Kolkata, Feb 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) Alka Pande, Priti Paul, Kunal Basu and Anja Riedeberger have announced the seven shortlisted titles on the second day of 15th Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival (AKLF). The shortlisted book covers include…
New Delhi, February 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) A new book by seasoned journalist Amar Devulapalli has detailed how Sonia Gandhi messed up in Andhra Pradesh and pushed Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy — the state’s incumbent Chief Minister…
New Delhi, Feb 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) A new book titled ‘What If There Was No Congress’ (Rupa Publication) by author and political brand strategist Priyam Gandhi-Mody has shed light on an elite Indian party which sowed…
Bhubaneswar, Feb 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 10th Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) commenced in Bhubaneswar on Friday, setting the stage for a journey through the ‘Legends of Ancient Bharat and Beyond’. The event opened with a virtual…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) She says it has been exciting to smell the danger in their voice. That it has been an infuriating journey too — for whenever she thought she had a hold…
New Delhi, Feb 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actress Huma Qureshi, who officially turned writer in December 2023 following the release of her first novel ‘Zeba: An Accidental Superhero’ (HarperCollins India), spared some time on Friday in the…
New Delhi, Feb 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) She says he never left. That snatches of him keep coming back, reminding her that those we love leave a part of them with us. But writer Sutapa Sikdar, wife…
New Delhi, February 8 (SocialNews.XYZ): Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik will inaugurate (virtually) the tenth edition of the Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) which will revolve around the theme ‘Legends of Ancient Bharat and Beyond: Inspiring Lived…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) In times when Lord Ram has ceased to be just God, author Devdutt Pattanaik, who has to his credit around 50 books on mythology stresses that for him, he symbolizes…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) All four Kalinga Literary Awards for the year 2024 have gone to women writers, informed Rashmi Ranjan Parida, Founder and Director, Kalinga Literary Festival. Kalinga Literary Awards will be conferred…
Jaipur, Feb 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Believing in the strength of Indian laws and the judicial system, former IPS officer and author Amod Kanth stresses that extra-judicial killings by the police are nothing but cold-blooded murders. “Never…
New Delhi, Feb 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) “It is the foremost duty of a ruler to keep his subjects happy and gain their confidence. In the same manner, it is also his duty to always uphold the…
Jaipur, Feb 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) John Boyne, the Irish author of the recently released ‘All the Broken Places’, a sequel to his bestselling ‘The Boy in Striped Pajamas’, also adapted into a major film feels that…
Jaipur, Feb 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Diya Kumari on Thursday inaugurated the 17th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) at Hotel Clarks Amer in Rajasthan. “This fest is very special from a tourism…
New Delhi, Jan 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ask author Amish Tripathi about what he has been working on lately, and the list seems almost endless. Even as his latest ‘Idols: Unearthing the Power of Murti Puja’ (HarperCollins…
Jaipur, Jan 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Jaipur Literature Festival 2024, the literary extravaganza, will see over 550 writers, speakers, and performers representing 16 Indian and 8 international languages. The Indian languages include Assamese, Awadhi, Bengali, Hindi, Kannada,…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Very few independent publishers have achieved so much in their lifetime with the world knowing so little about them as the unassuming, soft-spoken Rajen Mehra. The Chairman of Rupa Publications…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pakistan has criticised Ajay Bisaria, India’s former high commissioner to Islamabad, for allegedly presenting a “fictitious narrative” surrounding the February 2019 Balkote crisis in his recently published book, ‘Anger Management’….
New Delhi, 9 Jan (SocialNews.XYZ) Analysing and addressing the compounding crisis of climate change and energy security, and spotlighting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to drive environment-friendly policies and practices, Union Minister for Environment, Forests…
New Delhi, Jan 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) She was not very clear about what the late artist Vivan Sundaram expected when he asked her to write a book on the Kasauli Art Centre. But certain things were…