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Rajani Thiranagama: My mother, the fearless leader

Rajani Thiranagama: My mother, the fearless leader

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Dr Rajani Thiranagama was a feminist, academic, scientist, and a fighter for truth and justice | Photo Credit: The Hindu archives “All the most powerful forces are invisible” observes Maali, the narrator of Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker Prize-winning The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. “Love, electricity, wind. And the waves following a bomb blast.” Unspoken is […]

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Booker Prize 2022 | The six shortlists: NoViolet Bulawayo, Claire Keegan, Alan Garner, Shehan Karunatilaka, Percival Everett, and Elizabeth Strout

Booker Prize 2022 | The six shortlists: NoViolet Bulawayo, Claire Keegan, Alan Garner, Shehan Karunatilaka, Percival Everett, and Elizabeth Strout

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From a longlist of 13 books, six novels made it to the 2022 Booker Prize shortlist. And it includes the shortest book and oldest author ever to be nominated, besides “writers from five countries and a wealth of fabulous fiction”, as the Booker website states. The winner will be announced on October 17, at the […]

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