China moved military forces in disregard of agreements: Jaishankar

India and China are rising and the two countries, in the process, are changing the world order, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday. IMAGE: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar......

'Literary critics will never grow up'

Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru has never had a problem speaking his mind. A great many people found that out on November 20, 2003, when his debut novel, The Impressionist, won the 5,000 John Llewellyn Rhys......

Six complaints against JLF organisers, authors

Kavita Srivastava, national secretary of People's Union for Civil Liberties, has revealed that six complaints have been registered against four authors: Amitava Kumar, Hari Kunzru, Jeet Thayil and......

I had to leave India to be safe: Amitava Kumar

Writer Amitava Kumar tells Aseem Chhabra about life after he read from The Satanic Verses at the Jaipur Literary Festival. Last week Amitava Kumar -- the New York -based writer and professor of......

Nobel for Dylan carpers, go home

'Show me songs that become larger than songs better than Dylan's.' 'Show me words that are like the master key to every human emotion under the sun better than Dylan's.' 'And show me someone who......

Spotted: Kevin Pietersen in the West Indies

Reader Siddhartha Kunzru sent us this photograph. 'This is a photo of my friend Rishikesh Bagati with Kevin Pietersen in a hotel in the Caribbean (during the March 2009 England trip to the......