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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize longlist picks 12 power-packed titles The covers of the books in the longlist of the prize.Premium 1 min read Share Via Read Full Story The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, instituted by the New India Foundation (NIF) in 2018, for the best book-length work of non-fiction about India announced its longlist of 12 titles for the 2020 prize. The announcement was made online on Wednesday by writer and historian Ramachandra Guha, one of the members of the jury. A shortlist of 6 will be announced on 16 November. From a biography of V.D. Sarvarkar to an investigative book on the pharma industry, the books cover a wide and eclectic ground. Written by scholars, journalists and activists, the titles were picked by the jury, consisting of Niraja Jayal Gopal, Ramachandra Guha, Srinath Raghavan, Nayanjot Lahiri, Nandan Nilekani and Manish Sabharwal. ....
UPDATED: January 9, 2021 07:15 IST Who is an Indian? That question, which was at the heart of the anti-CAA protests, also animates a crop of recently published biographies. Threaded through these life stories are debates about who counts and who does not and if the idea of India is inclusionary or exclusionary. It is appropriate to start with the Mughals. Ira Mukhoty’s Akbar provides a wide-ranging account of an emperor who was likely illiterate and dyslexic. Nevertheless, Akbar was shrewd enough to accommodate India’s diversity through the idea of sulh-i kul (universal peace). Supriya Gandhi’s The Emperor Who Never Was responds to that fiercely debated hypothetical: what if a supposedly-tolerant Dara Shukoh had become padshah instead of Aurangzeb? Gandhi rubbishes hackneyed portrayals of the prince as a liberal who could have averted communal bloodshed of the modern era. ....
December 24, 2020 Professor at UC Santa Barbara Amit Ahuja wins Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2020 for his book ‘Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties Without Ethnic Movements’.Photo: Courtesy – UC Santa Barbara Political Science Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara Amit Ahuja, was awarded the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2020 for his book on Dalit representation in India, ‘Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties Without Ethnic Movements’, New India Foundation (NIF) announced on Dec. 10. The jury of the award for this year announced two winners. Jairam Ramesh, Member of Parliament representing Karnataka state is the co-winner for his book, ‘A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V.K. Krishna Menon’. ....
Jairam Ramesh’s new book to uncover story of ‘The Light of Asia’ poem Ramesh was recently declared winner of the 2020 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize for A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of VK Krishna Menon . By: PTI | New Delhi | December 16, 2020 5:45:56 pm The book, titled The Light of Asia: The Poem that Defined the Buddha , will be published under Penguin s Viking imprint in May next year. Former Union minister Jairam Ramesh’s new book will uncover and narrate the story of phenomenal poem The Light of Asia that has shaped people’s thinking of the Buddha and his teachings, announced publishing house Penguin on Wednesday. ....
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