Rohinton Mistry

Faculty members at the University of Mumbai have claimed that senior administrative officials were forcing teachers of the English department to submit a letter, supporting the vice-chancellor`s decision to pull out rohinton mistry`s book from the syllabus.

A graceful writer of the modern era, rohinton mistry is considered to be one of the foremost authors of Indian heritage writing in English.

We spotted actress Moon Banerrjee the other day with a couple of friends chatting away.

rohinton mistry to get lifetime achievement award at Times Litfest

LONDON: For the third time, rohinton mistry has arrived on Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize shortlist, but the judges fatwa on "pompous fiction" might stop him from winning yet again.

The Congress has refused to share Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan's views on rohinton mistry's book "Such A Long Journey", and called for tolerance as enshrined in the Constitution.

It was the thin voice of a young girl that eventually collapsed rohinton mistry’s guard as she enquired about the authors who’d shaped him as a child.

Chief minister Ashokrao Chavan on Tuesday justified the Mumbai University's decision to withdraw rohinton mistry's novel 'Such a Long Journey' on the grounds that it contained "very bad language".

Rajan Welukar, vice-chancellor of the University of Mumbai, called on both governor K Sankaranarayanan and chief minister Ashokrao Chavan, on Friday, to discuss the varsity's decision to withdraw rohinton mistry's 'Such A Long Journey' from the SYBA English literature syllabus.

LONDON: Canada-based Indian writer rohinton mistry, who has featured twice before on Man Booker Prize shortlist, has slipped further down on the Booker longlist, the prize organisers have said.

We still don’t know how to make him talk but if you want to hear rohinton mistry sing, give him a lifetime achievement award.

After several days of heated public debate and indignation over the withdrawal of rohinton mistry's book, Such A Long Journey, from the Mumbai University syllabus at the behest of the Shiv Sena, the subject of the controversy himself has broken his silence.

The University of Mumbai has dropped the Booker nominated novel by rohinton mistry, 'Such a Long Journey', from its BA syllabus following objections by Shiv Sena students' wing.

While the controversy over rohinton mistry's first novel, 'Such a Long Journey', continues to rage in literary, academic and political circles, very few have read, or know much about, the book itself.

HBO is developing an OTT adaptation of Indian Canadian writer rohinton mistry's 1996 Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, 'A Fine Balance', with Ritesh Batra, director of the much-acclaimed Irrfan Khan-starrer, 'The Lunchbox', helming the project.

The unceremonious removal of rohinton mistry's Such a Long Journey from the English syllabus of Mumbai University, has left the faculty members of the varsity incensed and they have now decided to protest against the vice-chancellor's move.

Citing security concerns and not religious ones, the Shiv Sena has called for a ban on the burqa in Maharashtra.

The last time a lifetime achievement awardee sang at Bandra’s Mehboob Studios, book lovers’ jaws dropped.

Members of the University of Mumbai Academic Staff Association (UMASA) are protesting the manner in which rohinton mistry's 'Such A Long Journey' was dropped from the second-year BA syllabus.

They were the Gulabi Gang, a bunch of spitfire women dressed in pink saris who challenged corrupt policemen and thrashed abusive husbands in the hinterland of southern Uttar Pradesh and became global news.

I arrived in Delhi on January 22nd at the invitation of the distributors of the film of my novel Midnight's Children.

The Congress refused to share Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan's views on rohinton mistry's book 'Such a Long Journey', saying tolerance as enshrined in the Constitution.

Uddhav Thackeray may soon begin to re-arrange the Shiv Sena’s priorities in the post-Balasaheb era in an attempt to get a firm grip over the party, say political observers.

NEW YORK: Wipro Chairman Azim Premji complained that he faced racial profiling every time he went to a US airport, but said he does not find himself discriminated against in India. rohinton mistry ends US tour over racial profiling

The Mumbai-born Canadian novelist rohinton mistry received the Lifetime Achievement award at the Times Litfest last December.

Will it be Japanese author Haruki Murakami, Philip Roth, or rohinton mistry who will bag this year's Nobel prize for literature? Or perhaps, another confounding name, which will come up unexpectedly this Thursday from Stockholm.

Shiv Sena's annual Dussehra rally on Sunday saw a rare public appearance by 83-year-old party chief Bal Thackeray and the entry of his 20-year-old grandson Aditya Thackeray into politics.

NEW DELHI: Midnight's Children have now become the millennium voices. A six day festival ‘At Home in the World', organised by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations in close collaboration with The Times of India Group, proposes to celebrate the coming of age of Indian literature which has been increasingly winning international acclaim.