Source: The Hindu 
Bhubaneswar-based popular literary publishing house ‘Time Pass’ founded by young and dynamic writer-publisher Saroj Bal has announced its annual literary awards for Oriya language and literature for the year 2009.
Short-story writer Satyapriya Mahalik will be the recipient of the ‘Time Pass Booker Prize’ for his unpublished work ‘Sarinathiba eka Lokakatha’ (an unfinished folk-tale) [...]

Source: http://www.newspostonline.com
The London Book Fair, which is focussing on India as an emerging market and literary hub this year, will take a look at not only English writing from the south Asian nation but also other vernacular languages, said Alistair Burtenshaw, group exhibition director of the event.
The April 20-22 fair will also introduce new Indian writers [...]

Source: The Economic Times
Dheeraj Arora is a 27-year old trainer at the New Delhi-based Hero Mindmine, a provider of training and development services for business process outsourcing companies. In the past three months, he has been frequenting a popular bookstore in the Capital scouring for books on self-improvement, motivation and career counselling, part of a [...]

All art forms confront the onslaughts of prying eyes and illegal predators to lift bits and pieces from here and there and piece it with something, somewhere else. Barely a fortnight after the 33rd International Kolkata Book Fair, the cultural wing of the Publishers & Booksellers’ Guild of world’s one of the largest book fests [...]

Source: http://swblogs.blogspot.com/
The Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore occupies a very special place in the academic landscape of India. Famous, and justly so, it is one of those institutions in our country that one can be proud of, one can rely upon for a certain basic standard and quality, and one that we can hold [...]

Gallerie’s 23rd issue, “Understanding Afghanistan” a valuable collective, brings you features and stories of a country beyond the north-west frontier province. A country that has become synonymous with the Taliban. But little is known about its contemporary culture; its art, performing arts, poetry, photography, cinema, of its people and their lives. addresses their socio-political & [...]

Source: The Hindu Literary Review
Writers Workshop is now a part of modern Indian literary history. Many writers who are ‘big’ names today got their first breaks with WW decades back. Well-known academic and literary critic Meenakshi Mukherjee takes a look at the evolution of an enterprise that has been kept going by the efforts of [...]

Source: http://bookwiseindia.blogspot.com
More than 45 leading Indian writers, translators, critics, academics and industry professionals will be coming to the London Book Fair, to take part in a varied programme of events based on themes of cultural and linguistic diversity, designed to enable better market understanding through contemporary literature between India and the UK. This is the first [...]

Source: Times of India
He spent a lifetime serving the written word
In a world where the cozy neighbourhood bookstore has been displaced by massive book chains peddling brownies alongside Brecht, Strand
Book Stall always stood in splendid isolation. Strand’s founder-owner T N Shanbhag died peacefully last Friday morning (27th Feb) at his Pedder Road residence. He was [...]

Source:  Times of India
Telugu may have attained classical language status, but very few people will get to read any of its literary texts, if current translation trends continue. At present, translation of Telugu literary works is taken up sporadically, and that too only into English and not Indian vernacular languages.
In view of the recently accorded [...]