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It marks only the second time a work from India has made it to the prestigious shortlist, following Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, which won in 2022.
A 63-year-old lorry driver was arrested by Kannamangalam police on Wednesday for illegal mining of sand at Pudupalayam near Polur town in Tiruvannamalai. Police said the arrested person was ...
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In 2022, Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell won the coveted prize for the first-ever Hindi novel Tomb of Sand, with Perumal Murugan's Tamil novel Pyre, translated into English by ...
Pilgrims flock to pray before Carlo's body in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, the Sanctuary of the Spoliation, where it has been on public display in a glass tomb since 2022. His remains have ...
Khuldabad Name Change Controversy: Maharashtra Social Justice Minister Sanjay Shirsat, who is also the Guardian Minister of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, has said that the name of Khuldabad, where Mughal ...
Banu Mushtaq’s stories centre around the female experience, and often have a lightness that belies their tragic ending. Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp, a collection of 12 short ...
It is the second book from India – after Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand, translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell in 2022 – in the history of the new format of the prize, which gives the ...
This year Lent has brought me, most unexpectedly, into the very tomb of Christ. To see where my wandering prayers had led was jolting — a moment of wonder as I encountered such a small, shadowy place, ...