BOOKER PRIZE 2025 ( FOR FICTION)

 * DAVID SZALAY WINS THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 ( FICTION) - FLESH 

KAMALADEVI CHATTOPADHYAY ( INDIAN AUTHOR)

* BORN IN - 3rd APRIL 1903 ( MANGALURU) 

DIED ON - 29th OCTOBER 1988 

* SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO WON ELECTION IN MADRAS CONSTITUENCY.

* SHE POPULARLY KNOWN AS HATKARGHA MAA FOR HANDLOOM WORKS 

AWARDS - 

* 1955 - PADMA BHUSHAN 

* 1966 - RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARD ( Community Leadership)

* 1987 - PADMA VIBHUSHAN 

* 1974 - SANGEET NATAK ACADEMY FELLOWSHIP 

* 1977 - UNESCO Honour FOR HANDLOOM CONTRIBUTION 

* DESIKOTTAMA HONOURED BY SHANTINIKETAN 

NOTABLE SERVICE - 

* IN 1974 SHE HEADED THE NATIONAL SCHOOL OF DRAMA & SANGEET NATAK ACADEMY.

* SHE DID DIPLOMA IN SOCIOLOGY IN LONDON ( BEDFORD COLLEGE)!

* In 1926 SHE MET SUFFRAGETTE MARGARET (FOUNDER OF ALL INDIAN WOMAN' CONFERENCE) AND LATER SHE JOINED FOR MADRAS PROVINCE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY 

* In 1964 SHE STARTED NATYA INSTITUTE OF KATHAK AND CHOREOGRAPHY ( NIKC) At BENGALURU. 

* SHE WAS THE FIRST CHAIRMAN OF ALL INDIA HANDICRAFTS BOARD) 

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY - 

* INNER RECESSES AND OUTER SPACES ( MEMOIR) PUBLISHED IN 1986 

NOTABLE BOOKS - ( AS AUTHOR) 

* THE AWAKENING OF INDIAN WOMAN (1939) 

* JAPAN - IT'S WEAKNESS & STRENGTHS ( 1943) .

* UNCLE SAM'S EMPIRE (1944( 

* In WAR -TORN CHINA (1944) 

* TOWARDS A NATIONAL THEATRE ( 1945) 

* AMERICA: THE LAND OF SUPERLATIVE (1946) 

* AT THE CROSS ROADS (1947) 

* SOCIALISM & SOCIETY (1950) 

* TRIBALISM IN INDIA (1978) 

* HANDICRAFTS OF INDIA (1955) 

* INDIAN WOMEN'S BATTLE IN FREEDOM ( 1983) 

* INDIAN CARPETS & FLOOR COVERING ( 1983) 

* INDIAN EMBROIDERY (1977) 

* THE GLORY OF INDIAN HANDICRAFTS 

* INDIAN POST RELEASED A TWO COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP ON HANDICRAFTS