Friday, October 1, 1999
Gunter Grass gets Nobel for Literature
The 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature has gone to German novelist Gunter Grass, 71, whose ``frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history,'' the Swedish academy announced on Thursday.
River Sutra
For film-maker Anup Singh it all started with screenings on ship decks as he sailed with his mother from Africa to India. "It was this staggering feeling of films being a part of the cosmos itself. The blue expanse of sky, the ocean and a film," he says.
Top Drawer/Urvashi Saxena
When Income Tax Commissioner Urvashi Saxena first walked into the huge office that she now sits in at the Aaykar Bhavan, the bright green walls made her stomach do a somersault. So, what followed immediately was a month-and-a-half of hectic activity.
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