Ban on book on Ramdev’s life lifted
WEB DESK/ New Delhi In ‘landmark victory for free speech’, a publishing house has won legal battle against Baba Ramdev over a controversial book whose publication and sale had been…
New Releases from Aleph Book
Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire by Ira Mukhoty In 1526, when the nomadic Timurid warrior-scholar Babur rode into Hindustan, his wives, sisters, daughters,…
World Book Fair begins in New Delhi
AMN New Delhi World Book Fair opens today at Pragati Maidan in the national capital. Organised by the National Book Trust in association with India Trade Promotion Organisation, the main…
Books on ‘Muslim Freedom Fighters’ released
AMN / Patna Two books on Muslims’ contribution in India’s Freedom movement were launched at glittering ceremony here recently. The function was presided over by former IAS officer and human…
World’s third largest book fair opens in Sharjah
WEB DESK World’s third largest book fair opened on Wednesday at Sharjah. It began with a glittering opening ceremony at Expo Centre, in the presence Dr Shaikh Sultan Bin Mohammad…
US author George Saunders wins Man Booker Prize
US author George Saunders has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize. He became only the second American writer to win Britain’s renowned Prize, which was awarded for his first full-length…
Peeping into Khushwant Singh’s wisdom
A Akhter Khushwant Singh, famous writer, historian and columnist, we have all read his works in one form or the other. It is well known that he never bogged down…
Profile: Kazuo Ishiguro, Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature
The English novelist of Japanese origin Kazuo Ishiguro, known for his spare yet emotionally resonate prose style and his inventive subversion of literary genres, was awarded the Nobel Prize in…
CM Amarinder Singh releases book on Khushwant Singh
AMN / NEW DELHI Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday released a book titled ‘Khushwant Singh-In Wisdom and in Jest’ written by noted journalists Onkar Singh and Vijay…
People who read fiction, novels are more friendly towards others
AMN A group of researchers have found that people who regularly read fictions and novels are more likely to be friendly, well-behaved and sympathetic towards others. According to a latest…