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A growing number of cognoscenti are turning their backs on book parties and literary festivals, writes Advaita Kala.

I  have been completely obsessed  with and mesmerised by the tiger for 35 years. But my pursuit of the tiger meant encompassing, experiencing and learning about all the wildlife that lives in the tiger’s realm.

You've seen these women before. When the weekend ends, they will go back home — to children, husbands or co-workers.

 The genius of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro lies in Kundan Shah’s  story that led to the classic ‘concept film’

Taiyaba Husain is a 30 year-old NRI who moved from Hyderabad to the US when she was five. She returned to Mumbai in 2008 to research and write her first novel.

Served in cities New lifestyles have thrown up a number of new careers geared to meet modern-day needs. Lalita Iyer lists out three...

Indian ethnic origin VS Naipaul, considered to be one of the finest living novelists writing in English, has been "killed off" by the American secret service FBI. The slip-up was noticed after documents presented to a Chicago court were unsealed.

When it comes to sex, krill like the lights off, and their maturation cycle can be altered with darkness, a new study has revealed.

It ruled the world of colour pictures for 70 years. But Kodachrome, on which so much of history was recorded, will soon be history. Six star photographers share their memories of working with the iconic film. Film versus digital

Enough about authors. Here are the people who make the books be seen and wanted. Damini Purkayastha takes a look.

Be it an unfulfilled romance or a broken friendship, all of us cry over some touching moments created forever in books. Divya Arya takes you through some such tearjerkers...

Michael Jackson crossed swords with a lot of people when he was alive, but perhaps none more important than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The former first lady had secured a coveted book deal with the pop star!

Toyota Motor Corp says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command.

Four books that have been long out of print by the Rev Martin Luther King Jr will be published again under a deal brokered by his youngest son Dexter King who has dubbed the deal "an historic partnership".

In a rare scoop, Renegade's author Richard Wolffe reveals in his book that there was a time when Obama's marriage appeared frostier than what it is today...there was "little conversation and even less romance".