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Opinion | Missed chance? The Booker Prize 2019 could have been a historic one
By awarding the £50,000 prize to two writers, the jury lost a bold opportunityThe case is about wholly rewarding and celebrating the first black woman, Bernardine Evaristo, to win the Booker
4 min read15 Oct 2019A brave new world of reading
The recently released Man Booker shortlist and the JCB Prize longlist draw attention to writers celebrated and overlookedA cursory glance at the lists reveals an unmissable truth: We are living in a brave new world of reading
4 min read6 Sep 2019Salman Rushdie 'delighted' to be on Booker shortlist
Rushdie, who is nominated for 'Quichotte', won the Booker Prize in 1981 for his book 'Midnight's Children'This year he is shortlisted alongside another former winner, Margaret Atwood, besides Lucy Ellmann, Bernardine Evaristo, Chigozie Obioma, and Elif Shafak
1 min read3 Sep 2019Here’s to a 2018 of ‘bad feminists’
As the lid on men's sexual harassment is being blown off, whistle by whistle, 2018 hopefully will be the year when women finally get to nail sexual abuse
5 min read19 Jan 2018Emmy Awards 2017 was pitch-perfect
Pretty and diverse and funny and talented, Emmy Awards 2017 summed up all that TV entertainment should be
4 min read18 Sep 2017‘The Power’, a science fiction, wins prestigious Baileys Prize
Winner Naomi Alderman was mentored by Margaret Atwood, and the dystopian theme of her novel resonates with that of 'The Handmaid's Tale'
2 min read8 Jun 2017A new book of Twitter fiction
The anthology, edited by Manoj Pandey, includes fiction tweets from Salman Rushdie and Jeet Thayil
2 min read24 Aug 2016Why Margaret Atwood feels novels are still more than TV shows
Has the power of the novel diminished with the advent of TV serials?
3 min read26 Jan 2016Five things at JLF that aren’t about books
Here are five things not related to books that one can enjoy at Jaipur Literature Festival
2 min read22 Jan 2016JLF Day 2 | More of Margaret Atwood with some Stephen Fry thrown in
The Jaipur Literature Festival started on Thursday with a keynote address by novelist and poet Margaret Atwood
1 min read22 Jan 2016Popular Topics
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The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared