“Fictional autobiography is arguably the most challenging, certainly the most ambitious, but in my opinion, definitely the most authentic genre in historical fiction,” says Belgian writer Dirk Col

On a tranquil Friday afternoon, the erstwhile Rave Media office at New Delhi’s Siddhartha Extension is abuzz with activity. It is the place where the global publishing giant Simon & Schuster, five years after testing Indian waters, is gearing up to set sail. As the big-ticket publisher starts its operations in India in earnest from mid-August, it is all set to shift to the Corenthum in Noida.

IF COUNTRIES are narratives, Tibet’s narrative is a narrative of pain: the pain caused in the wake of invasion, infiltration, usurpation and exploitation, and the disruption of its customs and traditions. At an exhibition of photographs, “Tibet: Then and Now”, currently on at the India International Centre in New Delhi, Tibet’s plaintive cry

Forty years after he made the occult an enthralling and engrossing fare with his 1971 novel The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty is back with “the most personally important novel” of his career, The Redemption.
The Exorcist’s brand of horror, its plotline, themes and texture spawned many copycats and with its movie adaptation by William Friedkin in 1973, it deservedly went on to have a cult following. This sub-genre of horror, popularised by The Exorcist, is, however, difficult to define.

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The curtain came down on the Jaipur Literature Festival 2011 on Tuesday with a debate on society’s right to unrestrained freedom of expression that saw celebrated activist Aruna Roy, authors Abha Dawe

I have not done any painting which has hurt the sentiments of the Hindus,” said S.H.

RUSKIN BOND held court on Sunday, Day 3 of the on-going Jaipur Literature Festival 2011.

“AS A writer, I am very lazy and slow,” said Kiran Desai, author of the Booker-winning The Inheritance of Loss, on the second day of the on-going DSC Jaipur Literature Festival on Saturday.

A WELL-DECORATED, festooned, expanded and bursting-at-the-seams Diggi Palace threw open its gates to readers, writers and book lovers from around the globe who flocked to the five-day-long DSC Jaipur