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No trash in last two years.
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No trash in last two years.

A young woman on a mission, making Earth cleaner, environment green. Lauren Singer, has not made any trash in the last two years, yes you heard it –no trash whatsoever. Her blog Trash is for Tossers chronicles her journe...

Interview with Amish Tripathi , Part 3
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Interview with Amish Tripathi , Part 3

After writing three books, has the writing taken on a new role, has it become a more creative thing for you or are you still focused solely on the philosophy? For me my stories have a core philosophy, the story is only t...

Interview with Amish Tripathi , Part 2

Interview with Amish Tripathi , Part 2

Part 2: The Publishing Journey By Sonali Dev* Let’s talk about your publishing journey, once you had this first book written, how did you go about trying to publish it? My agent and I sent it to a lot of publishers. It w...

Interview with Amish Tripathi , Part 1
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Interview with Amish Tripathi , Part 1

A Philosopher Writes (By%20Sonali%20Dev) As someone who writes urban Indian love stories, I had no idea what to expect when I read The Immortals of Meluha. Amazingly enough, this utterly unique retelling of the legend of...

Seven Rules to a Happily Ever After
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Seven Rules to a Happily Ever After

Living in the Midwest, there are just too many reasons to be glad to get past the February bump. I usually enter March pirouetting around the yard chasing birds and plucking flowers, at least in my head, and tearing pink...

Mira Nair's New Film Is Based On The Book
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Mira Nair's New Film Is Based On The Book

Books that are made into films end up fascinating readers and film enthusiasts alike. For the readers, it is a matter of finding out whether the key characters live up to their own visualisation of the roles and the intr...

Celebrity endorsement 'alters brain activity'
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Celebrity endorsement 'alters brain activity'

Seeing a celebrity endorse a pair of shoes alters a woman's brain activity - even if she does not drop everything to get her feet into the latest Jimmy Choos, a study suggests. A Dutch team scanned the brains of 24 women...

Summer Writing Program in Naperville
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Summer Writing Program in Naperville

The Summer Writing Program will end on July 26. There has been a lot of queries for providing the lessons all year along . We are still thinking about it ..... Please keep emailing and calling us -we might actually start...

Salman Rushdie on Censorship
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Salman Rushdie on Censorship

Salman Rushdie, who has more personal experience with the consequences of censorship than almost any living writer — his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses prompted a fatwa calling for his death, forced him into hiding for ne...