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BOOKS AND AUTHORS - July 2019

Jul 2019

Jun 24, 2021

Arvind Gaur Releases Book 'Habba Khatoon' Written by Kajal Suri

Theatre personality Arvind Gaur released the book 'Habba Khatoon' written by Kajal Suri. The book 'Habba Khatoon' was Published by Sanjana Prakashan. Habba Khatoon, also known by the honorary title 'The Nightingale of Kashmir', was a Kashmiri poetess and ascetic. She was the wife of Yousuf Shah Chak, the last Emperor of Kashmir.

Jun 22, 2021

Amitav Ghosh's New Book 'The Nutmeg's Curse'

Jnanpith Awardee and renowned author Amitav Ghosh's authored a book titled, 'The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis'. It is published by John Murray. The book talks about the history of the influence of colonialism on the world today, through the story of the nutmeg.
In 'The Nutmeg's Curse', Ghosh discusses that the nutmeg's journey from its native Banda islands sheds light on a widespread colonial mindset of exploitation of human life and the environment, which is present even today. Some of Ghosh's other notable works include the Ibis trilogy and 'The Great Derangement' among others.

Jun 21, 2021

Tahira Kashyap Khurrana Announces New Book 'The 7 Sins of Being A Mother'

Filmmaker-writer Tahira Kashyap Khurrana announced her upcoming book about motherhood, titled 'The 7 Sins of Being A Mother'.
This is her fifth book and the second she wrote amid the pandemic.
Last year, the filmmaker had released '12 Commandments of Being A Woman', which she finished writing during the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
The writer has also penned books like Cracking The Code: My Journey in Bollywood and Souled Out.

Jun 16, 2021

Suresh Raina Releases his Autobiography "Believe: What Life and Cricket Taught Me"

- Chennai Super Kings superstar batsman Suresh Raina has launched his autobiography titled 'Believe- What Life Taught me'.
- The book has been published by Penguin and co-authored by Bharat Sundaresan, world-renowned, award-winning cricket writer currently based in Adelaide, Australia.
- The cricketer shared a glimpse of his cricket career which included success, failure, injuries, setbacks, and how he came out on top of it.
- He revealed how the BCCI, senior players, and scholarship from Air India helped him grow as a cricketer during student life.

Oprah Winfrey's New Book Club Pick is Novel 'The Sweetness of Water'

Oprah Winfrey's next book club pick is a debut novel set in Georgia at the end of the Civil War: Nathan Harris' The Sweetness of Water.
Harris said that he wanted to show what it was like in the South after slaves were emancipated. The Sweetness of Water takes place in the imaginary town of Old Ox, Georgia, and tells of two brothers, recently freed, who find work on a neighbouring farm run by a man who believes his son has been killed in the war.
Winfrey launched her first book club in 1996, and has been in partnership with Apple since 2019. She started her current club by selecting another novel about slavery in the 19th century, Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Water Dancer, and in previous years has picked such debut works as Ayana Mathis' The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and Lalita Tademy's Cane River.

Jun 15, 2021

'Home in the World' Book: by Amartya Sen's Memoir

One of the world's leading public intellectuals of our time, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has penned his memoir 'Home in the World'.
The book will be published in July by Penguin Random House. In this book, Sen shares how it was Rabindranath Tagore who gave him his name Amartya.
He also reminisces the conversations at Calcutta's famous Coffee House and at Cambridge, and Marx's, Keynes' and Arrow's ideas all of which shaped his views.

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