One of the most important literary figures in France, Marguerite Duras won international acclaim after she was awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt for her autobiographical novel L'Amant (translated almost immediately into English as The Lover). Although Duras...

NEW DELHI Can Bollywood cope with a sudden change from its boy-meets-girl-amid-color-song-and-dance formula? The answer is keeping everyone--especially audiences--in suspense. After all but ignoring the suspense and thriller genres for some time, Indian helmers are suddenly scrambling to churn out production after...

Bhubaneshwar, (WFS) - Fifty-seven-year-old Tulasi Munda still has the eyes of a five-year-old who yearned - more than anything else in the world - to go school, but couldn't. It's quite another matter that she received one of India's highest awards, the Padmashree, in...