Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain wins 2020 Booker, Avni Doshi misses out

New York-based Scottish writer Douglas Stuart has won the prestigious 50,000-pound Booker Prize for his autobiographical debut novel Shuggie Bain, a coming of age tale of love and alcoholism set in......

The music of Ishiguro's words

'Did the Nobel committee, reviled for awarding Mr Dylan, play a little inside joke this time around, by awarding another lyricist who was once an aspiring musician?' asks Uttaran Das......

British author Kazuo Ishiguro wins Literature Nobel

Japan-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro on Thursday won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. 'The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the English author Kazuo Ishiguro who, in novels of......

When Ishiguro spoke to Rediff.com

Celebrated novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, who has just won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature, spoke to Arthur J Pais of Rediff.com in 2009, recalling his wonderful association with Sonny Mehta,......

Watched These Amazing 2022 Movies?

As the pandemic slowed down in 2022, people across the world came back to movie theatres. This summer, Tom Cruise's refurbished Top Gun: Maverick became a huge global hit. And just around the time......

India, Merchant-Ivory and the Oscars

Making her film debut with The Householder, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote more screenplays than novels, winning two Oscars -- for A Room with a View and Howards End.She kept her distance from the film......

Today's Oscar Challenge!

Think the Oscar 1, Oscar 2, Oscar 3 and Oscar 4 quizzes were fun? You haven't seen anything yet! 1. What is the connection between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and two-time Oscar......

Keira Knightley loves being bad

Get your low down on what's happening in the world of Hollywood, right here! Keira Knightley has revealed she enjoyed the challenge of playing a villain in her new flick Never Let Me Go. The......

Sports Shorts: India edge Vietnam 1-0 in AFC U-16 opener

A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday IMAGE: The India Under-16 team. Photograph: AIFF/Media Vikram Singh converted a penalty in the dying minutes of the match to lead......