Global media also writes on 'Heart Lamp' by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, which won 2025 International Booker Prize, while William Dalrymple discusses Silk Road in an interview.
Judges praised the ‘intensity of attention to the precious and precarious world’ in the novel, which the author wrote while stuck at home during the pandemic.
Tomb of Sand, an English translation by Daisy Rockwell of writer Geetanjali Shree's Ret Samadhi, became 1st Hindi, & Indian language, work to win International Booker Prize earlier this week.
‘Tomb of Sand’, originally ‘Ret Samadhi’, is set in northern India and follows the journey of an 80-year-old woman. It's the first book in any Indian language to win the prize.
Shukla, who has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Deewar Mein Ek Khidki Rahti Thi, says he got only Rs 1.35 lakh in the past 25 years from Vani Prakashan.
Armani built a multibillion-dollar global brand from something as simple as an unstructured jacket, and broke down the walls between formal and casual.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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