Indo-Anglian Authors It’s the same Indian Curry – the spices are Indian‚ the flavours remain rural and the colours are still rich and earthy‚ except for the fact that it is savoured with a different spoon. That is Indo-Anglian literature or English literature penned by an Indian author. With the sudden surge of writers in this genre‚ its history is very recent‚ mostly limited to the last two centuries. As a category it owes its roots to the post-colonial era and today with almost three Nobel laureates
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2012. Retrieved 2013-04-15. 19. ^ "Business Thought Leader of the Year: Mallika Srinivasan" (http://profit.ndtv.com/videos/ndtv-specialndtv-profit/video-business-thought-leader-of-the-year-mallika-srinivasan-270967). NDTV Profit. April 9‚ 2013 20. ^ "Padma Awards Announced" (http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=102735). Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs
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Abdul Kalam‚ is an Indian scientist and administrator who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. Wikipedia Born: October 15‚ 1931 (age 81)‚ Rameswaram Full name: Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam Awards: Bharat Ratna‚ Padma Bhushan‚ Padma Vibhushan‚ More Education: Madras Institute of Technology (1955–1960)‚ St. Joseph’s College‚ Tiruchirapalli (1954)‚ King’s College London Parents: Jainulabiddin Marakayar‚ Ashiamma Jainulabiddin Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda (Kannada:ಗಿರೀಶ
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strategy on a chessboard. In 2001‚ she won the World Junior Girls Chess Championship. She has also received many prestigious awards such as the Arjuna Award and the Padma Shri. 9. Saba Anjum — The Hockey Star Saba Anjum is a former India hockey captain and a member of the gold-winning 2010 Commonwealth Games team. She received the Padma Shri for her contribution to hockey. She represented India during the 2002 Asian Games‚ 2004 Asia Cup‚ and the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games. 10. Saina Nehwal — The
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member of an Indo- Nepalese Women’s expedition‚ and scaled the Everest the second time‚ thus setting the record as the only woman to have scaled the Everest Twice. Currently she is an officer in Indo-Tibetan Border Police. She was conferred the Padma Shri award in 2000. She was part of the nine-nation international climbing camp-cum-expedition to Nun Kun in 1989. Expeditions[edit] In 1999‚ Santosh Yadav led an Indian mountaineering expedition to Kangshung Face‚ Mt. Everest.[3] In 2001‚ she led
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win the Sahitya Akademi Award for her magnum opus‚ a long poem‚ Sunehe (Messages)‚[5] later she received the Bhartiya Jnanpith‚ one of India’s highest literary awards‚ in 1982 for Kagaz Te Canvas (The Paper and the Canvas). The Padma Shri came her way in 1969 and finally‚ Padma Vibhushan‚ India’s second highest civilian award‚ in 2004‚ and in the same year she was honoured with India’s highest literary award‚ given by the Sahitya Akademi (India’s Academy of Letters)‚ the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship given
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mark the 150th anniversary of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.[16][17][18] Tendulkar received the Arjuna Award in 1994 for outstanding sporting achievement‚ the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1997‚ India’s highest sporting honour‚ and the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan awards in 1999 and 2008‚
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children - Kartikeya and Mallika. Vikram Sarabhai had a troubled marriage and was in a long term relationship with Dr.Kamala Choudhary.[4] 9. His daughter Mallika Sarabhai was awarded the Padma Bhushan‚ India’s third highest civilian honour for the year 2010 and his son Kartikeya Sarabhai was awarded the Padma Shri in 2012. 10. Sarabhai returned to an independent India in 1947. Looking at the needs of the country‚ he persuaded charitable trusts controlled by his family and friends to endow a research
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authors and a top novelist.In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing‚ for his short stories collection‚ "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra"‚ by the Sahitya Academy‚ India’s National Academy of Literature[2]. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children’s literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.His father was with the Royal Air Force in India. He has one sister and brother‚ Ellen Bond and William Bond. When Bond was four years
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Barkha Dutt is the face of new liberated Indian woman. This unbelievably brave woman can do anything‚ go the war front or Taliban infested Afghanistan. There is absolutely nothing in her ’can’t do’ list. Where did the making of this famous Indian woman begin? Growing Up With A Role Model. Barkha Dutt is the daughter of an Air India officer and Prabha Dutt‚ a popular journalist in the 60s and 70s. So she had all the inspiration she needed right at home. She had an exceptionally good education wherein
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