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Walk down a dark alley
9 March 2015 12:49 AM ISTWilliam Shakespeare wrote, “Time is very slow for those who wait; very fast for those who are scared; very long for those who lament; very short for...
Backstage diaries
18 Feb 2015 4:06 AM ISTBollywood actor and theatre personality, Anupam Kher recalled his student days at the National School of Drama (NSD) when he visited the campus last...
Through the life lens
13 Feb 2015 2:44 AM ISTFinal year’s master’s students of Convergent Journalism, Jamia Millia Islamia screened their documentaries at the second Ainaa Documentary Film...
Books in the age of Candy Crush
7 Feb 2015 6:57 AM ISTWhen Jane Austen declared that ‘after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!’, she of course...
Nowhere land
7 Feb 2015 6:38 AM ISTImagine a country without books, without free will, without personal choices. Sounds like the dystopian world of George Orwell’s 1984? What if I told...
The literati affair
2 Feb 2015 4:46 AM ISTWinters bring out the reader in us, and the long list of literary events, happening in the country from January to February, is a proof of that....
Beyond the veil
1 Feb 2015 4:42 AM ISTWhile finishing a hectic day’s work, the pleasant thought of her dream being fulfilled brings a smile on Qaiser bibi’s face. Her dream – of seeing her...
‘The best stories are about people, not events’
24 Jan 2015 7:12 AM ISTBefore the moment, King hadn’t even known that his book was in the race. He didn’t know then that his account of four African American men, who were...
Of stories untold
21 Jan 2015 5:09 AM ISTAdam Johnson is an American writer and novelist who won a Pulitzer in 2013 in the fiction category for his adventurous account of North Korea titled...
Books, Books Everywhere
18 Jan 2015 7:10 AM ISTGo to any book store in any street in India and you will find a myriad of books authored by people you have never heard about. From love stories to...
Rise of the fandoms
3 Jan 2015 6:59 AM ISTWe read a book, we love the book. We google it, we read every back story possible, we watch films/TV shows made on the book, we obsess day and night...