Prabhu Guptara

Prabhu started writing and broadcasting when he was still a student (The Hindustan Times, All India Radio). His work has appeared in publications from Finland in the north to Italy in the south, from Japan in the east to the USA in the west, from Financial Times to The Guardian (London), and from The Hindu to The New York Times. Author of several books, he is included in Debrett’s People of Today and in HighFlyers50 (2022).

Vinod Busjeet, Silent Winds, Dry Seas (New York: Doubleday, 2021), 288 pp

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Author(s): Michael Mitchell Publication date Pub: 22 December 2022 Journal: Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies Publisher: Pluto Journals Though much has been made of the fact that Silent Winds, Dry Seas is the first Anglophone novel from Mauritius to have achieved wide circulation, readers of Caribbean fiction will be struck by an impression of familiarity. The reason is not hard to […]

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Sukrita’s Salt and Pepper: A Paean to the Power of Language and Silence-Review by Girija Sharma

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Salt & Pepper. Selected Poems. Sukrita. Paperwall Publishing. April 2023. 196 pages. The latest anthology of Sukrita’s poems Salt and Pepper traverses the poet’s momentous journey of nearly four decades. The poems bring us to a world not altogether unfamiliar— but a world imbued with a sensibility that is fine, complex and aesthetically profound at

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Ushinor Majumdar’s ‘India’s Secret War’: BSF’s exploits in the run-up to 1971 war

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AUTHOR: Sujan Dutta Professor Ali. Captain Ali. Whatever the name, the man was the same. Parimal Kumar Ghosh. He died in the national capital recently (July 6). He was 84 years old and was ailing. In his death, he has given life to Ushinor Majumdar’s just published book. The life of the book is not

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Photo of Nirad C. Chaudhuri being awarded an honorary Doctorate

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Query:  Does anyone know where there might be a photo of Nirad Chaudhuri receiving an Honorary Doctorate either from the University of Oxford or from the University of Stirling? –  The Archives at the Bodleian Library (University of Oxford) has no such photo.  N.B. They explain that “the University Archives looks after the historic administrative records of

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Award to Nirad C. Chaudhuri of an Honorary D. Litt at Oxford

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Here are two interesting snippets of information, provided by the Bodleian: –  “It should be noted that the degree was not presented at Encaenia (the large ceremony awarding multiple honorary degrees that takes place during the summer), but a smaller celebration. Our records indicate that Chaudhuri was the only person who received an honorary degree

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“Carpenters and Kings” by Siddhartha Sarma; and “The Churches of India” by Joanne Taylor; reviewed by Vivek Menezes

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Siddhartha Sarma’s Carpenters and Kings and Joanne Taylor’s The Churches of India outline an Indian Christian landscape as rooted as any other aspect of subcontinental heritage. Amidst India’s ongoing telescoping of political power into unprecedented dominance for the BJP of Amit Shah and Narendra Modi, some of the most intriguing subplots involve parts of the

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The goddess of go-getting

The Goddess of Go-Getting

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AUTHOR: Rita Kakati-Shah Rita Kakati-Shah navigates the reader through the complexities of diversity, inclusivity and related topics in THE GODDESS OF GO-GETTING, drawing upon her extensive experience in the corporate world and in life. Rita Kakati-Shah navigates the reader through the complexities of diversity, inclusivity, and related topics in THE GODDESS OF GO-GETTING, drawing upon

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