Advances in marketing and technology have propelled India’s book publishing industry forward into a rapid and glorious expansion. By the estimation of Shakti Malli, president of the Federation of Indian Publishers, the Indian publishing sector is currently “worth Rs.80 billion and it is growing by over 15 percent every year.” The country is seeing fresh [...]

The Sunfeast Open, held in Kolkata, has been the needed balm to Sania Mirza’s WTA ranking, which had been suffering from early exits in recent singles competitions. Sania’s Singles ranking leapt 11 places to 59 by virtue of her appearance at the semifinals of the Sunfeast.
Her performance in doubles has been consistently strong in [...]

The story was over for India as of Friday, a melancholy finish after the series opened with Sachin Tendulkar’s storybook comeback of an unbeaten 141. The Australian team edged past the Indians with 18 runs, to take its place in the series final on Sunday.
Australia elected to bat first, and its runs were kept down [...]

Indian writer Kiran Desai’s second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. The shortlist rocked the expectations of those in the publishing world who follow the prize, as the longlisted author favoured to win, David Mitchell, was eliminated, along with other likely contenders Peter Carey, Andrew O’Hagan, Nadine [...]

The rain finally allowed India to finish a game in the ODI tri-series with Australia and the West Indies—and what a game. India brushed past the West Indies in a low-scoring nail-biter by a margin of 16 runs, keeping India in contention for a place in the final on Sunday.
The future looked grim during [...]

In Kolkata, India, only 52 minutes after Rushmi Chakravarthi’s opening serve, Sania Mirza was thanking the audience with waves and blown kisses as fans applauded her easy success. Fifth-seeded Sania breezed past her fellow Indian, qualifier Chakravarthi, in grand style, winning 6-0, 6-4.
Sania’s domination of the first set was the result of strong down-the-line [...]

As the Indian cricket team looks ahead to tomorrow’s game against the West Indies and Friday’s game against Australia in the DFL tri-series, they must have a mixed opinion about the prospect of more rain pelting down on Kuala Lumpur’s Kinara Oval. Rain has proved the plague of the series so far, shutting down both [...]

Madras University’s recent announcements of the creation of a virtual university and a digital library are being echoed around the country. The august institution may not be the trendsetter in these circumstances, as technological expansion is spilling out too concurrently for any one source to be the inspiration.
Even before Madras University’s 150th anniversary celebrations kicked [...]

The Indian cricket team’s loss to the West Indies in the DFL series’ second cricket one-dayer seems chiefly a product of bad luck. The Windies won their first game of the series, after ceding to Australia by a margin of 78 runs in Tuesday’s opening match. Mr. Duckworth and Mr. Lewis’s method ultimately gave the [...]

Do moustachioed men garner more respect? This is precisely the question that occured to Jhabua district police chief Mayank Jain as he watched local people at a seminar defer to a number of constables in particular—those with moustaches. “There were two or three moustachioed constables in the gathering and I saw people were looking at [...]