Short profiles

Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 98) is a Japanese director, producer, screenwriter and editor. In a career that spanned 57 years, Kurosawa di...

Kinks was one of the most popular English rock bands. It came to prominence for the first time in 1964. Celluloid Heroes is a well-k...

Dr C. S. Venkiteswaran (b.1959) has been an active presence in Film Society Movement from the mid seventies. He writes on cinema reg...

Resul Pookutty (b.1971), sound designer, editor and mixer was born in Vilakkupara, a village in Kollam district of Kerala. He won t...

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 – 1965) is an American-born English poet, playwright and literary critic, who won the Nobel Prize in 1948....

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930 [1] ) was a Scottish [2] physician and writer, most noted for his stori...

Sujata Bhatt (b.1956), was born in Ahmedabad, grew up in Pune and emigrated to the United States in 1968. She is a freelance writer ...

Octavio Paz (1914–98), Mexican writer, poet and diplomat won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. His essay, The Labyrinth of Soli...

Italo Calvino (1923 - 85) is an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best-known works include the novels I...

Gabriel Okara (b.1921), Nigerian poet and novelist, is a self-educated man. In 1953, his poem The Call of the River Nun won an award at t...

Anita Desai (b.1937), is an Indian novelist and short story writer. She is known for the sensitive portrayal of the inner feelings o...

Nissim Ezekiel (1924 -2004), poet, playwright, editor and art critic, is a prominent figure in post-independent India’s literary h...

R.K. Narayan (1906 -2001), a well-known Indian writer in English, was born in Chennai. Most of his works are set in the fictional to...