May 01, 2020 02:41 PM IST The current lockdown limbo brings to mind a sentence from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
April 23, 2020 03:55 PM IST April 23 was chosen as it is a symbolic date for world literature. It is on this date in 1616 that Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died
April 15, 2020 01:28 PM IST The most popular good-news accounts are focused on delivering coronavirus-related stories with a positive, productive message
March 24, 2020 01:25 PM IST Here is the dystopian binge list with five great films on disease outbreaks and five great books on pandemics you can watch and read during lockdown.
January 16, 2020 03:12 PM IST After its disheartening sales record earlier this week, Robert Sansom, who has worked at the store for the past 13 years, took to Twitter to share a picture of the empty bookstore, which went viral.
January 14, 2020 03:01 PM IST Here is a list of fiction and non-fiction titles from last year as recommended by Gautam Padmanabhan, CEO of Westland Publications that are engrossing, entertaining and insightful reads.
November 27, 2019 04:41 PM IST Journalists on the trail of the Panama Papers scandal mistook a Gulf-based businessman named Ratan Tata for the Indian industrialist.
September 26, 2019 09:06 AM IST Newspaper stalls and vendors are an important cog in the newspaper industry, but they have never been able to reap benefits from the existence of an independent and sustainable media ecosystem
August 20, 2019 06:33 PM IST As a thumb rule, take any loan only when you can easily repay it. So, for instance, thumb rules (its getting repeated) suggest that car loan EMIs should not exceed 15 percent of the net monthly income and personal loan EMIs should not exceed 10 percent.
May 08, 2019 07:53 AM IST In 'What the Economy Needs Now', prominent economists have said that while India has performed creditably in the last twenty-five years across different administrations, there is no room for complacency given our economic challenges. They are mounting.
February 11, 2019 06:17 PM IST While Unilever is highly process-oriented and goal-driven, reveals the author, while Tata Sons is very Indian and highly relationship-oriented.
December 19, 2018 07:38 AM IST Read on to know more about what we read in 2018.
March 29, 2018 07:53 PM IST Flipkart had entered the online bookseller business at the same time as its arch-rival Amazon, back in 2007.
November 01, 2017 07:00 PM IST On an average, Indians spend more than 10 hours a week reading, according to NOP World Culture Score Index.
January 23, 2017 11:07 AM IST This weeks startup idea is about establishing a crowdfunding platform for budding authors to crowdfund their books
July 30, 2016 02:45 PM IST Sanjay Rishi, Regional President at American Express loves unwinding over the weekends. His two passions been playing golf and reading books. Watch accompanying videos to know how American Express rediscovered itself post Lehman Crisis.
October 26, 2015 04:02 PM IST On 17th Oct 2015, Disha, a leading publisher of print and digital content & learning solutions, emerged as one of the best performing ...
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February 05, 2015 07:10 PM IST Rohan Murthy is quietly building the Murthy classical library of India and attempt to share the treasure trove of Indian works in readable English to a modern India.
July 22, 2013 05:29 PM IST Founded in 2011 Jagdish Repaswal‘s innovation MangoReader makes reading books an engaging and entertaining experience with interactive animations, videos, music and even a dictionary.
March 14, 2013 04:59 PM IST Books and movies have immortalised Kolkata, a city quite often dubbed the intellectual capital. The birthplace of modern literary and artistic thought – Kolkata offers its visitors and lovers, charm and intellect.
February 20, 2013 03:40 PM IST Mobile handset maker Nokia, cellular services company Vodafone, online retailer Flipkart and WhatsApp messenger for smartphones figure among the top brands in consumer rankings published by Nielsen India on Wednesday.
December 31, 2012 05:18 PM IST People turned to the Internet to buy everything from diapers to books, houses and even groceries this year, pushing e-commerce revenues in the country to USD 14 billion with the possibility of even higher earnings in 2013.
December 05, 2012 09:58 AM IST Author Jennifer Gilmore is reading a biography of the late David Foster Wallace. She's curious about his most famous book...
November 09, 2012 02:52 AM IST Books banned in China have been flying off the shelves in Hong Kong in the run-up to China's leadership transition as mainland people seek insight into the decision makers who will run their country and the rivals who have fallen out of favour.
