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British author Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize for space novel

British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her 'ambitious and beautiful' Orbital, which becomes the first novel set in space to win the GBP 50,000 literary prize selected from......

Siddhartha Mukherjee wins Guardian First Book award

Siddhartha Mukherjee, the Indian origin American physician who won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, has added another literary accolade by winning the Guardian First Book Award for his......

Two Indian writers in Booker list

Two Indians are among 13 novelists in contention for this year's Man Booker Prize after the judges tore up nearly all predictions and disregarded virtually all star literary novelists. Indian......

No big names in Booker shortlist

No big names figure in this year's Booker shortlist, which was announced on Tuesday night.Judges for the 50,000 prize damned some entries as "rubbish" and "drivel". Led by Chris Smith, former......

Kerala doctor wins top UK award

Koshy Eapen, a medical doctor from Kottayam, Kerala, currently doing his MSc Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has been awarded the London University's 'Excellence......

Flipkart ranked second among top global book sellers

E-commerce major Flipkart has been ranked second among top book sellers of the world, according to a survey. Flipkart is the only Indian brand to be ranked among the top five, says the survey......

Review: Fantastic Beasts 2, worth a watch

'It's good to see Johnny Depp and Jude Law in J K Rowling's magical world,' says Namrata Thakker. Being a Potter fan, I was obviously looking forward to watching Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of......

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Review:The magic is back!

Anita Aikara tells us the film is a must watch! Let’s put it this way: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is the best thing to have happened to Harry Potter fans after Deathly......

Salma Hayek, The Newsroom team: A Day out in Hollywood

Adam Sandler's commercially successful 2010 production Grown Ups may have been universally panned by critics but that didn't hamper the film's sequel's prospects. With Grown Ups 2 set for a July 12......

Wuthering Heights gets a boost from this vampire!

American author Stephenie Meyer's vampire saga has helped put Emily Bronte's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights at the top of the Waterstone's classics chart. Meyer's Twilight has made Bronte's novel......

A perfect Father's Day gift

For everyone, who has had unresolved issues with their fathers, Indian-German filmmaker Anand Tucker has a perfect Father's Day gift, albeit an emotionally charged one. His new film When Did You......

Azhar, Ganguly, grace Tendulkar's retirement bash

The hype and hoopla on Sachin Tendulkar just refuses die down! Monday night’s party at Waterstones Club, in Andheri East, Mumbai, was a star-studded affair. Though it was the iconic......

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