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207:. She was also an advisor to the 'Mountain Echoes' literary festival in Bhutan. She conceptualised the 'International Festival of Indian Literature-Neemrana' 2002, and 'The Africa Asia Literary Conference', 2006. Gokhale also advises The Himalayan Echo Kumaon Festival for Arts and Literature or the Abbotsford Literary Weekend.
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in 2014, described the novel as "A chronicle of the debauched existence of the rich and famous in Bombay (now Mumbai) and Delhi," that "invoked horror and outrage when it first appeared in India. Few seemed to have got its uproarious humour," and "If Indian parents forbade their children to touch the
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as an essay collection that "take the reader from Asia to
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as "remarkable on two counts. First, its structure of a modern fable held aloft by the gauziest of irony. And second, its searching scan of life in the downwardly mobile class of the Indian metropolises migrants who, by emotional and pecuniary manipulation, get rich quick, breaching the bastion of
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tries to showcase the multilingual diversity of Indian literature by inviting laureates from different languages to talk about their work. It reminds one of the times when book stores were not overwhelmed by technical writing and self-help books; when literature and quality writing were not
214:, Government of India, for a project intended to translate contemporary literature from Indian languages into the eight UNESCO languages, but after funding was not provided by the government, she shifted her efforts to work with Jaipur Bookmark, the publishing imprint of the
488:, Omair Ahmad writes, "These histories have largely been forgotten in favor of the lines drawn on the map by the British Empire and its successors, but they have re-emerged, and have to be understood, if we are to understand the complex political geography of the region."
264:, "All of her work seems to be stuck with her personality as a Kumaoni Brahmin girl," and quotes Gokhale, "My way of looking at the world remains trapped in that primary identity; once you start loving the hills they hold on to you." In 2010, Nita Sathyendran writes for
513:, "Gokhale achieves the impossible by going beyond approximating the alchemy of the festival and leading us to its beating heart. The point of the festival is to keep asking repeatedly, like the heart beats – what does it mean to be a writer?"
419:, "Veteran publisher, prolific author, founder-director of the Jaipur Literary Festival and advisor to Mountain Echoes in Bhutan—Namita Gokhale's latest novel is considered her most ambitious yet." Rakhshanda Jalil writes for
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that the novel is the "third in a series set in the Kumaon hills between 1840 and 1912," and that the "experiences of
Gokhale's own family, especially its women members, have informed her stories." In a review for
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Western cities and difficulties encountered there by immigrants," and "Although rich in detail, some of the stories are short, leaving the readers wanting more."
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book, the reaction in the West was quite the opposite, where it was received as a work of literary, rather than pulp, fiction." According to the
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as "a lovely tale of time travel, friendship, loss and love."
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was published in
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1229:"Concept of 'Bharatiya Nari' a can of worms: Namita Gokhale"
928:"Namita Gokhale takes potshots at elite society in new book"
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in 2011, as a "racy read" and by Somak
Ghoshal, writing for
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1639:"REVIEW: The Himalayan Arc, Journeys East of South-east"
1582:"Book Review: Things to leave behind by Namita Gokhale"
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2017 Valley of Words Book Award, Best English Fiction (
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2017 Centenary National Award for Literature from the
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Lost in Time: Ghatotkacha and the Game of Illusions
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2654:Women writers from Uttar Pradesh
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627:Travelling In, Travelling Out
534:Gods, Graves, and Grandmother
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2557:All The Lives We Never Lived
2498:The Blind Lady's Descendants
2462:Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer
1750:Nair, Anita (20 June 2005).
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1321:"On the arrival of hag-lit"
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558:Priya: In Incredible Indyaa
362:Gods Graves and Grandmother
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2522:When God is a Traveller
2041:K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar
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1207:Indo-Asian News Service
936:. Agencies. 30 May 2011
528:Paro: Dreams of Passion
292:Paro: Dreams of Passion
100:Paro: Dreams of Passion
2584:Indian women novelists
2545:Things to Leave Behind
2527:Arundhathi Subramaniam
2095:The Keeper of the Dead
1785:. PTI. 13 January 2019
1526:The New Indian Express
699:Things to Leave Behind
689:Things to Leave Behind
678:Things to Leave Behind
667:Things to Leave Behind
615:The Puffin Mahabharata
571:Things to Leave Behind
540:A Himalayan Love Story
440:The New Indian Express
435:A Himalayan Love Story
427:Things To Leave Behind
411:Things to Leave Behind
144:Jesus and Mary College
120:Things to leave behind
2450:Trying to Say Goodbye
2319:The Perishable Empire
1976:Scholar Extraordinary
1875:Sahitya Akademi Award
1366:updated July 13, 2013
898:"Lounge Loves - Paro"
335:by Kishwar Desai for
116:Sahitya Akademi Award
2609:Writers from Lucknow
2438:Laburnum For My Head
2384:Chaturvedi Badrinath
2129:Trapfalls In the Sky
2012:Fire on the Mountain
1934:Bhabani Bhattacharya
1425:updated May 21, 2016
1408:"Meaningful travels"
1175:Press Trust of India
1001:"In the write space"
765:"On the write track"
592:, published in 2021
304:Press Trust of India
130:Gokhale was born in
2474:Em and the Big Hoom
2336:Upamanyu Chatterjee
2324:Meenakshi Mukherjee
2260:The Collected Poems
1752:"Nymphet's Nemesis"
1724:"Life in Wee Nooke"
1533:on 24 December 2016
1380:"Rescuing The Past"
1251:updated May 4, 2018
860:The Telegraph India
856:"Summer of sequels"
728:. 30 December 2021.
590:The Blind Matriarch
546:The Book of Shadows
431:The Book of Shadows
212:Ministry of Culture
114:. She won the 2021
2510:An Era of Darkness
2414:India after Gandhi
2391:The Book of Rachel
2071:The Last Labyrinth
1981:Nirad C. Chaudhuri
1929:Shadow From Ladakh
1811:. 6 September 2021
1809:The Indian Express
1559:The Times of India
1202:The Indian Express
1115:The Indian Express
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661:Asam Sahitya Sabha
446:The Times of India
282:Critical reception
239:The Tale of Genji
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2083:Latter-Day Psalms
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2024:Inside the Haveli
1941:An Artist in Life
1783:Financial Express
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609:The Book of Shiva
564:The Habit of Love
272:The Book of Shiva
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