Bengaluru, NFAPost: Dinesh C Sharma, award winning journalist and author with over 30 years’ experience, will launch his book “Beyond Biryani” in Bengaluru on 10th of February.
In an inteaction with TheNFAPost, Dinesh C Sharma said he is excited to launch the book where he spent his career as a journalist.
“It will be a really rewarding moment to launch my book in Bengaluru, the Silicon Valley of Asia. Being the tech and startup hub of India, I am always happy to interact with the booklovers and those who come for the launch event,” said Dinesh C Sharma.
The book’s full name is Beyond Biryani: The Making of a Globalised Hyderabad. An alternative history of the city of Hyderabad, Beyond Biryani is a must-read for anyone interested in how a city can catapult towards modernity while staying rooted in its cultural heritage.
“Beyond Biryani maps the journey from what was at best a proto-colonial city under a quasi-Mughal princely state till the 1940s to the modern and vibrant metropolis that Hyderabad is today. Besides being the city of nawabs, the Charminar and biryani, Hyderbad is now plugged into the neural network of global technology innovation journey,” said author and senior journalist Dinesh C Sharma to TheNFAPost.
The book will be launched at four destinations on 10th February starting from Bookworm on Church Street at 12 noon. It is followed by Blossom Book House (Church Street – at 12.30 noon), Gangharams Book Bureau (Church Street – 1 pm) and Higginbothams (M G Road – 1.30 pm). Book lovers will get a chance to interact with the author and get autographed books from the author.
Beyond Biryani maps the journey from what was at best a proto-colonial city under a quasi-Mughal princely state till the 1940s to the modern and vibrant metropolis that Hyderabad is today. In the pages of this book, a reader can see the beginnings of that transformation during the Britishers who steered the city in the direction of developing a scientific temper and the Nawabs who championed the cause.
The book gives an overview of major events from the Chloroform Commissions to Ronald Ross’s discovery of malaria; from the setting up of Osmania University, India’s first vernacular university, to the newly independent India pushing for industrial laboratories, scientific research and strategic forays into nuclear fuel and missiles.
Finally, Beyond Biryani also portrays vividly how the city transformed during the last thirty years, primarily how Hyderabad has taken giant leaps towards becoming a truly globalised city.
Currently, Dinesh C Sharma’s columns appear in Mail Today, Indiatoday.in, DailyO.in, Firstpost.com, besides dispatches in medical journal, The Lancet and other international publications. He is also a contributing author for the Ecological Society of America.
In June 2008, Dinesh C Sharma had the privilege of becoming first Asian journalist to go to the Arctic to report on an ongoing international scientific expedition relating to climate change. This resulted in a science travelogue, Witness to the Meltdown (Vigyan Prasar, 2015).
His career as an author began with the award of New India Fellowship in 2006. Since then he has authored three major books. An international, updated edition of his book on India’s IT industry was published by the MIT Press (USA) in 2015 as The Outsourcer: The Story of India’s IT Revolution, under its celebrated ‘History of Computing’ series edited by William Aspray and Thomas J Misa. In 2016, The Outsourcer won the prestigious Computer History Museum Book Prize instituted by the Society for the History of Technology.
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