On a chilly Delhi evening, Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel attends Khushwant Singh's latest book launch, which the legendary writer says is his last.The chilly winter Delhi evening was......
Prolific author and journalist Khushwant Singh's body was consigned to flames today at the Dayanand Mukthidham electric crematorium here on a quiet evening amidst the presence of family members,......
Noted author and journalist Khushwant Singh, one of the finest Indian writers in English in contemporary times, died in Delhi on Thursday at the age of 99. The veteran writer, who was ill, passed......
Khushwant Singh, noted journalist and former editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India and The Hindustan Times, was pleasantly surprised when President A P J Abdul Kalam broke protocol to call on......
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh will honour eminent writer Khushwant Singh with the Punjab Rattan in New Delhi on August 31.Amarinder will present a silver memento to Khushwant.'The......
Rupa & Co will be glad that former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh dropped his plans to publish his memoirs, A Call to Honour, on his own.Trade circles say the book, in the market for a......
Authors have finally started making news in India, with the size of their book advances and not just their books themselves. Ramachandra Guha had publishers vying to offer him upwards of a crore of......
Question: what's black and white, lives in an orange egg and has recently started talking in Hindi and other Indian languages, after years of being an English-speaking bird?Answer: Penguin.Okay,......
Should the Income-Tax Act have been simultaneously amended to exclude Sikhs and Jains from the definition of HUF once they were declared a minority by the government? Sanjeev Nayyar discusses the......
A large number of rich farmers, who earn more than salaried employees in the cities, get away with paying no tax at all in view of the government’s lack of will to consider an agricultural......
Here's what your favourite Bollywood celebrities are tweeting. Novelist and journalist Khushwant Singh passed away today, March 20, due to a heart attack. He was 99. Several stars took to......
Though she wasousted from Samir Karnik's Kyon? Ho Gaya Na Pyaar (starring Vivek Oberoi and Aishwarya Rai), Payal Rohatgi (Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai) has baggedtheKnockout Beer television commercial.She......
Theirreverent Peter Sellers comedy, The Party,banned in India in the late 1960s, is being remade by Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks and directed by Jay Roach (Austin Powers In Goldmember, Meet The......
He may not be as famous as Javed Akhtar, Gulzar or Prasoon Joshi. But Irshad Kamil is getting there. The lyricist, who has written for songs for films like Chameli,Socha Na Tha, Jab We Met, Love......
IMAGE: Sourav Ganguly and his daughter Sana. Photograph: Sourav Ganguly/Twitter The Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly, on Wednesday, Sourav Ganguly......
The Indian hockey team has set out on a rectifying mission at a training camp for the Asian Games probables in Rourkela. It will work towards correcting the faults it committed at the......
Minor upsets notwithstanding, matches went according to seedingsin the 55th ICL National Squash Championship in Chennai on Wednesday. The performances of the topplayers show that Saurav Ghosal and......
The top 16 seeds in the men's section, including Saurav Ghosal and Gaurav Nandrajog of Delhi, sailed into the second round, evens as the women side saw a few upsets in the 55th Senior ICL National......