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The Friday List: From NCPA's tribute to Mahatma Gandhi to a discussion on Rajasthani miniature painting, your weekly calendar of virtual events
Fp Staff •Every Friday, we'll bring you a curated list of online experiences — performances, talks, tours, screenings — to mark on your weekly calendar.
A history of women in comics: How cartoonists politicised art to fuel campaign for women's suffrage
Anvishamanral •A look at the way history treated certain avant-garde women cartoonists in the years preceding World War I can answer several questions on why the modern feminist movement is met with still met with hostility.
Big Little Book Awards 2019: Priya Kuriyan wins best illustrator, Prabhat bags prize for best children's literature in Hindi
Fp Staff •Since its inception in 2016, the Big Little Book Award chooses one language each year for the prize in keeping with its aim of recognising the work produced for children in Indian languages
Shanta Gokhale discusses writing her memoir, the complexities of translation, and the role of a critic
Aditya Mani Jha •Earlier this month, the Tata Literature Live Festival conferred a lifetime achievement award upon Shanta Gokhale, recognising her long and distinguished career which includes Marathi novels, plays, translations, books on theatre and screenplays — to say nothing of a lifetime of journalism.
Tata Literature Live! 2019: Shanta Gokhale to be honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award; K Satchidananda is Poet Laureate
•Gokhale and Satchidananda will be awarded for their work which has made a significant impact in the Indian literary field.
Tata Literature Live! 2019: Alexander McCall Smith, Anthony Horowitz to attend 10th edition of literary festival
Fp Staff •McCall Smith, scheduled to attend the tenth edition of Tata Literature Live! is best known for his series, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and has authored over a 100 books including The Sunday Philosophy Club series and The 44 Scotland Street series
Baahubali producers Arka Mediaworks option Manu S Pillai's The Ivory Throne for screen adaptation
Fp Staff •Pillai's novel which bagged several awards including the Tata Literature Live! Best Debut (Non-fiction) Prize is a retelling of the life and work of Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, the last queen of the House of Travancore
Tata Literature Live 2018: On Day 4, the discussions get political with Arun Shourie, Priyanka Pathak-Narain, Lionel Shriver
Joanna Lobo •The last day of Tata Literature Live ended on a political note. It’s hard to ignore what’s happening in the country at this moment and quite a few panellists used the stage to talk about it.
Tata Literature Live 2018: On Day 3, conversations on love, longing, cities and history
Joanna Lobo •Ravish Kumar, Snigdha Poonam, Ashok Ferrey, among others feature on day three of the Tata Literature Live 2018.
Tata Literature Live 2018: Conversations about activism, leisure and India's diversity dominate on Day 2
Joanna Lobo •Day 2 of Tata Literature Live saw Aruna Roy speaking about RTI and Robert Dessaix explaining why leisure is important