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Panchatantra inspires Virgin Comics series
Indo-Asian News Service
Move over Archies, Vishnu Sharma is here. Virgin Comics Wednesday launched in North America a new comic book series inspired by India's ancient Panchatantra fables.
"Panchatantra: The Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma" was launched in comic book stores, a press release said.
"With this series, we continue our mission of looking to India as a source of innovative creativity with a vault of stories that should be brought to the world," said Sharad Devarajan, CEO and co-founder of Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation.
In Virgin's new monthly magazine, a nefarious conglomerate is silencing the mythologies of yesterday. To fight it, the characters from the Panchatantra emerge from their story-world into modern India to recruit the living descendent of the man who originally created them - Vishnu Sharma.
The descendent is a boy in Mumbai, also named Vishnu Sharma.
In Vishnu, they find a teenager fond of ipods, cell phones, video games and modern entertainment - not exactly a champion of ancient stories they were hoping for. And the story takes off from there.(Posted on January 17, 2008)
US harassed Hemingway: Cuban writer
Indo-Asian News Service
A Cuban author has said in a new book that Ernest Hemingway was harassed by US intelligence agents when he turned down Washington's request to criticise Fidel Castro's government, Spanish news agency EFE reported Thursday.
In "Hemingway: That Great Stranger", Enrique Cirules presents the Nobel Prize-winning novelist as a "fierce" pursuer of German submarines in the Old Bahamas Channel, referring to his volunteering as a civilian spotter for the US Navy during World War II.
The author also wrote that Hemingway's house in Cuba, known as Finca Vigia, near Havana, was raided on several occasions prior to the revolution, the news agency quoted the government-run daily Juventud Rebelde as saying.(Posted on January 17, 2008)
Publisher rushing with Bhutto's last book
Indo-Asian News Service
The book Benazir Bhutto had finished writing a week ago is being rushed for publishing by HarperCollins following the Pakistan's former prime minister's assassination Thursday.
The book, titled Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West, is part political treatise and part memoir of the first woman elected prime minister of a Muslim nation.
HarperCollins executive editor Tim Duggan described the book as "Bhutto's vision for how to bridge the political and cultural gap between the Islamic world, which is becoming increasingly radicalised, and the West".
When Duggan signed Bhutto for the book just before she returned to Pakistan in October after years of living in exile, he said prophetically, "Pakistan is an increasingly volatile place, and Bhutto's book is an eye-opening look at the mistakes we've made in the region and what we can do to correct them - as well as what the consequences will be if we don't."
Mark Siegel, a Washington lobbyist who was a friend and consultant of Bhutto, collaborated with her as writer on the book.
HarperCollins has confirmed receiving the finished manuscript of the book and is likely to release the book by February.(Posted on December 30, 2007)
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