![]() ![]() ![]() Khalid Jawed has three novels named 'Maut Ki Kitab', 'Namat Khana' and 'Ek Khanjar Pani Mein' and have been received well by its readers. The five authors that were shortlisted for the award were also awarded with a prize of Rs 1 lakh each. The JCB Award is an award for contemporary fiction in 22 Indian languages and is recognised as an equivalent to the Booker Prize. JMI vice-chancellor congratulated Jawed for his achievement and termed it to be a proud moment for the university. ![]() ![]() The winner was announced by JCB, chairman, Anthony Bamford and Jawed received the award by JCB India, chief operating officer Sunil Khurana, and 2022 chair of jury, AS Panneerselvan at The Oberoi in New Delhi. It has themes such as hunger, violence, love, guilt, and confession.Īlso Read | Jamia Millia Islamia to open applications for PhD programmes on November 22 The novel is a story of a typical middle-class Muslim family anchored in the space of a kitchen. The translator of the novel was Baran Farooqui also received Rs 10 lakh for his translation. The professor won a cash prize of Rs 25 lakh along with a trophy for the win. Recommended : Get important details about JMI New Delhi. ![]()
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"One of those rare books that's both deeply informative and daringly imaginative."- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky "Immersive.bracingly ambitious.rewinds the story of life on Earth - from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago." - The Economist ![]() ![]() ![]() An anonymous 911 call to the Hawai‘i County Emergency Command Center had reported a corpse at Pōhakuloa, the Army’s remote live-fire training area, or PTA. Hawai‘i County Chief Detective Koa Kāne strapped in, and the US Army UH-72A Lakota helicopter lifted off the Hilo tarmac. ![]() Will Hilo’s most respected detective stop this sadistic fiend-or will the Pohakuloa killer strike again, with even deadlier consequences? He encounters a host of obstacles as he pursues the murderer-an incompetent local medical examiner, hostility from both haoles (Westerners) and sovereignty advocates, and a myriad of lies. Koa races to discover whether the victim stumbled upon a gang of high-tech archaeological thieves, or learned a secret so shocking it cost him his life and put others in mortal danger. Hilo Chief Detective Koa Kane, a cop with his own secret criminal past, finds a mutilated corpse-bearing all the hallmarks of ancient ritual sacrifice. On Hawaii Island, an anonymous 911 caller reports a body at Pohakuloa, the Army’s live-fire training area. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() and a bottomless list of potential suspects and victims. Finally Ellery gives him a simple task: pick up a file on a kid who probably didn't commit murder but who refuses to participate in his own defense.Ī horrifying game of connect-the-dots leads one case to another, to the mob, to the local high school. Jackson Rivers has been learning how to take care of himself so he can be there for Ellery Cramer, but after eight weeks of healing, body and soul, he's itching to get back to work. Can he and his partner, Ellery, work fast enough to keep kids out of jail-and smart enough to keep from being ripped apart? About the Book Jackson's first case post-surgery involves the mob, the high school, and a bottomless list of suspects and victims. ![]() ![]() ![]() After the initial awkwardness of their first meeting Jake and Celia find that they have much in common including a mutual physical attraction. The story opens when President Jake makes a special stop in Victoria BC to visit Celia. What Celia fails to realize is that her web site on caring for dementia patients has come to the attention of President Jake. She is beginning to think that her life of caring for others is destroying her body and soul. She was a caregiver long began long before her husband became ill as she raised his son with multiple disabilities. ![]() ![]() She knows she is exhausted from taking care of others. She has become a hostage in her own home as she cares for a husband with dementia. Everything he says in private, every random thought or jest gets blown out of proportion and reported to the worst of the opposition press.Ĭelia Louise Jones-McKinsey is an ex-schoolteacher. Problems with rioters and terrorism are epidemic in his country extending even into his own household. ![]() He and his party are working to bring rule of law, human rights and economic stability to a country formerly run on a system of extortion, exploitation, bribes and gang warfare. President Jake Jaconovich is the second president elected under the new constitution of an emerging nation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Working against an impossible deadline, he begins his feverish carving. ![]() Living at the foot of his misshapen block of marble, Michelangelo struggles until the stone finally begins to speak. Even though his impoverished family shuns him for being an artist, he is desperate to support them. 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