Literature

Bhubaneswar: IAS officer and author Shubha Sarma is back with her second book, ‘The Awasthis of Aamnagri’. The Commissioner-cum-Secretary of Handloom, Textiles and Handicrafts department said the novel is set...

Bhubaneswar: Here’s some good news for children interested in Odia story books. The colourful Odia magazine Sisulekha will be republished after a gap of seven years. This time as a...

Feasting on fairy tales in my childhood, the one story that amazed me was the famous tale of the Beauty and the Beast. I remember an illustrated book which had...

New York: Barack Obama looks to be on way to becoming the best-selling author of the year. ‘A Promised Land,’ the former US President’s new memoir, sold a staggering 887,000...

There was a time, much before the expanse of social media and its electronic articulation, when the All India Radio was the solitary purveyor of instant news in India. There...

Bhubaneswar: The city-based Bakul Foundation will curate an interactive session with Anna Leader, a 24- year-old poet, playwright and novelist from Luxembourg, to get a perspective on that country’s rich...

Washington: Former US President Barack Obama said he has always held a special place for India due to his childhood years spent listening to Ramayana and Mahabharata. “Maybe it was...

The Polish city of Wroclaw honoured Amitabh Bachchan’s father Harivansh Rai Bachchan by lighting a diya next to his statue. A square in Wroclaw, which was declared as a UNESCO...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been voted as the 2020 ‘Winner of Winners’ (Women’s prize for Fiction) a couple of days ago for her novel ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’. This...

Mumbai: Accomplished actor Anupam Kher on Sunday introduced his third book, titled ‘Your Best Day is Today’, on his social media accounts. Sharing a clip to introduce his new book...