Authors are no beneath than celebrities and it became axiomatic at the awards. The winners included acclaimed authors like Amitav Ghosh, Amish, Twinkle Khanna, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, Ranjit Lal, Sachin Tendulkar, Radhakrishnan Pillai, Payal Gidwani, Roopa Pai and Akshaya Mukul.
Another highlight of the accident was back ‘Master blaster’ Sachin Tendulkar was felicitated for his writing. He won the accepted accolade class for best adventures – Playing It My Way (co-authored by Boria Majumdar). The book additionally entered the Limca Book of Records for actuality the acknowledged developed hardback beyond both fiction and book categories in aboriginal 2016.
TOI Write India columnist Amish won an accolade in the accepted fiction class for Scion of Ikshvaku – the aboriginal book from the Ramchandra Series. The board accolade for this class was felicitated to Amitav Ghosh for Flood of Fire. Twinkle Khanna won the accepted accolade in the book class for her admission book Mrs Funnybones. While the board accolade for the class was accustomed to Akshaya Mukul for Geeta Press And The Making Of Hindu India.
The business and administration class was won by columnist Radhakrishnan Pillai for Chanakya and You. In a ablaze moment, the columnist joked about how he gave his acceptance voting targets to win the award!
Social media adjudicator Miss Malini was the host for the evening.
