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1997 Booker winner Arundhati Roy's The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness didn't make it to the Booker short list.Perhaps if the Booker jury had sampled Re:Reader -- a powerful companion to Roy's second novel -- they would have discovered it full of surprises.Avantika Bhuyan finds out more. Sootirahubaua, bhakolabaiyaNaanigaam se angaa, siyaatabaiya Nativity, one of the chapters in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness, features this beautiful Maithili lullaby. While reading the book, I ...

Non-fiction is written with a sense of urgency, while fiction writing is carefree, says the author Last Updated at August 30, 2017 13:37 IST

In a relief to Arundhati Roy, the Supreme Court on Monday stayed criminal contempt proceedings against the renowned author, which was being heard at Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court. The post Supreme Court stays criminal proceedings against Arundhati Roy ...

As a five-year-old, she learned to stand still in one position, silently, for hours, to catch fish. "Perhaps that's what made me a writer in the end," said the much-acclaimed Arundhati Roy, winner of the 1997 Man Booker Prize, talking of her early life and ...

Wearing two hats at once can be an uncomfortable fit, but it does not seem to bother the author Arundhati Roy , who for most of her life has railed against state excesses and corporate exploitation while also wielding the pen . Maybe she does not think of ...

Passion. Patience. Perseverance. Even those who drifted into filmmaking, like Anurag Kashyap, can’t seem to do without them... What does it take to be a film director? How does one learn the ropes to get into filmmaking? Does one need to get into a film ...

The FIR was registered following a complaint from journalist Sagarika Ghose whose name appears in the list of women which include authors Shobha De and Arundhati Roy, and activists Kavitha Krishnan and Shehla Rashid. New Delhi: Delhi Police on Thursday ...

A DECADE IS A long time in the life of a culture, and much changed during the 1980s. But arguably far more changed, and changed unthinkably, between 1989 and 1993. The American writer Benjamin Kunkel, founder-editor of the journal n+1 , said in an interview ...

Purists may balk at this level of public discourse, but no one can deny its ability to marshal opinion, says Vikram Johri. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com When a photo of actor Akshay Kumar meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi was circulated on social media, Rohit Chopra, associate professor at Santa Clara University, who runs the popular Twitter handle @IndiaExplained, tweeted: 'Kind of cute how Twinkle Khanna writes 'progressive' fluff pieces in ToI while Akshayji dances with Pogrom ...