For literary buffs and bibliophiles, there is never a dull moment at the Jaipur Literature Festival that keeps its tryst with literature and literary lights from January 21 to 25.

Pakistan’s literary output, in the last few years, has been so good it’s unsettling for Indian writers.

2011 will be big on books. From Amitav Ghosh’s second volume of the Ibis trilogy to Aravind Adiga’s eagerly awaited next novel, the year will see it all.

For a 27-year-old, Ali Akbar Mehta, grandson of Tyeb Mehta, is remarkably sorted on matters of art. His show, “Displaced in Time and Space”, recently opened at the Triveni Kala Sangam in New Delhi as part of “Three New Voices: Dimensions in Time and Space”. The other two artists, whose works are on display at Triveni till December 20, are: Shally Mahajan, who gives expression to the “innermost impulses” that define her experiences as an artist in a series in mixed media, and Raj More, who draws on the ancient and modern facets of a metropolis like Delhi.

Dan Brown has spawned a slew of thrillers that synthesise history, science and religion to give us some swashbuckling reading pleasure.

As filmmaker Wang Yu-Lin bit into his chicken sandwich at the Vasant Continental hotel in New Delhi recently, he seemed to relish our conversation on Taiwanese cinema. The director was in the city to be a part of the Delhi International Arts Festival’s “Taiwan Focus: Iffi Kaleidoscope” which puts the spotlight on six films from Taiwan, including Seven Days in Heaven, co-directed by Yu-Lin.

“Home is a place you can always come back to,” writes S. Mitra Kalita in My Two Indias: A Journey to the Ends of Opportunity, an exploration into the two divergent faces, and facets, of the country her parents left when they were 30. Interestingly, it was at 30 when Kalita made a “reverse journey” in 2006 when she came to India to work for a

With the first edition of Hay Festival, an exuberant celebration of literature and life, held at the majestic Kanakakunnu Palace in Thiruvananthapuram from November 12 to 14, Kerala became one with th

A little after the Hay Literature Festival got off to a splendid start last week at the historic Kanakunnu Palace, perched atop a little hill in Thiruvananthapuram, Marcus du Sautoy, professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford, was engaged in a frenetic (and frantic) conversation with fans and friends. Frantic because in 20 minutes his

It’s been a while since the dust settled on author and former Penguin Canada president David Davidar’s sexual harassment case involving one of his employees, Lisa Rundle, who had launched a $523,000 suit against him. The episode took the publishing world by storm as Davidar has a formidable reputation. Many of his erstwhile colleagues rallied in support of the writer-publisher. Davidar resigned on June 8 to pursue his “writing career” and the lawsuit was settled out of court in July.