Voices from the North East (13th – 14th October 2009) | India Habitat Centre Siyahi and India Habitat Centre present a focused literary meet on the stories, tales and folk narratives of the North East India. The verdant seven sister states from the North East of India have a unique indigenous culture where myths, oral traditions, …
Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. presents Pushkar Literature Festival 2009 In association with Siyahi (31st October, 2009) During International Pushkar Fair As a part of the famous Pushkar Fair, RTDC has introduced the Pushkar Literature Festival 2009 in association with Siyahi with an aim of adding new shades of the magical world of words to …
Zubaan Presents Poster Women II Painting Our World: Women’s Messages through Art An exhibition of rural women’s art forms 26th – 28th March 2010 at Surekh Art Gallery Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur Time: 10 am to 7 pm These artworks are collected from different parts of the country and include: Patachitra from West Bengal …
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COMMONWEALTH WRITERS’ PRIZE 2010 7 APRIL – 12 APRIL 2010 NEW DELHI PROGRAMME (Subject to change) Wednesday, 7th April 2010 9.30am – 11.45am ACT TO ALPHABET: THE FANTASTICAL AND THE REAL – Creative Writing Workshop Mari Heese, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, Michael Crummey, Shandi Mitchell, Rana Dasgupta, Daniyal Mueenuddin, and Glenda Guest Venue – Bal Bharati …
COMMONWEALTH WRITERS’ PRIZE 2010 7th – 12th April 2010 PROGRAMME New Delhi, India The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (CWP), London, is one of the world’s major literary prizes. It aims at promoting new voices, rewarding achievement, encouraging wider readership and greater literacy, thereby increasing appreciation of different cultures and building an understanding between them. Each year …
Category: Fiction/ YA Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Kuzerazi, a land where magic is forbidden, a place which carefully guards its secrets. It is this hostile land that holds the key to the artifacts and writings that baffle Marik Yavi, a talented word mage from Koda. When Yavi’s attempts to decipher his grandfather’s legacy throw up …
Category: Fiction Publisher: Niyogi Books A period novel set in World War-II in pre-Independence India, Asia and Europe. It fuses myth, fact and fiction to produce a high-octane and heady cocktail. A patriotic Nazi and an honorable English soldier are joined by a reluctant Indian cricketer in a race to acquire forbidden knowledge which will change the …
Category: Fiction Publisher: Niyogi Books As Maya drove to her parents’ house, she reflected on her meeting with Toni. So, Tulsi had been doing research. This seemed to be a clue. Maybe she had found the story of the widow Thulasi’s murder or Achale’s story in the archives—how easily the names came to mind; it was almost …
Category: Young Adult Publisher (India): Hachette India Publisher (Australia): Allen & Unwin Close to his tenth birthday, Abbas has to leave his parents and friends as well as flee Tehran. If Abbas doesn’t leave soon, he will have to go to war. In the strange and often frightening city of Istanbul, Abbas has to grow up …