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8th Jaipur Literature Festival kicks off to a grand start

The eighth edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival kicked off on Wednesday to a grand start with a bevy of authors, poets, Nobel Laureates along with some Bollywood celebrities, trooping in to......

'Muslims in India will learn to live as second class citizens'

'Iqbal knew that democracy is a game of numbers and that Muslims would be marginalised in a Hindu-majority India. That fear has now come to pass.' Image: Muslim women rummage through the debris of......

Salman Rushdie awarded Pen Pinter prize

Indian-born Booker Prize winning author Salman Rushdie was on Friday named the winner of this year’s prestigious Pen Pinter prize for his outstanding literary output and support for freedom......

Follow Jaipur LitFest on Vicky Nanjappa's MyPage!

The fifth edition of Jaipur Literature Festival promises to be the biggest and best so far. The biggest litfest in all of Asia, Jaipur this year plays host to a Nobel Laureate, two Booker winners......

Indian writers are quite adventurous

Who will win the 2008 Man Booker Prize? The trade offices of literary fiction have not shaken off the miasma of Midnight's Children winning the Booker of Bookers in July. Reviewers will not let us......

Indian industrialists bag UK Asian Awards

Top Indian industrialists N R Narayana Murthy and Adi Godrej besides actor Anupam Kher were among a number of personalities from Asia to be recognised by the UK for their contributions in various......

Why Mira Nair's Films Speak To Me

Mira's films are alive, rocking and so true to the reality I know.They are gifts that I keep revisiting, and I cannot wait for what more she will share with us, notes Aseem Chhabra. IMAGE:......

'Jennifer's death destroyed Shashi Kapoor'

'With Jennifer gone, Shashi struggled, but couldn't find himself.''That vast area of his personality that was Jennifer -- now it lay empty.'The death of his beloved wife was a blow Shashi Kapoor......

Blessed to have lived in the times of Daniel Day-Lewis

'He has given us a history, a heritage that we can share with generations to come,' says Aseem Chhabra. IMAGE: Gordon Warnecke and Daniel Day-Lewis, right, in Stephen Frears' My Beautiful......

Why I am thankful to Hasan Minhaj

'You made me realise that it is great to be brown, even if we are currently living under Donald Trump's false definition of America.''In my 36 years in America there have been few instances where I......

He brought out the poetry of the ordinary face

Om Puri was that rare actor who could carry a film on sheer power and versatility of his performance, says Avantika Bhuyan. IMAGE: Om Puri in Ardh Satya. It was on a balmy evening in 1988 that I......

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8th Jaipur Literature Festival kicks off to a grand start

'Muslims in India will learn to live as second class citizens'

Salman Rushdie awarded Pen Pinter prize

Follow Jaipur LitFest on Vicky Nanjappa's MyPage!

Indian writers are quite adventurous

Indian industrialists bag UK Asian Awards

Why Mira Nair's Films Speak To Me

'Jennifer's death destroyed Shashi Kapoor'

Blessed to have lived in the times of Daniel Day-Lewis

Why I am thankful to Hasan Minhaj

He brought out the poetry of the ordinary face

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