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Dosas, chai, canine friends the reasons for not writing are many

Cultural circles and jurists are outraged by B Jayashree's release of secret audio transcripts to discredit the people who tried to help her settle her spat with actors of repertory company Rangayana

"Dev D" actress Kalki Koechlin says her boyfriend Anurag Kashyap, who has written screenplays and dialogues for memorable films like "Satya" and "Black Friday", thinks she is a better writer than him.

When it comes to his daughter, Bollywood actor-producer Anil Kapoor wants the best. He has roped in award-winning writer Manu Rishi to pen dialogues for Sonam's next film "Ayesha".

For the first time in recent years, no Indian writer figures in the long-list for the 2009 Man Booker prize with noted writer J M Coetzee, who won the prestigious prize in 1983 and 1999, in the running again for his book, 'Summertime'.

The American website Scripped is offering Rs 24,000 for a short screenplay about the global financial crisis

An American writer who failed to find a publisher for his novel is putting the book on Twitter 140 characters at a time.

There have been many bizarre Govinda stories seeing imaginary people, slapping innocent bystanders at shootings, refusing to mouth dialogues because "they will bring me bad luck" and claiming that the underworld is out to get him.

With the title of the first chapter, Man Bites Dog, in Amit Varma's debut novel, My Friend Sancho, one is anesthetised to the novel as a man-at-work project, unclear where it is headed, like the Belgian student filmmakers who made the cult film (Man Bites Dog) which though unwittingly was headed into cine heaven.

Noted Marathi writer, orator and literary figure of Maharashtra, Professor Ram Balkrishna Shewalkar died of a massive cardiac arrest here this morning at his residence.