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Rishab Shetty cements his place as India’s biggest actor-writer-director with Kantara Chapter 1, a cultural phenomenon that blends tradition, faith, and folklore, redefining regional cinema and reviving India’s storytelling pride.

Lyricist Puneet Sharma on his Jolly LLB 3 collaboration with Subhash Kapoor: “After a long time, I saw a filmmaker do full justice to my song”

Lyricist, poet, and screenwriter Puneet Sharma talks to Moneycontrol about his creative journey, from the viral poem Tum Kaun Ho Bey? to Jolly LLB 3’s Hua Na, exploring how poetry, politics, and personal conviction shape his storytelling.

Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain writer Manoj Santoshi passes away

Famous television writer Manoj Santoshi, known for his work on Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain has passed away after battling a liver ailment. His death is a significant loss to Indian television.

Russell Banks, praised author of 'Cloudsplitter' dies at 82

Banks, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, died Saturday in upstate New York, his editor, Dan Halpern, told The Associated Press.

Salman Rushdie off the ventilator and talking, day after attack

The man accused of attacking Rushdie on Friday at the Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat centre, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called a “preplanned” crime

Novelist Salman Rushdie on ventilator after New York stabbing

Rushdie, who was born into a Muslim Kashmiri family in then Bombay before moving to the United Kingdom, has long faced death threats for his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses. Some Muslims said the book contained blasphemous passages

JK Rowling publishes first chapters of new story online

J.K. Rowling is publishing a new story called “The Ickabog,” which will be free to read online to help entertain children and families stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic.

In conversation with writer Taslima Nasreen

Watch CNBC-TV18‘s Ronojoy Banerjee in conversation with Writer Taslima Nasreen where she talks about life away from home, views on radicalism, politics on religion, lack of secular education and various other issues.

Notion Press` Accelerator Program Turns Authorpreneurs Out of Authors

If writing a book is an uphill task, marketing it is jumping straight into the abyss. Traditionally, writers were storytellers whose work ...

Rushdie says writers losing influence in West

Salman Rushdie believes literature has lost much of its influence in the West, and movie stars like George Clooney and Angelina Jolie have taken the place of Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer when it comes to addressing the big issues.

Book Talk: A new generation heads for Treasure Island

Writer Andrew Motion, England's former poet laureate, is taking a new generation of readers back to "Treasure Island" in his latest book, which follows the characters from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure.

For me, writing is about people, says Amitav Ghosh

A writer, whose stories have transported us to far away unknown and thrilling places. His stories have always been hugely entertaining. In an interview with CNBC-TV18, a very popular, acclaimed and prolific Amitav Ghosh talks about his stories, inspirations and what does has he planned for the future.