{"id":64846,"date":"2018-12-28T08:56:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T08:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=64846"},"modified":"2018-12-28T08:56:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T08:56:13","slug":"crossword-book-awards-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/crossword-book-awards-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossword Book Awards 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Who is conferred the lifetime achievement award in the 16th Crossword Book Awards 2018? <\/strong><br>(a) Sudha Murty <br>(b) Shashi Tharoor <br>(c) Soha Ali Khan <br>(d) Amitabh Ghosh <br><strong>Answer: (b) <br>Related facts: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Critical\nwriter, International Diplomat and Parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor was given the\nLifetime Achievement Award in the 16<sup>th<\/sup> Crossword Book Awards of\n2018. He has written many popular books including Pax India, An Era of Darkness\netc. and has a great contribution in Indian writing. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Apart\nfrom this, <strong>Sudha Murty<\/strong> was awarded\nfor her book &#8220;Three Thousand\nStitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives&#8221; in non-fiction category. <strong>Durjoy Dutta<\/strong> was also awarded for his\nbook \u201cThe Boy Who Loved\u201d in fiction category. <\/li>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7086827700842303\" data-ad-slot=\"2662621974\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<li>Other\nawardees includes <strong>Soha Ali Khan<\/strong> for &#8220;The Perils of\nBeing Moderately Famous&#8221;;&nbsp;popular\nwriter <strong>Ruskin Bond<\/strong> for &#8220;Looking for the Rainbow: My Years with\nDaddy&#8221;; <strong>Chandramouli Venkatesan<\/strong>\nfor &#8220;Catalyst&#8221;; and&nbsp;<strong>Sarita\nDavarre and Sanjay Kapoor<\/strong> for &#8220;You&#8217;ve\nLost Weight: The Easy Guide to Receiving\nThis Compliment Everyday.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/news-ians\/tharoor-sudha-murthy-bond-soha-ali-khan-conferred-crossword-book-awards-118122100412_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/news-ians\/tharoor-sudha-murthy-bond-soha-ali-khan-conferred-crossword-book-awards-118122100412_1.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who is conferred the lifetime achievement award in the 16th Crossword Book Awards 2018? (a) Sudha Murty (b) Shashi Tharoor (c) Soha Ali Khan (d) Amitabh Ghosh Answer: (b) Related facts: Critical writer, International Diplomat and Parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor was given the Lifetime Achievement Award in the 16th Crossword Book Awards of 2018. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1147],"tags":[2617],"class_list":["post-64846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ah","tag-awards-honors-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}