COUNTDOWN TILL MIDNIGHT PLUSIn the 75 th year of independence, the diverse titles take on the past, present and future of India. For instance, in Born a Muslim: Some Truths about Islam in India (Aleph), Ghazala Wahab examines the backwardness of the community, attributing it to both internal (excessive reliance on dogma) and external factors. With examples from her own life, she shows how an indifferent and sometimes hostile government plus social prejudice have left the Muslim vulnerable and insecure. With climate change a critical issue, Shekhar Pathak’s The Chipko Movement: A People’s History (Permanent Black) profiles the people who contributed to the extraordinary Chipko movement and why the battle to protect forests and mountains is far from over Rukmini S. In other news, 10 books covering a wide range of themes from governance, state of Muslims in India today, border politics to nationalism, what the numbers tell about a country like India, a biography of the house of Tatas and the Chipko movement are on the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022 longlist. The Prize will be announced this Thursday (October 6), and we will bring you a profile of the winner in the next edition last year it went to Tanzanian-British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah for “his compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism.” The Literature Prize has had its own share of controversy – and surprises - after American singer/song-writer Bob Dylan was conferred the prize in 2016 and the Austrian writer Peter Handke in 2019, despite his open support of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic whose regime was deemed responsible for atrocities in the Balkan war. The countdown to the Nobel Prize for Literature 2022 has begun with several names including Salman Rushdie, who was viciously attacked in New York at a book event recently, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, Iranian novelist Shahrnush Parsipur, Nigeria’s Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the contenders’ list. Select apps, select desired lock-down time, lock apps.Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter.The project is open source and anyone is welcome to help me with this, here are the links: COUNTDOWN TILL MIDNIGHT HOW TOI've got a couple of users in my app reporting a weird behavior of a time reset/bug, i was baffled by it and after testing and collecting logs - i figured that my timer, if started before midnight, resets to 20+ hours instantly, i've can't figure out why or how to prevent this.
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