Douglas Stuart, a Scottish author has won this year’s Booker Prize. The Booker Prize is considered as the most prestigious literary award of Britain. Every year this award is given for the best English language Fiction published in Britain.Stuart has been given the Prize for his debut novel Shuggie Bain.
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My total posts: 22
Writing since May 2020
Bangladeshi Child Sadat Rahman wins 2020 International Children Peace Prize
The International Children Peace Prize launched in 2005 by Kidsrights, a Netherland based Child Rights organization, is awarded annually. This year’s award has been given to Sadat Rahman, a 17 year old child from the district of Narail in Bangladesh. The award has been given to him for his innovative
View Full ArticleA Glimpse of “Durga Puja” Story and Mythology
During my childhood days, I used to visit, as many as I could, sites of Durga Puja (Puja Mondop) as there were many Hindu families living around. One of my childhood Hindu friends was Ratan Robidas. Rabidases are one of many castes within Hindu caste system. They even have their
View Full ArticleIndira Nehru Becoming Indira Gandhi
I was reading some online materials just to make my understanding clear, once again, about the relationship between Nehru and Gandhi family, especially how Indira Nehru came to be known as Indira Gandhi. After reading those materials I thought to write down it to make my understanding even clearer.Indira Nehru
View Full ArticleIt is certainly very difficult to write something, whether in details or in briefs, about a Nobel Laureate. And if it is to be written by someone amateurish like me, it will prove to be impossible. And it becomes even more difficult if that Nobel Laureate wins the Nobel Prize
View Full ArticleI first came across this term while reading a synopsis of a book named Althusser, a novel written by Mashrur Arefin. I started to read more about the term online. This rebellion is about climate and ecological change. I found this, like many other, rebellion in the form of civil
View Full ArticleI had been feeling very restless for the last couple of weeks. I could not sleep and if I could that after long hours of changing sides to feel finally relaxed. It must have something to do with COVID -19 I conclude. But in reality it was happening because I
View Full ArticleMany of you might have been familiar with this term for a long time. But in my case, it might be one or two years I first came across this term. When I first came across the term the meaning and implication was not that clear to me. I didn’t
View Full ArticleOnline Learning and Learners with Disability
It’s already been more than three months I last sat to write. I used to write almost regularly and frantically before that. I think there has gone a phase of initial wave of writing spree in me. But I didn’t write anything important and significant during that time of writing
View Full Article"To me the most extra ordinary thing was the audience though; day laborers, rickshaw pullers, girls and women from nearby community and many others. They were the sole life of the exhibition. A whole lot can be written solely on audience. About the way they were looking at each and
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