As the Nobel Prize season is buzzing, all eyes are on the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature to be awarded on Thursday. With global excitement building, the literary world is abuzz with speculations over who will take home the coveted honour this year. Today, the Swedish Academy will announce the new Nobel Laureate in Literature, ending weeks of anticipation and debates among experts, critics, and readers worldwide.
For India, the possibility of another writer joining the ranks of Nobel laureates in literature has captured considerable attention. After Rabindranath Tagore became the first (and only) Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his iconic work Gitanjali, more than a century has passed without another Indian writer receiving the esteemed award. However, in 2