Book review: The Accidental Apprentice

Vikas Swarup gained a lot of recognition when the film Slumdog Millionaire went on to become a huge hit — the movie was a screenplay adaptation of Q&A, his first book. It was therefore with great expectations that his next novel, Accidental ...

Love, writes Vikas Swarup in his first novel Q&A, doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside down. It colours your waking moments, and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant ...

(VOV) -The 2013 Book and Reading Culture Festival on the theme Books Change Lives opened in Hanoi on April 20 to mark World Book and Copyright Day (April 23). Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Vuong Duy Bien, said the event aims to ...

Proposes school in the cloud learning to train children to answer questions and solve problems New Delhi: Education researcher, Sugata Mitra has won California's 2013 million-dollar Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Prize with his Hole in the ...

May 1 will see the release of Shootout at Wadala, based on crime journalist S Hussain Zaidi's book Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia, which recounts the rise and fall of Mumbai's greatest dons, including Dawood Ibrahim. There's more: ...

In life you never get what you deserve: you get what you negotiate. That line would be enough to get the whole of new India lunging for Vikas Swarup's latest. We live in a world of negotiation—children negotiating for TV watching rights, not to ...

ASK the people around you to quickly name three of their favourite activities, chances are watching movies is one of them. I love movies; be it science fiction, horror, magic realism, comedy or thriller. I draw the line at romantic comedies though.

Image: TED Blog Sugata Mitra, the educationist who left an Internet enabled computer in a “hole in the wall” in a Delhi Slum and left it there to see how Children from the Slums learn English and acquire basic computer skills, has become the first ...