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Salman Rushdie, You Are A Fighter

As he struggles in hospital, I wonder why anyone, especially someone who was not even born when The Satanic Verses was published, would want to harm a 75-year-old man and a literary treasure,......

When iPhone photos become works of art

In the hands of skilled photographers, smartphones are capable of producing works of art - as these stunning images show. Now in its twelfth year, the iPhone Photography Awards competition aims to......

Jeet Thayil on International Booker Prize judging panel

Award-winning Indian author Jeet Thayil will make up a five-member judging panel for the 2020 International Booker Prize, the world's leading literary award for translated fiction announced in......

The V S Naipaul I came to know

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......

An 'unapologetic' author, who didn't write to 'please an audience'

Celebrated for his extensive commentary on both, colonisers and colonised, in fiction and non-fiction, V S Naipaul walked the controversy tightrope, admired for his prose but scorned by those who......

An IIT-ian who dreams of a greener world

Unlike a typical IIT-ian, white-collar jobs did not hold much attraction for Shripad Dharmadhikary. Which is why having passed out from IIT Bombay with a BE in Mechanical Engineering in 1985, he......

'When do dreams come true?'

'If you sit collar turned up and tell yourself, you are great, you will never evolve as an actor.' IMAGE: Raghubir Yadav in Panchayat. After more than three decades in the industry, the......

The White Tiger to be adapted as film

Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, the Man Booker Prize-winning novel about class tensions in India has been optioned for a film adaptation by a distinguished Hollywood producer. The paperback......

How Brick Lane was made: Director's cut

Filmmaker Sarah Gavron grew up watching Hollywood's fantasy films, but never seriously thought about the filmmaking process.So years later, when Britain's Film4 asked her to direct Brick Lane, she......

'I thought the audience would faint'

The angels were surely on Mira's side when she was thinking of having all-Indian cast for The Namesake," says Ronnie Screwvala, the executive producer of the film, referring toMira Nair's latest......

Sanju rocks in Shabd!

Picture a man on a keyboard. In a crazy rush to convey his emotions, he types far faster than his capacity. In the process, he misses a few words and spells them wrong. Those sentences can be......

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Man Booker International Prize

News for Man Booker International Prize

Salman Rushdie, You Are A Fighter

When iPhone photos become works of art

Jeet Thayil on International Booker Prize judging panel

The V S Naipaul I came to know

An 'unapologetic' author, who didn't write to 'please an audience'

An IIT-ian who dreams of a greener world

'When do dreams come true?'

The White Tiger to be adapted as film

How Brick Lane was made: Director's cut

'I thought the audience would faint'

Sanju rocks in Shabd!

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