3+ hour, 50+ min ago   (476+ words) For years, writer Paul Zacharia has sent characters out into the world — through villages, cities, beliefs, arguments and memories. This time, the journey runs in the opposite direction. The story travels back to the man who wrote so many of…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (369+ words) The New Indian Express "I felt like a privileged grandmother throughout the process,” smiles children’s book writer Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan Just moments before, a gaggle of kids had gathered around her, standing on tip toes to slide their…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (186+ words) The New Indian Express Mia Threapleton is all set to portray Mary Churchill, the fifth and final child of Winston and Clementine Churchill, in the upcoming World War Two political thriller The Price of Peace Threapleton, alongside Danny Huston as…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (398+ words) KOCHI: “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”— Santiago, The Old Man and the Sea’ Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Old Man and the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (400+ words) It takes a special kind of ignorance to prance about and pontificate on the nature of being in 2026. To many, the word belongs in the museum—an ontological artefact that always says less than it means and means less than…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (305+ words) NEW YORK: Ann Patchett’s latest honor has an international scope. The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation announced Wednesday that Patchett is this year’s recipient of the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award for “a writer whose body of work…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (647+ words) Q: You wrote through miscarriages, childbirth, heartbreak, and postpartum — through the full spectrum of a woman’s interior life. At what point did you decide that your personal experience was the political argument and not just a backdrop to it? Q: You…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (588+ words) NEW DELHI: Nigerian writer, filmmaker, jazz musician and cultural thinker Onyeka Nwelue has returned with a new literary novel "Tokyo Spies", which has drawn attention after a Japanese publisher reportedly acquired it in a major 85 million yen deal. The novel,…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (316+ words) The New Indian Express Stories of the ordinary Sri Lankan artist Shanaka Kulathunga will present his first solo exhibition in India later this month, bringing together paintings based on everyday life and artist's memories. Titled 'Silent Stories, the exhibition will…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (291+ words) In another piece, a chipped fingernail provides a reference to the map of Gaza Strip, drawing a connection between bodily discomfort and distant geopolitical realities. Sculptor Yogesh Ramkrishna, approaches similar concerns through his sculptures made of chalk paint and 3D printing…...