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AWARDS AND HONOURS - December 2018

Dec 2018

Jun 14, 2021

Pulitzer Prize 2021

Megha Rajagopalan, an Indian-origin journalist, along with two contributors has won the Pulitzer Prize for innovative investigative reports that exposed a vast infrastructure of prisons and mass internment camps secretly built by China for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in its restive Xinjiang region.
'Rajagopalan's Xinjiang series won the Pulitzer Prize in the International Reporting category.

Tendulkar 'Delighted' to See Vinoo Mankad Inducted into ICC Hall of Fame

Legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar expressed "delight" to see former India cricketer Vinoo Mankad being inducted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) Hall of Fame.
The ICC announced a special edition intake of 10 cricket icons into the ICC Hall of Fame to celebrate the prestigious history of Test cricket, and to coincide with the first-ever ICC World Test Championship final.
The 10 legends of the game to be inducted have all made a significant contribution to the history of Test cricket, and join an illustrious list of ICC Hall of Famers, taking the total number to 103 as a result of this intake.

Jun 13, 2021

Lt Mukesh Kumar Bags IMA Sword of Honour

A total of 425 cadets passed out of the Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun with the coveted Sword of Honour being awarded to Battalion Under Officer Mukesh Kumar, who is alumnus of the Rashtriya Military School, Ajmer.
There are five such schools under the Ministry of Defence and besides Ajmer, they are located at Bengaluru, Belgaum, Chail, and Dholpur.
The gold medal for the Cadet First in the order of merit was awarded to Academy Under Officer Deepak Singh, the silver medal was awarded to Battalion Under Officer Mukesh Kumar, the bronze medal went to Academy Cadet Adjutant Loveneet Singh. In the technical stream the first in the Order of Merit was Junior Under Officer Daksh Kumar Pant, while Junior Under Officer Kinley Norbu from Bhutan is first in the Order of Merit among Foreign cadets. The Chief of Army Staff Banner for standing Overall First amongst 16 'companies' was awarded to 'Dograi Company'. Western Army Commander Lt Gen RP Singh reviewed the parade, keeping Covid protocols in mind.

Jun 12, 2021

Tillotama Shome Wins Best Actor Award at UK Asian Film Festival

Tillotama won the award for her film Raahgir: The Wayfarers, which is directed by Goutam Ghose.
Shot in Jharkhand, the film also stars Adil Hussain and Neeraj Kabi. It revolves around three strangers, who live on a daily wage basis.
Raahgir: The Wayfarers was earlier screened at several film festivals -- including Busan International Film Festival, MAMI - Mumbai Film Festival, Shanghai International Film Festival and Cinemasia Film Festival.
Tillotama is best known for her intense roles in movies like Qissa, Shadows of Time, The Waiting City and Children of War.

Jun 11, 2021

'This Mournable Body' Author, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Wins PEN Pinter Prize

Tsitsi Dangarembga, the Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean writer, won the PEN Pinter Prize in 2021. The annual award is given to an author who, the website specifies, must have a significant body of plays, poetry, essays, or fiction of outstanding literary merit, written in English.
Established in 2009, PEN Pinter prize is given in memory of Nobel-laureate playwright Harold Pinter.

Jun 05, 2021

Novelist David Diop Wins International Booker Prize

French novelist David Diop won the prestigious International Booker Prize for books translated into English with his World War I-set novel, 'At Night All Blood is Black'.
The Paris-born writer became the first French winner of the prize, awarded for a book translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland, in a ceremony broadcast online from Coventry Cathedral in central England.
The book's translator Anna Moschovakis won half the £50,000 ($70,850) prize, which recognises the major role of translators.
Diop's novel tells the story of two Senegalese soldiers fighting for France in the trenches of World War I. When one, Mademba, is killed, the other, Alfa, descends into ever greater violence and madness.
The International Booker Prize, formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize, has been awarded since 2005, when it was won by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare.
It is a sister prize to the Booker Prize, awarded to a novel written in English.

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