The 75-year-old British American novelist was giving a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York – where he is based – on August 12 last year when a man stormed the stage and stabbed and punched him several times.
More than fifty articles are included in this book by Ankit Desai. All of these articles elaborate on some of the myths that have been built about men, from alcoholism to adultery, from same sex issues to men's mental health...
Autobiographical writing has long been popular with Bengalis who look for plots in their own lives
Speaking at Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival here, Shobhaa De said she enjoys what she is doing and will continue to write whatever she wants to.
The book Aatm Eiksha details the meditation practices from the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra in a simple language and manner.
Dr. Kannan Vishwanatth, 47 years, armed with a Chemical Engineering degree he is the Founder and Promoter and Managing Director of Rupus Global Limited.
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) alleged that the book named 'Collective Violence and Criminal Justice System' being taught to law students has highly objectionable contents against the Hindu community and the...
In this freewheeling interview, Orhan Pamuk talks about his most recent novel 'Nights of Plague'
For universal human rights to prevail, religion has to be kept out of public life
The book is in Question & Answer format. Through the book, Acharya Prashant answers questions related to Maya and its forms in his trademark witty manner,...
A civil servant and author provides glimpse of his warm memories from his days in Cambridge to his travels through Maharashtra
A book that brings to light positive stories from the heart of central India's tribal districts hit by Naxal menace
Rome-based culinary historian, New York Times-bestselling cookbook author, and Emmy-nominated television host Katie Parla shares a few recipes for making the...
Before Salman Rushdie’s 'The Satanic Verses', a 1932 Urdu anthology 'Angarey' had instigated similar angst in India, making the uproar over later banned...
How this author and lover of languages has the situational urge to switch from English to Portuguese, Mandarin to Kannada to emote better
Read books that do good to you, and below ten books can not only benefit you in ways they promise to but will also help you complete your life’s picture
The self-censorship and silence over the attack on Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses in Bangladeshi media and society is telling
Through his book, Parth Velani has already established that he is a cricket lover. But he also loves writing. His love for both things encouraged him to write...
How the author morphed into a purveyor of socio-political conflict and a catalyst for Muslim radicalisation
Why Salman Rushdie deserves to be tried for his book 'The Satanic Verses', rather than us lamenting over his freedom of speech
Feeling offended? Look away. Don’t push your beliefs on the rest of us. In this digital age, truth will out anyway.
What will be the effect of the violent attack on Salman Rushdie globally? How will writers mould themselves in the future? Will the percentage of...
The idea that Allah and Prophet Muhammad’s honour needs to be upheld at any cost has firmly made a home in the Muslim mindset
Hormaz who has written a Fashion Dictionary, feels that the act of writing itself was quite painful. He imagined that it would make more sense to become a...
'I often faced two nagging questions. Why have I written a Hindi writer’s life in English and why about his love life? Why not, is how I often counter. Why...
