Literature

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...

The Odisha Literature Festival, which has been hosted by The New Indian Express in Bhubaneswar since 2012, has from this year on been incorporated into a larger entity — Dakshin...

Abhijita Gupta may only be 7 years old, but her ample talent has already been acknowledged globally. She has not only been recognized as the world’s youngest author by the...

New York: Former US President Barack Obama found Congress MP Rahul Gandhi “eager to impress”, but lacking “aptitude or the passion” to master the subject. According to a New York...

Some literary characters gain much more prominence than their creator. One such creation is Count Dracula (popularly referred to as ‘Dracula’) who was more influential than Irish author Bram Stoker....

Recently, I watched Ben Wheatley’s ‘Rebecca’ (2020) and my senses hovered to the famous line: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again”…this sentence often disturbs my equilibrium and...

As the world celebrates International Artists Day today (Oct 25), I am reminiscing about the connection between art and literature. There are so many literary books and characters that have...

With the birthday of Samuel Taylor Coleridge round the corner on October 21, I obviously got reminded of his most beautiful creation - the vulnerable ancient Mariner who sins and...