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The Night Diary is a young adult novel written by American writer Veera Hiranandani and published by Penguin Random House in 2018. It is set in 1947, during the months before and after the independence of India and subsequent division with Pakistan, and is written as diary entries from the perspective of Nisha, a girl who has just celebrated her twelfth birthday along with her twin brother, Amil.
He later returns to fetch Sarny and take her to "pit school" in the night, where she sees and learns what a catalog is, learns the rest of the letters, and has acquired great knowledge- something no one can take away from her. Since John comes at night, he is called Nightjohn. This book was followed by a sequel called Sarny, a Life Remembered ...
Conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye or Madras eye, [4] [5] is inflammation of the conjunctiva and the inner surface of the eyelid. [6] It makes the eye appear pink or reddish. [1] Pain, burning, scratchiness, or itchiness may occur. [1] The affected eye may have increased tears or be "stuck shut" in the morning. [1] Swelling of the sclera ...
In 2004, Madras on Rainy Days received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Award in Fiction. [1] The book also was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award in 2005, [2] and was awarded the Prix Premier Roman Étranger 2005 Award in France. [3] In July 2004, the book was chosen as a best debut novel of the year by Poets & Writers magazine. The ...
The New York Times described the virtue of the book as "everyone in the book seems to have a capacity for responding to the quality of his particular hour. It's an art we need to study and revive." [5] In 1986, a few of the stories in the book were included in the Malgudi Days television series and directed by actor and director, Shankar Nag.
On the cover of Lisa Birnbach’s “The Official Preppy Handbook,” a tongue-in-cheek 1980s guide to looking, acting and thinking like a US prep school elite, a pattern along the border depicts ...
The film's release also attracted rumours that the use of 3D glasses was spreading conjunctivitis, which was dubbed "Madras Eye". These rumours prompted the makers to add footage before the film began with prominent actors Prem Nazir , Amitabh Bachchan , Jeetendra , Rajinikanth , Chiranjeevi and others explaining that the glasses were ...
Cereus Blooms at Night [1] (1996) is the first novel published by film-maker, artist, and writer Shani Mootoo.The novel recounts the story of an old lady named Mala Ramchandin through the narrative of Tyler, a nurse at Paradise Alms House.