Sunday, January 24, 2016

Why everybody loves a good literary festival -Radhika Santanam

Why everybody loves a good literary festival: In the 1950s, when J.D. Salinger wrote
The Catcher in the Rye
, there probably were not many literary festivals. “What really knocks me out,” he wrote, “…is a book that, when you’r“It may appear paradoxical then that at a time when bookstores are disappearing, lit fests are mushrooming.” Pictures show the Jaipur Lit Fest and Alexander McCall Smith at The Hindu Lit for Life, 2016.— Photos: rohit jain paras & V. Ganesane all

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Economic development is affecting rural life: Kambar

Economic development is affecting rural life: Kambar: Jnanpith award winner Chandrashekhar Kambar inaugurated Dharwad Sahitya Sambhrama, a three-day Kannada literary festival, at the Golden Jubilee auditorium of Jnanpith award winner Chandrashekhar Kambar addressing the inaugural session of Dharwad Sahitya Sambhrama in Dharwad on Friday.— PHOTO: BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT University here on Friday.In his