Man Booker Prize 2012: Hilary Mantel: Bring up the Bodies

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Hilary Mantel wins Man Booker Prize of her historic fiction "Bring up the Bodies". It is her second Booker Prize. She becomes the first women and the third person to win the Man Booker Prize twice.
Check the Report here which is nicely written. Seek answers to the following questions from the news report.

1. Who were the first two authors and the works to win Man Booker Prize earlier? 2. When did Hilary Mantel win her first Man Booker Award? 3. What is the nature of the contents of the novels of Hillary Mental? Also Check Wikipedia Article HERE.

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Herta Müller -Nobel Prize for Literature: 2009

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Herta Muller, Romanian born German Novelist has won the Nobel Prize for literature 2009.

Nobel organization has written thus about her:
"who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"

For biography; kindly check the following link. (It is being subjected to vandalism hence use caution.)
Herta Müller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nobel Prize Official Site
Photograph Source: Wikiepdia link as given above.

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Carnatic music legend D. K. Pattammal passes away

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D. K. Pattammal, a legendary Carnatic Singer associated with MS Subhalakshmi has passed away.

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Click here for a brief Biography at Wikipedia.

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Check the following report. Important for CS 2010. A perfect combination for picking the odd man out and belongs to Indian heritage and culture.

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Carnatic music legend Pattammal passes away - India - NEWS - The Times of India

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Image Source: Wikipedia in the link given above

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Ustad Ali Akbar Khan: Sarood Player

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Ustad Ali Akbar Khan had passed away. He was recipient of Padam Bushan and Padam Vibhusham. He had been bestowed upon the title of the Living National Treasure in India.

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Links for further notes:
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan passes away

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PGA prize for Christian Colson for producing Slumdog Millionaire

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Just Check the teasing information which may stare at you while answering question on Slumdog Millionaire if it appears in Prelims.

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'Slumdog' claims Hollywood producers' top prize -India-The Times of India

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Danny Boyle's Music wins Golden Globe for Indian Musician and plus three awards

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Slumdog Millionaire movie directed by the BRITISH DIRECTOR Danny Boyle won four awards including the first Music Award for an Indian Music Director.
Source used: http://www.goldenglobes.org/ of Hollywood Foreign Press Associatioin.

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Sources to be used:
I was terrified before Golden Globe awards: Rahman-India-The Times of India
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Slumdog_Millionaire_It_all_started_in_Allahabad/articleshow/3972292.cms

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Kindly note that Slumdog Millionaire has already been included as an important topic meant for Prelims 2009.
Further, the story of Slumdog Millionaire is based on a novel Q and A written by a career Diplomat Vikas Swaroop. Last year, another IFS officer, whom the nation must remember wokring as a spokesman of the foriegn Ministry, Navtej Sarna (A boy from Chandigarh) has penned historic Novel "The Exile" based on the life of Maharaja Dalip Singh, son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. That book is also added to the list important probable questions for Prelims 2009 for Art and Culture Section as well history section which I have yet to begin.

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Painter Manjit Bawa dead

The Painter Manjit Bawa is no more. He was known for using bright colours.

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Sources to be used:

The Hindu : National : Manjit Bawa dead

TOI source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mumbai/Bawas_canvases_stood_out_as_a_message_of_peace/articleshow/3910628.cms as accessed on Dec 30, 2008 at 2.15 pm. The age of Manjit Bawa is given as 61. However, The Hindu gives it 67 which is correct.

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Richard Stallman Father of Free Software

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India gets its own operating system

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Slumdog Millionaire

The Hindu News Update Service

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Slumdog Millionaire is a movie directed by British Director Danny Boyle baded on a best selling novel 'Q & A' written by an Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup. The movie is getting very good reviews. It remains in news for number of reasons like Merc manufacturer has objected to a scene wherein their product is shown in the film. It is about a Mumbai orphan's rag to riches story.

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Noted filmmaker B R Chopra passes away-India-The Times of India

Noted filmmaker B R Chopra passes away-India-The Times of India

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Bharat Ratna for Vocalist Pandit Bhimsen Joshi

Bharat Ratna for Vocalist Pandit Bhimsen Joshi

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The White Tiger of Aravind Adiga(32) wins Man Booker Prize 2008

Indian author Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize 2008-India-The Times of India

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The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/world/europe/15booker.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin

BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7670417.stm
The Gurdian UK:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/15/booker-prize-india
The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/debut-author-wins-booker-with-searing-portrait-of-indian-poverty-961390.html

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Addition Notes:
Before Aarvind Adiga, four Booker Prize winners had been writers of India origin. They were

V S Naipaul

Salman Rushdie

Arundhati Roy

Kiran Desai

Now after Aarvind Adiga, the score is five Bookers to India Originated writers.

However, After Arundhati Roy, he is the second writer to get Bookers on his début novel.

Secondly, along with him another Indian, Amitav Ghosh with his Sea of Poppies was also nominated.


Thirdly, the people who were finally shortlisted were Steve Toltz, Philip Hensher, Sebastian Barry, Amitav Ghosh, Linda Grant and Aarving Adiga.

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Source Material:
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/ftn-cant-write-off-books-even-in-the-age-of-tv/75927-19-single.html
Tehelka, Vol 5, Issue 38, September 27, 2008.

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Nobel Prize: Have to Prepare

Nobel Prize is being announced. They will be given on December 8. The Nobel Prize as a topic has remained a highly important topic for Preliminary examination. It has to be prepared for Prelims 2009.

In support of the above suggestion, kindly check the following link with discerning eyes.

http://generalstudiesupsc.blogspot.com/2006/06/page-five-general-studies-preliminary.html

http://generalstudiesupsc.blogspot.com/2006/05/page-one-general-studies-preliminary.html

http://generalstudiesupsc.blogspot.com/2006/05/page-two-general-studies-preliminary.html

http://generalstudiesupsc.blogspot.com/2005/06/general-studies-prelims-2004_08.html

http://generalstudiesupsc.blogspot.com/2005/06/general-studies-prelims-2004_08.html

The main conclusion is that you must prepare this topic exhaustively. For that you have to explore the whole site of Nobel Prize. Explore every link. However, you must show some caution also. There are some articles like "Why did Gandhi not get Nobel Prize?" You have to avoid such type of topics.

Similarly, another important site is that of UN. There is bound to a question on UN if we follow the previous papers. In this case also, the best place is the web site of UN. You can learn from reviewing the last years papers that in case of questions on Kofi Annan, there was a question which could be answered if one had read the website. The paper setter had virtually picked some phrases from the site itself. It can be said that he or she might have read the printed version.

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A General Message
I may not be posting regularly but my zotero is full of links which I am going to read and classify whenever I get the time. In October, there are many holidays.

Benegal's Film Screening in London Film Festival

Banegal's 'Welcome to Sajjanpur' at London film festival

"Welcome to Sujjanpur" a film by Shyam Benegal, will be screened in prestigious London Film Festival in October 2008. It will be screened in OWE1 and Waterman's Art Centre, London.

The film is produced by UTV Spot Boy.

It is reported in The Hindu (Link given above), that Benegal said, "The film is an entertaining, musical and comic interpretation of characters and events that are at once hilarious and poignant." The comic side is build around a character named Mahadev.