Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and raised in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria and is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and the Ibis Trilogy, which includes the Sea of the Poppies, a river of smoke and a flood of fire. His latest book, The Great Derangement; Climate Change and Imagination, a work of myth, emerged in 2016.
TOP 10 BOOKS TO READ
- Sea of poppies (2008)
- The hungry Tide (2004)
- The shadow lines (1988)
- The Calcutta Chromosome (1955)
- In an antique land (1992)
- The invisible Hand (2017)
- The Imam and the Indian (2002)
- River of Smoke (2011)
- Flood of Fire (2012)
- The Nutmeg’s Curse (2021)
Amitav Ghosh holds two Lifetime Achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest honors, by the President of India. In 2010 he was a joint winner, along with Margaret Atwood of a Dan David prize, and 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis festival in Montreal. In 2018 the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honor, was conferred on Amitav Ghosh. He was the first English-language writer to receive the award. In 2019 Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade
MANO BAJPAYEE
Manoj Bajpayee was born in Belwa, a small village in West Champaran, Bihar. He was the second of six siblings. Upon completing his schooling from Khrist Raja High School in Bettiah, Manoj studied at Maharani Janaki College in Bettiah till his twelfth grade. He then moved to Delhi where he attended Satyawati College and went on to graduate from Ramjas College, Delhi University.
He mainly works in Hindi cinema and has also made films in Telugu and Tamil. He received two National Film Awards, four Filmfare Awards and two Asia Pacific Screen Awards for Best Performance by an Actor. In 2019, he received the fourth highest Indian civilian honor Padma Shri for his contributions to art.
SONU NIGAM
Sonu Nigam (born 30 July 1973) is an Indian singer, music director and actor. He has been described in the media as one of the most popular and successful playback singers of Hindi Cinema. He has been honoured by the Government of India with Padma Shri, the country’s fourth-highest civilian honour for his contribution in the field of arts.
He has received 17 nominations for Filmfare best playback singer, 10 nominations for Filmfare awards South and is a winner of record 4 times (9 nominations) for IIFA Award for Best Male playback singer and received Oscar Academy Awards nomination in 2014 for soundtrack of Jal composed by Sonu Nigam and Bickram Ghosh together. He was ranked the Number 1 artist on the US Billboard Uncharted charts twice in September and October 2013.S
SHEREEN BHAN
Shereen Bhan (born 20 August 1976) is an Indian journalist and news anchor. She is the Managing Editor of CNBC-TV18. Shereen Bhan has an experience of 20 years, 14 of which were spent in tracking corporate, policy news and events that defined the business landscape in India. In April 2005, she was awarded the FICCI Woman of the Year award.
Women’s magazine Femina included her among the 20 Beautiful Faces of the year in its September 2005 issue. She was featured on the cover of Verve magazine’s December 2008 issue. Shereen figured among the 50 most Beautiful Women in the Vogue October 2008 issue.
In 2009, the World Economic Forum named her as one of the Young Global Leaders of 2009. In 2021, Best News Presenter or Anchor, India Business Hour, 26th Asian Television Awards (Nominated)
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