For the fifth edition of the prize, the shortlist will be announced on November 8, and the winner on December 1.
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Ballakrishnen’s nuanced study of feminism ( Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite/Princeton University Press) Partha Chatterjee’s The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak (Permanent Black) Yashodhara Dalmia’s biography of Raza ( Syed Haider Raza: The Journey of an Iconic Artist/HarperCollins) and Subrata Mitra’s Governance by Stealth: The Ministry of Home Affairs and the Making of the Indian State (Oxford University Press) complete the list.
tells the story of India through numbers in Whole Numbers and Half Truths (Context/Westland) Mircea Raianu profiles the long journey of the Tatas in Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism (Harvard University Press) Suchetra Vijayan travels up and down the country’s borders to explore what maps and lines mean to people hastily divided in 1947 in Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India (Context/Westland) Usha Thakker looks back in time to write about a unique pre-independence project, Congress Radio: Usha Mehta and the Underground Radio Station of 1942 (Penguin).
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In the 75 th year of independence, the diverse titles take on the past, present and future of India. For instance, in Born a Muslim: Some Truths about Islam in India (Aleph), Ghazala Wahab examines the backwardness of the community, attributing it to both internal (excessive reliance on dogma) and external factors. With examples from her own life, she shows how an indifferent and sometimes hostile government plus social prejudice have left the Muslim vulnerable and insecure. With climate change a critical issue, Shekhar Pathak’s The Chipko Movement: A People’s History (Permanent Black) profiles the people who contributed to the extraordinary Chipko movement and why the battle to protect forests and mountains is far from over Rukmini S. In other news, 10 books covering a wide range of themes from governance, state of Muslims in India today, border politics to nationalism, what the numbers tell about a country like India, a biography of the house of Tatas and the Chipko movement are on the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022 longlist. The Prize will be announced this Thursday (October 6), and we will bring you a profile of the winner in the next edition last year it went to Tanzanian-British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah for “his compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism.” The Literature Prize has had its own share of controversy – and surprises - after American singer/song-writer Bob Dylan was conferred the prize in 2016 and the Austrian writer Peter Handke in 2019, despite his open support of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic whose regime was deemed responsible for atrocities in the Balkan war. The countdown to the Nobel Prize for Literature 2022 has begun with several names including Salman Rushdie, who was viciously attacked in New York at a book event recently, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, Iranian novelist Shahrnush Parsipur, Nigeria’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the contenders’ list. Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter.
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