Siddhartha Sarma

Siddhartha Sarma
Born	Assam
Language	English
Notable works	The Grasshopper's Run East of The Sun Year of the Weeds Carpenters and Kings Twilight in a Knotted World
Notable awards	2010 Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2011 Bal Sahitya Puraskar

Siddhartha Sarma is an Indian novelist and journalist from Assam who writes in English. ^{[1] [2]}

Biography

Siddhartha Sarma is from Guwahati, Assam. ^[1] While working as a journalist for a business magazine in Delhi, he published the young adult novel The Grasshopper's Run with Scholastic in 2009. ^{[1] [3]} To write the novel, he conducted archival research and incorporated stories he was told by his grandfather. ^{[1] [4]} The story is set in Assam and Nagaland during the Second World War and follows the friendship between a Naga and Assamese boy. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Nilanjana S Roy recommended the book, ^[8] and it won the 2010 Vodafone Crossword Book Award in the Children's Literature category. ^{[5] [9]} In 2011, Sarma was awarded the Bal Sahitya Puraskar for The Grasshopper's Run by the Sahitya Academy. ^{[10] [11]}

He has also written East of The Sun, a travelogue published in 2011 based on his travels in the North East, and emails he sent to friends to describe his journey. ^{[12] [13]} In 2018, he published the novel Year of the Weeds, which is based on the Dongria Kondh campaign against mining. ^{[14] [15] [16]}

In 2019, he published the non-fiction book Carpenters and Kings: Western Christianity and the Idea of India after nine years of research on a concept he developed while completing his thesis for a Master of Letters at the University of Glasgow. ^{[17] [18]} His next novel, titled Twilight in a Knotted World, ^[19] was released in September 2020. ^{[20] [21]} In 2021, his work was published in the essay collection Where the Gods Dwell. ^[22]

See also

• Indian English Literature
• Literature from North East India

References

1. Borpujari, Utpal (24 October 2009). "Grasshoppers & hilly tales". Deccan Herald . Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
2. Deivasigamani, T. (2019). Subaltern Discourses. MJP Publishers. p. 241. ISBN   9788180943669 . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
3. White, Gregor (13 May 2011). "Book Review: The Grasshopper's Run, by Siddhartha Sarma". Daily Record . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
4. Jain, Ritika (7 January 2019). "8 books for young adults that borrow from the real world". The Indian Express . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
5. Molekhi, Pankaj (12 September 2010). "Revenge tale set in the North-East during World War II". The Economic Times . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
6. Srivastava, Neelam; Ciocca, Rossella, eds. (2017). Indian Literature and the World: Multilingualism, Translation, and the Public Sphere. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 211. ISBN   9781137545497 . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
7. Kashyap, Samudra Gupta (8 May 2015). "Assamese, Manipuri, Naga authors have kept alive World War II fought 70 years ago". The Indian Express . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
8. Roy, Nilanjana S (1 September 2009). "Nilanjana S Roy: Teenage wasteland: What to read before you get old". Business Standard . Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
9. Bagchi, Shrabonti (27 September 2010). "I know what you read this summer". DNA India. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
10. "Three NE writers named for Bal Sahitya Puraskar". Times of India . 18 August 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
11. "Sahitya Akademi announces Bal Sahitya Puraskars - Hindustan Times". www.hindustantimes.com. Archived from the original on 25 October 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
12. Mitra, Anindita (27 January 2011). "'East of the Sun': Notes from the Northeast". DNA . Retrieved 3 January 2023.
13. "The Hindu : Arts / Books : Stories of sojourns". The Hindu . Archived from the original on 12 February 2011.
14. Shekhar, Hansda Sowvendra (21 October 2018). "Why a journalist wrote about the Niyamgiri agitation in the form of a Young Adult novel". Scroll.in . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
15. Krithika, R. (16 November 2018). "A novel for the next generation". The Hindu . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
16. Reviews of Year of the Weeds
    • Vachharajani, Bijal (9 November 2018). "Powered by the people". The Hindu . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
    • Ghosh, Suktara (30 March 2020). "BOOK NOOK: It's story time". Mumbai Mirror . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
17. "Book examines history of Christianity in India". Deccan Herald . Press Trust of India. 9 October 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
18. Reviews of Carpenters and Kings
    • Menezes, Vivek (24 August 2019). "Review: Carpenters and Kings by Siddhartha Sarma and The Churches of India by Joanne Taylor". Hindustan Times . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
    • Mallya, Vinutha (21 April 2019). "Siddhartha Sarma documents the journey of Christianity in India in his book". Bangalore Mirror . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
    • Fernandes, Jason Keith (2 June 2019). "This book traces the long history of Christianity in India to show how rooted it is in the country". Scroll.in . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
19. Popli, Bhumika (21 July 2020). "'A good sentence or turn of phrase can make one feel pure happiness': Author Siddhartha Sarma". The New Indian Express . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
20. Priyadershini, S (31 December 2020). "A book, a song, a dance...created during lockdown". The Hindu . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
21. Reviews of Twilight in a Knotted World
    • Datta, Antara (25 October 2020). "This novel provides an imaginative, intimate account unrevealed by formal histories of 'thuggees'". Scroll.in . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
    • Ghosh, Sudeshna Shome (9 October 2020). "'Twilight in a Knotted World': A world of tangled truths". Business Line . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
    • Gulab, Kushalrani (31 October 2020). "Thug Life". India Today . Retrieved 24 January 2022.
22. Narayan, Shoba (21 January 2022). "'Where the Gods Dwell': a modern guide to Indian shrines". The Hindu . Retrieved 24 January 2022.