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A spoilsport in a time of genocide remembrance

'The response to savagery and mass injustice is never a persistent howl.''There will be, among the victims, those who choose to forget the scars, those who go on living, those who challenge the......

What a writer this man is!

'One of his most famous scenes is set in a prison in Delhi where the British try to subvert Karla, the legendary Soviet spy who is being transferred back to Moscow and is being temporarily detained......

French author Patrick Modiano bags Nobel prize in literature

French writer Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, The Swedish Academy said on Thursday. The 69-year-old author beat Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Haruki Murakami, Svetlana......

Kannada author in Man Booker Prize shortlist

Kannada author UR Ananthamurthy has been shortlisted among 10 other authors for the international Man Booker Prize for fiction. Ananthamurthy, 80, is the only Indian among to have made it to the......

Philip Roth wins Man Booker, sparks controversy

Philip Roth, the most decorated living American novelist, today won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize, beating off competition from 12 other contenders, including India-born Canadian......

No bedtime for bears as Nasdaq peak turns 3

The bears are not headed into hibernation yet, three years after Nasdaq peaked above 5,000 in a dot-com pipedream that turned into a nightmare.The giddy days of early 2000 are just a memory for......

A Maharashtrian Haunts Bollywood

Munjya is the most wildly entertaining ghost I have encountered at the movies recently.But he has the added advantage of being a Maharashtrian ghost, of possessing rhythms of speech and behaviour......

What you DON'T KNOW about Nedumudi Venu

A Nedumudi Venu character was happiest when moving his head to a piece of music with his eyes closed; or, when inventing off of a note that a co-actor had left unfinished; or, when reciting a poem......

Happi Review

'Surely a person like Happi deserves to be treated with dignity.''But does he deserve a two hour movie dedicated to his daftness, and to the failure of the rest of the world to come round to the......

Raja Sen's Oscar predictions

Oscar Predictions 2009 The 81st Annual Academy Awards, if trends are anything to go by, seem to be more or less on the same page with me this season, which is a peculiar feeling indeed since I'm......

Oscar-nominated movies race ahead

Ang Lee's bittersweet saga of a gay relationship, Brokeback Mountain, which leads 2006's Oscar nominations with eight nods, recouped its $14 million investment several weeks ago. But the......

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Philip Roth

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A spoilsport in a time of genocide remembrance

What a writer this man is!

French author Patrick Modiano bags Nobel prize in literature

Kannada author in Man Booker Prize shortlist

Philip Roth wins Man Booker, sparks controversy

No bedtime for bears as Nasdaq peak turns 3

A Maharashtrian Haunts Bollywood

What you DON'T KNOW about Nedumudi Venu

Happi Review

Raja Sen's Oscar predictions

Oscar-nominated movies race ahead

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