Page 11 - Books

Rushdie on ventilator, may lose an eye; suspect charged with murder attempt

Author Salman Rushdie was on a ventilator, will likely lose one eye and his liver was "stabbed and damaged" following an attack on him

Praise, worry in Iran after attack on Salman Rushdie; government quiet

Iranians reacted with praise and worry over the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie, the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death

Appalled at attack on Salman Rushdie, says British PM Boris Johnson

UK PM Boris Johnson expressed his shock at author Salman Rushdie being stabbed by a man at an event in New York and condemned the attack on his freedom of expression

Remove Partha Chatterjee's name, Singur Andolan chapter from books: BJP

BJP National Secretary Anupam Hazra asked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to remove former Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee's name from the pages of history books of the Madhya Shiksha Parshad.

In light of India

A collection of youthful letters from her year in the country hints at the ideas that eventually shape Wendy Doniger's research and prolific writing

The Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini's daughter comes out as transgender

Following the revelation by Khaled Hosseini, several fans of the novelist poured in support for him on Twitter

Bureaucrats and diplomats: The divergence in their post-retirement writing

While IAS officers write primarily about their own exploits, IFS officers write more about the issues and context of their work, while straying also into unrelated fields, notes T N Ninan

As Seagull Books turns 40, Naveen Kishore explains the world it encompasses

Breakfast with BS: Meet Naveen Kishore, founder, Seagull Books

How diamond baron Govind Dholakia got Rs 920 from his first trade

Diamond tycoon Govind Dholakia has come out with a tongue-in-cheek account of his journey of life, recalling how he created a billion-dollar company

A southern perspective of Indian history

With this expansive chronicle of South India between the sixth and 12 centuries, Anirudh Kanisetti seeks to challenge the North India-centric approach in textbooks and academia

Rare first edition of The Great Gatsby lists at $360,000

Harrington will soon bring a first edition of the 1925 book, widely considered F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, to New York's International Antiquarian Book Fair, which runs from April 21-24 at the P

Runaway mind: Boon and bane

Moshe Bar, a renowned neuroscientist, has authored a book on this very phenomenon called mind wandering.

Digital medium and messaging

The book's voice carries immense worth given the pedigree of one of its co-authors

Dealing with deadlines

According to Mr Cox, "as soon as you set a deadline, work tends to get delayed until right before time expires". He calls this a "deadline effect".

Not like children's books, learning kit books to attract GST: AAR

The AAR agreed at the outset the kit box/book should be covered under heading 4903

A selection of the five best books in a year of start-ups and unicorns

Looking back at 2021, we take note of the top start-up-related books published this year that shed new light on this space

Legendary novelist Wilbur Smith passes away at 88

He passed away on Saturday afternoon with his wife, Niso, by his side

South African Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize 2021 for 'The Promise'

"The Promise" is a novel about one white family's reckoning with South Africa's racist history.

Lessons for new owner as it inks a fresh chapter for Crossword

Last year, Covid-19 hit book sales - albeit not publishing per se - with the lockdown months shutting out physical retail altogether

Breaking out of 'zenana' medicine

The author first gives a quick backgrounder about women doctors in other countries, who paved the way for the first women doctors from India