Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata, ICICI Bank CEO and managing director (MD) Chanda Kochhar, Deutsche Bank CEO Gunit Chadha and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) CEO N Chandrasekaran were huddled in a group at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel on Monday evening.

Author Amish Tripathi is hopeful of a big-budget film based on his best seller, The Immortals of Meluha. Meanwhile, he will be releasing theatrical trailer for his second book next month.

Jawaharlal Nehru has of late been "misinterpreted" and so it was important to put India's first prime minister in the right perspective through a book, says his niece and noted author Nayantara Sahgal.
Obama's Wars by journalist Bob Woodward, which arrived in the country last week, is climbing the popularity charts fast and furious and also fuelling interest in previous works by and on the man.

A book titled
We Were There: An Eyewitness History of the Twentieth Century (The Overlook Press, $30), edited by Robert Fox is a collection of stories from different people who escaped the Titanic.

No more descriptions of adventurous lovemaking. A new version of
Kama Sutra, the ancient Indian book known as the ultimate sex manual, will now be updated as a text-only "lifestyle guide for the modern man and woman".

The international rights to a book telling the stories of six classmates of Anne Frank, who unlike her survived the Holocaust, went up for sale on Thursday at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
The Official Kaun Banega Crorepati Quiz Book,
110 Crore Hindustani, compiled by a team comprising quiz whiz Siddhartha Basu will hit stands today across the country. Here're the details.

Bollywood actor Arya Babbar has embarked on a new career as he released his first comic book called
Pushpak Viman on Wednesday.

Think Gandhi
ji’s values and teachings no longer apply in today’s day and age? Think again. A recently released comic book compilation showcases Gandhian values in contemporary times.

On October 12, Del Ray Books will release a new book,
The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, by JW Rinzler.

Pope Benedict XVI’s first book of interviews since being elected in 2005, will come out “before the end of the current year,” the Vatican’s spokesman Federico Lombardi said.

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe’s English classic
Things Fall Apart, published in 1958, is now available in Hindi.

Want to increase your chances of having a happy marriage? Marriage counsellor Geeta Maheshwari's book,
The Happy Marriage Mantra, which was released on Monday, can be of help.

Débutante novelist Mohyna Srinivasan launched her novel
The House on Mall Road at Crossword Bookstores in New Delhi recently. Her dramatic novel promises to grip you till its last word.