Khwabnama
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Khwabnama
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Author : Akhatarujjamana Iliyasa
language : en
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton/Penguin
Release Date : 2021
Khwabnama written by Akhatarujjamana Iliyasa and has been published by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Fiction categories.
Assured Self Restive Self
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Author : Prasanta Chakravarty
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-07-30
Assured Self Restive Self written by Prasanta Chakravarty and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The book explores the encounter of the self with situations of crisis from diverse disciplinary and cultural perspectives from antiquity to contemporary times. A crisis is at once a historically situated phenomenon and a recurring idea of endangerment or a breakdown in creaturely living. By making our choices stark and difficult, crisis opens up the possibility for genuinely fresh and unexpected beginnings. At the most fundamental level, crisis is the disintegration of relationality among creatures. In fact, crisis is a battle of attrition with and within selfhood. It has the potential to turn into a norm in everyday interaction. It then stops being an exception and becomes the very condition of our living. Through the rubrics of the assured and the restive, the volume addresses how selfhood encounters and negotiates concentric circles of crisis in life and literature. Does the idea of crisis allow us to formulate the idea of self in a particular way? How do certain sources and resources within the self stoic or heroic, political and creative come into being during crisis? While some essays delve into questions of repose and sensuality by highlighting specific cases and trajectories from the subcontinent, others deal with questions of mythology, politics and art in a wider sense. One essay directly addresses the core literary question of the uncanny and its relation to selfhood. While specific concerns illuminate each essay, the volume speaks with a collective, global sense of crisis that faces humanity now and tentatively offers some prospects to deal with it.
Travels Of Bollywood Cinema
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Author : Anjali Gera Roy
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-10
Travels Of Bollywood Cinema written by Anjali Gera Roy and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-10 with Performing Arts categories.
From Bombay (Mumbai) and other production centres on the Indian subcontinent, Indian popular cinema has travelled globally for nearly a century, culminating in the Bollywood-inspired, Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. This volume brings together perspectives on Indian popular cinema, universally known as Bollywood now, from different disciplinary and geographical locations to look afresh at national cinemas. It shows how Bollywood cinema has always crossed borders and boundaries: from the British Malaya, Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad, Mauritius, and East and South Africa to the former USSR, West Asia, the UK, the USA, Canada, and Australia. While looking at the meanings of nation, diaspora, home, and identity in cinematic texts and contexts, the essays also examine how localities are produced in the new global process by broadly addressing nationalism, regionalism, and transnationalism, politics and aesthetics, as well as spectatorship and viewing contexts.
Nationalizing The Body
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Author : Projit Bihari Mukharji
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2011
Nationalizing The Body written by Projit Bihari Mukharji and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
This book seeks to move emphasis away from the over-riding importance given to the state in existing studies of 'western' medicine in India, and locates medical practice within its cultural, social and professional milieus. Based on Bengali doctors writings this book examines how various medical problems, challenges and debates were understood and interpreted within overlapping contexts of social identities and politics on the one hand, and their function within a largely unregulated medical market on the other.
Tiger Woman
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Author : Sirsho Bandopadhyay
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2019-01-24
Tiger Woman written by Sirsho Bandopadhyay and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-24 with Fiction categories.
Calcutta, 1880s. Nationalism is on the rise and the Bengali intellectuals are leading the protest against British rule in India. In this charged climate, ardent patriot Priyanath Bose prepares to set up the first Bengali circus. Soon he discovers an exceptional young girl, Sushila, and trains her to be a trapeze artist. As the circus flourishes and big animal acts are introduced, Sushila and the tigers become the star attractions. But the prize Sushila craves is unattainable, as Priyanath, a married man, is forced to reject her love for him. Jilted, she begins a relationship with a fellow circus artiste, but he may not be as loyal as Sushila believes, and his escape acts are now a bigger hit than ‘Sushilasundari and the Tigers’. At once a riveting page-turner and an uncommon historical novel, Tiger Woman places this tragic love triangle in an era of patriotism, as the circus becomes a metaphor for a frustrated social revolution.
Tiger The Life Of Tipu Sultan
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Author : Kate Brittlebank
language : en
Publisher: Claritas Books
Release Date : 2022-03-09
Tiger The Life Of Tipu Sultan written by Kate Brittlebank and has been published by Claritas Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
He was the most feared Indian of his time. But to his subjects he was a strong and just king and to his family, a loving son and father. From his daring military exploits to his practice of recording his dreams, this book brings the controversial Tipu Sultan vividly to life.
The Thinnai
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Author : Ari Gautier
language : en
Publisher: Hachette India
Release Date : 2021-08-25
The Thinnai written by Ari Gautier and has been published by Hachette India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-25 with Fiction categories.
If there was anything our neighbours envied us, it was our thinnais. The working-class district of Kurusukuppam is not the Pondicherry of tourist brochures. Here, residents are a bewildering mix of Creoles, colonial war veterans, proud communists and French citizens who have never left India's shores. It is a place of everyday tragedies, melodramatic occurrences and stubborn, absurd hope. But life in Kurusukuppam is upturned by the arrival of a curious tramp, Gilbert Thaata, a wizened Frenchman who has clearly seen hard times. Settling down on the narrator's verandah, his thinnai, Gilbert Thaata begins to earn his keep by recounting the tale of the rise and fall of his family's fortunes as the custodians of a mysterious diamond, the Stone of Sita. The fanciful story that unfolds is one that stretches across centuries and encompasses the history of France's colonial legacy in India. As entranced as they are by the raconteur, his listeners cannot help but ask - just who is this old man and how did he fall on such misfortune? Masterfully translated from the French original by Blake Smith, Ari Gautier's The Thinnai offers a panoramic view of Pondicherry's past, the whimsical eccentricities of its present and shines a light on the quirks of history that come to define us.
Chowringhee
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Author : Śaṃkara
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2007
Chowringhee written by Śaṃkara and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Bengali fiction categories.
Here, Day And Night Were Interchangeable. The Immaculately Dressed Chowringhee, Radiant In Her Youth, Had Just Stepped On To The Floor At The Nightclub. Set In 1950S Calcutta, Chowringhee Is A Sprawling Saga Of The Intimate Lives Of Managers, Employees And Guests At One Of Calcutta S Largest Hotels, The Shahjahan. Shankar, The Newest Recruit, Recounts The Stories Of Several People Whose Lives Come Together In The Suites, Restaurants, Bar And Backrooms Of The Hotel. As Both Observer And Participant In The Events, He Inadvertently Peels Off The Layers Of Everyday Existence To Expose The Seamy Underbelly Of Unfulfilled Desires, Broken Dreams, Callous Manipulation And Unbidden Tragedy. What Unfolds Is Not Just The Story Of Individual Lives But Also The Incredible Chronicle Of A Metropolis. Written By Best-Selling Bengali Author Sankar, Chowringhee Was Published As A Novel In 1962. Predating Arthur Hailey S Hotel By Three Years, It Became An Instant Hit, Spawning Translations In Major Indian Languages, A Film And A Play. Its Larger-Than-Life Characters The Enigmatic Manager Marco Polo, The Debonair Receptionist Sata Bose, The Tragic Hostess Karabi Guha, Among Others Soon Attained Cult Status. With Its Thinly Veiled Accounts Of The Private Lives Of Real-Life Celebrities, And Its Sympathetic Narrative Seamlessly Weaving The Past And The Present, It Immediately Established Itself As A Popular Classic. Available For The First Time In English, Chowringhee Is As Much A Dirge As It Is A Homage To A City And Its People.
A Mirrored Life
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Author : Rabisankar Bal
language : en
Publisher: Random House India
Release Date : 2015-01-15
A Mirrored Life written by Rabisankar Bal and has been published by Random House India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-15 with Fiction categories.
On his way from Tangiers to China, the medieval Moorish traveller Ibn Battuta arrives in Konya, Turkey where the legendary dervish Rumi had lived, danced and died. More than half a century may have passed since his death, but his poetry remains alive, inscribed in every stone and tree and pathway. Rumi’s followers entrust Ibn Battuta with a manuscript of his life stories to spread word of the mystic on his travels. As Battuta reads and recites these tales, his listeners discover their own lives reflected in these stories—fate has bound them, and perhaps you, to Rumi. A Mirrored Life reaffirms the magical powers of storytelling, making us find Rumi in each of our hearts.
Two Measures Of Bhakti
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2009-06-08
Two Measures Of Bhakti written by and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-08 with Literary Collections categories.
Late medieval poems from Kerala that still resonate in every Malayali’s heart touchstones of faith in Kerala. Puntanam’s Jnana-paana may claim to be the first original modern poem in Malayalam; simple and innocent, it still speaks directly to the reader. Melpattur’s Narayaniyam is ‘the last great hurrah of classical Sanskrit’ in India; the poem excerpted here, majestic in its humility, describes a vision of the Lord. With his elegant verse translations, Vijay Nambisan brings these poems to a new audience. Also translated is a poem by Mahakavi Vallathol which relates the story of Melpattur and Puntanam’s meeting and how the Sanskritist scorned the vernacular poet. In his incisive ‘Translator’s Apology’, Nambisan explores the dynamics of Malayali culture; places its literature in context; studies matters of prosody; and questions the attitude of an elitist language to a regional one.