MUMBAI VS MUMBAI - Review

Unsung Lucknow has quietly slipped off the country's literary circuit. At a time when cities such as Jaipur, Mumbai, Delhi and Thiruvananthapuram have taken strides forward, Lucknow seems to have fallen behind badly. So much so that not many ...

The fair will be a joyous festival of celebrating Indian literature, art and culture. During the nine-day book fair, 35 eminent publishers will display more than 3, 00,000 books encompassing several literary genres. Maximum City has given fresh ...

Yakub Memon, the convict in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case whose death sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court, has been awarded a Master's degree in English literature by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). Memon (pictured...

In order to fill the literary emptiness enshrouding the city, Spandan Foundation, in association with, India's first edutainment channel ZeeQ, have organized a nine-day long book event - Mumbai Book Fair 2013 from 13th to 21st April, 2013 at ...

MUMBAI: When Sumedh Sen, a second-year PGP student at the , joined the programme, he had no clue the institute would turn to the 17th century novel Don Quixote for leadership lessons. But today, it's not just Quixote, Sumedh reads the most ...

Sampurna Chattarji\\'s \\'Dirty Love\\' is a sequence of stories set in the restless swirl of a Bombay where dream-shuttles speed through the rain and men fall prey to dirty love. Reeking of sewers, fish markets, slaughtered meat, and peopled with loners, ...

Five years after Firaaq, Nandita Das believes she may have found the story for her next film. All my skills came together to make that film (Firaaq) Its been five years and I recently found a story for my next. But it takes time for an independent director to ...

In Women Writing Violence, Shreerekha Subramanian provides an intense and close reading of a few literary texts which are indisputably feminist novels. In these she sets out to make a case for defining women and their experience of violence and loss ...

Noted Islamic scholar and social scientist Dr Asghar Ali Engineer, 73, passed away in Mumbai on the morning of May 14 at his home in Santa Cruz after a prolonged illness. He is survived by a son and a daughter. He was a leader of the progressive ...