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Category: Books
Mohammed Rafi: A willingness to submit his soul to music
By Mayank Chhaya- If India sang only in two voices, they would be Mohammed Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar’s. While Mangeshkar has become one of the most celebrated symbols of the Indian nationhood, Rafi remains somewhat eclipsed notwithstanding his preternatural talent as a playback singer. That may have something to do with his death at the […]
Indians constitute the largest number of Einstein’s social media fans
By Mayank Chhaya- Indians constitute the largest number of admirers of Albert Einstein on social media, says the official manager of the social media accounts of the physicist who emblematized the idea of genius. Benyamin Cohen, an award-winning writer and journalist whose latest book ‘The Einstein Effect’ will be released on July 18, says, “Sometimes […]
Dalai Lama: A momentous birth amid rainbows and thunderstorms 88 years ago
By Mayank Chhaya- July 6 marks the 88th birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama. The following are excerpts from an authorized biography of his written by Mayank Chhaya. It was first published in 2007 in the U.S. by Doubleday and then in close to 25 languages worldwide. Thick and dark clouds swirled around Mount Kyeri […]
Owl & Penguin, a children’s book authored by Vikram Madan, wins Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor
The American Library Association (ALA) has selected Owl & Penguin, written and illustrated by an Indian American, Vikram Madan, as Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor Book. The association has selected the book for another honor – naming it to their 2023 Notable Children’s Booklist.
2023 PEN/Nabakov award for eminent Hindi poet and writer Vinod Kumar Shukla
PEN America has announced recipients of two “monumental career achievement honors”, one of whom is the much-celebrated Hindi short story writer, novelist, poet, and essayist Vinod Kumar Shukla.
Lucknow’s 153-yr-old library digitized
Lucknow’s 153-year-old Amir-ud-Daula library has been fully digitalized.
More than 80,000 digitized books and 27,000 e-magazines are now available free on the library’s website and the content is also available on a mobile app Lucknow Digital Library.
‘Exposing flaws in US family law was cathartic, brought sense of relief’
To be an author was never in the pipeline until she went through a custodial family law situation for her son, says San Francisco-based entrepreneur Sheetal Ohri, adding: “It was more of an Indian citizen vs US citizen issue in the US courts.”
Salman Rushdie returns, vibrating with literary energy
Nearly six months after he was brutally stabbed in the neck and torso at an event in New York in August last year, Salman Rushdie returns to the literary firmament with a sanguinely praised novel of magic realism ‘Victory City’.
California’s Pioneering Punjabis: An American Story
In her comprehensive work, California’s Pioneering Punjabis: An American Story (The History Press), author Lea Terhune presents the heroic odyssey of the pioneer Punjabis who arrived in California during the closing years of the19th century and through the length of the 20th century, lacing the narrative with historic never-before-seen photographs.