Tamil author Perumal Murugan’s novel Pyre has been selected for the International Booker prize longlist for 2023.

The Booker Prize Foundation on Tuesday announced that Murugan’s novel Pyre is among 13 books from across Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa to make it to the longlist of the International Booker Prize 2023.

The 56-year-old Murugan becomes the first Tamil writer to make it to the longlist of 13 books. Aniruddhan Vasudevan translated the 2016 Tamil novel Pyre. The prize jury termed Perumal Murugan a great anatomist of power and, in particular, of the deep, deforming rot of caste hatred and violence.

Pyre tells the tale of an intercaste couple who elope, setting in motion a story of terrifying foreboding.

Speaking to the media, Murugan said just a few minutes back he got to know about his novel entrance to the Booker Prize. Pyre deals with honour killing. Honour killing is a very big problem in our country, he said, adding that he hopes more people get to know about this issue after this recognition.

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Other books selected for International Booker Prize 2023 are:

• Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi and translated by Jeremy Tiang
• A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding by Amanda Svensson and translated by Nichola Smalley
• Still Born by Guadalupe Nettle and translated by Rosalind Harvey
• While We Were Dreaming by Clemens Meyer and translated by Katy Derbyshire
• The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier and translated by Daniel Levin Becker
• Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov and translated by Rueben Woolley
• Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth and translated by Charlotte Barslund
• Standing Heavy by GauZ and translated by Frank Wynne
• Time Shelter by Georgi Gospondinov and translated by Angela Rodel
• The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Conde and translated by Richard Philcox
• Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan and translated by Chi-Young Kim
• Boulder by Eva Baltasar and translated by Julia Sanches

Booker Prize for Fiction is the international prize awarded every year for a single book that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. The winner of the award receives a prize of 50,000 pounds, which is split between the author and translator equally.

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A bizarre incident has come to light from Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior where two women married the same man and divided their husband’s week into halves in order to stay with him for three days each. Not only this, the wives also allowed the husband to let him have personal space on Sunday.

According to the reports, the 28-year-old Seema married a man in the year 2018 who was working as an engineer in Gurugram, Haryana. The couple lived together for two years and even had a son. In 2020, Seema’s husband decided to drop her to her hometown Gwalior after the government announced a lockdown due to Covid-19.

During that time, the husband had an extra-marital affair with one of his colleagues. The two started living together during the lockdown. Their love grew so strong that they decided to marry. He even has a daughter with his second wife.

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When his first wife, Seema, learned about his husband’s second marriage, she headed to Gurugram to understand the whole scenario. The couple got into a huge fight and later Seema decided to go back to her hometown. There, she filed a case against her husband in the family court and sought monetary support from him for her son’s upbringing.

There was a lot of back and forth between the husband and Seema when he learned about the case. They even attended numerous counselling sessions where the husband told Seema that she wouldn’t be able to get a sizable amount in child support and that this would have an impact on their son’s future. Following this, the husband and Seema were both brought before the family court, where Seema came to a compromise that is typically only seen in fiction.

The settlement entailed that the husband will have to divide the week into three segments. This means that the husband will have to spend three days a week with Seema and the other three days with his second wife. Separate flats were also given to both the wives in Gurugram itself so that he can live with both of them peacefully.

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Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter and BRS leader K Kavitha has organized a a round table conference in New Delhi on Wednesday with political parties, civil society organisations and others to push for the introduction of the Women’s Reservation Bill in Parliament.

According to reports, the round table conference which has been organized by a Bharat Jagruthi—a cultural organisation headed by Kavitha—would be held a hotel in Delhi on March 15 from 3 pm to 5 pm in the evening.

Kavitha recently led a hunger strike in Delhi on March 10 seeking the passage of the long-pending Women’s Reservation Bill in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament. However, both Congress and the BJP have alleged that Kavitha’s hunger strike was a mere ploy to divert attention from her appearance before the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the purported Delhi liquor policy scam case.

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The ED, a central agency which probes financial crimes, grilled KCR’s daughter for nine hours on March 11, to record her statement in connection with a money laundering case linked to the alleged Delhi liquor policy scam case.

Kavitha has been summoned again on March 16 by the ED.

The ED case alleges that K Kavitha is part of the South Cartel that benefited from kickbacks after Delhi’s now-scrapped liquor policy came into force. The South Group comprises Kavitha, Sarath Reddy (promoter of Aurobindo Group), Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy (MP, Ongole), his son Raghav Magunta, and others.

The South Group was being represented by Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandra Pillai, Abhishek Boinpalli and Butchi Babu, the federal agency investigation has revealed.

The probe agency has claimed its investigations have revealed that Pillai—who was arrested earlier this month— along with his associates was coordinating with various persons to execute a political understanding between the South Group and a leader of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

Pillai has been accessory and was involved in the kickbacks from the South Group and the recoupment of the same from the businesses in Delhi, ED claimed.

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