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Washington,
Monday, May 6, 2013
A partnership between Cuba and a private US foundation is working to preserve more of writer Ernest Hemingway’s papers and belongings that he left at his home near Havana when he died.
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World literature
Monday, April 22, 2013
April 23 is World Book Day or World Book and Copyright Day. We asked readers to send in reviews of their favourite classics. Some of them sent in reviews of great books that are not technically classified as "classics". Since they are good reads, we have decided to feature those reviews too.
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
How the writer accidentally became the person who revealed to Nirad C. Chaudhuri how his seminal work got published.
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March 2, 2013
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”.This is arguably the most famous opening line in all of English Li...
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February 8, 2013
Libraries in the West regularly make room for new titles, but what about the nostalgia value of the old?
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TIRUPATI,
December 23, 2012
Researcher from Tirupati has a rare volume of Telugu author Nannaya’s “Adi Parva” printed in 1843
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December 14, 2012
This is the time for iconic books to be translated into scintillating works of art on celluloid by celebrated directors. If Ang Lee brought Yann Martel’s Life Of Pi to screen with stunni...
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Chennai,
November 16, 2012
Started in 1850, the Mohammedan Public Library has manuscripts and books that are more than a century old
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October 26, 2012
Subhadra Sen Gupta on making history fun in “Let’s Go Time Travelling!”
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MADURAI,
September 10, 2012
It saw close to 3 lakh visitors and an estimated sale of 4 lakh books
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MANGALORE,
July 7, 2012
Moegling was the first to publish a Kannada newspaper Mangaluru Samachanara and is regarded as a pioneer of Kannada journalism.
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June 26, 2012
Adult fan fiction finds new readers as popular literary characters resurface in fantasy and erotic literature, writes Sohini Chakravorty
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May 12, 2012
‘I conceived, thought of, imagined both the novel and the museum together'. Orhan Pamuk speaks about the making of The Museum of Innocence in an exclusive interview.
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March 2, 2013
To Attia Hosain, Partition was not merely a physical division, writes Rakhshanda Jalil.
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Bloemfontein, South Africa,
January 5, 2013
Welcome to Bloemfontein, the South African birthplace of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” author
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CHENNAI,
December 16, 2012
Poet Bharati’s classic Panchali Sabatham gets translated into English as Panchali’s Pledge
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London,
November 21, 2012
The one that has now emerged for sale was gifted to Anne Sharp, a close friend of the novelist.
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November 16, 2012
In this dark season, give yourself a cosy little fright with The Hound Of The Baskervilles
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BANGALORE,
September 17, 2012
Arunava Sinha talks of the joy of translating Byomkesh Bakshi into English
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July 13, 2012
THE ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K Jerome
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June 29, 2012
Bookwise: When a virtual manuscript is lost in a computer crash, it is more than just virtually lost
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May 23, 2012
English translations of popular classics in Indian languages are showing up on the bookshelves of many youngsters
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VISAKHAPATNAM,
April 28, 2012
A library of dramas, plays, and playlets comes into being
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