New Delhi,May 23 : President Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday conferred the 47th Jnanpith Award, the country`s highest literary award, for the year 2011 on noted writer Pratibha Ray.
Mukherjee said on the occasion that Ray has been described as a complete writer with novels, short stories, children`s stories, autobiography, translations and also ...
Washington,May 23 : Davis, a professor of creative writing at the University of Albany, is best known for work that Observer critic William Skidelsky once said "redefines the meaning of brevity".
She is also an accomplished translator whose English versions of Marcel Proust's "Du Cote de Chez Swann" (Swann's Way) and ...
London, May 17 : A first edition of legendary American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" sold for 1,875 pounds ($2,872), or nearly triple the opening price, at an auction in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The book, which was expected to go for only 700 pounds ($1,072), was sold as part of ...
New Delhi, April 18: A book that promises to enhance the understanding of how election surveys are conducted in India was launched here Wednesday.
"Measuring voting behaviour in India" has been authored by Sanjay Kumar and Praveen Rai. The 175-page book has been published by Sage and is priced at Rs.350.
However, ...
Book: "The NaMo Story, A Political Life"; Author: Kingshuk Nag; Publisher: Roli Books; Pages: 188; Price: Rs 295.
If Narendra Damodardas Modi reads the forthcoming book by journalist Kingshuk Nag he would be angry. Interestingly enough, Rahul Gandhi's reaction won't be very different either! Instead, the book is for audiences seeking ...
New Delhi, April 6 : Book: "Khushwantnama: The Lessons of My Life"
Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Pages: 188
Price: Rs 399
The New Delhi that writer-columnist Khushwant Singh knew like the back of his hand has now become an alien city in which the 98-year-old thespian has lost his way, the writer says ...
Dharamsala, March 6 : Tibetan prime minister in exile Lobsang Sangay Tuesday congratulated Tibetan author and poet Tsering Woeser, the winner of the 2013 International Women of Courage Award of the US State Department.
“Despite facing great personal risk, Tsering Woeser has kept informing the rest of the world, including the ...
This book by former under-secretary general of the United Nations and prolific author Shashi Tharoor is a compilation of several of his essays and columns that he wrote in the last decade or so (Tharoor writes for a number of national and international newspapers.)
I, for one, had not read much ...
New Delhi,Feb 05: The World Book Fair here became an annual event Monday after 41 years of inception as a bi-annual book carnival, with its inauguration by Minister Shashi Tharoor.
Karan Singh, president of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations, and French ambassador Francois Richier graced the event at the Pragati ...
Goldsmith's birth date and year are not known with certainty. According to the Library of Congress authority file, he told a biographer that he was born on 10 November 1728. The location of his birthplace is also uncertain. He was born either in the townland of Pallas, near Ballymahon, County ...
