October GA Part two

British Writer Hilary Mantel won Booker

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success.

The selection process for the winner of the prize commences with the formation of an advisory committee which includes an author, two publishers, a literary agent, a bookseller, a librarian, and a chairperson appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation.

The winner of Booker Prize is usually announced at a ceremony in London’s Guildhall, usually

British Writer Hilary Mantel  won the prestigious literary prize, the Booker Prize for her novel Bring up the Bodies, the second in a historical trilogy set during the reign of King Henry VIII.

Hilary Mantel had earlier won the Booker prize in 2009 for “Wolf Hall,” the first novel in the trilogy.

Hilary Mantel is the third author to win the prize twice, alongside South-African-born J.M. Coetzee and Australian Peter Carey. With this she also became the firstBritish author, and the first woman, to achieve a double Booker Prize.

Huge Chavez Re-elected as president of Venezuela

Huge Chavez re-elected as President of Venezuela . It his third  election victory in 14 years of Office. Huge Chavez had won with 54% of the vote defeating his challenger Henrique Capriles who managed to get only 45% of vote in presidential election held on 7 October 2012.

Among the 19 million registered voters the turnout was a record of 80.4% voters.

Satirist Jaspal Bhatti dies

Actor and satirist Jaspal Bhatti died in a road accident. He born in 1955 in Amritsar, Bhatti did his mechanical engineering from the reputed Panjab Engineering College (PEC) in Chandigarh. For some time he worked as a front page political cartoonist with a leading English daily published from Chandigarh.
Jaspal Bhatti’s shows “Ulta-Pulta” and “Flop Show” were great hits among people in the 1980s and 1990s. He also directed a film “Mahaul Theek Hai”, a satire on the police.

He also played significant roles, essentially as a comic character, in several Hindi films.  He was also a brand ambassador for Punjab’s electoral poll revision drive.

Novak Djokovic won Shanghai Masters

Novak Djokovic beated British Tennis Player Andy Murray seal a stunning victory in the Shanghai Rolex Masters final.

in the Double’s Category, Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek won the Shanghai Rolex Double title by defeating Mahesh Bhupati and Rohan Bopanna.

Novak Djokovic has won five Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008, 2011, and 2012 Australian Open; the 2011 Wimbledon Championships; and the 2011 US Open. By winning three Majors in 2011, Djokovic became the sixth male player in the open era to win three Majors in a calendar year.

Edinburgh Napier University honoured Sharmila Tagore

Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore was Awarded with an Honorary Doctorate of Arts for her outstanding contribution to Indian cinema by the Edinburgh NapierUniversity. The Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University Dame Joan Stringer called her as an excellent ambassador for the Indian Culture.