Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language romantic action film directed by Rakesh Roshan, marking the debuts of his son Hrithik Roshan and actress, Ameesha Patel.
Dushman is a 1998 Indian Hindi psychological thriller film starring Kajol, Sanjay Dutt and Ashutosh Rana. The film is directed by Tanuja Chandra and produced by Mukesh Bhatt and Pooja Bhatt.
Sonia Faleiro is an Indian writer of narrative non-fiction. Her critically acclaimed first novel The Girl was published by Viking in 2006. This was followed by Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars (2010), and the e-single 13 Men (2015). The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing was published in January, 2021.
Good Girl(s) may refer to:
The National Commission for Women (NCW) is the statutory body of the Government of India, generally concerned with advising the government on all policy matters affecting women. It was established on 31 January 1992 under the provisions of the Indian Constitution, as defined in the 1990 National Commission for Women Act. The first head of the commission was Jayanti Patnaik. As of 30 November 2018, Rekha Sharma is the chairperson.
Aashayein (transl. Hopes) is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, and produced by Percept Picture Company and T-Series. It stars John Abraham and Sonal Sehgal in the lead roles. The film revolves around Rahul, a gambler whose life changes one day when he discovers he's diagnosed with cancer but is given the hope of living his life to the fullest by several patients he meets at a rehabilitation centre. The film released theatrically on 27 August 2010.
Parul Sehgal is a literary critic whose articles have been published in literary magazines and newspapers. She is a former book critic at The New York Times Book Review and The New York Times. She will begin working as a staff writer at The New Yorker in September. She teaches at Columbia University and at the City University of New York.
Aisling Tucker Moore-Reed, known by her pen name Tucker Reed, is an American novelist and civil rights activist who was convicted of manslaughter in May 2020. Reed co-authored the young adult novel Amber House published in October 2012 and its sequel Neverwas, released internationally in January 2014.
Dipali Barthakur was an Indian singer from Assam. Her songs were sung mainly in the Assamese language. She received the fourth-highest civilian award of India, the Padma Shri, in the year 1998.
Amar Nath Sehgal was a noted Indian modernist sculptor, painter, poet and art educator. He started his career as an engineer in Lahore, and later turned to art. He shifted to Delhi after partition of India in 1947, and in 1950 studied art education from New York University School of Education. Subsequently, became an art educator, teaching at College of Art, Delhi, and in time a noted modern sculptor to his generation. Though he also ventured into painting, drawings and poetry.
On 27 May 2014, a gang rape and murder of two teenage girls was reported in the Katra village of Budaun district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was widely reported in the press in India as well as overseas. After an extensive investigation, CBI concluded that there was no gang rape and the suspects were released. However, on 28 October 2015 the POCSO court rejected the CBI closure report; it was a major setback for CBI.
The Last Children of Tokyo, originally published in Japanese as Kentoshi (献灯使), is a 2014 science fiction novel by Yoko Tawada. The English version translated by Margaret Mitsutani was published in the UK in 2018. It was published in the US as The Emissary.
Sanghmitra Maurya is an Indian politician and a member of the 17th Lok Sabha. She was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from Badaun, Uttar Pradesh in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, defeating senior Samajwadi Party leader Dharmendra Yadav. She earlier contested in Mainpuri in 2014 as a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party but lost to Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Lost Children Archive is a 2019 novel by writer Valeria Luiselli. Luiselli was in part inspired by the ongoing American policy of separating children from their parents at the Mexican-American border. The novel is the first book Luiselli wrote in English.
My Absolute Darling is the 2017 debut novel by American author Gabriel Tallent.
The Nickel Boys is a 2019 novel by American novelist Colson Whitehead. It is based on the real story of the Dozier School, a reform school in Florida that operated for 111 years and had its history exposed by a university's investigation. It was named one of TIME's best books of the decade. It is the follow-up to Whitehead's 2016 novel The Underground Railroad, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
In the Dream House is a 2019 memoir by Carmen Maria Machado. It was published on November 5, 2019, by Graywolf Press.
Fake Accounts is the 2021 debut novel by American author and critic Lauren Oyler. It was published on February 2, 2021 by Catapult, and on February 4, 2021 by Fourth Estate.
Walking with the Comrades (2011) is an eyewitness account of the Naxalite–Maoist insurgency by Indian author Arundhati Roy. The book covers her time in 2010 spent living with Naxalite communist guerillas deep within the forests of rural Chhattisgarh. She argues that India's counter-insurgency, known as Operation Green Hunt, is a front for mining corporations to clear away tribal people, and to make profits exploit India's natural resources.
From a Low and Quiet Sea is a novel written by Irish novelist Donal Ryan. It was first published in 2018 by Penguin Random House. It was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
