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Religion being misused: Vikram Seth on Rushdie row

Novelist Vikram Seth on Thursday said the Vikram seth affair was whipped up because of "power", "pol...

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Rushdie is welcome in Delhi: Dikshit

Rushdie had to cancel his visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival after Muslim organisations protes...

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Rushdie should have been allowed to come: Jaitley

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said author Salman Rushdie should have been all...

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BJP, Cong slugfest over Rushdie issue

Rushdie had cancelled his visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival, saying he had received informatio...

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You can`t hurt feelings in India: Bhagat on Rushdi

The popular author said the Booker Prize winner was a hero to him as well but he should respect reli...

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Complaint against authors who opt out of Lit Fest

A police complaint was filed against the four authors who read out portions from the controversial a...

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Rajasthan police invented plot to keep me away: Rushdie

An "angry" Salman Rushdie claimed the intelligence provided to him by Rajasthan police about threat ...

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Police unaware of underworld threat to Rushdie

Author Salman Rushdie called off his visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival citing threat to his li...

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Sibal faces political queries on literary platform

Kapil Sibal`s poetry reading session at the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival turned into a politi...

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Literature special: Night and Darkness

Darkness is such a strange thing... and yet so familiar.

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Maoist literature seized

The Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday conducted raids at a house in Meerut in the wake of the arrest of...

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MP Christians demand ban on objectionable literature in Mandla

A Christian organisation here on Tuesday demanded stopping distribution of pamphlets portraying the...

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Karachi paints another canvas with words

Karachi Literature Festival has become a converging point for book lovers and Pakistan`s leading li...

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Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize

Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literatu...

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Llosa wins Nobel literature prize

Vargas Llosa is the first South American winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.

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Indian filmmaker fears US-like ordeal in Canada

Indian documentary filmmaker Vijay Kumar, who is being quizzed by the Canadian authorities after his...

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India seeks report from US, no clean chit to filmmaker yet

Government said it will seek a report from its US mission into the arrest of an Indian doc film mak...

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Indian held with jehadi literature in US

An Indian has been arrested for carrying jehadi literature at George Bush Intercontinental Airport i...

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Literature Special: Becoming Jane

A story about how Jane Austen became one of the most remarkable authors of all times

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Literature Special: Middlemarch

If the opinion of author Diana Preston were to be asked, she would make Middlemarch, a novel by Geor...

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Ode to Nature

Elaborate description of nature points to quintessential unity in everything.

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International literature festival comes to Kerala

Come November and Kerala could play host to the likes of Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Sting or eve...

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Words worth the wonder

When it came to describing Mother Earth and her bounteous Nature, William Wordsworth had a magical t...

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`Materialism, spiritualism co-exist in India in extremes`

The first thing one notices about writer William Dalrymple is his astonishingly blue eyes.

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Amitabh Bachchan <i>bachchon ke liye hai</i>: Meghnad Desai

Amitabh Bachchan bachchon ke liye hai: Meghnad Desai

Meghnad Desai, the author politician who loves writing on films and society, opened up in a chat wit...

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Poetry takes time to evolve: Arvind K Mehrotra

Arvind K Mehrotra`s flowing beard and his deeply sensitive features make the artistic writer stand o...

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I was shocked to win the Nobel: Wole Soyinka

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, the first African to have received the honour, on Friday told the Jaipu...

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Literary world in 2009

Here is a quick rush-through what occupied the bookworms this year, in no particular order of import...

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Nobel literature winner urges tough stand on China

Nobel literature prize winner Herta Mueller has urged Western countries to be tougher on China, wh...

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Mark – the pilot of American fiction

John and Jane were happy enough with their beautiful curly-headed baby, without the faintest idea wh...

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Margaret Atwood`s profile.

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Atwood, the granny who weaved sci-fi

Margaret Atwood’s face looks more like one belonging to a very socially active granny rather than to...

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Golden Autumn

Just as the season of Autumn breathes its last sigh, we recall how writers and poets have captured t...

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Twitter entries satirize works of literature

Deciphering William Shakespeare plays in school essays apparently was not enough for two university ...

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Translate popular, award-winning literature: President

Calling upon literary institutions to ensure translation of both popular and award-winning literatu...

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The birth of the ruling Rowling

JK Rowling is credited with the noble task of reviving the dying habit of reading.

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Rains and Rainbows

A look at how some of the most distinguished pens have captured the various moods of the rain in all...

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Hemingway – lessons in tragedy

On the 2nd of July some 48 years ago Ernest Hemingway committed suicide by shooting himself twice, w...

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