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Alka Joshi is an Indian–American author and novelist. [1] Alka Joshi was born in Jodhpur, India. In the 1960s, Joshi and her family moved to the US when she was nine. She received her BA from Stanford University and her MFA from California College of the Arts. [2] [3] In 2020, she published her debut novel The Henna Artist, part of her Jaipur ...
The discovery set offers readers of Alka Joshi's upcoming novel a multisensorial understanding of main character Radha's journey as a fledgling female perfumer in the '70s.
Alka Joshi, author; Amitav Ghosh, Indo-nostalgic writer and winner of Prix Médicis étranger; Anita Desai, novelist; shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times; mother of Kiran Desai; Anju Hasan, author, of Neti,Neti; Anu Garg, author, speaker, and computer engineer; Arnold Rampersad, biographer and literary critic
The Festival is an Initiative of the Jaipur Virasat Foundation (JVF) It originally started as a segment of the Jaipur Heritage International Festival in 2006, and developed into a free-standing festival of literature standing on its own feet in 2008. [1] JVF's Community Director Vinod Joshi is its regional advisor.
The plan is inspired by the original city plan of Jaipur, consisting of nine squares with a central square left open. [4] The Jawahar Kala Kendra adapts and applies concepts from ancient architectural principles called the Vastu Vidya. [2] [5] The architecture of Jawahar Kala Kendra follows the Indian classical principle Vastu Purush Mandala.
Jal Mahal at night. Jal Mahal (meaning "Water Palace") is a palace in the middle of the Man Sagar Lake in Jaipur city, the capital of the state of Rajasthan, India. The palace was originally constructed around 1699; the building and the lake around it were later renovated and enlarged in the early 18th century by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Amber.
On 7 October 2015 it was reported that Vajpeyi returned his Sahitya Akademi Award supporting "the right to dissent" and protesting recent murders of writers. [11] [12] On 20 January 2016, Ashok decided to return D.Litt. given to him by University of Hyderabad in protest against the "Anti-Dalit" attitude of authorities which has allegedly driven a Dalit student Rohith Vemula to commit suicide.
The Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders were ten murders committed by Rajendra Jakkal, Dilip Sutar, Shantaram Kanhoji Jagtap and Munawar Harun Shah of Pune, India between January 1976 and March 1977. All the murderers were commercial art students at the Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya, Tilak Road, and were hanged for their crimes on 27 November 1983. [ 1 ]