Siddhartha Sarma
Siddhartha Sarma | |
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| 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
[edit]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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Borpujari, Utpal (24 October 2009). "Grasshoppers & hilly tales". Deccan Herald. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ Deivasigamani, T. (2019). Subaltern Discourses. MJP Publishers. p. 241. ISBN 9788180943669. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ White, Gregor (13 May 2011). "Book Review: The Grasshopper's Run, by Siddhartha Sarma". Daily Record. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ Jain, Ritika (7 January 2019). "8 books for young adults that borrow from the real world". The Indian Express. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ a b Molekhi, Pankaj (12 September 2010). "Revenge tale set in the North-East during World War II". The Economic Times. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bagchi, Shrabonti (27 September 2010). "I know what you read this summer". DNA India. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ "Three NE writers named for Bal Sahitya Puraskar". Times of India. 18 August 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ "Sahitya Akademi announces Bal Sahitya Puraskars - Hindustan Times". www.hindustantimes.com. Archived from the original on 25 October 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
- ^ Mitra, Anindita (27 January 2011). "'East of the Sun': Notes from the Northeast". DNA. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ "The Hindu : Arts / Books : Stories of sojourns". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 12 February 2011.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Krithika, R. (16 November 2018). "A novel for the next generation". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Book examines history of Christianity in India". Deccan Herald. Press Trust of India. 9 October 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Priyadershini, S (31 December 2020). "A book, a song, a dance...created during lockdown". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Narayan, Shoba (21 January 2022). "'Where the Gods Dwell': a modern guide to Indian shrines". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
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