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Raja Rao

The gods bestow a favour

Raja Rao had started his literary career at the age of 15 initially in Kannada and later in English.

12 Sept 2018 7:12 PM

E.V. Rieu

When a cow turns into a 'rakshak'

Three leading English publishing firms set up offices in India at the end of nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth...

30 Aug 2018 7:27 PM

Rudyard Kipling

Kipling's Panchayat of the Gods

The lines certainly smack of racism along with Kipling's advice to the then American president that America had a 'moral...

16 Aug 2018 6:53 PM

Gerald Durrell

The World in a Wall

Durrell life's work and lasting legacy was in establishing the great zoo in the island of Jersey a part of the Channel...

2 Aug 2018 7:40 PM

Statue of Abb© Faria hypnotising a woman in Panjim.

The monk who had sold a fortune

The fans soon switched back to football and there they stayed. The football final match was symbolic.

19 July 2018 7:16 PM

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Fikry, an eccentric bookseller and a doting father

At the end, Fikry is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer glioblastoma multiforme .

5 July 2018 6:53 PM

I was intrigued to note that one of the young architects had captioned each of her slides with a quotation from the Alice in Wonderland.

How Alice in Wonderland came into being

Even Macmillan was not prepared for the reception the public accorded to Alice in Wonderland.

21 Jun 2018 7:41 PM

Bezos believed that the print book had existed for far too long ever since Gutenberg had invented movable type and thereby mechanised printing in the 1450s.

It's important to nurture and endure reading habit

Reading from a print format helps develop imagination and conjure visions in the mind.

7 Jun 2018 7:53 PM

The idea for the initiative came to their mind when their self publishing arm The Write Place started getting a lot of talented young authors who would approach them to publish their books. (Photo: Pixabay)

Whatever happened to plain, simple English?

The charges in the said case have also led to users trying their hand at English to outdo Tharoor.

24 May 2018 8:16 PM

One of the companys mandates to its English and Scottish officers, brave enough to go on expeditions, was to find an alternative source for tea. (Representational image)

The ghosts of Cheenapatti

One of the company's mandates to its English and Scottish officers, brave enough to go on expeditions, was to find an...

10 May 2018 7:01 PM

In addition to looking at the various therapeutic effects of yoga and ayurveda, the centre is to also focus on evidence-based research . (Representational image)

Indian therapy in England

Mahomed and Jane migrated to London in 1807. Mahomed found service with a nobleman Basil Cochrane.

26 April 2018 7:31 PM

The idea for the initiative came to their mind when their self publishing arm The Write Place started getting a lot of talented young authors who would approach them to publish their books. (Photo: Pixabay)

A kind of madness, not so gentle

It was this book that was displayed and and successfully auctioned at the online auction by StoryLtd.

12 April 2018 8:25 PM