BJP leader Mukul Roy's 'brother-in-law' joins TMC

A Bharatiya Janata Party leader, who the Trinamool Congress said is a brother-in-law of the saffron party's national vice-president Mukul Roy, rejoined the ruling party of West Bengal on......

Bloomsbury withdraws book on Delhi riots after backlash

Bloomsbury India on Saturday said that it will not publish an upcoming book on the February Delhi riots after there was outrage over a virtual pre-publication launch, which it said was being......

Tamil author Perumal Murugan ends self-imposed exile with 200 new poems

Contemporary Tamil author Perumal Murugan on Monday ended a self-imposed literary exile of 19 months with a new book -- a collection of 200 poems A Coward's Song. Threatened by protests from......

My take aways from the Jaipur LitFest

'Surprised by the absence of any sloganeering or even mild protest in an ambience so free and self-regulated, I asked a friend from Delhi whether he too, with sharp political antenna, was surprised......

Should Google own the world's words?

That's the key question in the ferocious debate raging over Google Book Search, writes Nilanjana S Roy. Who owns literature? And would you be comfortable if the answer to that was: "Google"? This......

All about the Google Lively experience

When Google Lively launched recently, the response from many, including diehard Google fans, was underwhelming. Lively is another virtual worlds experiment, on the lines of the hugely popular......

Podcasts finally come of age

At a Seattle conference on podcasts recently, the new wave of audio content producers on the web were greeted with postcards that said: "Podcasters! Are you here to join the revolution - or the......

Who let the blogs out?

Neither Beijing nor Microsoft can shut down Zhao Jing. The blogger better known as An Ti had run a popular blog for over a year, with the Chinese government censoring several of his posts, when he......