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Author: Adithya Bhardwaj Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: 1642497231 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 218
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For the 20-year old idealist Karthik, control over his life is everything. His friends admire him, girlfriend adores him, and his mother is proud of him. How will he react when this perfect, illusory bubble around his world suddenly bursts? For the 18-year old orphan Chandu, standing on his own feet is primary. Moving to mysterious Mumbai was only the beginning of his journey. How will he handle the responsibilities and relationships in this new world? ‘The Mumbai Blues’ is a parallel narrative of two worlds connected by chaos, courage and companionship. What is this connection? How are Karthik and Chandu related? You are holding in your hands a tale of two boys who are, like you, me and everyone else.
Author: Adithya Bhardwaj Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: 1642497231 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 218
Book Description
For the 20-year old idealist Karthik, control over his life is everything. His friends admire him, girlfriend adores him, and his mother is proud of him. How will he react when this perfect, illusory bubble around his world suddenly bursts? For the 18-year old orphan Chandu, standing on his own feet is primary. Moving to mysterious Mumbai was only the beginning of his journey. How will he handle the responsibilities and relationships in this new world? ‘The Mumbai Blues’ is a parallel narrative of two worlds connected by chaos, courage and companionship. What is this connection? How are Karthik and Chandu related? You are holding in your hands a tale of two boys who are, like you, me and everyone else.
Author: Tanuja Desai Hidier Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 0545633877 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 556
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The long-anticipated sequel to Tanuja Desai Hidier's groundbreaking BORN CONFUSED! Dimple Lala thought that growing up would give her all the answers, but instead she has more questions than ever. Her boyfriend is distant, her classmates are predictable, and a blue mood has settled around the edges of everything she does.It's time for a change, and a change is just what Dimple is going to get - of scenery, of cultures, of mind. She thinks she's heading to Bombay for a family wedding - but really she is plunging into the unexpected, the unmapped, and the uncontrollable. The land of her parents and ancestors has a lot to reveal to her - for every choice we make can crescendo into a journey, every ending can turn into a beginning, and each person we meet can show us something new about ourselves. Tanuja Desai Hidier's BORN CONFUSED gave voice to a new multicultural generation. Now, Bombay Blues explores everything this generation faces today, with a heady mix of uncertainty and determination, despair and inspiration, haunting loss and revelatory love.
Author: Tanuja Desai Hidier Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 0545229944 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 498
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Tanuja Desai Hidier's fantastically acclaimed cross-cultural debut comes to PUSH! Dimple Lala doesn't know what to think. Her parents are from India, and she's spent her whole life resisting their traditions. Then suddenly she gets to high school and everything Indian is trendy. To make matters worse, her parents arrange for her to meet a "suitable boy." Of course it doesn't go well -- until Dimple goes to a club and finds him spinning a magical web. Suddenly the suitable boy is suitable because of his sheer unsuitability. Complications ensue. This is a funny, thoughtful story about finding your heart, finding your culture, and finding your place in America.
Author: Altaf Tyrewala Publisher: Akashic Books ISBN: 1617750271 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 277
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Following the Bombay Communal Riots of 1992 which saw neighbour pitched against neighbour in fierce bouts of internecine violence, came the retaliatory bomb blasts of 1993 and the name change to Mumbai in 1995. Mumbai Noir captures the essence of a city dominated by wealth and the lack of it, where the shadowy aspects of life are never far from the ordinary person. Psychopath Romeos stalk ordinary women, men flirt with death in dance bars and families fall through the cracks of communal living in this phenomenal collection of noir literature.
Author: Adam Gussow Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469660377 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 333
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Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for "race records." Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream blues world has transformed into a multicultural and transnational melting pot, taking the music far beyond the black southern world of its origins. But not everybody is happy about that. If there's "No black. No white. Just the blues," as one familiar meme suggests, why do some blues people hear such pronouncements as an aggressive attempt at cultural appropriation and an erasure of traumatic histories that lie deep in the heart of the music? Then again, if "blues is black music," as some performers and critics insist, what should we make of the vibrant global blues scene, with its all-comers mix of nationalities and ethnicities? In Whose Blues?, award-winning blues scholar and performer Adam Gussow confronts these challenging questions head-on. Using blues literature and history as a cultural anchor, Gussow defines, interprets, and makes sense of the blues for the new millennium. Drawing on the blues tradition's major writers including W. C. Handy, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Amiri Baraka, and grounded in his first-person knowledge of the blues performance scene, Gussow's thought-provoking book kickstarts a long overdue conversation.
Author: Andrea K Höst Publisher: Andrea K Hösth ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 188
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Come for the apocalypse. Stay for cupcakes. Die for love. Madeleine Cost is working to become the youngest person ever to win the Archibald Prize for portraiture. Her elusive cousin Tyler is the perfect subject: androgynous, beautiful, and famous. All she needs to do is pin him down for the sittings. None of her plans factored in the Spires: featureless, impossible, spearing into the hearts of cities across the world – and spraying clouds of sparkling dust into the wind. Is it an alien invasion? Germ warfare? They are questions everyone on Earth would like answered, but Madeleine has a more immediate problem. At Ground Zero of the Sydney Spire, beneath the collapsed ruin of St James Station, she must make it to the surface before she can hope to find out if the world is ending. Warning: Contains swearing, sexual situations, and Australians. Keywords: science fiction, ya, young adult, young adult science fiction, science fiction romance, teen, alien invasion, apocalypse, sydney, australian author
Author: Jerry Pinto Publisher: Penguin Books India ISBN: 9780143029663 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 364
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When King Charles Ii Of England Married Princess Catherine De Braganza Of Portugal In 1661, He Received As Part Of His Dowry The Isles Of Bom Bahia, The Good Bay. Reclaimed From The Sea, These Would Become The Modern City Of Bombay. A Marriage Of Affluence And Abject Poverty, Where A Grey Concrete Jungle Is The Backdrop To A Heady Potpourri Of Ethnic, Linguistic And Religious Subcultures, Bombay, Renamed Mumbai After The Goddess Mumbadevi, Defies Definition. Bombay, Meri Jaan, Comprising Poems And Prose Pieces By Some Of The Biggest Names In Literature, In Addition To Cartoons, Photographs, A Song And A Bombay Duck Recipe, Tries To Capture The Spirit Of This Great Metropolis. Salman Rushdie, Pico Iyer, Dilip Chitre, Saadat Hasan Manto, V.S. Naipaul, Khushwant Singh And Busybee, Among Others, Write About Aspects Of The City: The High-Rise Apartments And The Slums; Camaraderie And Isolation In The Crowded Chawls; Bhelpuri On The Beach And Cricket In The Gully; The Women'S Compartment Of A Local Train; Encounter Cops Who Battle The Underworld; The Jazz Culture Of The Sixties; The Monsoon Floods; The Shiv Sena; The Cinema Halls; The Sea. Vibrant, Engaging And Provocative, This Is An Anthology As Rich And Varied As The City It Celebrates.
Author: Rupesh Kumar Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: 1642493317 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 98
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This world is a living dream. Don’t fall asleep in this dream. Be conscious that you are just a witness to this dream. Everything is going right in this dream. Every incident in life is making your own story even better Every incident happening in your life is happening only after your consciousness has allowed it to happen. If you wish then all things in your life will happen only by your own design. However you have to learn to be a witness of your own dream. Don’t bring the emotions of fear, anger, ego, or jealousy in your own dream. And even if these emotions emerge - Just Remember Life is a Film J Life is a Film is filled with extracts of miraculous and fun scenes from the life of Rupesh Kumar. It’s a philosophy, an understanding that lets people play the protagonist and empowers them to decide the outcome of any scene. It brings you the secrets and the philosophy of his life and the strategic scientific path to help everyone become enlightened & Successful.
Author: Shashank Kumar Publisher: One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd ISBN: 9352013751 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 159
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"Ashutosh is a great student never known to lose a battle in life. He quits engineering to pursue his dreams of becoming a blues phenomenon. Ruhi, his Delhi love, hates his move but shifts to Bangalore just for his sake. But, she never moves in. Instead, Juhi, her elder sister of a law student, with her nearly settled life and a fiancé, patronises her in. Ashutosh needs a new house where loud guitars are barely an issue. Also somewhere, he can cast aside the ghosts of his ex-girlfriend, Nadia. Mehek, Juhi's colleague needs that house too. They end up sharing it. But Mehek never tells him of how she knows his girls all too well and neither do the sisters know about how she could be a blessing in disguise for the hapless guitarist. One bad move and Ruhi might end up in the lap of her family-approved, ISI marked, calvousdial tone of a dentist who moved for a job to Bangalore too. Juhi hates the dentist, but hates Ashutosh even more. Will Ruhi ever give Ashutosh the support he deserves in his tough journey or just play her wicked games all over again?"
Author: Adithya Bhardwaj
Author: Adithya Bhardwaj
Author: Tanuja Desai Hidier
Author: Tanuja Desai Hidier
Author: Altaf Tyrewala
Author: Adam Gussow
Author: Andrea K Höst
Author: Jerry Pinto
Author: Rupesh Kumar
Author: Shashank Kumar
Author: Jigna Desai