World Press Freedom Day is observed annually on May 3 UNITED NATIONS (TIP): U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on May 2 urged the international community to “speak with one voice” and call for stopping the detention […]

LONDON : (TIP): London-based Indian-origin author Chetna Maroo’s debut novel ‘Western Lane’ has been shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize. Sarah Bernstein’s ‘Study for Obedience’, ‘If I Survive You’ by Jonathan Escoffery, Paul Harding’s ‘The […]

LONDON (TIP): Indian-origin author Mahmood Mamdani is among four writers shortlisted for the 2021 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding on Tuesday, September 7.  The 75-year-old Mumbai-born Ugandan academic and writer is in […]