My lord Who ensures Auspiciousness of beginnings Dispels...
Now, with the Rs 25 lakh JCB Prize for Literature under his belt in Meesha~s English avatar as "Moustache", author S. Hareesh is confident it would be viewed in its proper context and that too by a wider audience that translations reach out to with such works....
Rahat worked hard educating himself right up to PhD on a subject which was to stand him in good stead in subsequent years -- Urdu mushaira. And what a performer he became in mushairas charging up to Rs 10 lakh for an appearance -- quite unprecedented....
I’ve been walking for soo long That I never knew what to run for...
Indian-origin author Avni Doshi's "Burnt Sugar" and two titles from Bloomsbury - "Apeirogon" by Colum McCann and "Such a Fun Age" - by Kiley Reid are among the 13 books in the 50,000 pounds Booker Prize 2020 longlist announced, with jury chair Margaret Busby saying that each of them "carries an impact... deserving of wid...
Stillness took over sadness Loneliness the keyword...
I saw Parashuram Kushal in a village in Guyana. The country was known as British Guyana before its independence. It was a piece of British Empire where the sun did not set. ...
Susan Abulhawa was born to refugees of the Six Day War of 1967, when her family's land was seized and Israel captured what remained of Palestine, including Jerusalem. Now, this Palestinian American writer and activist has come out with a powerful, furious, beautiful book on sex, power, persecution, violation, survival, and resistance....
'Poor Mummy! She is stretching too much. The Lockdown is draining her.' ...
She was begging and very old...
