June 06, 2018 12:35 pm
Many would rate Mahasweta Devi’s searing 'Hajar Churashir Maa' and Neel Mukherjee’s 'The Lives of Others' higher. But 'The Lowland' made me believe stories I'd heard in my childhood and tales of the Naxalbari uprising.
September 11, 2015 10:23 am
Indian-American Lahiri was presented with the medal yesterday in the East Room of the White House in the presence of luminaries from the field of arts and humanities.
September 04, 2015 8:33 am
Jhumpa Lahiri has been selected for the prestigious 2014 National Humanities Medal
August 14, 2015 9:54 am
Barack Obama is currently on a summer vacation along with his family in Martha's Vineyard - an island in Massachusetts.
January 23, 2015 3:01 am
Lahiri, 47, who could not be present at the ceremony, appeared over Skype to thank the judges.
November 28, 2014 2:58 pm
Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri is one of five frontrunners for next year's DSC Prize.
October 14, 2014 3:07 pm
Amitav Kaul’s adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning Interpreter of Maladies is one of the 32 projects at the NFDC Film Bazaar this year.
December 29, 2013 4:19 am
How to organise your reading experience over the year
October 17, 2013 1:21 am
Catton's 'The Luminaries',for which she won,is a murder mystery set during the Victorian goldrush.
October 16, 2013 2:47 pm
28-year-old New Zealander became the youngest writer to win the prestigious award.
September 12, 2015 8:00 am
Japan evacuated about 100,000 people from their homes, after rare torrential rains unleashed floods; President Barack Obama awards the 2014 National Humanities Medal to Jhumpa Lahiri; An engine on the British Airways plane caught fire before takeoff.