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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
It was a relief to read Anuradha Veeravalli’s objection to Girish Karnad’s reference to her father K.J. Shah in a book (March 2). As a student, I heard Professor Shah at seminars. Later, I had the...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
“It sounds too unbelievable for fiction, but this is the true story of a life in two worlds,” enthuses the website for Ping Fu’s autobiography, Bend Not Break. In one interview to promote the book...
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Saturday, November 3, 2012
Eve Sinclair tells Mini Anthikad Chhibber that reinventing a classic through an erotic retelling isn’t a bad idea.
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November 3, 2012
Jane Eyre cannot be bettered with explicit sex scenes, never mind the ringing of cash registers around the world, says Vaishna Roy.
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October 6, 2012
Why would anyone want to pick up a novel to see how faithfully it depicts real life?
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Mangalore,
July 19, 2012
A reference book on festivals observed by ‘Indians’, prescribed by the State government for school libraries across the State, carries in it only those observed by Hindus.
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CHENNAI,
June 9, 2012
Just as the controversy over a cartoon on B.R. Ambedkar in a textbook prepared by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is settling down, another row has erupted over...
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ISLAMABAD,
April 29, 2012
Students and teachers of Peshawar University are agitated over the inclusion of two books of Salman Rushdie — Midnight's Children and Shame – in M.Phil and Ph.D courses offered by the...
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PUDUCHERRY,
April 15, 2012
The book on Sri Aurobindo was written for an academic audience, says author
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April 12, 2012
Tel Aviv's decision to bar Nobel Prize-winning German author Günter Grass from entering Israel is blinkered and lacking in all good sense. By reacting in this manner to his recent poem — which war...
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April 8, 2012
Poets' broadside springs from Germany's guilty conscience, says Tel Aviv
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March 24, 2012
The Rushdie affair typifies art and its capacity for subversion as well as the State's oppression of it.
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New Delhi,
March 18, 2012
In India two months after he was forced to skip the Jaipur Literary Festival, controversial author Salman Rushdie on Saturday hit out at the Congress, suggesting that his presence there was blocke...
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October 6, 2012
Sixty years after The Mousetrap’s premiere, there is nostalgia for crime novels that you once curled up with on a rainy day — till Steig Larsson ruined that plot.
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LONDON,
September 9, 2012
For a decade he was on the run in the wake of Iranian fatwa
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Chennai,
June 13, 2012
Lending her voice of opposition also to the inclusion of the cartoon on anti-Hindi agitation in a textbook of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Chief Minister Jaya...
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COLOMBO,
May 14, 2012
A controversy has arisen out of the title of a new book to be launched on Monday, which attempts to credit Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, major credit for defeat of the Tamil Tigers in May...
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HYDERABAD,
April 18, 2012
A function organised to release Telanganalo Vishalandrodyamam – a compilation of newspaper clippings from 1950 carrying statements in support of a unified State of Andhra Pradesh emanating...
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Puducherry,
April 14, 2012
The Union Home Ministry has extended the visa of American historian Peter Heehs by one year, according to sources in Sri Aurobindo Ashram here. Mr. Heehs, whose book on Aurobindo had creat...
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Jerusalem,
April 8, 2012
Israel on Sunday barred German author Gunter Grass from entering the Jewish state, citing a poem in which he accuses Israel of plotting Iran's annihilation and threatening world peace.
“I...
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MUMBAI,
April 3, 2012
Ramdas Athavale held a press conference on April 2 and burnt copies of the textbook's page
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New Delhi,
March 18, 2012
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Sunday dismissed Salman Rushdie’s charge that his presence at the Jaipur Literary Festival was blocked because of the party’s “useless electoral calcula...
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Srinagar,
March 18, 2012
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has defended his decision to skip the India Today Conclave, saying ensuring that there were no communal clashes in Rajouri town was more impor...
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