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Hungarian novelist wins Nobel for depiction of Germany's social unrest

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature was on Thursday awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror,......

MT Had A Profound Influence On My Life

Shobha Warrier pays homage to M T Vasudevan Nair, the legendary writer and filmmaker who passed into the ages on Wednesday, December 25, 2024. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com ......

Raghuram Rajan's Kafkaesque trial in Modi's India

Raghuram Rajan's exit reminds Syed Firdaus Ashraf of Kafka's The Trial. Amidst the brouhaha over Udta Punjab, producer Anurag Kashyap's tweet left me intrigued: 'I always wondered what it felt......

Hungarian author edges out India's Amitav Ghosh to bag Man Booker prize

Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai has won Britain’s prestigious Man Booker International prize for his achievement in fiction as he edged out India’s Amitav Ghosh and eight others......

Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Chinese author Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mo Yan is often referred to as the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller, according to Wikipedia. He beat perennial......

3 Indian Americans on Forbes list of richest women

Three Indian-origin women have been named by Forbes among America's 80 richest self-made women, the "ceiling crashers" and "overachievers" blazing their own trails as they create new businesses and......

Buyback: Where's the choice?

Consider this: you are living in a housing society and the society writes to you -- unless you specifically write otherwise -- that your flat will be bought out by the society at a price determined......

Why Rising Pune Supergiant changed its name!

'Last year, someone told us you must remove 's', otherwise you won't perform well and we didn't perform well.''Obviously, that's not the reason for not performing well, but it didn't hurt us to......

PIX: Rohit Roy's beach holiday

Actors Manasi Joshi and Rohit Roy celebrated their only child Kiara's 17th birthday at a week-long holiday in the Maldives. 'And we are off!! Birthday celebrations begin! Birthday girl......

PIX: Behind the scenes of SRK's The Ring

Happy birthday, Shah Rukh Khan! Shah Rukh Khan has been shooting his new film The Ring, co-starring Anushka Sharma, in exotic locations like Prague, Budapest, Amsterdam and Lisbon. He seemed......

Mohanlal would be perfect as Georgekutty.. 25 years ago

The curse of stardom, especially in a country like India -- which wants its Gods to be tidy and punctilious -- is that stardom forces you to stop exploring the frozen sea inside you, and instead......

It's been 30 years since Flop Show!

Jaspal Bhatti's feel for the grime, the confusions, and the madness in our system was so complete that he could take on every kind of woman or man God ever gave to the institutions of India,......

Birthday Special: Raja Sen celebrates Anurag Kashyap's movies

Anurag Kashyap turns 42 today, September 10.Maverick. Fearless. Visionary. These are just some of the things Anurag Kashyap calls himself. Ah, I jest. Kashyap truly is one of the faces of current......

Legendary Zatopek's legs to run wild in Rio

IMAGE: Czech artist David Cerny with his creations. Photograph: CTK/Facebook. The triumphs of Czech great Emil Zatopek will be celebrated in Rio de Janeiro with dozens of pairs of......