Anupam Kher has just given the nod to British Indian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha's new movie and has also decided to write a book about his experiences as an actor, husband, father and a socially responsible citizen.
Renowned author and British journalist Jonathan Freedland - whose pen name is Sam Bourne - plans to weave his next book around the US election campaign.
On the weekend after he became the country's first black president-elect, Obama's "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams from My Father," both already million sellers, ranked No 1 and No 2, respectively, on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.
Photographer Sunil Gupta has a different focus on his camera lens. It pans the life and times of his generation - the happening 70s when alternative sexuality was coming out of the closet and young itinerants were journeying the globe in search of love.
Michael Crichton, author of more than a dozen best-selling science fiction adventures including Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, died of cancer in Los Angeles, aged 66.
It is a form of child abuse to teach religious myths to young children who are also likely to suffer negatively by reading tales of witchcraft and wizardry like Harry Potter, argues Britain's leading atheist and popular science writer, Richard Dawkins.
Missing in action for close to two years, rapper Eminem, 36, is making a comeback with a new album and a memoir.
"Women against the Raj: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment", by American historian Joyce Chapman Lebra highlights the contribution made by hundreds of women of Indian descent.
Indian writer Aravind Adiga on Tuesday won the 2008 Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards, for his debut novel The White Tiger, the judges announced.
Exile is the saddest thing that can happen to an individual, says diplomat Navtej Sarna, the author of a new novel on Punjab's last ruler Duleep Singh who died "completely alone" in a cheap hotel room in Paris.
“If we practise looking deeply, we will see that our notion of happiness may be responsible for our suffering,” says Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh.
Diplomat, bestselling novelist and now millionaire? Vikas Swarup, India's Deputy High Commissioner to South Africa and author of the much acclaimed Q & A, may be on a roll, but he is still modest.
British espionage writer John le Carre admitted he was tempted to defect to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, in an interview with The Sunday Times newspaper.
The iconic 1970s book, The Joy of Sex, which became the bedroom (and elsewhere) bible for a generation, has been re-released in an updated version for the noughties.
Best-selling crime writer Lynda La Plante's 1993 novel Entwined contains passages lifted from Auschwitz survivor Olga Lengyel's 1947 memoir Five Chimneys, news reports said on Saturday.
"Reading faces stiff competition from the Internet pool of information but the longstanding fact is that reading gives wholistic knowledge that can't be replaced - not by TV, not by Internet."
The capital added another first to its list of art initiatives by throwing open the first art bookstore-cum-reading room on Friday.
The worldwide launch of a much-talked about biography of Pakistan's cricketing legend-turned-politician Imran Khan has been postponed by a few months and a new date is likely to be announced by mid-September.
Mani Shankar Mukherjee, better known as the popular novelist Shankar from West Bengal, is a minefield of stories.
In a poll outcome set to delight children worldwide, British adults have voted Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and J K Rowling as their three favourite writers, putting them well ahead of authors of the critically acclaimed 'serious stuff'.
Nepal's dethroned king Gyanendra is busy penning down his autobiography as the country began a new chapter with the Maoist Chief Prachanda
taking over as the Prime Minister of the world's newest republic.
A US publisher has cancelled the publication of a novel about the youngest wife of the Muslim prophet Mohammed amid a growing controversy over the book.
Mount Kailash is Timeri N Murari's centre of the world. Few Indians, when they talk of Kailash and the Mansarovar Lake, know that these are landmarks on a Chinese landscape.
Yoga Acharya Anoop, who specialises in music meditation, kicked off his healthy lifestyle campaign with the release of his book on spine and mind management on Sunday.
Legendary filmmaker Guru Dutt and his scriptwriter Abrar Alvi were two great creative minds and opposite personalities that sparked off great ideas and motivated each other to give their best, says veteran journalist Sathya Saran.
