Salman Rushdie

Debut Filipino novelist wins Man Asian literary prize

HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) - Filipino writer Miguel Syjuco won the $10,000 Man Asian Literary prize Thursday, a fledgling award launched by the backers of the world-renowned Booker prize to recognize the region's top literary...

The Paintings at Terence Kohs New Show Are Possibly Edible

At last night's blowout opening party for Terence Koh's new show, "Flowers for Baudelaire," questions of taste predominated. Not about whether Koh who created a scandal in England earlier this year by...

![CDATA[Nandita Das's Firaq finally in India]]

CDATA[Made in India but viewed all over the world Nandita Das 's debut as director with Firaq has won her critical acclaim at the Toronto, Vancouver and Pusan film festivals but it is the film's first screening in India that's...

'Rang Rasiya is personal than Mangal Pandey'

Ketan Mehta's Rang Rasiya (Colours of Passion) tells the tumultuous life story of the celebrated painter Raja Ravi Varma [Images] whose work in the 19th century liberated Indian art from the confines of the temples and palaces,...

'Top Chef' recap: Stefan prepares for WWIII — with paring knives

New York is a tough town as "Top Chef" judges Tom Colicchio (chef, restaurant mogul), Padma Lakshmi (chef, model, cookbook author, ex-wife of Salman Rushdie) and Gail Simmons (plucked out of Food and Wine Magazine obscurity in...

German honorary degree for Cees Nooteboom

by correspondent Laurens Boven* Cees Nooteboom is one of the Netherlands' greatest authors. So it is not surprising that Mr Nooteboom is the first Dutch writer to receive an honorary degree from a German university today: The...

Indo-American film festival ends in NY

NEW YORK: The eighth edition of the popular Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) film festival yielded rich dividends for Indians with Sooni Taraporevala's "Little Zizou" and actor Sachin Khedekar bagging top awards....

The Paris Review Interviews Vol 3

Edited by Philip Gourevitch (Canongate, £14.99) by ALAN CHADWICK - Tuesday, November 11, 2008 The Paris Review Interviews Vol 3 As Margaret Atwood says in her introduction to Philip Gourevitch's third selection from the Paris...

Rushdie on Religion and the Imagination

Last Wednesday night, I had the chance to sit in on a fascinating conversation on “Religion and the Imagination” with Salman Rushdie. The author of Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories,...

UN Interfaith Conference

World leaders gather for faith debate James Reinl, United Nations Correspondent, The National UAE November 11. 2008 The growing spectre of religious discord spurred faith leaders to organise seminars in which Jews, Christians,...