8 April 2014 Current Affairs
Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Lowland’ Shortlisted For Top UK prize
Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian American novelist Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Lowland” has been shortlisted for the 2014 Baileys Prize, the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. Lowland published in 2013 is a book set in Kolkata and Rhode Island in the US and narrates a story about the lives of two brothers (Subhash and Udayan), their choices and their fate. Earlier, the book was also shortlisted for Man Booker Prize.
Ravi Chauhan Named SAP India MD
Ravi Chauhan was appointed as Managing Director for SAP India. He will take the charge immediately. He will report directly to Adaire Fox-Martin, President of SAP Asia Pacific Japan. He had joined SAP after four years at Juniper Networks, where he had last served as Managing Director for India and South Asia. Before Juniper, Chauhan held leadership roles at Nortel Networks. SAP was founded in Walldorf, Germany in 1972 by five ex-IBM engineers. SAP stands for Systeme, Andwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung which translated to English means Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing.