(Attn Editors: A revised edition of “A Soldier’s Diary: Kargil, The Inside Story” by Harinder Baweja is being published on the occasion of Kargil Diwas. Presented below is an exclusive excerpt from the new foreword…
London, July 24 (IANS) From a staggering 171 submissions — the highest number of titles put forward in the Man Booker Prizes 50 year history — 13 novels, which capture facets of a world on…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, July 22 (IANS) India is the second-largest English-language publishing market in the world and Penguin Random House India, a major player in the sector, publishes more than 200 books a…
By Sarwar Kashani Gangtok, July 22 (IANS) Sikkim has many distinctions that give the tiny state nestled in the Himalayas between India and China a larger-than-life profile. It is the only organic state in India,…
By Nishant Arora Washington, July 22 (IANS) Google Glass — an eye-wearable device that made headlines in 2015 but failed in the consumer technology space — has now rekindled the hopes of millions of people…
By Richa Sharma New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Thirty-two-year-old Geeta sits patiently, painting pots created by her husband in the small open porch in her house at Kumhar Gram or Potters’ Village that interestingly has…
By Bhavana Akella Bengaluru, July 15 (IANS) Malvika Iyer was a charming 13-year-old girl in 2002 when a grenade accidentally blew up in her hands, ripping her forearm and paralysing her legs, in Bikaner, Rajasthan,…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) In a landmark ruling when it comes to post-death digital rights, Germany’s highest court has told Facebook to grant a grieving mother access to her late daughter’s…
By Nury Vittachi My wife’s magazines make me laugh. On the cover, one headline is always something like “Learn To Love Yourself As You Are”, another is “Lose 5 kg In Two Weeks” and a…
Thimphu, July 10 (IANS) Majestic mountains, coupled with a spiritual setting, makes Bhutan’s annual literary extravaganza — the Mountain Echoes Literary Festival — an exhilarating experience for its many visitors. But just as the literary…
London, July 9 (IANS) Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, essayist and novelist Michael Ondaatje’s bestselling novel “The English Patient” — which moves between a nurse tending a horribly burned man in an Italian villa at the…
By Archana Sharma Jaipur, July 8 (IANS) For centuries, their creations have been used in sombre processions to commemorate and reconstruct the narrative of the 7th century Battle of Karbala in Islamic history. But now,…
By Nishant Arora Noida, July 8 (IANS) In front are open fields with grazing cattle, to the left are under-construction residential societies and to the right is its existing facilty – this where Samsung has…
By Siddhi Jain New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) What began as a nine-year-old’s venture at Krishna Caterers about eight decades ago in the city of Nawabs turned into an awe-inspiring, lifelong affair with cuisine. Imtiaz…
By Nury Vittachi Five years ago I lived in a housing estate that was so safe that I didn’t even own a front door key. Our only line of defence against evil was a deeply…
By Vishal Gulati Hoi An (Vietnam), July 5 (IANS) With over 20 million tourists visiting per year, this port city — a UNESCO World Heritage Site — produces approximately 27,000 tonnes of urban waste per…
By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, July 2 (IANS) The Plaza of the ‘City Beautiful’ Chandigarh may have been its star attraction for a number of decades but has now virtually been hijacked by street vendors. The…
By Saket Suman Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh), July 1 (IANS) National Geographic explorer Mike Libecki and his 14-year-old daughter Lilliana are essentially travellers who have been to several remote corners of the world. But it is…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) Though summer is at its peak in most parts of India and literary events almost at a standstill, the coming month will bring cheer to many readers…
By Chinmaya Dehury Bhubaneswar, June 29 (IANS) He could not become a doctor himself, but is now pulling out all stops to ensure that others fare better. This year, 18 students from Odisha made it…