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Santha Rama Rau: The prolific wordsmith who wrote for the 'New Yorker' and was wooed by a mafia don


Santha Rama Rau: The prolific wordsmith who wrote for the ‘New Yorker’ and was wooed by a mafia don
In her peripatetic life, the accomplished writer got many opportunities to observe major events and changemakers from up close.
Courtesy: The Nikhil and Dottie Wagle Family Collection.
When she was six years old, Santha Rama Rau left India for the first time. Her father, Benegal Rama Rau, a civil servant, moved to England as the first Round Table Conference to discuss constitutional reforms in India got underway in 1930. For her, it was the beginning of a lifetime of travel, during which she wrote books and journalistic articles, had a ringside view of global events and met the changemakers of the time. Rau once told a newspaper that she lived in three-year cycles, spending “a year in New York, a city I adore, a year in India, and a year travelling”. ....

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Kalinga Literary Festival: Online celebration of writers & philosophers


Kalinga Literary Festival: Online celebration of writers & philosophers
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New Delhi, March 14 : Amid the majestic weather of Bhubaneswar, the opulence of mystic Kalinga Festival 2020 (the annual flagship event of Kalinga Literary Festival) came to an end with Smita Bellur s sufi melody, legend of Bhima Bhoi, celebration of Odissi with veteran dancer Aruna Mohanty, poetic verses of Bulleh Shah, Kabir with Harpreet, and with a promise to bring the wave with the festival to literature lovers in August.
But as the story had another chapter to tell, the outbreak of novel coronavirus brought a sudden nationwide lockdown and shutdown. While the severity and uncertainty were at peak, team Kalinga Literary Festival introduced KLF Bhava Samvad, an online literary platform. However, ....

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Tata Steel literary meets cancelled in view of Covid-19


Tata Steel has decided to cancel its 2021 edition Tata Steel Bhubaneswar and Tata Steel Jharkhand Literary Meets in view of the zcovid-19 pandemic.
The Bhubaneshwar and Jharkhand Literary Meets were 2016 and 2017 respectively, with the belief that culturally-rich regions like Odisha and Jharkhand need a festival that would celebrate literary and allied cultural pursuits, including dance, music, recitation, and theatrical performances. 
The idea was to take Odisha and Jharkhand to a wider world audience and to bring the world closer to the two culturally-rich states in eastern India.
Since its inception, the literary meets have drawn leading authors and speakers from across India and the world. It has hosted eminent delegates such as Manoj Das, Ruskin Bond, Jayanta Mahapatra, Sitakanta Mahapatra, Ramakanta Rath, Nayantara Sehgal, Kiran Nagarkar, Sharmila Tagore, Ileana Citaristi, Mark Tully, Nandita Das, Amol Palekar, Uday Prakash, Harivansh Narayan Singh, Jairam Rames ....

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Operation 'Award Wapsi', and the Truth; check all details


Highlights
Out of 39 writers, who announced to return their awards, 26 did not return their souvenirs, only 13 returned their mementos
The four authors neither returned their memento nor their prize money, but returned merely their award
Only 13 authors returned both money and souvenirs, while 35 out of 39 scholars have made an offer to return the prize money through cheques to the Sahitya Akademi
New Delhi: When Narendra Modi became Prime Minister after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the country witnessed a new wave of protest, wherein, several scholars and litterateurs announced to return their awards. This has started especially in the wake of incidents that occurred at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh in 2015, and in Karnataka. These writers and ideologues had expressed their dismay over increasing intolerance in the country and decided to return their awards in the protest. ....

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