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Author: Rukun Advani
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788178240121
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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"Indian fiction, collection of short stories and poems."

Author: Kai Friese
Publisher: Civil Lines
ISBN: 9788186939109
Category : Indic prose literature (English).
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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This Volumes Of Civil Lines Carriesthe Best And Most Diverse Collection Of New Short Fiction From Indian Writers That You Are Likely To Read: A Total Of Seven Stories By Amit Choudhuri, Amitava Kumar, Avtar Singh. Mina Kumar And Suketu Mehta. Civil Lines 5 Also Features Exceptional Non-Fiction. Sonia Jabbar Gives Us An Account Of Life And Death In Kashmir, And Urvashi Butalia Literally Revisits Partition: Brilliant Hybrid Narratives, Part Essay, Part Travelogue, That Make Places And Histories Come Alivewith Vividly Realized People And Their Tragedies. And Anita Roy Reminds Us, Funnily And Poignantly, That All Writers Begin As Obsessive Readers.

Author: Radhika Swarup
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 8194752043
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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In the early 1990s, Rupa Sharma founds a magazine and pens her first – and last – editorial: The future has never looked brighter. The fires of communal tension appear to have been vanquished. More women are entering the workforce than ever before, and everywhere I look, I see new possibilities. I see dialogue, I see tolerance, and I see openness. I see hope for myself and my colleagues, and for the two daughters I am bringing up to be fearless inheritors of this earth. Decades later, her daughter Siya travels to Delhi in the wake of her reclusive mother’s death, leaving behind a failing relationship and an unravelling life. Waiting at home are her estranged sister Maya and a crumbling Lutyens behemoth that is proving too cumbersome to maintain. The two sisters rattle around the house until a cryptic note falls out from their mother’s papers: I saw last night as a meeting between old friends. That you considered my conduct overfamiliar fills me with endless regret. As Siya and Maya try to decipher the words and piece together what happened, they find themselves uncovering both dreams and long-buried secrets, finding new resolve as they look to breathe fresh life into their mother’s shattered vision. Shocking, poignant, and life-affirming, Civil Lines is a family saga that explores belonging and is also an ode to every girl in every generation who dreams that a brighter future lies within her grasp.

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Category : Gazettes
Languages : en
Pages : 994

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Author: Ramesh Chandra Dhussa
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031285859
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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The main objective of this book is to analyze prominent literary images of Delhi in post-independence India. The author has probed into a number of eminent writings in Hindi, English and other languages. The author's methodology, a humanistic and phenomenological approach, allows exploration of experiential dimension of writers’ and their characters in various genres of literature. An inquiry into perceptions and imagination in literature enriches the understanding of place, space, time, and seasons, the concerns central to geography. The Perceptions of the metropolis of Delhi interestingly vary between authors and their characters. The images of Delhi in plethora of literary works show a wide spectrum of colors. The images evoke feelings of reverence, love, adoration, dislike, indifference or neutrality. Experiences vary from places of beauty and grandeur to utterly ugly environments. Natives express different views and attitudes toward the city of Delhi from those of expatriate writers.

Author: J. Mills Thornton
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081731170X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 749

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"In all three cities, the white municipal leadership, which had previously been united and intractable, experienced deep divisions, creating the indispensable window that permitted the resistance movements. Dividing Lines shows that the action campaigns in three southern cities that mobilized black resistance to segregation and disfranchisement grew directly from specific events of municipal politics in those cities."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Rukun Advani
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351181340
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 527

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A new kind of Indian writing in English was in the air in the early 1990s. Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, I. Allan Sealy and Upamanyu Chatterjee had written their early books. The new current was promising, and Dharma Kumar, historian and editor of the famous Indian Economic and Social History Review, decided to publish a journal, along the lines of Granta and The New Yorker, dedicated to ferreting out the best literary talent. The journal, Civil Lines: New Writing from India, first appeared in 1994 and quickly attracted attention by publishing literary pieces that were a cut above, developing a cult following among readers of Indian writing in English. Till 2001, five issues had been published—totaling sixty-one individual contributions by thirty-eight contributors. Some of the contributors were then far from well known, and Civil Lines could be said to have given them a leg-up towards subsequent fame. Sheila Dhar, Susan Visvanathan, Raj Kamal Jha, Ruchir Joshi, Siddhartha Deb, Suketu Mehta, Amitava Kumar and Manjula Padmanabhan went on to become established writers after Civil Lines had published their smaller pieces. Ramachandra Guha’s first brilliant essay—a five-finger exercise in literary anthropology which seems with hindsight to presage his later work on Verrier Elwin—appeared in the inaugural issue. A little-known aspect of Amitav Ghosh is his interest in the short story. Ghosh contributed two pieces to the journal—a reflective essay on the Indian practice of the short story and a wonderfully fluent translation of one of Tagore’s most famous tales, ‘Kshudhita Pâshân’ (The Hunger of Stones). The present anthology comprises a selection of the finest essays, stories and poems that were published in the first five issues of Civil Lines. The original issues of the journal are difficult to come by. This anthology is a must for all those interested in the best practitioners of desi English.

Author: Thorpe Edgar
Publisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131733691
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Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Dr. Brajesh Kumar Srivastava
Publisher: SBPD Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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UNIT – I Archaeology & Ancient India 1. The Story of the First Cities : Harappan Archaeology, 2. Political and Economic History from the Mauryan to Gupta Period, 3. Social History : With Special Reference to Mahabharata, 4. History of Ancient Indian Religions with Special Reference to Buddhism and Sanchi Stupa, UNIT – II Medieval India 5. The Ain-i-Akbari : Agrarian Relations, 6. The Mughal Court : Reconstructing History through Chronical, 7. Architecture of Hampi (Vijaynagar), 8. Religious History : The Bhakti-Sufi Tradition, 9. Medieval Society through Foreign Travellers Accounts, UNIT- III Modern India 10. Colonialism and Rural Society : Evidence from Official Report, 11. ‘1857’ A Review, 12. Colonial Cities—Urbanisation, Planning and Architecture, 13. Mahatma Gandhi through Contemporary Eyes and his Role in the Indian Politics, 14. Partition of India and its Study through Oral Sources, 15. Making of the Indian Constitution.

Author: D. Johnson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137469870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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Johnson provides an historically rich examination of the intersection of early twentieth-century imperial culture, imperial politics, and imperial economics as reflected in the colonial built environment at New Delhi, a remarkably ambitious imperial capital built by the British between 1911 and 1931.