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Nobel literature laureate Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (Photo: AFP)

An irascible literary giant

Naipaul deprecated the lives of Indians and West Indians in his writings as much as he criticised Islam.

13 Aug 2018 12:15 AM IST

Religion is sacred, recipes are not

The term jerkâ€ doesn't mean that the curried victim pig or chicken was executed by snapping its neck.

1 Sept 2018 2:47 AM IST

Over the last seventy years there have been many writers who have documented Indias struggle to freedom and her eventual Independence

Books on Indian Independence you should read

We list five must reads that deal with India's struggle for independence from fetters of British Raj.

15 Aug 2017 3:15 PM IST

Is diversity perversity?

I can sort-of-sympathise with some idiot researcher dealing Shashi Kapoor obituary mistaking Rishi for Shashi and...

9 Dec 2017 1:53 AM IST

The attack happened at a particularly happy time for Rushdie. He was in love he had married the poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths the previous year (he is cloyingly admiring when he writes about his current wife) and he was awaiting the release of his latest novel, Victory City. By Arrangement

Book Review | Knife-edge of an artist's vision cuts through fear and...

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder is not only Rushdie's account of that violent act it is also his way of ...

4 May 2024 12:53 PM IST