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Crossword Book Award
The Crossword Book Award (formerly known as the Crossword Book Award (1998–2003), the Hutch Crossword Book Award (2004–07), the Vodafone Crossword Book Award (2008–10), the Economist Crossword Book Award (2011–13), Raymond & Crossword Book Award (2014–present)) is an Indian book award hosted by Crossword Bookstores and their sponsors. The Award was instituted in 1998 by Indian book retailer Crossword Bookstores, Crossword with the intention of competing with The Booker Prize, Commonwealth Writers' Prize or The Pulitzer Prize. History and administration According to the website of the Crossword Bookstore, :"While several Indian writers have won awards abroad, we had observed that there was no equivalent award in India. We therefore decided to take on the role of encouraging and promoting good Indian writing and instituted the Book Awards, in 1998. It is the only Indian award that not only recognizes and rewards good writing but also actively promotes the authors and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crossword Bookstores
Crossword Bookstores Ltd. is an Indian List of bookstore chains, chain of bookstores headquartered in Mumbai. As of today, Crossword has stores in Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Goa, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kochi, Kohima, Kolkata, Kanpur, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Mangalore, Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Noida, Kalyan, Nagpur, Nashik, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Siliguri, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Udaipur, and Vadodara. The chain also founded and sponsors the Crossword Book Award. The first bookstore opened on October 15, 1992, in Kemps Corner, Mumbai. In 2005, Crossword became a wholly owned subsidiary of Shopper's Stop Ltd. Crossword has received wide recognition for its achievement. The ''Advertising Age'' magazine named Crossword one of the Marketing Superstars for 1994. ''The Bookseller'' has described it as "being on the cutting edge of retailing" in India. References {{reflist External links Stores [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mandala Of Sherlock Holmes
''The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes'' (published in the United States as ''Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Years'') is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel by Jamyang Norbu, originally published in India in 1999. The novel is an account of Holmes's adventures in India and Tibet where, posing as Norwegian explorer Sigerson, he meets the Dalai Lama and Huree Chunder Mookerjee, a character from Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was born in British Raj, British India, which inspired much ...'s novel '' Kim''. review at bakerstreetdozen.com References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikram Chandra (novelist)
Vikram Chandra (born 23 July 1961) is an Indian-American writer. His first novel, ''Red Earth and Pouring Rain'', won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. Early life Chandra was born in New Delhi in 1961. His father Navin Chandra was a business executive. His mother Kamna Chandra has written several Hindi films and plays. His sister Tanuja Chandra is a filmmaker and screenwriter who has also directed several films. His other sister Anupama Chopra is a film critic. Chandra did his high school education at Mayo College in Ajmer, Rajasthan where he was in Bikaner and Tonk house. He was batch of 1979 in Mayo College. He attended at St. Xavier's College in Mumbai and, as an undergraduate student, transferred to Kenyon College in the United States. Chandra felt isolated at Kenyon so he transferred to Pomona College, Claremont, California, where he graduated with a B.A. ''magna cum laude'' in English. He attended film school at Columbia University, leaving halfw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rahul Bhattacharya
Rahul Bhattacharya (born 1979) is an Indian journalist and novelist. He currently resides in New Delhi. Biography Rahul Bhattacharya was born in Bombay (Mumbai) in India, and lived briefly as a baby in Calcutta. His father was Bengali, though born and raised in the small towns of Uttar Pradesh, in the north, and interior Maharashtra, in the centre. His mother was Gujarati, born and raised in Bombay. From about the age of three until the age of nine he lived in a small town called Secunderabad – "the kind of town where houses might have wells in the backyard and goats at the gate." The family moved back to Bombay in 1988 where Bhattacharya studied in English. He graduated from college with a degree in mathematics, although he admits to have "little recollection of it." Bhattacharya's first book is '' Pundits from Pakistan: On Tour with India, 2003-04'' (2005), a non-fiction work about the Indian cricket team’s tour of Pakistan in the year 2004. While the book is largely about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krishna Sobti
Krishna Sobti (18 February 1925 – 25 January 2019) was an Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for her novel ''Zindaginama'' and in 1996, was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest award of the Akademi. In 2017, she received the Jnanpith Award for her contribution to Indian literature. Sobti is best known for her 1966 novel ''Mitro Marajani'', an unapologetic portrayal of a married woman's sexuality. She was also the recipient of the first Katha Chudamani Award, in 1999, for Lifetime Literary Achievement, apart from winning the Shiromani Award in 1981, Hindi Academy Award in 1982, Shalaka Award of the Hindi Academy Delhi and in 2008, her novel ''Samay Sargam'' was selected for Vyas Samman, instituted by the K. K. Birla Foundation. Considered the ''grande dame'' of Hindi literature, Krishna Sobti was born in Gujrat, Punjab, now in Pakistan; she also wrote under the name ''Hashmat'' and has published Hum Has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombay Lost & Found
Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India with an estimated population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore). Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the seventh-most populous metropolitan area in the world with a population of over 23 million (2.3 crore). Mumbai lies on the Konkan coast on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. In 2008, Mumbai was named an alpha world city. Mumbai has the highest number of billionaires out of any city in Asia. The seven islands that constitute Mumbai were earlier home to communities of Marathi language-speaking Koli people. For centuries, the seven islands of Bombay were under the control of successive indigenous rulers before being ceded to the Portuguese Empire, and subsequently to the East India Company in 1661, as part of the dowry of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
