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As it enters its sixth year, the JCB Prize for Literature, one of India's most coveted and richest literary awards at Rs 25 lakh, on Tuesday named author and translator Srinath Perur as the head of its jury.Its other members are Mahesh Dattani, ...

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Its other members are Mahesh Dattani, playwright and stage director; Somak Ghoshal, author, critic and learning designer; Kavery Nambisan, author and surgeon; and Swati Thiyagarajan, conservation journalist and filmmaker.The

Its other members are Mahesh Dattani, playwright and stage director; Somak Ghoshal, author, critic and learning designer; Kavery Nambisan, author and surgeon; and Swati Thiyagarajan, conservation journalist and filmmaker.The

New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) As it enters its sixth year, the JCB Prize for Literature, one of India's most coveted and richest literary awards at Rs 25 lakh,

The multi-art festival brings together diverse minds, who talk about not just their own processes but contemporary situations that guide their body of work.

‘The current trend is to dismiss Urdu as a version of Hindi. There is a mass pretence of it being a foreign, an exotic tongue, but that is not true at all.’

He speaks slowly, and weighs words. Pauses. Insists that meanings are found in the ones not spoken and amidst spaces left blank. That when sentences feel lonely, hanging in a vacuum -- they assume a new identity.Author Khalid Jawed's 'The ...

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Urdu is a pure Hindustani language, which is not spoken anywhere, by anyone who isn't from India, or part of the diaspora, Pakistanis and their children.