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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......

Anil Dharker: Editor, bon vivant, mentor to many

Everywhere Anil Dharker went, he assembled teams of talented people, gave them opportunities, then got out of the way and allowed them to flourish.Meenakshi Shedde remembers a very special......

Will Jeet Thayil be the fifth Indian to claim Booker?

Indian author Jeet Thayil's debut novel on the dark underside of Mumbai's opium dens is in race for this year's prestigious Man Booker prize, which British authors Will Self and Hilary Mantel are......

Jeet Thayil on Man Booker shortlist

Indian writer an Jeet Thayil's first novel Narcopolis, described as a compelling tale of Mumbai's hazy world of opium addiction, has made it to the six-author shortlist for the Man Booker Prize......

Over 180 celebs slam FIR against 49 who wrote to Modi

Over 180 members of the cultural community, including actor Naseeruddin Shah, cinematographer Anand Pradhan, historian Romila Thapar and activist Harsh Mander among others, condemned the FIR lodged......

Where are the MBA jobs?

The slowdown in the economy has resulted in several jobs shrinking and companies going slow in recruiting. But there are jobs for MBA graduates, particularly in sales, FMCG, telecom and consulting......

When coffee shops turn into offices

Jeet Thayil, poet and writer, might be alarmed at comparisons with Joanne Kathleen Rowling, though it would be impossible not to make at least some superficial ones. If the first of the Harry......

The Wipro guide to outsourcing

Here's a way to put outsourcing in context.An American parent had a question for an India-born acquaintance: "If all the manufacturing jobs are going to China, and all the service jobs are going to......

The Oscar nominations

Arthur J Paisrediff.com critics list their Academy Awards nominees! -- Jeet ThayilRediff.com presents Jeet Thayil's predictions for the 2004 Academy Award nominations. Jeet's pickWill win BEST......

The Oscar nominations: Heptanesia Mumbaikar

Arthur J PaisJeet ThayilAssem Chhabrarediff.com critics list their Academy Awards nominees! -- Heptanesia MumbaikarWith all the hype (cover of Time, Entertainment Weekly, etc), Peter Weir's Master......

And the worst Oscar acceptance goes to...

And the worst Oscar acceptance goes to:Halle Berry accepting the 2002 Best Actress Award for her role in Monster's Ball.She wept. She emoted. She speechified. In short, she did everything she did......

Norah Jones: Feels like home

Q: What do you do for an encore when your first album is impossible to top?A. More of the same.The most surprising thing about Norah Jones's second album, Feels Like Home (Blue Note Records, 2004),......

The tragedy of the Friedmans

Andrew Jarecki is the very young, very rich founder of Moviefone.When he set out to make his first film, he chose as his subject New York's number one birthday clown, Silly Billy. Also known as......

New York marathon has annual Indian contingent

New Yorkers say they run a marathon every day. They run for the subway and for the bus, they run to keep up with the city's frenetic pace.So there is a special place in the city's lexicon of urban......

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