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Rushdie continues to haunt Jaipur festival

siteadmin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:10:20 +0000

By Jaipur Correspondent
Jaipur Literature Festival completely eclipsed by Salman Rushdie episode as the issue continued to haunt on the last day of the conference. While city administration has asked clarifications regarding proposed address of Rushdie through video conferencing the organizers have not received any clear nod on the issue. However, the city administration has proposed that permission of the address could be granted if they assured the administration that no discussion or speech would take place regarding ‘Satanic Verses’.
According to the sources organizers have given their nod that they would follow the rule in this regard and pursue Rushdie to not do so. There have been series of protests on the issue of participation of Rushdie in the festival.
It is notable that the government has banned Rushdie’s book ‘Satanic Verses’ in India.

Oprah praises Indian family system

siteadmin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:07:14 +0000

By Jaipur Correspondent
fachcha.com
Oprah Winfrey came out openly to praise Indian family system on Sunday. The noted TV personality of US said that the members of the family do care about each-other in India. Her comment came during a talk show in Jaipur festival.

She said that there is no respect of nursing homes in India as the family takes care about their family members here. She also presented her views about marriage, family values in USA. Talking about US President Barak Obama she said that he is a man and not the God. And, Man does mistakes. But she praised works of Obama and said that he would do even better in the future.

Twist in Jaipur fest over Rushdie

siteadmin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:05:44 +0000

By Jaipur Correspondent
fachcha.com

Much-hyped Jaipur Literature Festival took a murky turn when the some of the speakers came out openly and attacked the state government on the issue of creating controversies about Salman Rushdie’s visit and inability to provide him protection that compelled Rushdie to cancel his visit. However, Rajsthan’s Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has said that the government has not stopped Rushdie from the participation in the festival. He said that the government has to consider all kind of threats, protest or views of particular society in a democratic set up.

Meanwhile, Rushdie fumed on the reports about the government’s version of the ‘threat’ for his life. He blamed the government and state security agency for the conspiracy to stay him away from the festival, in his latest tweet.

On the other hand, state police has asked video tape of the programme from the organizers in which some writers read portions of the Rushdie’s book considering protest over the development. Police has taken the step after complaints lodged against these writers. Meanwhile, writers said that they had no intention to hurt anybody’s sentiments.

‘Hindi brings languages closer’

siteadmin — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:18:35 +0000

By FNS
Hindi is not just a language but it is working as a facilitator to bring all other Indian languages to come closer. This has been stated by noted poet Sitakant Mahapatra today in a function of Hindi Academy in New Delhi.

“Hindi has emerged as a base language for translation into other languages. The language is expression of culture, society and life style. With righteous expression of all these the language become instrumental in development of outstanding literature”, Mahapatra said.

Veteran Hindi author Arvind Kumar presented Hindi Academy Shalaka Samman in the function at Delhi Secretariat. The award carries an amount of Rs. 2 Lakh, recitation, shawl and memento. Parmanand Srivastava, Ramanika Gupta, Devendra Raj Ankur. B.M. Baxi, Alok Puranik and Giridhar Rathi were also presented other awards of Academy.

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said that all the five language Academies of Delhi have proved that these are more active than all other language academies in the country.

‘Shalaka Samman’ to Arvind Kumar

siteadmin — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:18:45 +0000

By FNS
Veteran journalist, author of ‘Samanantar Kosh: Hindi Thesaurus’ Arvind Kumar will be awarded ‘Shalaka Samman’ the highest honour of Delhi state in the field of Hindi literature. Arvind Kumar (81) started his career as a child labour in a publishing house in Delhi in 1945 but with his dedication and work he become editor of magzines like ‘Madhuri’, ‘Sarvottam’ (Hindi version of Reader’s Digest) and several other magazines.

He has also created several dictionaries and thesaurus in Hindi-English and Hindi-Sanskrit. “Contribution of Arvind Kumar is unparallel in Hindi literature, especially in dictionaries and thesaurus”, says Ashok Chakradhar, Deputy Chairman, Hindi Akademy, Delhi. You must go through his works to understand his contribution, Chakradhar told fachcha.com.

Arvind Kumar will be given away the award in a function in New Delhi on Friday. Several others personalities will be awarded on this occasion. These Include Parmanand Shrivastav, Giridhar Rathi, Devendra Raj Ankur, Alok Puranik, Ramanika Gupta, Krishn Shalabh and Brij Mohan Bakshi.

‘Hindi Academy has expanded its activities in many areas’

Sunday Book Review

siteadmin — Sun, 22 May 2011 13:45:06 +0000

By Subhadra
“On the first day, he is not unduly perturbed, the taste of yesterday’s fish curry is still fresh, on the second day the memory persists-but only just.
On third day, no sooner is the idol of Lord Ganesh given a ceremonial immersion than he’s back to where he belongs – in the fish market, making up for the lost time.”
-from the book ‘Mango Mood’

The most common problem with reader is that he used to get addicted to a particular mood. Though there may be different kind of claims by author or publishers or readers of a book or author but the central theme of most of the books is generally one. Love or affection, technology or science, horror, conspiracy, corruption or any other the central theme moves around the one theme whether author does it unconsciously or deliberately.

Bringing out different shades and colours of life and society in a book through writing requires serious observation and presentation skill. When the book comes as a collection of writings the reading becomes more interesting. ‘Mango Mood’ is one of the books falls in this category.

Though the book heavily talks about Goan culture and society but despite it the writings presents different shades of Indian mindset. From fish curry to Ganesh Chaturthi, Wagle ki Dunia to modern politics, Bapu to Las Vegas, common family and social issues… author tried to talk about everything though in a lighter vein.

Book: Mango Mood
Author: Sharmila Kamat
Publisher: Rupa Publication
Category: Non-Fiction
Price: Rs. 195/-

Sunday book review

siteadmin — Sun, 15 May 2011 05:14:23 +0000

By Subhadra
The stories of social and political changes through social media network are not very old. But interesting fact is that such developments have come up as supplements for the traditional readers. Writers have always been ready to exploit such resources or medium for large population of the bookworms throughout the world.
‘Luv U Mate’ is a recent example of it. The book is based on love story through social media network. The book has targeted new generation readers who have been addicted to the social media. It talks about Gandhi, US, peace, love, humour and several other aspects of the life.
According to Punit Sethi, author of the book, the novel will also give a message of peace and harmony in the world and of universal unity and to respect all religions, all human beings, animals and nature.

Name of the Book: Luv U Mate
Author: Punit Sethi
Publisher: Pustak Mahal

Sunday Book Review

siteadmin — Sun, 08 May 2011 06:06:17 +0000

By Subhadra
‘…by the time I’d found any paper and pencil, the programme would be over – the children you know, always removing things from where they should be kept’ – from the book ‘Pure Sequence’.

There is nothing new about the discussion among the women. It is sometimes meaningful, sometimes complex and sometimes just for the sake of discussion. When women are friends their amount of interaction can be understood easily whether it is garrulous, verbose or voluble. But, the challenging task before the author Paro Anand was to put the art of talking and togetherness in such a way that these could sustain in the era of TV and internet. Needless to say that sequence has been made perfect and uninterrupted like author’s longest newspaper of the world.

The book has shown various aspects of life humour, romance, love, friendship, and anguish through the storytelling of four graceful women. Written by an Indian author, the book also presents glimpses of Indian English at many places. Some words are quite new but interesting.

Name of the book: PURE SEQUENCE
Category: FICTION
Author: PARO ANAND
Publisher: ROLI BOOKS
Price: Rs. 195/-

New book this week:

Name of the book: LOVE U MATE
Author: DR. PUNIT SETHI
Publisher: PUSTAK MAHAL
Price: Not mentioned

Pulitzer for Delhi-born Siddhartha Mukherjee

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 04:49:02 +0000

By FNS
Delhi-born oncologist Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee has become winner of the prestigious Pulitzer award for 2011. Mukherjee is fourth Indian who won the award, known as the Nobel of literature. He has won the prize for his book “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”.

Siddhartha Mukherjee, currently an associate professor at Columbia University, has received education from some of the best universities of the world like Oxford University, Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. He did his schooling from Delhi’s St. Columbia School.

Book Review on Sunday

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 05:15:31 +0000

By Subhadra

“Even optimists sometimes feel anxious. Perhaps you are visionary leader, intrepid innovator, or enthusiastic entrepreneur determined to make the best of it, Recession or not. But your new projects are stalled like the stock market and the traffic jams.” – from the book ‘Management by Walking’ by Dr. A K Agrwal

Management of human resources is one of the most complex parts of management of any institution. Management of skilled or/and unskilled people has always been difficult whether it is a company, institution, society or even a country. Unlike the machine or system human has power to think, act and react. Needless to say that getting right person for right work at right time is not so easy.

The basic principles of HR management are almost same but the experience makes these principles more practical and unique. The book ‘Management by Walking’ is basically a book on HR management but the practical aspects of the author is so strong that he made the book readable for common practitioners of management and working executives and entrepreneurs. The unique thing about the book is that it does not forget the basic principles of management, used by academics, while blending author’s industry experience to make it readable for common readers.

Name of the Book: Management by Walking
Author: Dr. A K Agarwal
Price: Rs. 225/-
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.