Worried about jobs in the recession-hit scenario? Just improve your English communication and job placement skills to succeed in the global economy, says a Harvard-educated soft skills trainer.You're Hired: How to Get That Job and Keep It Too by Nasha Fitter is a practical step-by-step guide especially for Indian job contexts and situations from the context of the countrys youth...Read More
The Indian publishing BPO landscape has evolved in terms of technology, service depth, maturity and service capability. The industry has also witnessed the percolation of technology – both, in terms of adoption and delivery. With many acquisitions overseas, publishing BPOs now have the capacity and capability to address almost every publisher’s need changes in the client mix....Read More
In a move which will cheer hundreds of thousands of his fans, Vikram Seth, among the most widely admired writers in the world today, has announced that he is writing the long-awaited sequel to his much-loved million-copy bestseller A Suitable Boy. will be published by Penguin in Autumn 2013.A Suitable Boy was set against the backdrop of newly-independent India and followed the lives...Read More
.R. Rahman's father was a very-much-sought-after person in the Malayalam film industry as he was an efficient assistant and arranger but went unnoticed in the music scene as he ended up ghost composing in many movies without any credit, says a new book.
"It wasn't long before R.K. Sekhar (Rahman's father) was the most wanted man in the Malayalam industry. He was the best assistant in the industry....Read More
Google Inc has received formal notice from the US Justice Department that antitrust investigators are looking into its settlement with publishers that would help make millions of books available online. Asked if the company had received the civil equivalent of a subpoena Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond told reporters: "Yeah, we did"....Read More
Pulitzer-winner American author Marilynne Robinson has received the Orange Prize for Fiction, beating two British novelists to it.Robinson, 66, was awarded £30,000 along with the Prize for her novel Home, and accepted it on 3 June at a ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank in London.Another contender for the prize had been Samantha Harvey, a 34-year-old from Bath, who had hoped she would take the women-only award for her first novel...Read More
Since I was a child, I had always wanted to meet Saigal sahib. When I was very young I would say: When I grow up, I'll marry Saigal. Jokingly my father would reply: By that time he will be an old man. I would say: Never mind I'll still marry him," Lata says in the book Lata Mangeshkar: In Her Own Voice written by Nasreen Munni Kabir and published by Niyogi Books...Read More
Alice Munro, one of Canada's most celebrated writers, has pipped Mahasweta Devi and V.S. Naipaul to win the third Man Booker International Prize. Devi and Naipaul were among 13 other writers who were shortlisted for the award this year.The prize worth £60,000 ($95,000) is awarded once every two years to recognise a living author for his/her contribution to literature...
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No Minister: Memories Of A Civil Servant by Mahesh Prasad is an interesting account full of anecdotes and the author's personal observations on the bureaucracy, politics and life.The book, published by Macmillan, covers a fascinating period in India's political and administrative fabric and provides insights into the working of the civil services...Read More
A British film producer is relishing the chance to adapt Slumdog Millionare author Vikas Swarup’s second book into a movie.Paul Raphael is said to have joined forces with BBC Films and ‘Trainspotting’ screenwriter John Hodge to make a film based on Six Suspects, a murder mystery set in Delhi...Read More
