Penguin India has finally launched its blog. Their second post in the blog is a very nice roundup of the launch of Manohar Shyam Joshi’s T’ta Professor in English where Ira Pande and her cousin Prof. Pushpesh Pant spoke about Mr. Joshi and the book.
Mr. Joshi was a prolific writer and an early pioneer of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘books’
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, India, People, Podcast
By Kamla Bhatt • May 9th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Diaspora, People
Pico Iyer is one of my favorite authors. About a week ago Pico graciously agreed to do an interview after I sent him a note. I had first met Pico about 12 years ago when he released his second book: The Lady and the Monk. For the past week I have been feverishly [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 10th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Books and Authors, Chinidia, Diaspora, India, People, Video
Pico Iyer’s new book: The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and his article in Time magazine about A Monk’s Struggle has created quite a bit of buzz and once again the attention of the world is drawn to the Tibet question and Beijing Olympics. Iyer first met the Dalai Lama [...]