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The announcement was made via a statement on 30 January and it was revealed that Soundarya will produce the series under the banner of May 6 Entertainment while her erstwhile assistant Sooriyaprathap will direct the series. The team teased audiences with a teaser on the occasion.

Booker Prize winner Yann Martel spoke of how he came up with the idea of his novel he published in 2001 and which fetched him the Booker Prize the next year, how he chose the characters and how he did research among other things. 

The national award-winning director stressed that he has put equal emphasis on all key characters in the fiction, unlike the 1968 film based on the same novel with matinee idol Uttam Kumar in the lead.

Poetess, novelist, writer Prema Bhat speaks to MyNation on #MeToo, fight for equality, real enemies of Kannada, Sunny Leone, along with her vast experience in the world of stories and books.

Shweta Bachchan-Nanda's debut novel, which talks about everyday lives and is set in a Mumbai apartment, will be launched on the eve of her father's birthday on October 10.

 A division bench led by Chief Justice Dipak Mishra dismissed the petition seeking ban on controversial Malayalam novel Meesha. The court delivered the order pointing out that they cannot interrupt in the writer’s artistic freedom.

Netflix is set to make another Indian series on one of India's highest-grossing franchises Baahubali. It will be an adaptation of The Rise of Sivagami, a prequel novel to the 2015 film. Baahubali: Before the Beginning will have two seasons.