Of Abhinav Bindra, fear, pizza pole and Olympic gold
New Delhi : Abhinav Bindra’s insane search for perfection had pushed him to climb, as a simulation of sorts, a 40-feet ...
Hindi film based on Tagore’s Ghare Baire next month
Kolkata : More than three decades after Satyajit Ray made a film on Rabindranath Tagore’s eponymous work “Ghare ...
Rare papers of George Orwell, Virginia Woolf now online
Letters and manuscripts of Virginia Woolf, Ted Hughes, TS Eliot, George Orwell and other 20th century literary greats have been ...
I am working harder than ever: Ruskin Bond
New Delhi, May 19 : India’s beloved author Ruskin Bond, who celebrates his 82nd birthday today, says he is working ...
Kalidasa’s ‘Raghuvamsam’ now in English
New Delhi, May 6,2016 : One of Kalidasa s greatest Sanskrit works ‘Raghuvamsam’, which recounts the legendary tales ...
IITs asked to offer Sanskrit as elective: Irani
New Delhi, Apr 28 ,2016: The HRD ministry today said IITs have been requested to offer Sanskrit as an elective subject or as a ...
Shakespeare more popular abroad than in Britain
Shakespeare is more popular and better understood in emerging economies such as Brazil, India, China, Mexico and Turkey than he is in ...
Author Jerry Pinto wins Windham-Campbell prize
New Delhi : Mumbai-based writer Jerry Pinto is among this year’s nine recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prizes at Yale ...
Harper Lee, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ author,passed away
Harper Lee, whose debut novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” immortalized her name with its story of justice and race in a ...
Umberto Eco dies at 84
Italian author Umberto Eco, who intrigued, puzzled and delighted readers worldwide with his best-selling historical novel “The Name ...