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The Himalayan Arc
''The Himalayan Arc: Journeys East of South-east'' is an anthology of fiction and nonfiction edited by Namita Gokhale, with contributions by authors from the region Gokhale has described as "the bend of the Himalayas, the East of South-east, including Nepal, Bhutan, north-east India, and Myanmar." Background This book, with more than thirty authors contributing to it, is an attempt to depict the sense of shared existence and cultural connectivity between the people residing in the Himalayan region. Along with photos, fables, and folk stories, it features articles on topics such as strategy and diplomacy, espionage, and the deep state. List of contributors * Janice Pariat * Salil Tripathi * Ma Thida * Indra Bahadur Rai * Prajwal Parajuly * David Malone (independent filmmaker) * Chetan Raj Shrestha * Kanak Mani Dixit * Sujeev Shakya * Pushpesh Pant * John Elliott (historian) * Amish Raj Mulmi * Thomas Bell * Sushma Joshi * Sanjoy Hazarika * Sudhindra Sharma * Tsering T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Namita Gokhale
Namita Gokhale (born 1956) is an Indian writer, editor, festival director, and publisher. Her debut novel, ''Paro: Dreams of Passion'' was released in 1984, and she has since written fiction and nonfiction, and edited nonfiction collections. She conceptualized and hosted the Doordarshan show ''Kitaabnama: Books and Beyond'' and is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival. She won the 2021 Sahitya Akademi Award. Early life and education Gokhale was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in 1956. She was raised in Nainital by her aunts and her grandmother Shakuntala Pande. She studied English literature Jesus and Mary College at Delhi University, and at age 18 married Rajiv Gokhale and had two daughters while she was a student. She refused to attend a course about the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, and was dismissed from university by age 26. By age forty, she had survived cancer and her husband had died. Career While a student, at age 17, Gokhale began editing and man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sushma Joshi
Sushma Joshi ( ne, सुष्मा जोशी) is a Nepali writer, filmmaker based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her fiction and non-fiction deal with Nepal's civil conflict, as well as stories of globalization, migration and diaspora. ''End of the World'', her book of short stories, was long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award in 2009. "The Prediction", another book of short stories that bring together stories of tradition and modernity, was published in 2013. ''Art Matters,'' a book of essays about contemporary art, was supported by the Alliance Française de Katmandou. Her non-fiction reportage has appeared in ''The Kathmandu Post'', ''The Nation Weekly'', ''Indian Express (USA)'', ''Republica'', and other publications. Career From 1998 to 2000, Joshi worked with the Harvard School of Public Health to implement the Global Reproductive Health Forum, a health and rights program, in South Asia. She traveled to Mumbai, Delhi and Dacca to bring together a br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travel Books
The genre of travel literature encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. One early travel memoirist in Western literature was Pausanias, a Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. In the early modern period, James Boswell's ''Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides'' (1786) helped shape travel memoir as a genre. History Early examples of travel literature include the ''Periplus of the Erythraean Sea'' (generally considered a 1st century CE work; authorship is debated), Pausanias' ''Description of Greece'' in the 2nd century CE, ''Safarnama'' (Book of Travels) by Nasir Khusraw (1003-1077), the '' Journey Through Wales'' (1191) and '' Description of Wales'' (1194) by Gerald of Wales, and the travel journals of Ibn Jubayr (1145–1214), Marco Polo (1254–1354), and Ibn Battuta (1304–1377), all of whom recorded their travels across the known world in detail. As early as the 2nd century CE, Lucian of Samosata discussed history and tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books About Nepal
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outlook (Indian Magazine)
''Outlook'' is a weekly general interest English and Hindi news magazine published in India. History and profile ''Outlook'' was first issued in October 1995 with Vinod Mehta as the editor in chief. It is owned by the Rajan Raheja Group. The publisher is Outlook Publishing (India) Pvt. Ltd. It features contents from politics, sports, cinema, and stories of broad interests. By December 2018, ''Outlook'' magazine's Facebook following had grown to over 12 lakh (1.2 million). Staff Editor *Chinki Sinha Editors-in-chief *Vinod Mehta (1995 - 2012) * Krishna Prasad (2012–2016) *Rajesh Ramachandran (2016-2018) Managing editors *Tarun Tejpal (1995 - March 2000) ''tehelka.com''. Retrieved 31 March 2013 Notable contributors * |
Hindustan Times
''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media, an entity controlled by the KK Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia. It was founded by Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal, in Delhi and played integral roles in the Indian independence movement as a nationalist daily. ''Hindustan Times'' is one of the largest newspapers in India by circulation. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 993,645 copies as of November 2017. The Indian Readership Survey 2014 revealed that ''HT'' is the second-most widely read English newspaper in India after ''The Times of India''. It is popular in North India, with simultaneous editions from New Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi and Chandigarh. The print location of Nagpur was discontinued from September 1997, and that of Jaipur from June 2006. ''HT'' launched a youth daily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdus Salam (editor)
Abdus Salam ( bn, আবদুস সালাম; 2 August 1910 – 13 February 1977) was a newspaper editor of Bangladesh. He edited ''The Pakistan Observer'', which was later renamed ''The Bangladesh Observer'' after the liberation of Bangladesh. Early life Salam was born on 2 August 1910 in South Dharmapur, Chhagalnaiya, Feni. He graduated from Feni High School in 1926 and from Chittagong College in 1928. He completed his BA and MA from Presidency College Calcutta. After a brief period as a Professor of English at Feni College, he served in many government departments during the British and Pakistan period, including Income Tax, Civil Supplies and Audit but left government service in 1949. Career Salam was the editor of ''The Pakistan Observer'' from 1949 to 1972. There was a break in the distribution of the newspaper from 1952 to 1954, when it was banned by the government. Salam wrote an editorial in 1952 comparing the nepotism of one of the early caliphs with that of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hindu
''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the second most circulated English-language newspaper in India, after '' The Times of India''. , ''The Hindu'' is published from 21 locations across 11 states of India. ''The Hindu'' has been a family-owned newspaper since 1905, when it was purchased by S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar from the original founders. It is now jointly owned by Iyengar's descendants, referred to as the "Kasturi family", who serve as the directors of the holding company. The current chairperson of the group is Malini Parthasarathy, a great-granddaughter of Iyengar. Except for a period of about two years, when S. Varadarajan held the editorship of the newspaper, the editorial positions of the paper were always held by members of the family or held under their direction. Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meghna Pant
Meghna Pant is an Indian author, journalist and speaker. She has won a variety of awards for her contribution to literature, gender issues and journalism. In 2012, she won the Muse India National Literary Awards Young Writer Award for her debut novel ''One-and-a-Half Wife''. Her collection of short stories, ''Happy Birthday and Other Stories'' was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Award. Career Pant previously worked as a business news anchor with Times Now, NDTV and Bloomberg-UTV in Mumbai and New York City. She reported from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during the 2008 financial crisis. She quit in 2013 to pursue writing full-time, and returned to India. Her debut novel ''One & a Half Wife'' (Westland, 2012) won the national ''Muse India Young Writer Award'' (2014) and was shortlisted for the ''Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award''. Pant's debut collection of short stories ''Happy Birthday'' (Random House, 2013) was long-listed for the ''Frank O'Connor In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indira Goswami
Indira Goswami (14 November 1942 – 29 November 2011), known by her pen name Mamoni Raisom Goswami and popularly as Mamoni Baideo, was an Indian writer, poet, professor, scholar and editor. She was the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award (1983), the Jnanpith Award (2000) and Principal Prince Claus Laureate (2008). A celebrated writer of contemporary Indian literature, many of her works have been translated into English from her native Assamese which include ''The Moth Eaten Howdah of the Tusker'', '' Pages Stained With Blood'' and ''The Man from Chinnamasta''. She was also well known for her attempts to structure social change, both through her writings and through her role as mediator between the armed militant group United Liberation Front of Asom and the Government of India. Her involvement led to the formation of the People's Consultative Group, a peace committee. She referred to herself as an "observer" of the peace process rather than as a mediator or initiator. Her wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sameer Tanti
Sameer Tanti (born 6 February 1955) is an Assamese language poet from India. He is the 2012 winner of the Assam Valley Literary Award. Biography Sameer Tant was born on 6 February 1955 at Behora, Mikirchang tea estate in the Karbi Anglong district of Assam, India. He studied at Bihora Mikirchang P primary school in Golaghat, higher secondary from Haflong Government College, graduation in English literature from Dergaon college and Master's degree in English from Gauhati University in 1983. He worked as a faculty member at Saraighat College before working as a translator with an English daily newspaper in Guwahati and then as a tourist information officer in the Department of Tourism, Government of Assam. Works Sameer Tanti has written fourteen poetry books, four critical essays, and two translations of African and Japanese books. he has also edited two short story collections. In his works he strives to bridge the growing disparity among different sections of society. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Duff
Andrew Nicholas Duff, OBE (born 25 December 1950) is a British politician who presided over the Union of European Federalists (UEF) from 2008 to 2013. A member of the Liberal Democrats, he served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England from 1999 to 2014. Early life He was educated at Sherborne School and St John's College, Cambridge. Political career He initially stood in the 1984 European Parliament election, finishing third with 22.5% of the vote. In the 1989 election he polled 8% of the vote, coming fourth, then in the 1994 election he came third with 20%. The constituencies were largely representing Cambridgeshire and at times parts of Bedfordshire. With the electoral change to regional party-list proportional representation, he was first elected in the 1999 European Parliament election when the Liberal Democrats won 12% of the regional vote, and retained his seat in the 2004 and 2009 elections when they won 14% of the regional vote. He lost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
