Author: Reginald Massey Publisher: Abhinav Publications ISBN: 8170174694 Category : India Languages : en Pages : 164
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This Fascinating Collection Of Stories, Anecdotes, Observations And Reminiscences Presents, Very Largely, A Picture Of The Indian Subcontinent Since 1947, The Year Of Azaadi, Independence. There Have Been Wars And Massacres And Massive Political, Social And Economic Changes; Corruption Has Been Rampant And Vast Injustices Have Been Perpetrated On The Poor. This Book, However, Celebrates That Spark Of Sheer Goodness And Simple Decency Which Still Resides In The Soul Of Every Single Human Being There Is, In Short, Much Hope For The Future. Fact And Fiction Are Variable, Interchangeable Ingredients In The Craft Of Storytelling. The Storyteller S First Loyalty Must, Of Course, Always Be To His Calling And, In The End, The Fact-Fiction Ration Is Of Little Or No Consequence. What Matters Is Whether The Tale Has Been Well Told. Hopefully, Readers Will Feel That The Stories In This Collection Fall Into That Category.The Writer Inhabits, Indeed Flourishes, In An Area Of Ambiguity. It Is There In The Dangerous Quicksands That He Discovers The Workings Of The Mind And The Heart. These Stories, Set In A Time Frame Of Great Historical Importance, Speak Of Men And Women Caught Up In The Cataclysm.
Author: Laura Schuurmans Publisher: Arena Books ISBN: 1914390105 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 230
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Kashmir has been in geopolitical limbo since the partition of the British Raj in 1947. A region of stunning natural beauty and diverse ethnicities and cultures, its people have experienced military tension, violence, state oppression, and terrorism, for decades. This book provides an introduction to Kashmir and explores the reasons for the tensions within the region itself as well as the wider-reaching implications of those tensions. The international relations between India, Pakistan and China, are crucial to understanding this conflict, as are the relationships between those nations and the wider world. The changing nature of global politics continues to affect Kashmir and this book highlights the many reasons that peace in the region needs to be seen as a priority by global leaders. In exploring the practice of transitional justice in Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) and in South Africa, Schuurmans presents potential routes to peace in Kashmir, and azaadi for its people.
Author: Arundhati Roy Publisher: Haymarket Books ISBN: 164259380X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 229
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The chant of "Azadi!"—Urdu for "Freedom!"—is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu Nationalism. Even as Arundhati Roy began to ask what lay between these two calls for Freedom—a chasm or a bridge?—the streets fell silent. Not only in India, but all over the world. The coronavirus brought with it another, more terrible understanding of Azadi, making a nonsense of international borders, incarcerating whole populations, and bringing the modern world to a halt like nothing else ever could. In this series of electrifying essays, Arundhati Roy challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism. The essays include meditations on language, public as well as private, and on the role of fiction and alternative imaginations in these disturbing times. The pandemic, she says, is a portal between one world and another. For all the illness and devastation it has left in its wake, it is an invitation to the human race, an opportunity, to imagine another world.
Author: Stanley Wolpert Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520266773 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 144
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"Stanley Wolpert's new book, India and Pakistan, represents another major contribution to his analysis of the subcontinent. In this work, he provides a hopeful yet realistic solution to the tensions between these two neighbors." MICHAEL D. INTRILIGATOR, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Milken Institute --
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