"by the apprentices, Mma Ramotswe, Mma Makutsi, Mr JLB Matekoni, Rra and Mma Potokwane, Mma Boko, and Mr Molefelo and his family. The Kalahari Typing School for Men The Kalahari Typing School for Men is the fourth in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Gaborone, Botswana, and featuring the Motswana protagonist Precious Ramotswe. Mma Ramotswe talks with her fiance Mr JLB. Matekoni about the future of her assistant, Mma Grace Makutsi, who seems to have difficulty finding suitable men. Later the two women discuss the same topic. At Mr JLB Matekoni's"
"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"
"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 was 18 years old to study electronic engineering. He"
"Abul Hassan Sagheer Sindhi Abul Hassan Al-Sindi (Arabic: أبو الحسن بن محمد صادق السندي، المدني)also known as Makhdoom Abul Hassan thatvi (d.1176 AH/1724 AD)(or 1661 AD) was a Muslim scholar who is known as the founder of the old 40 letter Sindhi writing system. he was born in the last period of the mughal dor and became famous and known as the kalhora dor`s poet and scholar. his 1st book is named ""makhdal tan salwatan"" He becoming a prominent scholar in his native land, and nearing old age, he set off with a caravan to perform the Hajj, and later"
"English School. He completed it in the year 1930, securing first division with marks above 80 per cent in all subjects. Thus winning a monthly scholarship of Rs.10/- per month., he joined Jorhat Govt. High School. He started his career as a teacher. Later he served the All India Radio at Guwahati and Cuttack as Assistant Director. He also translated Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya 1995 novel ""Lokraj"". Influenced by Parasmani Pradhan, He began writing at the age of 17 and has written poems, novels, short stories and essays which appeared in noted Nepali periodicals like Himadri, Gorkha Sewak, Diyalo, Gorkha, Bharati,"
"settled in Medina. Abul Hassan Sagheer Sindhi Abul Hassan Al-Sindi (Arabic: أبو الحسن بن محمد صادق السندي، المدني)also known as Makhdoom Abul Hassan thatvi (d.1176 AH/1724 AD)(or 1661 AD) was a Muslim scholar who is known as the founder of the old 40 letter Sindhi writing system. he was born in the last period of the mughal dor and became famous and known as the kalhora dor`s poet and scholar. his 1st book is named ""makhdal tan salwatan"" He becoming a prominent scholar in his native land, and nearing old age, he set off with a caravan to perform the"
"International Book Fair in November 2015. Arun Budhathoki Arun Budhathoki () (born September 19, 1986) is a Nepali poet, fiction writer and journalist from Kathmandu, Nepal. He did his undergraduate studies in Nizam College, Hyderabad, India and pursued master's degree in the University of Northampton, England. He has written six books so far. Because of his nomadic nature, he likes travelling around. Arun is the co-founder of Nepal Tribune Media and Editor-in-Chief of Kathmandu Tribune. His works have appeared in India Today, The Huffington Post (India), Daily O, The Diplomat, The Citizen (India), Republica, The Kathmandu Post, Asia Pacific Daily,"
"Saman Tilakasiri Saman Tilakasiri (11 August 1928 - 5 January 2000) was a Sri Lankan poet, journalist and an award-winning author. He was a Senior Editor with ""Lankadeepa"" at Times of Ceylon and the Chief Editor of ""Rasavahini"" magazine. His published work include research on Sinhala literature, Sinhala grammar lessons, and a number of popular Sinhala books for children and youngsters, several of which won national awards, presidential award and UNICEF Book Competition for ""Year of the Children 1979"". Children's books by Saman Tilakasiri have become classic contributions to the Sri Lankan and Sinhala literature due to their unique story-telling"
"Gajendra Thakur Gajendra Thakur (born 1971) is an Indian author. He writes in the Maithili language, a language spoken in Northern Bihar (of India) and South-Eastern Nepal. He is an author, lexicographer, historian (of Mithila- ancient Videha and of ""Maithili""); and palaeographer, he has deciphered ancient and medieval palm leaf inscriptions in Tirhuta script of ""Maithili"" Language (Mithilakshar script). These panjis are genealogical records of Maithil Brahmin community of Mithila region and contain details of around 100 inter-caste marriages. Besides it provides written historical records of people and personalities, hitherto considered mythical ones. Besides he deciphered scripts inscribed on temples/"
"Kesar Lall Kesar Lall (Devanagari: केसर लाल) (15 July 1926 – 26 December 2012) (alternative name: Kesar Lall Shrestha) was a Nepalese folklorist and writer. He has published more than 50 books of stories and poetry. He wrote in Nepali, Nepal Bhasa and English. Kesar Lall was born in Kathmandu to father Jagat Lal and mother Bal Kumari Shrestha. His father ran a school at his home in Māsan Galli (मासं गल्लि), and was popularly known as Jagat Lal Master. This was one of the few places that provided a modern education in Nepal in those days as the Rana"
"Braj Kachru Braj Bihari Kachru (15 May 1932 – 29 July 2016) was an Indian linguist. He was Jubilee Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He coined the term """"World English"""" and also published studies on the Kashmiri language. Braj Bihari Kachru was born on 15 May 1932 in Srinagar, Kashmir into a Kashmiri Pandit family. His father, Pandit Damodar Das Kachru was an educator. His mother, Sati, died when he was five years old. Braj's father was also known as ""Lala Sahab"" and was a friend of Kashmiri poet and writer Zinda Kaul ""Masterji"". Lala"
"Mikhlif Alshammari Mikhlif Alshammari (born 21 February 1955 in Baq'a, Hail city, Saudi Arabia) is a human rights defender. He holds a BBA in Business Administration from Armstrong University, Berkeley, California, United States 1987 He was planning to earn a master's degree in Law before his arrest. SPM 2003 Mikhlif Alshammari is one of the leaders of the Shammar tribe. He is a writer and critic for several Saudi newspapers. Then, he was banned from writing, but he continued to publish his articles on the internet. He is well known as human rights defender and advocate of reforming democracy. Also,"
"funding. Brij Kothari is married. He has two sons and a daughter. Brij Kothari Brij Kothari (born 9 June 1964) is an Indian academic and a social entrepreneur. He invented Same Language Subtitling on TV for mass literacy in India. Brij Kothari was born to a business entrepreneur. His parents were particular about education and sent him to Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (SAICE) in Pondicherry. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur, and did his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He is a Schwab Social Entrepreneur and an Ashoka Fellow. He was a Fellow at Stanford University's Reuters Digital"
"Percy Wickremasinghe. Wijayawardhena was an author and also translated the works of Leo Tolstoy into Sinhalese. Wijayawardhena died on 14 January 1982 at the age of 77. Justin Wijayawardhene Justin Wijayawardhene (18 November 1904 – 14 January 1982) was a Sri Lankan teacher, author and member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. Kotavila Vithanage Charles Justin Wijayawardhene was born in Matara on 18 November 1904 and received his primary school education St. Thomas' College, Matara before attending Mahinda College in Galle. He then became a teacher and taught at Rahula College, Matara. In collaboration with S. A. Wickramasinghe he established"
"teaches at School of Management Sciences, University of Hyderabad, as an adjunct professor. Arun Tiwari Arun Kumar Tiwari (born 10 February 1955) is an Indian missile scientist, author, and professor. He has written several books and co-authored 5 books with Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, including Wings of Fire, the autobiography of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, former president of India. Published in 1999, Wings of Fire has become a modern classic with over 30 reprints selling over a million copies and was translated into 18 languages. Born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, after completing his masters in mechanical engineering from GB Pant"
"Ganga Prasad Vimal Ganga Prasad Vimal (also Gangaprasad Vimal, गंगा प्रसाद विमल) (born 1940) is an Indian writer known as the father of the ""Akahani"" revolution in Hindi literature. Besides that he is a poet, story writer, novelist and translator. Ganga Prasad Vimal was born in 1939 in Uttarkashi, a Himalayan town in Uttarakhand state. His personality is full of simplicity, expansion, and purity like the Himalayas. In most of his writings, he has shown his concern towards saving the Himalayas and nearby regions and preserving trees as if preserving these would preserve his personality. And for this, he has"
"observed that ""As a guide to far-flung places, Pico Iyer can hardly be surpassed."" Pico Iyer Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer (born 11 February 1957), known as Pico Iyer, is a British-born American essayist and novelist, best known for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including ""Video Night in Kathmandu"", ""The Lady and the Monk"" and ""The Global Soul"". An essayist for ""Time"" since 1986, he also publishes regularly in ""Harper's"", ""The New York Review of Books"", ""The New York Times"", and other publications. Iyer was born Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer in Oxford, England,"
"mother, a housewife. He completed his master's degree in Environmental Science from Tribhuvan University in the year 2005. Since childhood Bhattarai has been influenced by B.P Koirala, Paarijat, Dhruba Chandra Gautam, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Anton Chekhov. Bhattarai started writing since he was in School at the age of 10. He started writing poems and recited several poems in Radio Nepal. He started to act in several dramas as child artist and co-hosted the popular children's program ""Hatemalo"" on Radio Nepal. His first book ""Kathaki Paatra"" an anthology of short stories was published in 2011. The stories revolve around"
"Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (24 November 1914 – 31 December 1999) also spelt Abul Hasan Ali al Hasani an Nadvi (affectionately 'Ali Miyan') was an Indian, Islamic scholar, and author of over fifty books in various languages. He was a theorist of the revivalist movement. He was born on 24 November 1914. He received his early education at his home in Takia, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India. His mother initiated his early training in Quranic studies; he later entered formal education in Arabic, Persian and Urdu. His father, Hakim Syed Abdul Hai, wrote an 8-volumes"
"late writer’s works. He has worked as a teacher, journalist and is today a professor of Hausa Literary History. He was born in Malumfashi, Katsina State, attended Primary and Secondary schools at Dudi and G.S.S Funtua from 1968 to 1980. He was at KCAST Zaria from 1980 to 1982. Attended A.B.U Zaria and graduated in 1985 with B.A Hons in Hausa Studies. Did his NYSC at FGGC Yola and had his M.A in 1991 and Phd 1999, all in Hausa Studies from Bayero University Kano. Started his career as a class room teacher in 1985 at FGGC Yola as a"
"Parikipandla Narahari Parikipandla Narahari (born 1 March 1975) is an Indian civil servant employed by the Indian Administrative Services and a writer. According to ""Tehelka"", Narahari, in his capacity as District Collector of Gwalior, is one of India's few civil servants who are using websites like Twitter and Facebook to interact with citizenry to solve their problems. The issues citizens of Gwalior raise on Narahari's wall are automatically directed to concerned departments. ""The Better India"" recognized Narahari as 10 most inspiring IAS officers of the year 2017. Narahari has written two books, ""Who Owns Mhow?"" and ""The Making of Ladli"
"Devashish Makhija Devashish Makhija is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, graphic artist, fiction writer and poet, best known for writing and directing full-length feature films Ajji, Oonga and authoring the bestselling children's books ""When Ali became Bajrangbali"" and ""Why Paploo was Perplexed"", and a series of 49 short stories published as the anthology ""Forgetting"" by HarperCollins. He has also worked on the films ""Black Friday"" and ""Bunty Aur Babli"". Born and brought up in Park Circus, Devashish spent the first 24 years of his life in Kolkata. He completed his schooling at Don Bosco High School and pursued a degree in"
"welfare somewhere in there. A lesson in short filmmaking."" Devashish Makhija Devashish Makhija is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, graphic artist, fiction writer and poet, best known for writing and directing full-length feature films Ajji, Oonga and authoring the bestselling children's books ""When Ali became Bajrangbali"" and ""Why Paploo was Perplexed"", and a series of 49 short stories published as the anthology ""Forgetting"" by HarperCollins. He has also worked on the films ""Black Friday"" and ""Bunty Aur Babli"". Born and brought up in Park Circus, Devashish spent the first 24 years of his life in Kolkata. He completed his schooling at"
"Pico Iyer Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer (born 11 February 1957), known as Pico Iyer, is a British-born American essayist and novelist, best known for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including ""Video Night in Kathmandu"", ""The Lady and the Monk"" and ""The Global Soul"". An essayist for ""Time"" since 1986, he also publishes regularly in ""Harper's"", ""The New York Review of Books"", ""The New York Times"", and other publications. Iyer was born Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer in Oxford, England, the son of Indian parents. His father was Raghavan N. Iyer, an Oxford philosopher"
"Eknath Easwaran Eknath Easwaran (December 17, 1910 – October 26, 1999) was an Indian-born spiritual teacher, author, as well as a translator and interpreter of Indian religious texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads. In 1961 Easwaran founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation and Nilgiri Press, based in northern California. Nilgiri Press has published over thirty books that he authored. Easwaran was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi, whom he met when he was a young man. Easwaran developed a method of meditation – silent repetition in the mind of memorized inspirational passages from the world's major religious and"
"and Head of the Department of Post-Graduate Teaching in Humanities at Nagpur University. Mirashi wrote 30 research works in English, Marathi, and Hindi, and more than 275 papers in various Indological journals. His ""Inscriptions of the Kalchuri-Chedi Era"" (1955), ""Inscriptions of the Vakatakas"" (1963), and ""Inscriptions of the Silaharas"" (1977) were published in the renowned ""Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Series"" of the Archaeological Survey of India. He also worked on the stone inscriptions of ""Satvahanas"" and ""Kshatrapas"". Mirashi's other important works comprise four volumes of ""Literary & Historical Studies in Indology"", ""Kalidasa"", and ""Bhavabhuti"". Mirashi received a large number of honours"
"Nyanaponika Thera Nyanaponika Thera or Nyanaponika Mahathera (July 21, 1901 – 19 October 1994) was a German-born Sri-Lanka-ordained Theravada monk, co-founder of the Buddhist Publication Society, contemporary author of numerous seminal Theravada books, and teacher of contemporary Western Buddhist leaders such as Bhikkhu Bodhi. Ven. Nyanaponika Thera (Siegmund Feniger) was born in Hanau, Germany on July 21, 1901 as Siegmund Feniger, the only child of a Jewish family. In 1921, he moved with his parents to Berlin, where he met with German Buddhists and also had access to Buddhist literature in the German language. He first came across the writings"
"Vishnu Raj Atreya Vishnu Raj Atreya ( born on 10 November 1944) also known as ""Lato Saathi"" is a literary figure in Nepali language, Sanskrit language and Awadhi language. He uses the title ""Latosathi"" (meaning: Dumb Friend) in his poetry works. Atreya was born into a Brahmin family as the first son of Dev Raj Upadhayaya and Sharada Devi. He was born in Kapilvastu, Nepal. Atreya has worked in various universities and is also associated with many social and religious organizations. He has served as a Professor of Navya Vyakaran in Nepal Sanskrit University for seventeen years (1996-2013). Before joining"
"Ashwani Thakur Ashwani Thakur (born 7 June 1983) is an Indian Author, Filmmaker and Personality Development Coach. His films won recognition at various national and international film festivals. He was awarded by Times Of India for a music video of the song ""Tum chalo to hindustan chale"" by ""Lead India"". Thakur directed a number of short films, documentaries and music videos. He authored the book ""Inspirational Stories Of Enlightenment"". Thakur was born in Delhi to businessman Satish Kumar and Premlata, and was the younger of two brothers. He finished his schooling in Hillwoods Academy. At age twelve he began writing"
"for Malayalam keyboard for typewriters, which was later adopted in the inscript layout for computers. In 2007, he acted in a Malayalam movie named ""AKG"" about the Communist leader A K Gopalan in which M. P. Parameswaran donned the role of Kerala's first Chief Minister E M Sankaran Namboodiripad (EMS). He had published the book ""Janakeeya Sasthra Prasthanam"" in 2008. The third edition of the book was recently published. M. P. Parameswaran M. P. Parameswaran is an Indian nuclear engineer and educationist. He played an important role in the Indian Nuclear program. He was born on January 18, 1935 in"
"Brij Kothari Brij Kothari (born 9 June 1964) is an Indian academic and a social entrepreneur. He invented Same Language Subtitling on TV for mass literacy in India. Brij Kothari was born to a business entrepreneur. His parents were particular about education and sent him to Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (SAICE) in Pondicherry. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur, and did his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He is a Schwab Social Entrepreneur and an Ashoka Fellow. He was a Fellow at Stanford University's Reuters Digital Vision Program and completed the ""Leadership for System Change: Delivering Social Impact"
"Shardha Ram Phillauri Shardha Ram Phillauri (30 September 1837 – 24 June 1881) was a Hindu missionary, social reformer, astrologer, and writer, best remembered for his contributions to Hindi and Punjabi literature. He has been called the ""father of modern Punjabi prose."" Shardha Ram was born in 1837 to a Brahmin family in the town of Phillaur, Jalandhar. His father, Jai Dyalu, was an astrologer. He did not have any formal education as such. At the age of seven, he learned Gurmukhi script. By age ten, he had studied Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, astrology, and music. Later, he was also a"
"Arun Budhathoki Arun Budhathoki () (born September 19, 1986) is a Nepali poet, fiction writer and journalist from Kathmandu, Nepal. He did his undergraduate studies in Nizam College, Hyderabad, India and pursued master's degree in the University of Northampton, England. He has written six books so far. Because of his nomadic nature, he likes travelling around. Arun is the co-founder of Nepal Tribune Media and Editor-in-Chief of Kathmandu Tribune. His works have appeared in India Today, The Huffington Post (India), Daily O, The Diplomat, The Citizen (India), Republica, The Kathmandu Post, Asia Pacific Daily, The Globe and Mail, TRT World,"