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Open Book Focus Spotlight on Africa We are delighted to have a number of very highly regarded authors joining us from our very own African continent. From 9th – 13th September you can look forward to seeing these authors (click on their names for a...

“Subaltern Predicament in the recent Indian English Fiction: A Study of  Aravind  Adiga’s The White Tiger and Vikram Swarup’s Slumdog Millionaire” : Prof.  AJ Sebastian sdb Introduction Subaltern concerns have been  quite  aptly  portrayed  in some...

Indians are not strangers to the concept of banned books. Names such as Salman Rushdie, Taslima Nasrin and more recently, Wendy Doniger, are known to us as solely in this context. India, despite its claims of being the world’s largest democracy, has...

“Literature is a road map and it’s also a piece of history,” says Jacqueline Woodson as she is honored with the Brooklyn Book Festival’s “Best of Brooklyn” award, presented Saturday by Johnny Temple, chair of the Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council...

This week I finally published my thoughts on War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It was a long time coming, not only did it take me a long time to read the novel, but I went through the effort for writing a synopsis of every "book" within the novel. It is...