Siddhartha Sarma Explained

Siddhartha Sarma
Birth Place:	Assam
Language:	English
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Notable Works:	The Grasshopper's Run East of The Sun Year of the Weeds Carpenters and Kings Twilight in a Knotted World
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Awards:	2010 Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2011 Bal Sahitya Puraskar

Siddhartha Sarma is an Indian novelist and journalist from Assam who writes in English.^{[1] [2]}

Biography

Siddhartha Sarma is from Guwahati, Assam.^[1] While working as a journalist for a business magazine in Delhi, he published the young adult novel The Grasshopper's Run with Scholastic in 2009.^{[1] [3]} To write the novel, he conducted archival research and incorporated stories he was told by his grandfather.^{[1] [4]} The story is set in Assam and Nagaland during the Second World War and follows the friendship between a Naga and Assamese boy.^{[5] [6]}

Nilanjana S Roy recommended the book,^[7] and it won the 2010 Vodafone Crossword Book Award in the Children's Literature category.^{[8] [9]} In 2011, Sarma was awarded the Bal Sahitya Puraskar for The Grasshopper's Run by the Sahitya Academy.^{[10] [11]}

He has also written East of The Sun, a travelogue published in 2011 based on his travels in the North East, and emails he sent to friends to describe his journey.^{[12] [13]} In 2018, he published the novel Year of the Weeds, which is based on the Dongria Kondh campaign against mining.^{[14] [15] [16]}

In 2019, he published the non-fiction book Carpenters and Kings: Western Christianity and the Idea of India after nine years of research on a concept he developed while completing his thesis for a Master of Letters at the University of Glasgow.^{[17] [18]} His next novel, titled Twilight in a Knotted World,^[19] was released in September 2020.^{[20] [21]} In 2021, his work was published in the essay collection Where the Gods Dwell.^[22]

See also

• Indian English Literature
• Literature from North East India

Notes and References

1. News: Borpujari . Utpal . Grasshoppers & hilly tales . 24 January 2022 . . October 24, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212204/http://www.deccanherald.com/content/32180/grasshoppers-amp-hilly-tales.html . March 3, 2016.
2. Book: Deivasigamani . T. . Subaltern Discourses . 2019 . MJP Publishers . 9788180943669 . 241 . 24 January 2022.
3. News: White . Gregor . Book Review: The Grasshopper's Run, by Siddhartha Sarma . 24 January 2022 . . May 13, 2011.
4. News: Jain . Ritika . 8 books for young adults that borrow from the real world . 24 January 2022 . . January 7, 2019.
5. Book: Srivastava . Neelam . Ciocca . Rossella . Indian Literature and the World: Multilingualism, Translation, and the Public Sphere . 2017 . Palgrave Macmillan UK . 9781137545497 . 211 . 24 January 2022.
6. News: Kashyap . Samudra Gupta . Assamese, Manipuri, Naga authors have kept alive World War II fought 70 years ago . 24 January 2022 . . May 8, 2015.
7. News: Roy . Nilanjana S . Nilanjana S Roy: Teenage wasteland: What to read before you get old . 3 January 2023 . . September 1, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110607184404/http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/teenage-wastelandto-read-before-you-get-old/368694/ . June 7, 2011.
8. News: Molekhi . Pankaj . Revenge tale set in the North-East during World War II . 24 January 2022 . . September 12, 2010.
9. News: Bagchi . Shrabonti . I know what you read this summer . 24 January 2022 . DNA India . September 27, 2010.
10. News: Three NE writers named for Bal Sahitya Puraskar . 24 January 2022 . . August 18, 2011.
11. Web site: Sahitya Akademi announces Bal Sahitya Puraskars - Hindustan Times . www.hindustantimes.com . 3 February 2022 . https://archive.today/20131025075911/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Sahitya-Akademy-announces-Bal-Sahitya-Puraskars/Article1-734943.aspx . 25 October 2013 . dead.
12. News: Mitra . Anindita . 'East of the Sun': Notes from the Northeast . 3 January 2023 . . 27 January 2011.
13. Web site: The Hindu : Arts / Books : Stories of sojourns. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110212193334/http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article1126951.ece. 2011-02-12. The Hindu.
14. News: Shekhar . Hansda Sowvendra . Why a journalist wrote about the Niyamgiri agitation in the form of a Young Adult novel . 24 January 2022 . . October 21, 2018.
15. News: Krithika . R. . A novel for the next generation . 24 January 2022 . . November 16, 2018.
16. Reviews of Year of the Weeds
    • News: Vachharajani . Bijal . Powered by the people . 24 January 2022 . . November 9, 2018.
    • News: Ghosh . Suktara . BOOK NOOK: It's story time . 24 January 2022 . . March 30, 2020.
17. News: Book examines history of Christianity in India . 24 January 2022 . . . October 9, 2019.
18. Reviews of Carpenters and Kings
    • News: Menezes . Vivek . Review: Carpenters and Kings by Siddhartha Sarma and The Churches of India by Joanne Taylor . 24 January 2022 . . August 24, 2019.
    • News: Mallya . Vinutha . Siddhartha Sarma documents the journey of Christianity in India in his book . 24 January 2022 . . April 21, 2019.
    • News: Fernandes . Jason Keith . This book traces the long history of Christianity in India to show how rooted it is in the country . 24 January 2022 . . June 2, 2019.
19. News: Popli . Bhumika . 'A good sentence or turn of phrase can make one feel pure happiness': Author Siddhartha Sarma . 24 January 2022 . . July 21, 2020.
20. News: Priyadershini . S . A book, a song, a dance...created during lockdown . 24 January 2022 . . December 31, 2020.
21. Reviews of Twilight in a Knotted World
    • News: Datta . Antara . This novel provides an imaginative, intimate account unrevealed by formal histories of 'thuggees' . 24 January 2022 . . October 25, 2020.
    • News: Ghosh . Sudeshna Shome . 'Twilight in a Knotted World': A world of tangled truths . 24 January 2022 . . October 9, 2020.
    • News: Gulab . Kushalrani . Thug Life . 24 January 2022 . . October 31, 2020.
22. News: Narayan . Shoba . 'Where the Gods Dwell': a modern guide to Indian shrines . 24 January 2022 . . January 21, 2022.