Salman Rushdie, Chigozie Obioma and Lucy Ellmann were among the authors in the Booker Prize shortlist who lost out to Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo.
Austrian novelist Peter Handke, who awarded this year's literature Nobel, has been controversial for his support of Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milošević.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
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.
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