by Zafar Anjum A Singapore journalist says both major parties in India must abandon increasing communalism "Some countries are unit...

Don't know about you but like millions of others in the Hindi belt, I too grew up with Hindi and Urdu pulp fiction. Works of James Hadle...

Pot Pourri--that's where I was last Sunday. Well, as you might have guessed from the name itself or if the pictures revealed the story t...

Outlook reveals that The White Tiger is not, in fact, Adiga's debut novel: Much of the hype and hoopla over Aravind Adiga's winning ...

Bol ke lab azaad hain tere...bol zabaan ab tak teri hai: http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/76234/mediapolice-collusion-is-a-threat-to-soc...

Some Indians are upset at Arvind Adiga's Booker win because they think it was wrong of him to have exposed the dark side of India (Read:...

Arvind Adiga has done it. He has won this year's Man Booker Prize for his novel, The White Tiger. Adiga has got this honour with his fir...

Young Indian filmmaker Rajesh S. Jala’s new documentary Children of the Pyre (2008) has recently won the best documentary film award at this...

The French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, whose work reflects a seemingly insatiable restlessness and sense of wonder about other plac...

In the last few years, following the Booker Prize win of Arundhati Roy, there has been a phenomenal change in the publishing scene in India....

A word of caution from Anita Desai ( 'One Rip Van Winkle Sleep And...' in Outlook): Now that worldly success has been made acceptabl...

I am witnessing the birth of a new resurgent India, which has rejected Nehruvian visions of a modern mindset and polity, and which believes ...

Pankaj Mishra in The Guardian: Apparently, no inconvenient truths are allowed to mar what Foreign Affairs, the foreign policy journal of Ame...

Book Review The Indian Renaissance—India’s Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline by Sanjeev Sanyal, World Scientific, 2008, US$ 29.95. Did ...

I have been disappointed to see Woody Allen's recent outings, especially Scoop , and I really don't understand why does he need to h...

'Talk about shooting your load'...that's Clive Oven mouthing it in Shoot 'Em Up while he is still inside Monica Belucci and...

Arvind Adiga in FT : A piece of advice that every aspiring novelist is sure to get, sooner or later, is to "write what you know". ...