Samridh Seth suggests nine must-read books that can help turn your life around.
The annual White House Easter Egg Roll has become an iconic cultural event in America. This year's event, held April 5, was no different, and featured a very special guest for all the kids -- Harry Potter author JK Rowling!
Former United States President George W Bush's advisers believed that JK Rowling's books 'encouraged witchcraft' and thus deprived the author from a top US honour, reveals a new book.White House officials raised an objection against the move, saying that she promoted sorcery in her boy wizard series. They stopped Rowling from receiving the US' top gong for civilians who contribute to America, world peace or culture.
The Harry Potter franchise has now generated a collective fortune worth Rs 4,000 crore (over $900 million) for its author and movie stars.
Warner Bros is reportedly planning to give the last instalment of Harry Potter series a 3-D touch.
Get ready for some more of Harry Potter, Edward Cullins and Alice in Wonderland!
The group of 13 women, which included Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur, was entertained by author JK Rowling who read out excerpts from her new novel, The Tales Of Beedle The Bar.
Half-Blood Prince is definitely a film to be watched more than once.
Albus Dumbledore was gay. Here's why.
Coffee shops support a huge and growing workforce that cannot or will not be tethered to that piece of real estate that we all recognise as a formal office.
Get Ahead reader Srinath Sridhar tells us a little about his favourite writers and books.
A look at the glamorous celebs on the red carpet.
In a damning article, the Vatican's official newspaper L'Osservatore Romano has condemned the popular teenage boy wizard for promoting witchcraft and occult.
Emma Watson, who plays Harry Potter's geeky-turned-beautiful inseparable friend Hermione Granger in the movies based on the super-selling books by British author J K Rowling, said recently that she was open to going nude for a good director, because 'it is part of my job' as an actress.
Harry Potter has become a pop culture classic -- and a huge industry. With the final book due out this summer, can the billion-dollar brand survive for years to come?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been chosen by the Time magazine as its 'Person of the Year' for his "extraordinary feat of leadership in taking a country that was in chaos and bringing it stability".
Discworld creator and bestselling fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett declared that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. But the books, he says, will keep coming.
The court also directed the puja committee to file an undertaking stating that they would not use any character from the book without permission in future.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book from J K Rowling's mega-selling series, will be split into two films. After months of speculation, Warner Bros. has confirmed that the last book in the Harry Potter franchise will be filmed as Part I and Part II.
The lengths to which publishers have gone are not surprising.
A 659-page PDF file is floating around in the Internet as a 'leaked copy' of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
New book will be on the children's list, not the best sellers.
The book had given rise to a lot of speculation and discussion as Rowling had promised two deaths in it.
Daniel Radcliffe and katie Lieung took 30 shots to get it right.
The petitioner alleged that the author's Indian representatives had misled the media and the newspapers had wrongly reported about the proceedings of an earlier case.
The last Harry Potter book will be out on July 21.
How many times can you read the same book? Instead, T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan turns to different books by same writers for comfort.
Who better than India's beloved storyteller to teach you how to spin a yarn?
Indian-American siblings publish their first book, a Harry Potter guide.
While Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar follow, there's no sign of Aamir Khan, whose latest film Dangal is one of the most successful Hindi films ever made.
When size matters. Just as scotch bottles have become bigger, novels have also become fatter.
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