Nikhil Lakshman remembers the times he spent with the legendary writer who passed into the ages six days before his 86th birthday. IMAGE: Sir V S Naipaul gives the Nobel lecture at the Old Stock......
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,......
Indian author Amitav Ghosh is among a group of award-winning writers and poets to make the longlist of Warwick Prize for Writing in London on Wednesday. The biennial prize run by Britain's......
Six weeks after winning the Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai is hardly out of the news. She appeared with her mother, the novelist Anita Desai, last week......
Controversial Indian-born author Salman Rushdie is selling his personal archive, which includes two unpublished novels, to a wealthy American University for an undisclosed sum.According to a report......
Primarily external factors and an unconventional intervention by Reserve Bank of India provided the timely relief, notes Arvind Subramanian The near-crisis witnessed this year will be the subject......
'One of the director's primary jobs is to make sure that all the actors perform as if they are in the same movie, playing in the same band -- one is not acting in a different band than the......
Ritesh Batra's The Sense Of An Ending trailer works, writes Raja Sen. The Sense Of An Ending is a heartbreaking book. Winner of the Man Booker Prize five years ago, the novel by Julian......
Lunchbox director Ritesh Batra, who has quietly directed a prestigious British film starring Oscar winning actor Jim Broadbent, now readies for his next venture. Other than Shekhar Kapur, no......
Images from the UEFA Champions League matches played on Tuesday night.City cruise into last 16 IMAGE: Manchester City's Erling Haaland celebrates scoring their first goal against Young Boys at......
Erling Haaland Haaland has now scored 16 goals in his last 10 Premier League appearances. A round-up of Saturday's action in the Premier League. IMAGE: Erling Haaland scores Manchester City's......
Roger Federer may never glide across it as only he can, or any other Grand Slam court for that matter, again. But his legacy will never fade. IMAGE: Switzerland's Roger Federer celebrates after......
From Rohan Kanhai the swashbuckler to Alvin Kallicharan to Shivnarine Chanderpaul to Ramnaresh Sarwan to Sunil Narine, Indian origin cricketers from the Caribbean have often been the toast of the......
IMAGE: Alexandre Lacazette, 2nd right, celebrates with his teammates after scoring Arsenal's first goal against Chelsea, at Emirates Stadium, in London, on Sunday. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty......