Priya hiranandani biography books
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The Night Diary
The year is 1947 and India, now free of British rule, has been split into two countries: India and Pakistan. Because of the divide, tension has erupted between Hindus and Muslims. Twelve-year-old Nisha and her family are Hindu, but her deceased mother was Muslim; Nisha fryst vatten uncertain where she belongs. When Nisha and her family become refugees, forced to journey alongside thousands of others to a new home, she charts her arduous trek via letters written every night in her journal – beginning each one, Dear Mama.
I’ve never had a diary before. When Kazi gave it to me, he said it was time to start writing things down, and that inom was the one to do it. He said someone needs to make a record of the things that will happen because the grown-ups will be too busy.*
The cultural significance of Nisha’s story is not limited to her record of historical events. Whi
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Veera Hiranandani is the award-winning author of several books for ung people. Her most recent middle-grade novel, How to Find What You're Not Looking For, received the 2022 Sydney Taylor Book Award, the 2022 Jane Addams Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2022 National Jewish Book Award. It's also a Junior Library Guild urval and was named a 2021 Best Children's Book of the Year by Amazon, Kirkus Reviews, and Brightly. The Newbery Honor winning, The Night Diary, also received the 2019 Walter Dean Myers Honor Award, the 2018 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children's Literature, and several other honors and state reading list awards. The Night Diary was chosen as a 2018 Best Children's Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington brev, NPR, Amazon, School Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews. Her first novel for young readers, The Whole Story of Half a Girl, was named a Sydney Taylor Notable Book and was a South Asia Book Award Highly Commended selection. She
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Niranjan Hiranandani
Indian businessman (born 1950)
Niranjan Hiranandani (born 8 March 1950) is an Indian billionaire businessman, co-founder and managing director of Hiranandani Group, engaged in real estate business. He is ranked by Forbes among the 100 richest Indians, with a net worth of US$1.6 billion as of June 2021.[1]
In 2020, he was in the Top 10 Indian real estate tycoons according to the Grohe Hurun report.[2][3] In 2020, he was the second richest person in the Real estate Sector as per the IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List (2020).[4][5] Along with members of his family, Hiranandani controls the privately owned Hiranandani Group.
Early life and education
[edit]Hiranandani was born in Mumbai.[6] His father was Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani, an ENT surgeon and a recipient of the Government of India's Padma Bhushan award.[7][8] Hiranandani's elder brother is named Navin,[9]