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Why average novels are fodder for good movies but great books fail on screen

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27 Feb 2013 | BY Madhavankutty Pillai

The difficult and often distortive experiment of making movies of books

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7 Feb 2013 | BY Shaikh Ayaz

In a world inundated with books, a female writer’s sexiness serves as a handy marketing tool. But, Annie Zaidi warns, this can prove counter-productive to a writer who wants to be taken seriously

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12 Feb 2012 | BY Annie Zaidi

It seems no one wants to curl up with an Agatha Christie or dig into a Harper Lee anymore. People now read self-help books

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10 Nov 2010 | BY Kavitha Rao

Indian publishers are in overdrive, churning out books that offer marginal profits. But in the process, have they become glorified printers? 

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17 Sep 2010 | BY Avantika Bhuyan

Going by Google’s idea of what constitutes humour, global dominance will elude it for a while yet.

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6 Jul 2010 | BY Sandipan Deb

Don DeLillo is perhaps at the height of his powers, using less and less to say more and more about life in contemporary America.

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21 May 2010 | BY Arshia Sattar

Hanif Kureishi’s older stories are brilliant, funny and compelling. But the newer ones are a disappointment.

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7 May 2010 | BY Madhavankutty Pillai

Delve into Ian McEwan’s Solar and encounter the discomforts of making science interesting.

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5 May 2010 | BY Manu Joseph

The Samsung Tagore Literature Awards, announced in New Delhi on 25 January, have sent shockwaves in the world of literature.

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4 Feb 2010 | BY Avantika Bhuyan
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