On May Day, a bookstore in Delhi's Shadipur celebrated its 13th anniversary by hosting a wide array of performers and speakers and by offering special discounts on select volumes.
The week-long celebration, Pardon My French!, kicked off on 20 September with a book launch that included a quick tour of the featured titles and engaging conversations.
These categories encompass fiction in English and Hindi, translations from various Indian languages, as well as books for young adults and children in bilingual formats.
Valley of Words will observe the reading month starting today in honour of 'father of Kerala's library movement'. Its shortlist will offer 'connection to India's diverse, rich heritage'.
In ‘Here and Hereafter,’ Vineet Gill writes that Verma spoke against applying European secularism in India. It only helped religion make ‘back-door entry’ into politics.
Ernaux, 82, won the prize 'for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory', the award-giving body said.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
1. Many people decided to move abroad for better opportunities. Institutions in First World countries speak of liberalism but will not share their educational resources. Currency conversion rates do not help either.
2. British people did discriminate, both in terms of caste and religion. It was less than what Indians did, that’s all.
3. The education they propounded was for (their) ease, for administration. Check Macaulay’s Minutes (1835) if in doubt.
4. The Nobel Prize Committee is handled by Norwegian and Swedish organizations. I highly doubt the committe will take the time and effort to read and apprecaite Indian languages and literature.
P.S. the Gitanjali (special edition) is available online.
I have written extensively on pedagogy and education including my TH-RAMP initiative. Indian states
must also develop their own education systems as it will give them a competitive edge. This is what India must
focus on – We also need human resource-driven economic models. Read my work by typing my name in Google search.
Sujay Rao Mandavilli
The respected author is partly correct. Noble Prize particularly for peace and literature is used as weapon by western elites in influence public opinion in the world , particularly in the global south. The author himself gives the name of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He was used as a tool to discredit Soviet Union, not because he was a great writer. Just after the collapse of Soviet Union, he was so much insulted that he had to go back to Putin’s Russia , which is not so popular in the West today. Nobel prize for Literature or Peace cannot be the taken seriously in today’s world to qualify some one great or the writing is great.
The Nobel Prize in Literature is useless; we need the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry and the Fields Medal. The winners should be Indian-born, educated, and working in India.
1. Many people decided to move abroad for better opportunities. Institutions in First World countries speak of liberalism but will not share their educational resources. Currency conversion rates do not help either.
2. British people did discriminate, both in terms of caste and religion. It was less than what Indians did, that’s all.
3. The education they propounded was for (their) ease, for administration. Check Macaulay’s Minutes (1835) if in doubt.
4. The Nobel Prize Committee is handled by Norwegian and Swedish organizations. I highly doubt the committe will take the time and effort to read and apprecaite Indian languages and literature.
P.S. the Gitanjali (special edition) is available online.
I have written extensively on pedagogy and education including my TH-RAMP initiative. Indian states
must also develop their own education systems as it will give them a competitive edge. This is what India must
focus on – We also need human resource-driven economic models. Read my work by typing my name in Google search.
Sujay Rao Mandavilli
The respected author is partly correct. Noble Prize particularly for peace and literature is used as weapon by western elites in influence public opinion in the world , particularly in the global south. The author himself gives the name of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He was used as a tool to discredit Soviet Union, not because he was a great writer. Just after the collapse of Soviet Union, he was so much insulted that he had to go back to Putin’s Russia , which is not so popular in the West today. Nobel prize for Literature or Peace cannot be the taken seriously in today’s world to qualify some one great or the writing is great.
The Nobel Prize in Literature is useless; we need the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry and the Fields Medal. The winners should be Indian-born, educated, and working in India.