make his son be known as the first Dalit genius. He works in a science......

Kanishka case: Canadian court dismisses jury

A Canadian court has dismissed a jury in the perjury trial of Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only person convicted in the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 passengers. Justice Mark McEwan dismissed......

McEwan helped Rushdie defy death fatwa

Booker Prize-winning British author Ian McEwan, a close friend of Salman Rushdie, had offered the latter a place to hide when a death decree was issued against the controversial Indian-origin......

Indian writers are quite adventurous

Who will win the 2008 Man Booker Prize? The trade offices of literary fiction have not shaken off the miasma of Midnight's Children winning the Booker of Bookers in July. Reviewers will not let us......

Was Kangana's National Award calculated?

'Of all artists who openly support the current political dispensation, she is far and away the finest,' argues Sreehari Nair.'With the exception of perhaps Tabu, no Indian actress has done more to......

007: Live another day

Will the 23rd James Bond film ever see the light of day? Months after speculation that the project had been shelved, owing to MGM studio's reported financial difficulties, comes news that both......

At the Oscars this year...

When Juno, the quirky and sentimental drama centering onteenage pregnancy, emergedas one of the audience favourites at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, many people thought that the......

Did the Golden Globes really happen this year?

Glitz, glamour and... a press conference? Thanks to the ongoing Writers Guild strike -- which today entered Week 10 -- the 65th annual Golden Globe awards were reduced from a highly televised red......

Was Sachin a genius?

Was Tendulkar just a great player, asks Aakar Patel. IMAGE: Sachin Tendulkar walks back after his final innings in Test cricket. The Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, November 15, 2013. Photograph: BCCI......