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Economy Nobel winner Abhijit Banerjee speaks at Jaipur Listerature Festival on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

No intention to be RBI governor: Abhijit Banerjee

Oraganiser and author William Darlymple draws analogy between East India Company and current British govt.

31 Jan 2020 1:17 AM IST

Bollywood actor Sonali Bendre during the Jaipur Literature Festival 2020 at Diggi Palace on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Let's embrace opinion, dissent: Ashok Gehlot

13th edition of the 5-day Jaipur Literature Festival kicks off.

31 Jan 2020 1:12 AM IST

Bollywood actress Dia Mirza gets emotional during the Jaipur Literature Festival on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Places, poetry and pushing boundaries

Talking about poetry is like taking a hot bath in a tub with your clothes on, says poet-writer Jeet Thayil.

28 Jan 2020 4:38 AM IST

Really easy for me to write my stories'

My new book has three short stories and I had pretty good plans about the stories.

26 Jan 2020 3:10 AM IST

Author and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor speak at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

A robust paradigm for real diversity

JLF this year has also been witness to the rise of the new bilingual Indian writer in the persons of Upadhyay, Kunal...

26 Jan 2020 2:07 AM IST

Author and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor speak at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

Hope I will never be a former writer': Shashi Tharoor

A book of words by him, with anecdotes attached to each of them, will be published by Penguin sometime in the first...

25 Jan 2020 6:28 AM IST

Nirbhayas mother Asha Devi outside the court on Wednesday. (Photo: Biplab Banerjee)

A letter to Asha Devi, mother of Nirbhaya'

In the Indian Penal Code, the punishment for rape is now 10 years of imprisonment, even as it is a criminal offence and...

20 Dec 2019 5:52 AM IST

Sunetra Choudhury

Don't believe in death penalty, even for Nirbhaya rapists'

The death penalty has no place in a civilised society. A civilised society does not exact revenge on a convict, says...

15 Dec 2019 6:44 AM IST

It is a metafiction on her experiences at the JLF which will soon complete its 15th year. (Photo: Pixabay)

Short and lively first look at Jaipur 2020

The festival began with the launch of Namita's novel, Jaipur Journals.

13 Dec 2019 2:17 AM IST

Madhurima Nundy (3rd from left) and Rama V. Baru (4th) at the launch of their book at India International Centre Annexe in New Delhi.

Health policy pointers for India in China's tryst with privatisation

The Chinese government's role today is split between public funding of social insurance for curative services and...

25 Nov 2019 6:43 AM IST

Abhijit Banerjee, this years Nobel laureate in Economics

'India may have walked out of RCEP too early'

The nature of the bureaucratic beast is a bit against the spirit of doing something long term.

8 Nov 2019 1:45 AM IST

Shopping has moved online, now more eco-conscious

Sophie shares with Sucheta Dasgupta how the activity of shopping has changed in the West over the past two decades.

20 Oct 2019 3:43 AM IST