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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]
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.
Kiran Nagarkar has written a semi-fictional book "Cuckold," dealing with the many nuances of this relationship. The book's title refers to Bhojraj himself, for he took second place to God Krishna in the affections of his wife. The book was widely acclaimed and received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2001. [2]
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Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006), Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), famous for the Cairo Trilogy about life in the sprawling inner city. Nawal El Saadawi (1931–2021) Saleh Morsi (1939–1996) Sonallah Ibrahim (born 1937) Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898–1987) Yahya Haqqi (1905–1992) Youssef Ziedan (born 1958) Yusuf Idris (1927–1991)
Sahitya Akademi Award for English Award for contributions to English literature Awarded for Literary award in India Sponsored by Sahitya Akademi, Government of India Reward(s) ₹ 1 lakh (US$1,200) First awarded 1960 Last awarded 2022 Highlights Total awarded 51 First winner R. K. Narayan Most Recent winner Anuradha Roy Website sahitya-akademi.gov.in Part of a series on Sahitya Akademi Awards ...
The book draws on novels that have been translated from Indian languages into English (prominently Bankimchandra Chatterjee's Anandamath and Rabindranath Tagore's The Home and the World), [2] but focuses on works composed originally in English, whose status in India Gopal characterises as "rootless" yet also India's foremost pan-national tongue ...
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