Every time there is a survey of unquantifiable traits like happiness and courtesy, we react as if someone has pricked a needle in our inflat...

We know that bad news is good news. But is it true for books as well? Now an author has made the claim that bad reviews could actually augur...

Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur’s comic book warrior Devi has a lot riding on her slender, but strong shoulders. Not only does Devi have to c...

Sometime ago, a British newspaper did it with one of Naipaul's books. Now, an Australian newspaper has pulled the trick off with an Aust...

July has been a gloomy month for Mumbai. First, the torrential rains almost brought life in Mumbai to a grinding halt. Then came the July 11...

FOR the last 10 years, New Delhi had been my home until I left for Singapore two years ago. My friends, who visited New Delhi recently broug...

Pankaj Mishra likes to swim against the tide. When the world is singing paens to India's economic miralcle, Mishra writes an op-ed in th...

Probably a lot. That's why some places are wiped off the map, says Mark Monmonier in his book, From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow . Mar...

Asks Lev Grossman in this Time magazine article . " David Foster Wallace is 44 years old. Jonathan Franzen is 46. Jonathan Lethem, 42. ...

Rakesh Roshan's Bollywood bonanza Krrish, his sequel to the super hit Koi Mil Gaya , starring his star son Hrithik Roshan, has been one ...

There is this interesting news that I want to share with you. My website, Kitaab , has been featured in APWN (Asia Pacific Writers Network, ...

Sorry for digressing from my pet topic of books and writers this week. I find the India vs Chian debate extremely engrossing as it concerns ...

While the media is agog with stories of China and India rising and becoming great economic powers, America's decline as a technological ...

I seldom write about politics here in my blog but this one is special. Fellow blogger, Sharanya Manivannan, sent me this link to her open l...

Michael Fishwick of Bloomsbury has done a la David Davidar. The publisher and cheque-writer has turned a fairly successful novelist. When I ...

Harper Lee's has been a curious story. She did not publish anything after her first hugely successful novel, To kill a mocking bird. Her...

These days terrorism is a hot topic for novelists. Both Yasmina Khadare and John Updike have come out with new novels that have terrorism as...

Singaporean author Gerrie Lim is back with a bang, and his new book is lustier than his previous outputs: It is befittingly called, In Lust ...

In its latest issue, New Yorker takes a look at the phenomenon of Muslim Jehadis, in the context of the last year's London bombings. Th...

Flamingoes in the Jurong Bird Park, Singapore.