Author: Alka Saraogi Publisher: books catalog ISBN: 9788129100061 Category : Hindi fiction Languages : en Pages : 295
Book Description
Kishore Babu, born in 1925, wanders back to his school days, sustaining a head injury due to negligence during his heart bypass surgery in 1997 and starts roaming the streets of Calcutta on foot. This jaywalking transcends all the divisions of time and takes him to the times of his Great Grandfather Ramvilas Babu, to the shared story of a community and a city: The community of Marwaris who like migratory birds left their native desert land for Calcutta of the British Raj.
Author: Bharti Arora Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000094278 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 349
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This book explores the gendered contexts of the Indian nation through a rigorous analysis of selected women’s fiction ranging from diverse linguistic, geographical, caste, class, and regional contexts. Indian women’s writing across languages, texts, and contexts constitutes a unique narrative of the post-independence nation. This volume highlights the ways in which women writers negotiate the patriarchal biases embedded in the epistemological and institutional structures of the post-independence nation-state. It discusses works of famous Indian authors like Amrita Pritam, Jyotirmoyee Devi, Mannu Bhandari, Mahasweta Devi, Mridula Garg, Nayantara Sahgal, Indira Goswami, and Alka Saraogi, to name a few, and facilitates a pan-Indian understanding of the concerns taken up by these women writers. In doing so, it shows how ideas travel across regions and contribute towards building a thematic critique of the oppressive structures that breed the unequal relations between the margins and the centre. The volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, women’s studies, South Asian literature, political sociology, and political studies.
Author: Harish Trivedi Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415212076 Category : Anglo-Indian literature Languages : en Pages : 404
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This is the first book to deal with the culture of Britain and India over the past two hundred years in an integrated way. Previously unavailable texts make this an invaluable resource for all those interested in British and Indian literature.
Author: Charushila Mahanta Publisher: Unité Publication ISBN: 8196302398 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 29
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MY LIFE AFTER HER GOODBYE In this book, author had narrated about her mother. Her mother, now living apart from this living world. Here she wrote about her mother's life, how she lived apart from home in a very young age. How much she closed to her mother and got detached from her before experiencing life lessons, experiences. The book is about the life of the author after her mother. How she spent without her mother since she was 13 and the situations she faced after her mother's demise. And the struggles she dare to face without her mother as a sister, a friend. And the real life struggles, which many of us faces after anyone of the parent left us in the half way journey of life.
Author: Anand Bose Publisher: BookRix ISBN: 375544464X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 437
Book Description
This is a work of art. I have developed a new style of writing called Still Life Prose. still Life prose comes from Still Life painting and it's a depiction of objects using colorful epiphanies. My work is also a rewriting of the Philosophies of existentialism especially that of Camus and Sartre which negates and paints a dark picture of life. Life for the author is the celebration of meaning. The author has also developed new idioms for contemporary culture and society. The author also dissects his past, in a mode of critical irony. There are also many allusions made by the author.
Author: Rachel Fell McDermott Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 023112919X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. Richly represented in straw, clay, paint, and decoration, they are similarly displayed in elaborately festooned temples, thronged by thousands of admirers. The first book to recount the history of these festivals and their revelry, rivalry, and nostalgic power, this volume marks an unprecedented achievement in the mapping of a major public event. Rachel Fell McDermott describes the festivals' origins and growth under British rule. She identifies their iconographic conventions and carnivalesque qualities and their relationship to the fierce, Tantric sides of ritual practice. McDermott confronts controversies over the tradition of blood sacrifice and the status-seekers who compete for symbolic capital. Expanding her narrative, she takes readers beyond Bengal's borders to trace the transformation of the goddesses and their festivals across the world. McDermott's work underscores the role of holidays in cultural memory, specifically the Bengali evocation of an ideal, culturally rich past. Under the thrall of the goddess, the social, political, economic, and religious identity of Bengalis takes shape.
Author: Paul Olaf Bodding Publisher: NIAS Press ISBN: 9788787062732 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
The Reverend P.O. Bodding lived as a missionary amongst the Santals in Santal Parganas in India for more than 30 years. During that period he helped the Santals to collate their folklore, which he transcribed into the documents which are presented in this catalogue.
Author: Ulrich Schreiber Publisher: ISBN: Category : Authors Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
Das 4. Internationale Literaturfestival Berlin (21.9. bis 2.10.2004) stellt 100 eingeladene Autoren mit Foto, Biographie in deutscher und englischer Sprache sowie einer Auswahl ihrer wichtigsten Publikationen vor. Aufgrund der großen Resonanz wird der Katalog in ähnlicher Konzeption, wie 2003 erscheinen. Jeder Autor wurde gebeten, eine individuelle Antwort zum Motto "Make answer, Muse!" zu senden. Ihre spontanen Reaktionen - ob Foto, Collage, Gedicht oder object trouvé - wurden gestalterisch integriert. Was tun die Dichter, wenn die Musen schweigen, die Inspiration versagt, die Feder bockt, die Tinte stockt? Selbst Shakespeare litt unter dem "Schreibblock", wie seine ungeduldige Anrufung der Musen zeigt: "Wie, Muse, willst du deine Säumnis sühnen? Du schweigst, wo Wahrheit trägt der Schönheit Kleid, Die engverbunden dem Geliebten dienen, Und so tust du und bist dadurch geweiht. Antworte, Muse! Sagst du mir wohl gar, Wahrheit erstrahle schön auch ohne dich, Und ohne Kunst sei echte Schönheit wahr, Das Beste sei das Beste stets an sich? Er braucht dich nicht! Deshalb willst du nicht singen? Das ist kein Grund! Denn ist es nicht dein Amt, Ihm übers goldne Grab noch Ruhm zu bringen, Daß hell sein Lob in fernster Zukunft flammt? Tu deinen Dienst! Ich lehre dich die Art, Daß ihn, gleich uns, die spätste Zeit gewahrt."
Author: Alka Saraogi
Author: Bharti Arora
Author: Harish Trivedi
Author: Divyā Māthura
Author: Charushila Mahanta
Author: Anand Bose
Author: Rachel Fell McDermott
Author: British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts
Author: Paul Olaf Bodding
Author: Ulrich Schreiber