Books

What if the gorgeous lady, Deepika Padukone gets Salman Khan as her body guard? ‘BodyGuard’ is the name of the upcoming movie which may screen Deepika and Salman.
 

Speculations are going around the  that a Malayalam film by director Siddique will be remade in Hindi. ...

Book: "The Idea of Justice"
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Penguin-Allen Lane
Price: 25 pounds (Rs.2,000)
 
With this book, Amartya Sen is trying to explore what justice means and has come up with an alternative to the existing model. While doing so, he is also creating an urge ...

India is now a part of the 10 best cookbook publishing countries across the world by winning an award and a special mention at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Paris for two culinary works.
 
While "The Emperor's Table" by Salma Hussain has won the Best in the World Book for ...

A new book on Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, written by scholar and educationist Som P. Ranchan, was released in Shimla on Friday by Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal.
 
Dhumal said: "The book would help research scholars understand Buddhism better. It has ...

Novelist Amitav Ghosh shared his Vodafone-Crossword Book Awards 2008 for his book "Sea of Poppies" with writer-reviewer Neel Mukherjee for his novel "Past Continuous" in the English fiction category.
 
The awards were announced at a glittering function in the Nehru ...

Man Booker winning author, Arundhati Roy,  takes a investigating look at the underbelly of the world's oldest democracy in her new anthology of essays "Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy" which is published this week.
 
"By democracy, I don't mean ...

A book has been written about a panda that went missing during last year's Sichuan earthquake in China and the Hong Kong woman who adopted the animal for financing a panda nature reserve.
 
The book, "In Love with Pandas - The Story of Qing Qing & I", tells of the bond between ...

Pinki Virani, the award-winning author of three controversial non-fiction books that dealt with issues as diverse as sexual abuse of children and Mumbai's fragile social fabric, is back -- this time with a fictional tale of contemporary Indian history.
 
"My new book 'Deaf Heaven' is ...

The marketing campaign for the Man Booker winning novel, "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga, has bagged the 'Excellence Award (best book)' of the Asian Multimedia Publishing Award 2009.
 
The campaign was adjudged the best for using multimedia marketing by a publisher in the most ...

The "Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema" had been written over a period of almost two years by Ira Bhaskar, an associate professor of cinema studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Richard Allen, chair of Cinema Studies at New York University. ...

 Book Name:- "You're Hired: How You Get That Job And Keep It Too" 
Author:- Nasha Fitter Publications:- Penguin India-Books
Price:- Rs. 199 

Do you feel that there is some problem in the way you are presenting yourself before a prospective employer? Have you ...

Pop star Justin Timberlake is taking his love for golf to another level, as he plans to write a book on the sport.
The "Sexy back" singer has reportedly employed a literary agent to send out a short synopsis of the planned book, in the hope of securing a publishing deal.


The book ...

Did Bangalore became the e-capital of India just because the then Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao insisted that southern states should also be a part of revolutions, since at that time Chandigarh had been befitted from Green Revolution? 
According to Gurujot Singh Khalsa, one of the ...

This book by Clare Maxfield is about the ways one person can adjust himself in the corporate world as he steps into it for the first time. 


We have all experienced the fear of the unknown. Entering the corporate world or making a transition to a new job can makes even the most confident ...

Umesh Ramakrishnan`s new book, "There is No Elevator to the Top", has been published by the Penguin-Books India in June. It compiles the success stories of CEOs of top companies like Cadbury, Schweppes, Coca-Cola, Charles Schwab, Starbucks, Dell and Fidelity and a dozen other companies ...

After denying for about a decade, the legal thriller author, John Grisham, has sold his 1999 bestseller "The Testament" to Hollywood for a movie deal.
 
The work will be optioned by producers Mark Johnson and Hunt Lowry along with 821 Entertainment Group's Eric Geadelmann and Ben ...

The year is 2001. And the country is Sri Lanka. Sam, a dim witted boy, ekes out an existence with his mother, brothers and sisters in a tiny village that has fallen off the map.
His fortunes change when he gets a job as a houseboy in Colombo. But life is not a cakewalk as ethnic violence grips Sri ...