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The book claimed that Morarji Desai was paid US$20,000 per year, starting from the time of Lyndon B. Johnson. Desai obtained an injunction from the Bombay High Court for a temporary ban and sued for damages worth US$5 million in US. [29] 1984 Smash and Grab: Annexation of Sikkim: Sunanda K. Datta-Ray: The book dealt with India's annexation of ...
The Orwell Archive at University College London contains undated notes about ideas that evolved into Nineteen Eighty-Four.The notebooks have been deemed "unlikely to have been completed later than January 1944", and "there is a strong suspicion that some of the material in them dates back to the early part of the war".
Delhi: A Novel is a historical novel by Indian writer Khushwant Singh published in 1990. [1] The novel was a bestseller in India when first published but received little critical attention compared to Amitav Ghosh's novel The Shadow Lines that also covered the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Amit Khan (born 3 March 1972) is an Indian author, screenwriter and director. [1] [2] His novels are also available in English, Punjabi and Marathi language.[3]He is the creator of ‘Commander Karan Saxena’, a character in the world of Hindi novels.
Khandhar (English: Ruins) is a 1984 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Mrinal Sen, based on Premendra Mitra's Bengali short story Telenapota Abishkar (Discovering Telenapota). [1] The film stars Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Pankaj Kapur. [2] It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. [3]
Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian author William Gibson.Set in a near-future dystopia, the narrative follows Henry Case, a computer hacker enlisted into a crew by a powerful artificial intelligence and a traumatised former soldier to complete a high-stakes heist.
Kamla is a 1984 Hindi film produced and directed by Jagmohan Mundhra, starring Deepti Naval, Shabana Azmi, and Marc Zuber in lead roles. The film is titled after the character of Naval. [ 1 ] The screenplay by Vijay Tendulkar was based on his play Kamala , written in 1981.
8 August - PT Usha misses Olympic medal by 1/100 of a second in 1984 Summer Olympics. [4] 24 August - The first 3D film in India My Dear Kuttichathan was released. 24 October - India's first metro Kolkata metro started. 31 October – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her two Sikh security guards.