Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) After the success of Bangla software for Windows and keyboards, researchers here are now developing the same in Nepalese and Manipuri languages. The Society for Natural Language Technology Research (SNLTR), which…
Johannesburg, Jan 31 (PTI) Former President APJ Abdul Kalam’s book ‘Transcendence’ was launched here with religious leaders, politicians, diplomats and businessmen from all communities sharing the lessons from the book based on his spiritual experiences…
Hyderabad, Jan 29 (IANS) The chief editor and owner of a publications house has been arrested for hurting the religious sentiments of Muslims, police said on Friday. Bandla Sai Babu of Bandla Publications Private Limited…
Cairo, Jan 27 (IANS/AKI) An Egyptian court has sentenced secular writer Fatima Naoot to three years in prison and a fine of $2,550 after being found guilty of insulting Islam, daily Al-Ahram reported. Naoot, a…
Jaipur, Jan 26 (IANS) Its demise was predicted as far as back as the 1930s but it endured, and even in our day, despite the internet and Google Maps allowing us to access any part…
Jaipur, Jan 25 (IANS) The rise of the Islamic State is among the attempts by Sunni hardliners to reverse Shia Iran’s gains in Iraq, and comes paradoxically at a time when Iran, long seen by…
Jaipur, Jan 25 (IANS) How should we view the British Empire and its legacy for its former colonies? Was it one of the world’s greatest modernising forces, as some historians claim, or was it only…
Jaipur: Author Ruskin Bond with Penguin Marketing Head Himali Sodhi during a session of Jaipur Literature Festival 2016 at Diggi Palace in Jaipur, on Jan 22, 2016. (Photo: Ravi Shankar Vyas/IANS) Kolkata, Jan 25 (IANS)…
Jaipur, Jan 25 (IANS) The West is relinquishing its predominant role in global politics and economics to the East – Asia spreading from the Middle to the Far East – in this century and the…
Jaipur, Jan 24 (IANS) He is widely recognised as English’s most significant writer and it is a measure of William Shakespeare’s eternal appeal and legacy that his plays can serve to unforgettably present a prism…
Jaipur: Author Ruskin Bond with Penguin Marketing Head Himali Sodhi during a session of Jaipur Literature Festival 2016 at Diggi Palace in Jaipur, on Jan 22, 2016. (Photo: Ravi Shankar Vyas/IANS) Kolkata, Jan 24 (PTI)…
Mumbai: Author Amish Tripathi during the launch of his book Scion of Ikshvaku in Mumbai, on June 22, 2015.(Photo: IANS) Kolkata, Jan 24 (IANS) As India battles the widespread anger following a Dalit research scholar’s…
Pakistani historian Ayesha Jalal, who has written a biography of her grand uncle and Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto Jaipur, Jan 23 (IANS) Writers, like Saadat Hasan Manto, brought out the horrors of Partition much…
Jaipur, Jan 22 (PTI) Noted writer Nand Bharadwaj, who had returned his Sahitya Akademi award last year in protest against alleged intolerance in the country, has decided to take back the award. Rajasthani and Hindi…
Author Vedica Kant, American historian Ronald Grigor Suny, Canadian historian Margaret Macmillan, British author Anthony Sattin and British historian Eugene Rogan discuss the fall-out of World War I Jaipur, Jan 22 (IANS) Nationalism got a…
Credit: Youtube Jaipur, Jan 22 (IANS) Writers run the risk of didacticism if they turn into activists, says Marlon James, the first Jamacian to win the Booker Prize in 2015. “I think the writer enters…
Credit: Youtube Jaipur, Jan 21 (IANS) Booker Prize 2015 winner Marlon James’s first trip to India turned out to be a bitter one. The Jamaica-born writer poured out his woes as he caught a connecting…
Michel Tournier , French writer, photographed in his home in Choisel in November 2014 by Mathieu Zazzo Paris, Jan 19 (AFP) Michel Tournier, a major French literary figure in the latter half of the 20th…
Pune, Jan 13 (IANS) A day after literary figure Shripal Sabnis tendered a written apology for his remarks critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP’s city unit on Wednesday decided to withdraw its agitation…
Pune (Maharashtra), Jan 11 (IANS) A group of people, including youth, went for a symbolic morning walk here on Monday to protest the death threats to eminent litterateur Shripal Sabnis for his recent remarks on…