Have You Seen Sundari
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Have You Seen Sundari
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
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Across The Seven Seas
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Author : Kamlesh Chauhan
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-07-05
Across The Seven Seas written by Kamlesh Chauhan and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-05 with Fiction categories.
The novel tells us very poignantly the story of Sundari, an educated, intelligent, sensitive lady who has imbibed Indian cultural values to the grass roots and struggles in vain to live them in her life. The story begins with the growing up of a girl into a woman; her craving for love that proves to be a mirage for her as the story moves on. A saying goes that The drowning man catches at a straw. It fully applies to Sundari for every firm catch of her turns out to be a straw and she consistently suffers. The initial blow came when she was married off to the uncle of her lover who had a heart of pure gold. The uncle on the other hand is all guilt through and through. Life of Sundari starts going down the hill as all her hopes and dreams are belied despite her best efforts to make her married life a success and life turns into a mockery. The tragedy becomes all the more painful when her lover Akash again makes an entry into her cursed life. She is forced to ride two horses which she can hardly manage, to function as an ideal housewife and an ardent lover. The author introduces a few moments of transitory but suspenseful relief during which too the reader trembles and is afraid of the next blow that Sundari is bound to receive and he starts sharing the miserable life of Sundari with numerous disastrous compromises in the same way as Sanjay shares the pain of Dhritrashra in the Mahabharta.
Creatures
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Author : Sivasankari
language : en
Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media
Release Date : 2022-05-29
Creatures written by Sivasankari and has been published by Pustaka Digital Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-29 with Fiction categories.
This is the story of Bhuvana who loses her mother very early in life and her father marries his own scheming house-maid’s teenaged grand-daughter. Bhuvana aspires to be a surgeon but her life turns on its head when she is forced to marry the greedy and lecherous grocer Duraiswamy. The narrative traces the trauma Bhuvana faces in her life as she is tormented by her husband who has an affair which ends up in marriage with her own step sister; her trials and tribulations while bringing up her daughter as a single, working mother. Is there a limit to how low people can fall? Can greed and lust make human beings behave like creatures; cheat and torment our own near and dear ones? The gripping story raises these uncomfortable questions and looks at the beastly side of human beings.
Hungry Humans
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Author : Karichan Kunju
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Release Date : 2022-04-29
Hungry Humans written by Karichan Kunju and has been published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-29 with Fiction categories.
Ganesan returns, after four decades, to the town of his childhood, filled with memories of love and loneliness, of youthful beauty and the ravages of age and misfortune, of the promise of talent and its slow destruction. Seeking treatment for leprosy, he must also come to terms with his past: his exploitation at the hands of older men, his growing consciousness of desire and his own sexual identity, his steady disavowal of Brahminical morality and his slowly degenerating body. He longs for liberation-sexual, social and spiritual-but finally finds peace only in self-acceptance. This translation of the groundbreaking Tamil novel Pasitha Manidam, first published in 1978, offers deep insight into the conservative and caste-conscious temple town of Kumbakonam, viewed here with dispassionately cold clarity as a society that utterly fails its own. Sudha G. Tilak deftly builds upon Karichan Kunju's prose to expose this world, raw, real, without frills or artifice. The themes of masculinity, desire and sexuality, caged within caste and repression, all combine to give readers front-row seats to the many acts we put on for and as a community.
True Crime Writings In Colonial India
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Author : Shampa Roy
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2020-08-10
True Crime Writings In Colonial India written by Shampa Roy and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-10 with Literary Collections categories.
The emergent culture of crime writings in late 19th century colonial Bengal (India) is an interesting testimony to how literature is shaped by various material forces including the market. This book deals with true crime writings of the late 1800s published by ‘lowbrow publishing houses’ — infamous for publishing ‘sensational’ and the ‘vulgar’ literature — which had an avid bhadralok (genteel) readership. The volume focuses on select translations of true crime writings by Bakaullah and Priyanath Mukhopadhyay who worked as darogas (Detective Inspectors) in the police department in mid-late nineteenth century colonised Bengal. These published accounts of cases investigated by them are among the very first manifestations of the crime genre in India. The writings reflect their understandings of criminality and guilt, as well as negotiations with colonial law and policing. Further, through a selection of cases in which women make an appearance either as victims or offenders, (or sometimes as both,) this book sheds light on the hidden gendered experiences of the time, often missing in mainstream Bangla literature. Combining a love for suspense with critical readings of a cultural phenomenon, this book will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of comparative literature, translation studies, gender studies, literary theory, cultural studies, modern history, and lovers of crime fiction from all disciplines.
The New Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
The New Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with categories.
Sivakami S Vow 3 The Bikshu S Love
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Author : Kalki
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Release Date : 2023-06-19
Sivakami S Vow 3 The Bikshu S Love written by Kalki and has been published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-19 with Fiction categories.
After successfully fending off the Chalukya's siege of Kanchi the Pallava emperor Mahendra Varmar drives the enemy king Pulikesi to call for a truce. The statesman in Pallavar is keen to convert a foe into a friend but a vengeful Pulikesi reneges on his commitment. While the Pallavas are successful in chasing the Chalukyas away Pallava Nadu bears the brunt of Pulikesi's wrath. Fate wields its unpredictable hand further. A rash decision by the sculptor Aayanar and his daughter Sivakami results in her being abducted by the Chalukyas. Sivakami takes a momentous vow little realizing how far-reaching the consequences will be. How will the Pallava crown prince Narasimha Varmar who is in love with Sivakami act? Will Mahendra Varmar shape his son's future in a manner he had always envisaged? And what role will the Machiavellian bikshu play in Sivakami's life as a captive? The Bikshu's Love the action-packed third volume of Sivakami's Vow is unputdownable and sets the stage for the startling climax of this magnum opus in the fourth and final book in the series.
The Last Queen Of India
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Author : Michelle Moran
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-04-02
The Last Queen Of India written by Michelle Moran and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-02 with Fiction categories.
1857, India. At nineteen years old, Sita is the shining star of Queen Lakshmi of India's imperial guard, having pledged herself to a life of celibacy in the name of protecting the young ruler. When Sita agrees to train Lakshmi in the art of military combat, a close friendship develops between the two women. But trouble soon threatens - Lakshmi's court is dangerously divided and rumours are rife that the country is at risk. Meanwhile, in London, advisors to Queen Victoria are looking to extend the power of the Commonwealth, and India is coveted as the next jewel in the imperial crown. In the ensuing battle, will the bond between Lakshmi and Sita be broken for ever?
There S A Mountain Under The Hill
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Author : Amelia Robyn
language : en
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Release Date : 2013-11-18
There S A Mountain Under The Hill written by Amelia Robyn and has been published by Partridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-18 with Fiction categories.
Sundari, who's mother dies giving birth to her, is first bought up by her father. As he is a drunkard her grandmother takes charge of her, later her aunt brings her up along with her son, Mathew. Sundari who aspires to be a scientist, a model, a diva and a lot more ends up being a psychiatrist and leads a miserable, lonely life. She blames her family, her ugliness, her society, her grandmother, her aunt, her brother and above all God for her present state. While she lives brooding over her past, her brother Manu, who shared the same childhood with her becomes a successful dentist. When a burn victim, her once beautiful ex-classmate, comes to her seeking help she is in a dilemma. Again, when one of her patients who is five years younger to her asks her to marry him , she hastily agrees even though she is aware of his unhealthy mind. This book contains the life of Sundari from six years to thirty four years - her ambitions, aspirations and her strong desire to go to America leaving her past behind.
Chandra Shekhar
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Author : Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Chandra Shekhar written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Fiction categories.
ON the bank of the Ganges, there was seated a boy under the green mantles of the mango groves, enjoying the evening melody of the flowing Bhagirathi.* Under his feet lay, on the green bed of grass, a little girl, casting upon his face her lingering glances—silent and motionless. She was gazing untiringly, and turning for a while her eyes towards the sky overhead, the river below, and the trees around, again fixed them upon that face. The name of the boy was Pratap—that of the girl, Shaibalini. Shaibalini was then only a girl of seven or eight—Pratap had scarcely stepped into youth. Overhead, the Papia, in its airy flight, filled the sky with waves of music and smoothly glided off.Shaibalini, in imitation, began to thrill, with her whistles, the mango groves that adorned the bank of the Ganges. The murmuring melody of the river mingled with that mock music in perfect harmony. The girl with her little soft hand plucked some equally soft wild flowers, and making with them a garland, embellished the boy with it. Taking it off, she coiled it round her own braid and again put it on the neck of the boy. She could not decide which of them should wear it. At last she got over the difficulty by throwing it round the horns of a plump, nice-looking cow grazing near by. So it happened with them often. Sometimes the boy, in return for the garland, used to bring down for her from the nest of birds their little ones, and in mango season he would give her sweet mangoes ripe for relish. When the stars appeared in the serene sky of the evening, they began to count them. "Who has seen first?" "Which has first appeared?" "How many do you see?"—"Only four? I see five. There is one, there is another, again there is one, again there is another and lastly mark that." It is a lie. Shaibalini does not see more than three. "Let us count the boats. Can you say how many boats are passing?"—"Only sixteen? Let us bet, I say there are eighteen." Shaibalini did not know to count. Once counting she found nine—counting again she came up to twenty-one. Turning from this, they next fixed their eyes upon a particular boat. "Who is in that boat—whence it came—whither it goes? How glittering is the gold in the waters on the oars!"