The Hindu on Books | The NIF Prize shortlist, being Muslim in Hindu India, talking to Tashan Mehta and more
1 year, 4 months ago

The Hindu on Books | The NIF Prize shortlist, being Muslim in Hindu India, talking to Tashan Mehta and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. In reviews, we read an excerpt from Ziya Us Salam’s Being Muslim in Hindu India, Ramanujan’s Soma poems, an anthology celebrating trailblazers of the LGBTQIA+ movement in India, a guide through events and people who have shaped Indian cricket, and more. In their world of binaries, you are either with them or against them.” Recycling myths: an excerpt from Ziya Us Salam’s Being Muslim in Hindu India Soma: Poems by A.K. “The ‘Soma’ poems, while not entirely unselfconscious, do sing to us from a different place than Ramanujan’s other poems.” Not the same Ramanujan | Review of ‘Soma’, edited by Guillermo Rodriguez and Krishna Ramanujan Writer Vikram Seth is one of the 19 individuals celebrated in Over the Rainbow: India’s Queer Heroes by Aditya Tiwari. So, it was really important to open this way –.” ‘My book is a love letter to our wildness’ | Tashan Mehta on her new fantasy novel ‘Mad Sisters of Esi’ Browser

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The Hindu On Books newsletter: Nirmala Lakshman’s ‘The Tamils’; David Walliams at The Hindu’s Lit for Life, 2025 and more
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The Hindu On Books newsletter: Nirmala Lakshman’s ‘The Tamils’; David Walliams at The Hindu’s Lit for Life, 2025 and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. Over two days writers including Abraham Verghese, Shashi Tharoor, Nirmala Lakshman, Venki Ramakrishnan, Jenny Erpenbeck, David Walliams, Francesc Miralles, Peter Frankopan, Romulus Whitaker, Janaki Lenin, Anirudh Kanisetti, Manu S. Pillai, Mukund Padmanabhan, Ira Mukhoty, Aruna Roy, Hussain S. Zaidi, Salil Tripathi will exchange ideas and talk about their books spread …

The Hindu on Books | Remembering Gandhi, countdown to Jaipur Literary Festival and more
1 year, 1 month ago

The Hindu on Books | Remembering Gandhi, countdown to Jaipur Literary Festival and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. Read about the sessions at The Hindu Lit Fest here In books this week, we interview Mary Beard, Professor Emerita of the Classics at Cambridge, and an expert on the Roman world, who will be addressing two sessions at the upcoming Jaipur Literary Festival from February 1-5, and Booker winner …

The Hindu on Books | Countdown to The Hindu Lit Fest 2024 with a preview and more
1 year, 2 months ago

The Hindu on Books | Countdown to The Hindu Lit Fest 2024 with a preview and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. “The Hindu Lit Fest ensures that it actively makes room for an experience that both fosters and champions, above all, ‘free speech, the highest ideals of democracy, and a pluralism of expression in the arts and literature’. It has shaped my vocation as a historian, my life as a social …

The Hindu on Books | Best fiction and non-fiction reads of 2023
1 year, 2 months ago

The Hindu on Books | Best fiction and non-fiction reads of 2023

The Hindu  

The world is in turmoil politically and socially, with wars being waged on two fronts. Joya Chatterji’s Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century tells the “turbulent, rich and compelling” history of the region and how it informs the present. In the Introduction, she writes that unlike many other histories of the subcontinent that concentrate solely on politics, people …

The Hindu on Books | The NIF Book Prize longlist, Patrick Olivelle’s Ashoka, Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories and more
1 year, 4 months ago

The Hindu on Books | The NIF Book Prize longlist, Patrick Olivelle’s Ashoka, Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. On the longlist are Sudeep Chakravarti’s The Eastern Gate: War and Peace in Nagaland, Manipur and the Far East, Achyut Chetan’s Founding Mothers of the Indian Republic, Rotem Geva’s Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation-Building in India’s Capital, Insurgency and the Artist by Vinay Lal, Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the …

The Hindu on Books | The Literature Nobel Prize buzz, Gandhi’s Salt March, International Translation Day and more
1 year, 5 months ago

The Hindu on Books | The Literature Nobel Prize buzz, Gandhi’s Salt March, International Translation Day and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The prize, to be announced on Thursday, has had its share of controversies, and lots of misses – famously, Leo Tolstoy did not win the Prize despite the fact that he was very much around and his great books which are relevant to this day including War and Peace and …

The Hindu on Books | ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ writer pulls Russia book; India after 2014; talking to Zac O’Yeah and more
1 year, 9 months ago

The Hindu on Books | ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ writer pulls Russia book; India after 2014; talking to Zac O’Yeah and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. At a time when books are being banned all across the world, PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel hoped Gilbert would reconsider her decision, putting out a statement which said the author’s choice was “regrettable.” Nossel said that though “Ukrainians have suffered immeasurably, and Gilbert’s decision in the face of online …

The Hindu on Books | Ambedkar biographies, Mughals in books, talking to Karan Thapar, Jeyamohan’s world view and more
1 year, 11 months ago

The Hindu on Books | Ambedkar biographies, Mughals in books, talking to Karan Thapar, Jeyamohan’s world view and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. I spoke about such gaps to a few friends, and they suggested I should write about it.” Aakash Singh Rathore’s biography of Ambedkar aims to bring readers closer to Ambedkar’s experiences and personality, “to his life and times.” Syed Sayeed, a retired professor of philosophy, has written a new book, …

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022 shortlist announced
2 years, 4 months ago

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Live Mint  

The New India Foundation has just announced the shortlist for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize. “This year's Shortlist is extraordinary, in terms of the wide range of themes covered, and the diversity of topics and perspectives," said a statement from the jury, chaired by political scientist and author Niraja Gopal Jayal also includes entrepreneur Manish Sabharwal, historian and author …

The Hindu on Books | Countdown to the Literature Nobel, an Ambedkar biography and more
2 years, 5 months ago

The Hindu on Books | Countdown to the Literature Nobel, an Ambedkar biography and more

The Hindu  

This article forms a part of The Hindu on Books newsletter which brings you book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. The Prize will be announced this Thursday, and we will bring you a profile of the winner in the next edition; last year it went to Tanzanian-British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah for “his compassionate penetration of the effects …

NIF announces Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2021 longlist
3 years, 6 months ago

NIF announces Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2021 longlist

Firstpost  

The shortlist of six titles will be announced in the last week of October. The New India Foundation announces the longlist for the fourth edition of the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, recognizing and celebrating excellence in non-fiction writings on modern and contemporary India. The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize celebrates high-quality non-fiction literature published in the previous calendar year …

Ramachandra Guha: ‘Each one of us has rejected close friends’ for the NIF
4 years, 8 months ago

Ramachandra Guha: ‘Each one of us has rejected close friends’ for the NIF

Live Mint  

In the 2000s, when historian Ramachandra Guha was working on his book India After Gandhi, he was struck by the paucity of literature on India since 1947. It would include a handsome stipend to enable a writer with a compelling idea to take time off for up to a year to work on a book on any aspect of post-1947 …

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