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Dasgupta wins Commonwealth Writers’ Prize

Manorma Online,13 April 2010   Dasgupta wins Commonwealth Writers’ Prize British-Indian author Rana Dasgupta won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for 2010 for his epic tale “Solo” set in Communist and post-Communist Bulgaria while Australian Glenda Guest’s “Siddon Rock” picked up Best First Book at the award’s grand finale ceremony here. Dasgupta, whose book was earlier

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A writer who farms too

TOI Crest,17 April 2010   A writer who farms too He was bad news for the managers.When Daniyal Mueenuddin,freshly graduated with an English Lit degree from Dartmouth College,landed in a South Punjab farm in 1987 to take over its management,he was acutely ill-equipped for the job.He’d never farmed before,had been living abroad for years and

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