Corporate honcho Nandan Nilekani's Imagining India dominates non-fiction this week while Aravind Adiga's White Tiger continues to roar on the top two slots in the fiction category of bestsellers. That is something for India to smile about as terror has sapped away enthusiasm.
Author angered mob by exposing brutality, crimes in his book.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/plot-sickens-italian-mafia-orders-writers-murder/75811-19.html
The winner's name will be announced on October 14.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/two-indian-writers-in-man-booker-prize-shortlist/73239-3.html
British adults have voted Enid Blyton, Dahl, Rowling as their favourite writers.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/enid-blyton-pips-rowling-as-uks-favourite-author/71660-19.html
How good are the US presidential nominees as writers?
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/obama-vs-hillary-whos-a-better-writer/58479-2.html
Kamasutra is still India’s most famous book on sex but new writers are boldly going forward.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/indian-writers-bring-back-sex/34338-3.html
Giving protocol a skip once again, President A P J Abdul Kalam visited eminent writer Khushwant Singh.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/kalam-meets-khushwant-to-talk-books/33198-19.html
Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri - Kiran Desai has now joined the league of great Indian authors.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/the-age-of-the-indian-author/23769-3.html
The Classmate Young Author Contest came to an end with Ruskin Bond encouraging reading habits among the student community.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/ruskin-bonds-with-young-authors/7321-8.html
India has not always been receptive to kids books, but in the post-Harry Potter phase, there's room for creativity.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/books-spinning-a-yarn-for-indian-kids/4823-8.html
Here are three books for Christmas: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Calvin and Hobbes collection and The Manticore's Secret.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/special-cool-books-for-christmas/2673-3.html
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