Salman Rushdie makes first public appearance since attack

Salman Rushdie has been honoured with the PEN Centenary Courage Award as the Mumbai-born writer made his first in-person public appearance since being stabbed and severely wounded in a knife attack......

Bhima Koregaon: Hope and despair for accused

Will the latest development see a marked break from the way the case has been going?Jyoti Punwani reports. IMAGE: Protesters at Bhima Koregaon near Pune in Maharashtra. Photograph: PTI Photo......

Legendary Tamil writer Jayakanthan 'JK' passes away

Legendary Tamil writer D Jayakanthan, who charted a new course in Tamil literature with his bold and progressive works, died on Wednesday night following a prolonged illness. He was 81. Jayakanthan......

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......

Prasoon Joshi: The 'Thanda matlab Coca-Cola' man

Five years back, this name would ring few bells. But as the Aamir Khan-starrer 'Thanda matlab Coca-Cola' ad campaign made the almost universal rural word for soft drinks a hot catchphrase, it......

India's First Hindi Horror Comedy

Mehmood and R D Burman shiver, wail and flail when they encounter a stuffed tiger that wags its tail, furniture that moves on its own volition and dancing skeletons and mummies.Dinesh Raheja......

The Genius Behind Bollywood's Beautiful Words

As a uniquely multi-hyphenated writer-director-lyricist-author, Gulzar has built a reputation across multiple spheres of film-making and literary creative endeavours.Dinesh Raheja salutes the......

Manorathangal Review: Anatomy of A Visionary Mindscape

Through Manorathangal, M T Vasudevan Nair makes himself available to a whole new generation of uninitiated viewers, who can familiarise themselves with his rich body of work and hope to learn a......

Kriti Gives Her Heart Away To...

Well-known movie writers Kanika Dhillon and Himanshu Sharma, who wed in 2021, hosted a housewarming party in Mumbai, and invited their friends over.   Kriti Sanon recently announced her next......

Brilliant Haaland reason for City's 3rd straight Premier League title

'Haaland is a world star, who has come as a world star and is performing like a world star.' IMAGE: Norwegian international Erling Haaland owns the record for goals scored in a single Premier......

Now, see the 'real' Yuvraj Singh in a web series

IMAGE: Former India batsman Yuvraj Singh. Photograph: Yuvraj Singh/Instagram Former India cricketer Yuvraj Singh is set to star in a web series along with his brother Zoravar Singh and wife, actor......

Messi generous donation makes Egypt angry

World Footballer of the Year Lionel Messi found himself the unlikely figure of controversy in Egypt after a local politician and a soccer official reacted angrily when he donated a pair of his......

Dr Vasant Naik passes away

Noted cricket writer, historian and statistician Dr Vasant Naik passed away on September 8 at his home in England. A treasure trove of cricketing anecdotes and information, he was 82. Besides......

'My destiny was to write about the game'

'That has always been my ambition -- to take the reader behind the scenes, to the places he was not allowed to visit, but which I had the privilege of entering.'Haresh Pandya remembers Ted Corbett,......