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Shakti Bhatt Prize
The Shakti Bhatt Prize is a literary award established in 2007 in memory of Indian publisher, Shakti Bhatt. Between 2008 and 2019, it was awarded for first books published in India by an author of any age in the genres of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and drama. From 2020 onward, the Prize has been awarded in recognition of a writer's body of work, instead of a first book. Establishment The Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize was established by an eponymous foundation in memory of Shakti Bhatt, an Indian publisher. Bhatt, the editor of Indian publishing house, Bracket Books, died following an illness in 2007. The Shakti Bhatt Foundation was established in her memory by her husband, Indian poet Jeet Thayil, along other friends and family; the foundation funds and manages the award. The prize was first awarded in 2008 to Mohammad Hanif for his novel, ''A Case of Exploding Mangoes''. In 2020, the new Shakti Bhatt Prize was awarded to incarcerated scholars and writers Anand Tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Indian Express
''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932. It is published in Mumbai by the Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split between the family members. The southern editions took the name ''The New Indian Express'', while the northern editions, based in Mumbai, retained the original ''Indian Express'' name with ''"The"'' prefixed to the title. History In 1932, the ''Indian Express'' was started by an Ayurvedic doctor, P. Varadarajulu Naidu, at Chennai, being published by his "Tamil Nadu" press. Soon under financial difficulties, he sold the newspaper to Swaminathan Sadanand, the founder of ''The Free Press Journal'', a national news agency. In 1933, the ''Indian Express'' opened its second office in Madurai, launching the Tamil edition, '' Dinamani''. Sadanand introduced several innovations and reduced the price of the newspaper. Faced with financial difficultie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Daughter's Memoir
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatima Bhutto
Fatima Bhutto ( ur, ; , born 29 May 1982) is a Pakistani writer and columnist. Born in Kabul, she is the daughter of politician Murtaza Bhutto, sister of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr, niece of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and granddaughter of former Prime Minister and President of Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. She was raised in Syria and Karachi, and received her bachelor's degree from Barnard College, followed by a master's degree from the SOAS University of London. Bhutto is a critic of her aunt Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari, whom she accused of being involved in her father's murder. Her non-fiction book, ''Songs Of Blood And Sword'' (2010), is about her family. Bhutto has written for ''The News'' and ''The Guardian'' among other publications. Early life and education Bhutto was born on 29 May 1982 to Murtaza Bhutto and an Afghan mother, Fauzia Fasihudin Bhutto, the daughter of Afghanistan's former foreign affairs official in Kabul. Her father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruchir Joshi
Ruchir Joshi is an Indian writer, a filmmaker and a columnist for ''The Telegraph'', ''India Today'' as well as other publications. He is best known for his debut novel titled ''The Last Jet-Engine Laugh'' (2001). He is also the editor of India's first anthology of contemporary erotica ''Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories'', published by Tranquebar Press/Westland. He has two sons, aged sixteen and twelve. Life Ruchir Joshi is the son of writer and dramatist Shivkumar Joshi. Born in 1960, he was brought up in Kolkata. He was educated at Mayo College, Ajmer. He went to the United States of America in 1979, to study in an undergraduate college in Vermont. He moved to New Delhi in 1997 and stayed there till 2007. Since then he has been shuttling between London and Delhi. Work Apart from writing regular columns in newspapers and magazines, Joshi made a film on Bauls in 1992. It is called ''Egaro Mile (Eleven Miles)''. Early in his life, when he was just out of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalpana Swaminathan
Kalpana Swaminathan (born 1956) is an Indian writer from Mumbai. She also writes with Ishrat Syed as Kalpish Ratna. Swaminathan and Syed are both surgeons. Swaminathan won the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Fiction) for ''Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit''. Bibliography *1993: ''The True Adventures of Prince Teentang'' *1994: ''Dattatray's Dinosaur and Other Stories'' *1997: ''Cryptic Death'' *2000: ''Ordinary Mr Pai Two Urban Fairy Tales'' *2002: ''The Weekday Sisters'' *2002: ''Gavial Avial'' *2003: ''Ambrosia for Afters'' *2003: ''Jaldi's Friends'' *2006: ''The Page Three Murders'' *2006: ''Bougainvillea House'' *2007: ''The Gardener's Song'' *2009: ''Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit'' *2010: ''The Monochrome Madonna'' '' |
Mahesh Dattani
Mahesh Dattani (born 7 August 1958) is an Indian director, actor, playwright and writer. He wrote such plays as ''Final Solutions'', ''Dance Like a Man'', ''Bravely Fought the Queen'', ''On a Muggy Night in Mumbai'', ''Tara'', ''Thirty Days in September'' and ''The Big Fat City''. He is the first playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award. His plays have been directed by eminent directors like Arvind Gaur, Alyque Padamsee and Lillete Dubey. Early life and background Mahesh Dattani was born in Bangalore to Gujarati parents. He went to Baldwin Boys High School and then went on to join St. Joseph's College, Bangalore. Dattani is a graduate in History, Economics and Political Science. He completed his post-graduate in Marketing and Advertising Management because he wanted to become a copywriter. He worked with the Bangalore Little Theatre, where his first role was in Utpal Dutt's ''Surya Shikhar''. After reading Edward Albee's play ''Who's Afraid of Virginia W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mridula Koshy
Mridula Susan Koshy (born 1969) is an Indian writer and free library movement activist. She lives in New Delhi with her three children. Professional life Koshy was born in New Delhi and migrated to the US in the 1984, at the age of 14. She has worked as a trade union organiser and community organiser, parent and writer. She returned to India in 2004 and currently works as a librarian and community organiser witThe Community Library Project, which runs four free community libraries, which together serve over 4000 members in Delhi NCR. Her writing about the free library movement can be read in Caravan Magazine, on the blog of TCLP, All About Book Publishing, Scroll, Yahoo News, and Goethe Institut India's website. Her collection of short stories, ''If It Is Sweet'' won the 2009 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award. Her first novel, ''Not Only the Things That Have Happened'' (Harper Collins, 2012) was shortlisted for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anuradha Roy (novelist)
Anuradha Roy is an Indian novelist, journalist and editor. She has written five novels: ''An Atlas of Impossible Longing'' (2008), ''The Folded Earth'' (2011), ''Sleeping on Jupiter'' (2015), ''All the Lives We Never Lived'' (2018), and ''The Earthspinner'' (2021). Biography Roy and her husband, publisher Rukun Advani, live in Ranikhet. Career Writing Roy's first novel, ''An Atlas of Impossible Longing'', was picked up for publication after she shared initial pages with writer and publisher Christopher MacLehose, and has been translated into eighteen languages. It was named by ''World Literature Today'' as one of the "60 Essential English Language Works of Modern Indian Literature". ''Sleeping on Jupiter'', her third novel, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her fourth novel, ''All the Lives We Never Lived'', won the Tata Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2018. It was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimlu Sen
Mimlu Sen (born 1949) is an Indian author, translator, musician, composer and producer. She published her first book ''Baulsphere'' in 2009, and the following year it was published as ''The Honey Gatherers''. Piers Moore Ede stated that ''The Honey Gatherers'' recounts Sen's adventures in rural Bengal. As the life partner of Bengali baul musician Paban Das Baul, Sen collaborates with Paban on all his recordings, performing with and managing his group on their concert tours around the world. In 2002 she collaborates in a Bengali language, Bengali song album titled ''Le Chant Des Bauls - Manuche O Rautan'' with Paban Das Baul, Gour Khyapa and Nimai Goswami which was released by Brussels based Belgium, Belgian record company Fonti Musicali. Early life Sen was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. During the 1960s and 1970s she studied in Kolkata and participated in street protests demanding an end to the Vietnam War. She was jailed for the Naxalite movement. Bibliography * * Dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parismita Singh
Parismita Singh (born 1979/1980) is an Indian author, illustrator, graphic novelist, and educator. She is a founding member of the Pao Collective, and her work includes ''The Hotel at the End of the World'', which was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and is one of the first graphic novels published in India. She is also the author and illustrator of the short story collection '' Peace Has Come''. Early life and education Singh was born in Assam and raised in the town of Biswanath Chariali, about six hours away from Guwahati in Assam, India. Her grandmother, Durgamoni Saikia, would tell traditional folk tales, but adapted to include family members and historical events. Singh cites ''Maus'' as her inspiration for becoming a graphic novelist. Singh attended St. Stephen's College in Delhi. Career After publishing visual narratives in ''Tehelka'' and ''Little Magazine'', Singh published her first graphic novel, ''The Hotel at the End of the World'', in 2009, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arshia Sattar
Arshia Sattar (born 1960) is an Indian translator and writer. Sattar obtained her PhD in South Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 1990. Her doctoral advisor was Wendy Doniger, a renowned Indologist. Her abridged translations of the epic Sanskrit texts, ''Kathasaritsagara'' and Valmiki's ''Ramayana'' have both been published by Penguin Books. Her book reviews and articles appear regularly in ''The Times of India,'' ''The Illustrated Weekly of India'' and the ''Indian Review of Books.'' She has also worked with documentary film and theatre. Most recently, she taught Indian Studies at the Mahindra United World College of India in Pune for five years. She currently works as a freelance writer and researcher. She was previously the programming director at OpenSpace, an NGO committed to promoting awareness of issues such as globalization. She has also been a visiting lecturer at Middlebury College, teaching courses on Indian cinema and cultural politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
