"The Siege of Krishnapur The Siege of Krishnapur is a novel by J. G. Farrell, first published in 1973. Inspired by events such as the sieges of Cawnapore (Kanpur) and Lucknow, the book details the siege of a fictional Indian town, Krishnapur, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 from the perspective of the British residents. The main characters find themselves subject to the increasing strictures and deprivation of the siege, which reverses the ""normal"" structure of life where Europeans govern Asian subjects. The book portrays an India under the control of the East India Company, as was the case in"
"1857. The absurdity of the class system in a town no one can leave becomes a source of comic invention, though the text is serious in intent and tone. The novel gained positive reviews from a variety of sources, and won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1973. Farrell used his acceptance speech to attack the sponsors for their business activities. In 2008 the book was shortlisted along with five other former winners for The Best of the Booker. The story is set in the town of Krishnapur and tells of a besieged British garrison which holds out for four"
"that he would today be one of the really major novelists of the English language. The three novels that he did leave are all in their different way extraordinary."" ""Troubles"" received the 1971 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and ""The Siege of Krishnapur"" received the 1973 Booker Prize. In 2010 ""Troubles"" was retrospectively awarded the Lost Man Booker Prize, created to recognise works published in 1970. ""Troubles"" and its fellow shortlisted works had not been open for consideration that year due to a change in the eligibility rules. Farrell, born in Liverpool into a family of Anglo-Irish background, was the second"
"award of the prize was announced by Antonia Fraser and accepted by Farrell's brother Richard. If ""Troubles"" had won the Man Booker Prize in 1970 Farrell would have been the first author to win it twice, as he won it in 1973 for ""The Siege of Krishnapur"". Farrell's literary agent claimed Farrell would have been ""thrilled"" to have won the prize. Lost Man Booker Prize The Lost Man Booker Prize was a special edition of the Man Booker Prize awarded by a public vote in 2010 to a novel from 1970 as the books published in 1970 were not eligible"
"""The Singapore Grip"". The protagonist of Farrell's unfinished novel, ""The Hill Station"", is Dr McNab, introduced in ""The Siege of Krishnapur""; this novel and its accompanying notes make the series a quartet. When ""The Siege of Krishnapur"" won the Booker Prize in 1973, Farrell used his acceptance speech to attack the sponsors, the Booker Group, for their business involvement in the agricultural sector in the Third World. Charles Sturridge scripted a film version of ""Troubles"" made for British television in 1988 and directed by Christopher Morahan. In 1979, Farrell decided to quit London to take up residence on the Sheep's"
"of a fictional Indian town, Krishnapur, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 from the perspective of the British residents. The main characters find themselves subject to the increasing strictures and deprivation of the siege, which reverses the ""normal"" structure of life where Europeans govern Asian subjects. The absurdity of the class system in a town no one can leave becomes a source of comic invention, though the text is serious in intent and tone. Though the genre has evolved since its inception, the historical novel remains popular with authors and readers to this day and bestsellers include Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin"
"of Letters. Anita Desai, who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel ""Fire on the Mountain"" and a British Guardian Prize for ""The Village by the Sea"". Her daughter Kiran Desai won the 2006 Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss. Ruskin Bond received Sahitya Akademy Award for his collection of short stories ""Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra"" in 1992. He is also the author of a historical novel ""A Flight of Pigeons"", which is based on an episode during the Indian Rebellion of"
"wife Emmy. George MacDonald Fraser's ""Flashman in the Great Game"" also contains lengthy scenes set in the entrenchment during the siege and also during the ensuing escape. Tom Williams' novel, ""Cawnpore"", is also set against the background of the siege and massacre, which is seen from both the European and the Indian perspective. The contemporary Indian report by Kalpi devi in the local journal Hindupanch covered the incident of the punitive action by the British and burning down of Nana Sahib's palace along with his young daughter Mainavati in a prose. The British press used it to describe the brutality"
"Banker has said he intends to use the knowledge he has acquired in the course of researching and writing his epic mythology series into creating ""informative, interactive books for the iPad"". Prequel Series Mahabharata Series Ashok Banker Ashok Kumar Banker (born 7 February 1964 in Mumbai, India) is an author and screenwriter. His writing spans crime thrillers, essays, literary criticism, fiction and mythological retellings. The author of several well-received novels including a trilogy billed as ""India's first crime novels in English"", he became widely known for his retellings of Indian mythological epics, starting with the internationally acclaimed and best-selling eight-volume"
"it is clear that he will not pause for an answer."" Ashwin Sanghi Ashwin Sanghi (born 25 January 1969) is an Indian writer in the fiction-Thriller genre. He is the author of three best-selling novels: ""The Rozabal Line"", ""Chanakya's Chant"" and ""The Krishna Key"". All his books have been based on historical, theological and mythological themes. He is one of India's best-selling conspiracy fiction writers and is an author of the new era of retelling Indian history or mythology in a contemporary context. Forbes India has included him in their ""Celebrity 100"" list. His latest novel, Keepers Of Kalachakra was"
"Ashwin Sanghi Ashwin Sanghi (born 25 January 1969) is an Indian writer in the fiction-Thriller genre. He is the author of three best-selling novels: ""The Rozabal Line"", ""Chanakya's Chant"" and ""The Krishna Key"". All his books have been based on historical, theological and mythological themes. He is one of India's best-selling conspiracy fiction writers and is an author of the new era of retelling Indian history or mythology in a contemporary context. Forbes India has included him in their ""Celebrity 100"" list. His latest novel, Keepers Of Kalachakra was released on 26 January 2018. Sanghi completed his schooling from the"
"Ashok Banker Ashok Kumar Banker (born 7 February 1964 in Mumbai, India) is an author and screenwriter. His writing spans crime thrillers, essays, literary criticism, fiction and mythological retellings. The author of several well-received novels including a trilogy billed as ""India's first crime novels in English"", he became widely known for his retellings of Indian mythological epics, starting with the internationally acclaimed and best-selling eight-volume ""Ramayana"" Series, which has been credited with the resurgence of mythology in Indian publishing. ""The New York Times"" credited him with making mythology the most successful category in Indian publishing, describing his work as being"
"of Rudyard Kipling’s ""Kim"" (Modern Library), E. M. Forster’s ""A Passage to India"" (Penguin Classics), J. G. Farrell’s ""The Siege of Krishnapur"" (NYRB Classics), Gandhi’s ""The Story of My Experiments with Truth"" (Penguin) and R. K. Narayan’s ""The Ramayana"" (Penguin Classics). He has also introduced two volumes of V.S. Naipaul’s essays, ""The Writer and the World"" and ""Literary Occasions"". Mishra has written literary and political essays for ""The New York Times"", where he was a Bookends columnist, the ""New York Review of Books"", the ""Guardian"", the ""London Review of Books"", and the ""New Yorker"", among other American, British, and Indian"
"Jalandhar 19. Khushboo-Ka-Safar (Urdu) (Year 1988) Travelouge on Pakistan, Published by Modern Publishing House, Delhi. 20. Gori-Ke-Desh Me (Urdu) (Year 1996) Travelouge on North America and Europe. Published by Hind Samachar, Jalandhar. 21. Mehak Da Safar (Punjabi) (Year 1989) Travelouge on Pakistan. Published by Jagbani, Jalandhar. 22. Khushboo-Ka-Safar (Hindi) (Year 1987) Published by Punjab Kesari, Jalandhar. FILMS ABOUT DR. KEWAL DHEER https://www.scribd.com/doc/177450025/Yadoon-Ki-Dastak-Kewal-Dheer-Aalmi-Urdu-Trust-Dehli-2012 یادوں کی دستک، کیول دھیر Kewal Dheer Kewal Dheer (born 5 October 1938) is an Indian writer and author. Dheer was born on 5 October 1938 in Gaggo, a village in Montgomery District (now in District Vehari, Pakistan)."
"of the British Empire), they do not form a sequence of storytelling. ""The Siege of Krishnapurn"" was inspired by events such as the sieges of Siege of Cawnpore (Kanpur) and Lucknow, and details the siege of a fictional Indian town, Krishnapur, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 from the perspective of the British residents. ""The Singapore Grip"" is satirical book about events following Japan's entry into the Second World War and occupation of Singapore. The story centres on a British family who control one of the colony's leading trading companies. Novelist E. M. Forster's ""A Passage to India"" (1924) takes"
"The Siege (Dunmore novel) The Siege is a historical novel by the English writer Helen Dunmore. It is set in Leningrad just before and during the Siege of Leningrad by German forces in World War II. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the key events of the twentieth century. In 1941, Hitler’s armies encircled Leningrad, confidently expecting to crush any resistance and enter the city, but Leningrad held out, in spite of almost unbelievable suffering. This novel focuses on the Levin family and their friends, trapped inside the besieged city. It’s a brilliantly imagined novel about war as experienced"
"Cuckold (novel) Cuckold is a 1997 book by Indian author Kiran Nagarkar and his third novel. 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 real life Prince Bhoj Raj. The book follows the life of Maharaj Kumar and his attempts to win the affections of his wife Mira while war ravages the land around them. ""Cuckold"" is considered to be one of Nagarkar's most well known novels and in 2000 he won India's National Academy of Letters Award"
"realized that ""the people who had let the Sikhs down were some Sikhs and the internal politics of the Akalis"", and told him that he had ""cleaned the temple"". He also offered to pay for translating the book into Punjabi language so that more people could read it. The book's publishers did the translation later, and the book ran into several reprints. Kuldip Singh Brar Kuldip Singh Brar (born 1934) is a retired Indian Army officer, who was involved in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. He commanded Operation Blue Star against Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and pro-Khalistan militants, who had amassed"
"1982. It has been adapted into a play and film. U.S. writer Mark Helprin's ""A Soldier of the Great War"" and French novelist Sebastien Japrisot's ""A Very Long Engagement"" both appeared in 1991. The novel ""Birdsong"" (1993) by Sebastian Faulks received much praise. Of similar acclaim is Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy; the third novel from the series ""The Ghost Road,"" received the most prestigious award in British fiction: The Booker Prize in 1995 (though the nomination implied the award was for the whole series. In 2014, during the centenary of the World War I, the Indian author Akhil Katyal published"
"Kiran Nagarkar Kiran Nagarkar (born 1942) is an Indian novelist, playwright, film and drama critic and screenwriter both in Marathi and English, and is one of the most significant writers of postcolonial India. Amongst his works are ""Saat Sakkam Trechalis"" (tr. ""Seven Sixes Are Forty Three"") (1974), ""Ravan and Eddie"" (1994), and the epic novel, ""Cuckold"" (1997) for which he was awarded the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award in English by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. Nagarkar is notable among Indian writers for having written acclaimed novels in more than one language. His first novel, ""Saat Sakkam Trechalis"""
"(1962) are spy fictions. ""Otana Pani"" (1938), ""Shri ane Saraswati"" (1956), ""Neelrekha"" (1962), ""Jobanpagi"" (1964) are his novella collections. His wrote plays also. ""Allabeli"" (The God is the Protector, 1946), ""Jogmaya ane Sheelalekh"" (1949), ""Akhovan"" (1957), ""Maar Raj"" (1957) are his play collections. His other works are ""Hu Bavo ne Mangaldas"" (1936), ""Subhashchandra Bose"" (1946), ""Munjhavata Prashno"" (1947), ""Aapne Fari Na Vichariye ?"" (1959). Gunvantrai Acharya Gunvantrai Popatbhai Acharya (9 September 1900 – 25 November 1965) was a Gujarati language novelist and journalist from India. His experience with seafarers impacted his adventure and novel writings. His works include several historical"
"Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, ""Midnight's Children"" (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be ""the best novel of all winners"" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations. His fourth novel, ""The Satanic Verses"" (1988), was the subject of a major"
"a martyr on the field of battle and does not live to witness invasion of his motherland by invaders. His defeat results in the end of Rajput (Hindu) rule and the beginning of Muslim rule in Gujarat. Nandshankar Mehta was the headmaster of an English-medium school in Surat. The British administrators of Bombay Presidency were encouraging local Indians to write books for educational purpose. Mehta had written in the preface to the first edition, He started writing in 1863 and completed the novel in 1866. According to his son and biographer Vinayak Mehta, he wanted to write a historical novel"
"from Katherine, Rao married his third wife, Susan Vaught, whom he met when she was a student at the University of Texas in the 1970s. In 1988 he received the prestigious International Neustadt Prize for Literature. In 1998 he published Gandhi's biography ""Great Indian Way: A Life of Mahatma Gandhi."" Rao died of heart failure on 8 July 2006, at his home in Austin, Texas, at the age of 97. Raja Rao's first and best-known novel, ""Kanthapura"" (1938), is the story of a south Indian village named Kanthapura. The novel is narrated in the form of a Sthala Purana by"
"newspapers and was General Secretary of the Editors Guild of India from 1978 to 1979. He has written several articles and books including ""The Midnight Knock"" (1977), ""The R.S.S. Story"" (1980), and ""The Sindh Story"" (1984), his most popular book on history. His book ""India First"" (2002) is a compilation of several of his articles over the years. His last book, ""Political Mysteries"", explores several major Indian political assassinations including that of Mahatma Gandhi, Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, the ""Kashmir Princess"", ""Kanishka aircraft"" bombing and the Purulia arms dropping case. The book is a result of"
"shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2002 and for the 2001 Whitbread Prize. The Siege (Dunmore novel) The Siege is a historical novel by the English writer Helen Dunmore. It is set in Leningrad just before and during the Siege of Leningrad by German forces in World War II. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the key events of the twentieth century. In 1941, Hitler’s armies encircled Leningrad, confidently expecting to crush any resistance and enter the city, but Leningrad held out, in spite of almost unbelievable suffering. This novel focuses on the Levin family and their friends, trapped"
"solve the problem of his English readers not understanding much about Indian society, when writing ""The Jungle Book"". Heinlein's novel ""Starship Troopers"" built on the citizen soldiers of ""The Army of a Dream"". In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature after having been nominated in that year by Charles Oman, professor at the University of Oxford. The prize citation said: ""In consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author."" Nobel prizes had been established in 1901 and Kipling was the"
"trilogy). The Undersea Kingdom. (Book two of the trilogy). Timeri N. Murari Timeri Murari is an Indian novelist, journalist, playwright and screenwriter. He is the author of fourteen published novels, including best-sellers ""The Taliban Cricket Club"" (2012) and ""Taj"" (2007), and has written extensively for Indian and international newspapers including ""The Guardian"". He has also written the screenplay of the award-winning Hindi movie ""Daayraa"" (1997), which was voted one of the ten best films of 1997 by ""Time"" magazine. Murari was born in Madras, India and studied at Bishop Cottons School, Bangalore. He left India for the UK when he"
"Bhaskaracharya Tripathi Bhaskaracharya Tripathi, (), is a Sanskrit poet who was the recipient of the 2003 Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit for his work Nirjharini. He was born on 1 July 1942 in Pandar, Jasra, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. He completed his M.A. and D.Phil in Sanskrit at Allahabad University. He was a Sanskrit professor in the Government Ramanand Sanskrit College in Bhopal and later became Chairman of the Shri Ekrasanand Adarsh Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya at Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh. He started writing in 1958. He retired from the Dept. of Higher Education of Madhya Pradesh in 2004. He has been the"
"A Flight of Pigeons A Flight of Pigeons is a novella by Indian author, Ruskin Bond. The story is set in 1857, and is about Ruth Labadoor and her family (who are British) who take help of Hindus and Muslims to reach their relatives when the family's patriarch is killed in a church by the Indian rebels. The novella is a mix of fiction and non fiction and was adapted into a film in 1978 called ""Junoon"" by Shyam Benegal, starring Shashi Kapoor, his wife Jennifer Kendal, and Nafisa Ali. The Novella starts with the death of the father of"
"Ryan. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad is a book written by William Craig and published in 1973 by Reader's Digest Press and in 1974 by Penguin Publishing. The 2001 film ""Enemy at the Gates"" utilized the book's title and used it as one of its sources, but was not a direct adaptation of the work. The ""Slavic Review"" panned ""Enemy at the Gates"", calling it ""rambling and exaggerated"" and negatively comparing Craig to author Paul Carell. In contrast, ""The Washington Post"" was more favorable and drew favorable comparisons to"
"Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad is a book written by William Craig and published in 1973 by Reader's Digest Press and in 1974 by Penguin Publishing. The 2001 film ""Enemy at the Gates"" utilized the book's title and used it as one of its sources, but was not a direct adaptation of the work. The ""Slavic Review"" panned ""Enemy at the Gates"", calling it ""rambling and exaggerated"" and negatively comparing Craig to author Paul Carell. In contrast, ""The Washington Post"" was more favorable and drew favorable comparisons to Cornelius"
"a 1,000-page blockbuster novel"". Krishna Dharma's works are published by the ""Torchlight Publications"" company and by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. Krishna Dharma Krishna Dharma (born 1955 in London) is a British Hindu scholar and author. Krishna Dharma is ""the author of the world's most popular editions of India's great epics"": the ""Ramayana: India's Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love, and Wisdom"" (1998) and the ""Mahabharata: The Greatest Spiritual Epic of All Time"" (1999). He is also a contributor to the press and a regular radio broadcaster. Krishna Dharma was born as Kenneth Anderson in 1955 in London. In his youth he"