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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is a novel by Kiran Desai published in 1998. It is her first book and won the top prize for the Betty Trask Awards in 1998. [ 1 ] It is set in the Indian village of Shahkot ( state of Punjab ) and follows the exploits of a young man, Sampath Chawla, trying to avoid the responsibilities of adult life.
The Inheritance of Loss is the second novel by Indian author Kiran Desai.It was first published in 2006.It won a number of awards, including the Booker Prize for that year, the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award in 2007, [1] and the 2006 Vodafone Crossword Book Award.
Cuckold is a 1997 book by Indian author Kiran Nagarkar and his third novel. [1] It is a historical novel set in the Rajput kingdom of Mewar, India during the 16th century that follows the life of Maharaj Kumar, a fictional character based upon the Mewar prince Bhoj Raj whose wife Mirabai thinks of Krishna as her husband and refuses to accept Bhoj Raj.
Kanchinath Jha "Kiran" (कांचीनाथ झा ‘किरण’ Kāñcīnāth Jhā Kīraṇ; 1906–1989) was an Indian Maithili-language writer. His poetry was representative of the new modernist spirit in Maithili literature after the Second World War. [ 1 ]
Secondary School Certificate (SSC), Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) or Matriculation examination, is a public examination in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Maldives conducted by educational boards for the successful completion of the secondary education exam in these countries. Students of 10th grade/class ten can appear in ...
Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize [ 1 ] and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. [ 2 ] In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.
Nagarkar was born on 2 April 1942 in Bombay, now Mumbai, in a middle-class Maharashtrian family, the younger of two sons to Sulochana and Kamalkant Nagarkar. [5] [6] [7] His grandfather, B. B. Nagarkar, was a Brahmo and had attended the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago. [8]
Kiran Comics was an Indian comic line that published a variety of US comics in India in English & Hindi from 1979-1990 by Kiran Publications and distributed by India Book House (IBH). [1] Like many other Indian comics of the era, Kiran Comics relied on reprinting popular international characters.