WWW.EASTERNMIRRORNAGALAND.COM Eastern Mirror South Korean former PM Kim Former Pantera drummer Vinnie Federer beats Kudla to Jong-pil dies at 92 | P9 Paul dead at 54 | P10 reach 12th Halle final| P12 World Entertainment Sports VOL. XVII NO. 171 | PAGES 12 ` 5/- RNI NO. NAGENG/2002/07906 DIMAPUR, SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2018 Messing around Easterine Kire wins Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2018 Our Correspondent Kohima, June 23 (EMN): Noted Naga poet and au- I feel very grateful of course, thor Easterine Kire has been selected for the Bal Sahitya very. And I am so pleased Puraskar 2018 for her novel ‘Son of the Thundercloud.’ that a book I loved writing The award was an- nounced by India’s national has found a home in other academy of letters, the Sahi- tya Akademi, after its execu- people's hearts as well. tive board met on Friday in Guwahati. It has approved " 23 writers of various Indian languages for the awarad. Kire was selected for the best author award in the English category. When Eastern Mir- ror contacted the author after the announcement, " she said to be surprised when a friend sent a mes- sage informing her about the award. “My publisher (Speaking Tiger) was totally surprised too as they knew nothing about it,” she said. AP/PTI Talking about Son of the Lionel Messi (second from right) Sergio Aguero, (fourth from right) and Javier Mascherano arrive for a training session at the 2018 soccer World Cup in Bronnitsy, Russia on Saturday. Thundercloud, Kire said, “This is a book very close to my heart. I wrote it around the folktale of a woman who Taunted for dark complexion, Naidu calls for lost her seven sons and their father. All the men in her life were killed by a tiger. And woman poisons party food; five die mindset change to she was very sad, but one day a raindrop fell on her Maharashtra, June 23 June 19, the incident took making the pooja and din- and she was impregnated (IANS): A young woman, place in Mahad, in Raigad ner preparations or serving empower widows and she gave birth to a baby taunted by her relatives for district, where local resident food, and found that Survase "Two things are im- boy who grew up and killed her dark complexion, a bro- Subhash Mane had organ- had admitted herself to a portant including societal the tiger avenging his broth- ken marriage and lack of ised a vaastu-shanti pooja hospital pretending to be ill change of mindset and ers and father.” cooking ability, poisoned and a housewarming din- after the party. Finding this adopting this social cause “I wove the story of the the food served to nearly 120 ner for nearly 120 relatives suspicious, police interro- as a mission for uplifting Christ-child into that basic people at a housewarming and friends. After dinner, gated her thoroughly, after condition of widows," Naidu tale we are familiar with and Easterine Kire (Photo credit: Per Somby) party five days ago leaving many people complained of which she broke down and said at an International imagined the Christ-child five dead, Maharashtra Po- stomach ache, giddiness and confessed to the gruesome Widows Day organised by growing up as a Naga boy, because the story of Christ writing has found a home lice said on Saturday. started vomiting incessantly crime, and was subsequent- Loomba Foundation. in a Naga village, playing is about a miracle birth. Peo- in other people's hearts as Four minors and a in the early hours of Tuesday. ly arrested, the official said. The concept of New In- with mud and catapults and ple have so much trouble well.” 53-year-old man suc- At least four succumbed by She is a close relative of the dia encompasses economi- being taught eternal things accepting the virgin birth, The Bal Sahitya Puraskar, cumbed when they con- daybreak. Another person Mane family. cally emancipated women. by his aunts and mother.... yet when our folktales say comprising a casket con- sumed the poisoned food died hours later. He added that her appar- If that vision is realised, I try to understand loss of that a widow found a gourd taining an engraved copper late on Monday and at least Over 80 relatives and ent targets were her second many of the social ills like elderly relatives and I believe that turned into a baby boy plaque and a cheque of INR 19 others are in local hospi- friends of Mane, who con- husband, mother-in-law New Delhi, June 23 (PTI): atrocities on women and ne- they go on to another place we have no trouble believing 50,000, will be given away at tals, including five of whom sumed the 'dal' laced with and two sisters-in-law, who Vice President M Venkaiah glect of widows can become in another form. I believe it,” the author shared. a function on Nov. 14 2018. are serious. a snake-killing chemical, were habitually taunting her Naidu on the occasion of a thing of the past, he said. they don't die: they just shed On winning the award, Kire’s book had won the According to an official were rushed to local private for her dark complexion, her International Widows Day The vice president ap- their physical forms that are Kire said, “I feel very grateful Book of the Year Award for of Khalapur police station, and government clinics for earlier marriage and lack of today called for change of pealed the government, civil worn out. The miraculous of course, very. And I am so fiction at the Tata Literature investigations led to the ar- treatment and most of them culinary skills. mindset for uplifting the society and private sector to plays a big role in the story pleased that a book I loved Live Awards 2017 too. rest of one of the invited have been discharged. But they escaped as widows facing "deprivation" join hands to give "preferen- relatives, Pragnya alias Jyoti However, police in- they had already eaten that in the country. tial treatment" to children of Survase, 23, who has con- vestigations over the past evening, even as the poi- He asked the govern- widows in education. fessed to her crime. five days revealed that the soned 'dal' was consumed ment to focus on providing "We as a society need to "She was arrested yes- chemical used to kill snakes by many of the other victims, livelihood skills to widows reflect on the social attitudes terday (on Friday) and pro- was commonly used in Kha- five of whom -- Gopinath S. and facilitate education of towards widows and how duced before a court on lapur, which abounds with Nakure, 53, Kalyani Shin- their children to empower the stigma, humiliation and Saturday, which has sent these slithering reptiles. gude, 7, Vijay Shinde, 11, them and end the "life shat- isolation attached to wid- her to police custody for six Accordingly, they trained Hrishikesh Shinde, 12, and tering emptiness and void" owhood can be overcome," days," the official told IANS. their investigation on the Pragati Shinde, 13 -- were faced by millions of such he said. As reported by IANS on persons responsible for killed, he added. women. More new on Page 8 Thousands march in London demanding new Brexit vote London, June 23 (IANS): Thousands of demonstra- tors took to the streets of London on Saturday to demand a second vote on Britains departure from the European Union. Thousands of people joined the march to Par- liament Square to mark the second anniversary of the Brexit vote. The capi- tal's streets were filled with swathes of EU flags and banners and creating a sea of yellow and blue down Whitehall, the Independent reported. The anti-Brexit cam- paigners demanded a "people's vote" on whether to approve the final deal Prime Minister Theresa May strikes with the EU, if an agreement is struck at all. The organisers, People's Vote, said Brexit was "not a AP/PTI done deal" and people must Thousands march in London for second Brexit vote Demonstrators carry banners and flags as they participate in the People's March "make their voices heard". demanding a People's Vote on the final Brexit deal, in central London on June 23 the second anniversary of the 2016 referendum. It came as senior Cabi- net ministers, including Corbyn. on leaving without the ap- to attend the event, reports after it first joined the Eu- Liam Fox and David Davis, World War Two veteran proval of Parliament, were said. ropean Economic Com- insisted that the UK was Stephen Goodall, 96, led expected to be speak at the The march came as a munity, the forerunner to prepared to walk away from the pro-EU protesters as demonstration. survey of voters found some the EU. talks without an agreement. they headed from Pall Mall Liberal Democrat leader 48 per cent wanted a ref- The government is giv- The protest was part of to Parliament Square. Actor Sir Vince Cable, Tory former erendum on the final deal, ing Parliament a vote on the a "summer of action" by Sir Tony Robinson and Gina minister Anna Soubry, La- against 25 per cent who did final deal, if one is reached, campaign groups designed Miller, who successfully bour's David Lammy and not want another vote. later in the year. But it re- to increase pressure on May campaigned to ensure the Green co-leader Caroline Britain is due to leave mains unclear what will and Labour leader Jeremy UK could not trigger talks Lucas were also expected on March 29, 2019, 46 years happen if they reject it.