For decades, the admirers of the Bengali novelist Mahasweta Devi have been saying that she should be a major contender for the Nobel Prize. But since her books are not widely translated she......
Five Indian Americans are among 189 artists, scholars and scientists chosen for this year's Guggenheim fellowships for distinguished achievements in their fields. The Guggenheim Foundation, a New......
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2004 was on Thursday awarded to Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek. The acclaimed and controversial writer work explores the role of women in society among other......
Marilyn Monroe is always seen as a cautionary tale of how the pressures of celebrity could destroy a fragile mind, observes Deepa Gahlot. This year marked the 60th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's......
Nationalism only comes second to a writer whose primary morality is as a human being, Mohsin Hamid tells Abhishek Mande, as Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, based on his book, hits the......
Naomi Watts is set to play Marilyn Monroe in a new biopic, which is based on a controversial book detailing the actress' love affairs and encounters on the casting couch. Titled Blonde, the film is......
IMAGE: West Indies Captain Darren Sammy with the ICC World Twenty20 Cup at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata, April 3, 2016. Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images 'He spoke to the fact that his West......