Santanu Das, Mirza Waheed Win the Hindu Prize 2019
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Krithika dians in it, and in particular, PARIS the tens of thousands among He sat at an outer table, The Palais des Festivals The winners of The Hindu them who lost their lives.” quiet and unobtrusive, eat should be preparing to Prize 2019 Fiction and Non “An extraordinary work of ing dinner with his two com welcome the hottest names Fiction are Mirza Waheed fiction whose complexity, panions at the then newly in cinema onto its red carpet. (Tell Her Everything) and depth and narrative mastery launched Farzi Café in Gur Instead the Cannes Film Santanu Das (India, Empire, would be hard to match in gaon one monsoon evening Festival venue has now and First World War Cul- contemporary world litera in 2014, when someone opened its doors to the ture,” reads the citation for pointed him out to me as the town’s homeless who have ture: Writings, Images and nowhere to go during the Songs). The winners for both Mr. Waheed’s Tell Her Eve- chef behind Tabla, New coronavirus lockdown. REUTERS categories were selected by rything, describing it as “a York. an eminent panel of judges. compelling novel, both a Till then, I had known The jury members for fic narrative tour de force and Floyd Cardoz by reputation tion were diplomat and auth an exploration of a profound alone. To those of us who or Navtej Sarna, author and existential and moral wrote on Indian gastrono columnist Nilanjana Roy, conundrum.” my, he was a wellknown author Pradeep Sebastian, The Hindu Prize was insti name — the Mumbairaised, researcher and translator J. tuted in 2010 to honour wri Goan chef who had put In Devika and professor Rajes ters who have spent their li dian food on the map in the wari Sunder Rajan. For non fetime mining the human U.S., marrying regional fla Chef Floyd Cardoz in New York. * KRIS CONNOR/GETTY IMAGES African jazz great dies in fiction, the jury comprised spirit through their words vours to local produce to France of coronavirus Kamini Mahadevan, publish and ideas. The prize is usual come up with contemporar hospital in New Jersey on vier’s College canteen, the PARIS ing consultant; Chandan ly awarded at a ceremony ised plates and a Bread Bar Mach 18 after feeling crab curry and Goan sausage Manu Dibango, who fused Gowda, faculty member at during The Hindu’s annual whose fan following belied feverish. at home had obviously African rhythms with funk to become one of the most Azim Premji University; literature festival Lit For Life. curry and tandoori stereo My abiding memory of seeped into the spirit and influential musicians in world Harsh Sethi, former consult However the 2020 edition types of desi food in the Big Cardoz will be of that mon cooking of the restaurant. As dance music, died on Tuesday ing editor with Seminar; Honour roll: Santanu Das, winner of the prize for nonfiction, had to be cancelled due to a Apple. soon evening in 2014, when he sat remembering things with the coronavirus, author Rustom Bharucha; and, below, Mirza Waheed for fiction. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT challenging environment. Chef Cardoz died of CO Floyd had come back to In past, two young men were according to his music and author and social an An award ceremony to be VID19 on Wednesday. He dia, having earned his acco manning the kitchen, exe publisher. He was 86. The thropologist Shiv man dimensions of a major mine the scholarly and pop held on March 28 was also had tested positive on March lades abroad, on a mission cuting his dishes, passing Cameroonborn saxophonist Visvanathan. modern war that reshaped ular imaginations of the First cancelled because of the CO 18 and was being treated at to push the envelope even food out through a small ser gained gained international The citation describes global politics and culture in World War which have tend VID19 pandemic. The Hindu Mountainside Medical further. vice window. Chefs Thomas fame with his 1972 song Soul Prof. Das’ work as “a sensi fundamental ways” and as ed to ignore the involvement Lit For Life will be back in Ja Centre, New Jersey. He was Zacharias and Hussain Shah Makossa. AP tive exploration of the hu one that “helps to reexa of close to over a million In nuary 2021. 59. Passion project zad were being mentored by A chef par excellence, That evening as he and his Cardoz. Cardoz was the cofounder two dining companions, The two are leading res of Hunger Inc, the company Yash Bhanage and Sameer taurant chefs in India today; that runs restaurants such as Seth, sat at Farzi Café, they their own dishes define the Full steam ahead for U.K.’s model railway buffs The Bombay Canteen and O had been discussing their menus of The Bombay Can Pedro. plans to start a new restau teen and its sister outlet O Reuters andra Palace venue was can supposed to be a twoday The loss is unbearable, rant in Mumbai. Bhanage Pedro (that opened in 2017). London celled due to coronavirus festival into a lasting online stunning all of us in the and Seth had been men And their creativity is inde The trains of Britain have restrictions, modelmakers community. world of food in India, a tored by Cardoz as young pendent of their mentor’s. been known to grind to a halt got the show back on track The show’s sponsor was community that for all its hospitality professionals in But both did start out under due to such minor hazards as by taking it online. British toymaker Hornby, squabbles and differences is the U.S. Now, with their the able guidance of Cardoz. leaves on the line or the Using the hashtag #Twit which makes train sets in also closely knit. Just in the guide and father figure in There was a generosity in wrong type of snow, but the terModelRailwayShow, thou cluding miniatures of real beginning of the month, tow, it was fitting that they letting them soar indepen world of model railways is sands of them have been engines and more magical when Cardoz was in Mumbai should plan a passion pro dently, unshackled. It is a made of sterner stuff. posting photos and videos ones like Harry Potter’s Hog for the launch of the Bom ject meticulously. testimony to Cardoz’s talent Even a pandemic of epic this week of their detailed warts Express. “It just goes bay Sweet Shop (also by A year later, the trio and leadership that all his proportions has been unable miniature railway sets, draw to show how resourceful Hunger Inc), he had attend launched The Bombay Can protégées have carved out to ruin one of the U.K.’s pre ing expert commentary and folks are,” said Simon Kohler, ed events with much of the teen and invited me over. creative niches for them mier railway modelling appreciative feedback from Hornby’s marketing and pro restaurant and writing com The food was a tribute to selves and are taking his le shows. fellow enthusiasts. duct development director. munity in attendance. He Cardoz’s memories of a gacy forward. When the annual London The railway festival has ”You get knocked down, you flew back to New York, and Bombay he had grown up in. (Anoothi Vishal is a Tiny train: A model of a smalltown railway station called Festival of Railway Modelling carried on unabated for get up again and you find according to his Facebook His stories about feema Delhi-based food writer Cheadle Hill in Britain. * PAUL WILLARD/REUTERS exhibition at the grand Alex days, extending what was another way.” post admitted himself to a (kheema) pao at the St. Xa and author) CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC The man who never missed a moment Photographer Nemai Ghosh, who documented filmmaking, passes away at 85 Namrata Joshi Mumbai Veteran photographer Nemai Ghosh passed away in Kolkata on Wednesday. He was 85. He had been unwell after a recent surgery. For someone best remembered as the visual biographer of legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray and a documentarian of the making of his astounding body of work, an interesting aspect about Nemai Ghosh was that he started off as an actor with actordirector Utpal Dutt’s Little Theatre Group in Kolkata. Arts critic and publishereditor Samik Bandopadhyay