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Tawaifnama

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Author : Saba Dewan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-11-03

Tawaifnama written by Saba Dewan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-03 with Fiction categories.

Tawaifnama

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Author : SABA DEWAN
language : mr
Publisher: MEHTA PUBLISHING HOUSE
Release Date : 2023-11-10

Tawaifnama written by SABA DEWAN and has been published by MEHTA PUBLISHING HOUSE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

THIS IS A HISTORY, A MULTI-GENERATIONAL CHRONICLE OF ONE FAMILY OF WELL-KNOWN TAWAIFS WITH ROOTS IN BANARAS AND BHABUA. THROUGH THEIR STORIES AND SELF-HISTORIES, SABA DEWAN EXPLORES THE NUANCES THAT CONVENTIONAL NARRATIVES HAVE ERASED, PAPERED OVER OR WILFULLY REWRITTEN. IN A NOT-SO-DISTANT PAST, TAWAIFS PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL LIFE OF NORTHERN INDIA. THEY WERE SKILLED SINGERS AND DANCERS, AND ALSO COMPANIONS AND LOVERS TO MEN FROM THE LOCAL ELITE. IT IS FROM THE ART PRACTICE OF TAWAIFS THAT KATHAK EVOLVED AND THE PURAB ANG THUMRI SINGING OF BANARAS WAS BORN. AT A TIME WHEN WOMEN WERE DENIED ACCESS TO THE LETTERS, TAWAIFS HAD A GROUNDING IN LITERATURE AND POLITICS, AND THEIR KOTHAS WERE CENTRES OF CULTURAL REFINEMENT. YET, AS AFFLUENT AND POWERFUL AS THEY WERE, TAWAIFS WERE MARKED BY THE STIGMA OF BEING WOMEN IN THE PUBLIC GAZE, ACCESSIBLE TO ALL. IN THE COLONIAL AND NATIONALIST DISCOURSE OF THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES, THIS STIGMA DEEPENED INTO CRIMINALISATION AND THE VIOLENT DISMANTLING OF A COMMUNITY. TAWAIFNAMA IS THE STORY OF THAT PROCESS OF CHANGE, A NUANCED AND POWERFUL MICROHISTORY SET AGAINST THE SWEEP OF INDIAN HISTORY. म्हटलं तर त्या मनस्वी कलाकार. साधनेचा सोस बाळगून कलेवर हुकूमत गाजवणाऱ्या रागरागिणी. पण काळओघात त्यांचं अवमूल्यन होत गेलं. एका समृद्ध परंपरेला नैतिकानैतिकतेच्या संकोची चौकटीत बसवलं गेलं. आणि अभिजात संगीत आणि नृत्यातल्या या सम्राज्ञी काळाच्या उदरात नामशेष होत गेल्या. हा प्रदीर्घ आणि जीवाला चटका लावणारा प्रवास सबा दिवाण लिखित ‘तवायफनामा’ पुस्तकातून वाचकांच्या भेटीस येतो. ज्यात बनारस आणि भभुआतल्या तवायफ कुटुंबाचा तब्बल शतकाहून अधिक काळाचा पट समोर येतो. १८५७च्या उठावात प्राणांची बाजी लावणाऱ्या धरमनबीबीपासून सदाबहार, गुलशन, उमराव, तीमा ते अलीकडच्या काळातील हिंदू-मुस्लिम तिढ्यात हकनाक वेदना सहन करणाऱ्या तवायफांच्या जगण्याचा आलेख पहायला मिळतो. शमादानच्या मंद उजेडासारख्याच यांच्या कथा अस्वस्थ करत राहतात आणि यातल्या पानागणिक ठुमरीचे आर्त स्वर खोल जखम करत राहतात.

The Pregnant King

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Author : Devdutt Pattanaik
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-07-11

The Pregnant King written by Devdutt Pattanaik and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-11 with Religion categories.

‘I am not sure that I am a man,’ said Yuvanashva. ‘I have created life outside me as men do. But I have also created life inside me, as women do. What does that make me? Will a body such as mine fetter or free me?’ Among the many hundreds of characters who inhabit the Mahabharata, perhaps the world’s greatest epic and certainly one of the oldest, is Yuvanashva, a childless king, who accidentally drinks a magic potion meant to make his queens pregnant and gives birth to a son. This extraordinary novel is his story. It is also the story of his mother Shilavati, who cannot be king because she is a woman; of young Somvat, who surrenders his genitals to become a wife; of Shikhandi, a daughter brought up as a son, who fathers a child with a borrowed penis; of Arjuna, the great warrior with many wives, who is forced to masquerade as a woman after being castrated by a nymph; of Ileshwara, a god on full-moon days and a goddess on new-moon nights; and of Adi-natha, the teacher of teachers, worshipped as a hermit by some and as an enchantress by others. Building on Hinduism’s rich and complex mythology—but driven by a very contemporary sensibility—Devdutt Pattanaik creates a lush and fecund work of fiction in which the lines are continually blurred between men and women, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers. Confronted with such fluidity the reader is drawn into Yuvanashva’s struggle to be fair to all—those here, those there and all those in between.

The Dancing Girls Of Lahore

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Author : Louise Brown
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13

The Dancing Girls Of Lahore written by Louise Brown and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Social Science categories.

An unforgettable and compassionate look at the lives of the residents of Lahore’s pleasure district The Dancing Girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond District in the shadow of a great mosque. The 21st century goes on outside the walls, this ancient quarter, but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: beloved by sultans, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern day Bollywood aesthetic, with its love of gaudy spectacle, music, and dance, is their distant legacy. But the life of the pampered courtesan is not the one now being lived by Maha and her three girls. What they do is forbidden by Islam, though tolerated; but they are, unclean, and Maha’s daughters, like her, are born into the business and will not leave it. Sociologist Louise Brown spent four years in the most intimate study of the family life of one Lahori courtesan. Beautifully understated, it turns a novelist’s eye on a true story that beggars the imagination. Maha, at fourteen a classically trained dancer of exquisite grace, had her virginity sold to the Sultan of Dubai; when her own daughter Nena comes of age and Maha cannot bring in the money she once did, she faces a terrible decision as the agents of the Sultan come calling once more.

Hira Mandi

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Author : Claudine Le Tourneur d'Ison
language : en
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
Release Date : 2012-10-18

Hira Mandi written by Claudine Le Tourneur d'Ison and has been published by Roli Books Private Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-18 with Social Science categories.

Very few French writers have ventured to write on the social, religious, political and cultural issues of Pakistani society, but Claudine is an exception. She is one of those writers who not only made frequent visits to Pakistan but also watched some very sensitive prevailing issues from a close angle. Her fine sensibilities and eye for detail is a hallmark of her writing skills which also makes her an accomplished writer. In Hira Mandi her strong pen has beautifully succeeded in capturing the true identity of the society. Hira Mandi is a remarkable piece where Claudine has rolled out a tale that would make the readers spellbound. Hira Mandi sounds a forbidden subject for many who are familiar with the name as it is an area located in the walled city of Lahore which in its hey days was notoriously known as pleasure seekers' paradise but Claudine's expressions, portrayal of feelings and glaring social dichotomies are unparallel. Jaffer Bilgrami Television Journalist, Islamabad (Pakistan)

A Cloud Called Bhura

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Author : Bijal Vachharajani
language : en
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release Date : 2024-05-14

A Cloud Called Bhura written by Bijal Vachharajani and has been published by Blackstone Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-14 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

From award-winning author Bijal Vachharajani, A Cloud Called Bhura is a delightful middle-grade novel that tackles climate change through an inspiring lens of friendship, trust, and community. Amni wakes up one morning to find the sky taken over by a huge brown cloud. Even as she and her friends start to discover more, their city of Mumbai starts reeling from the changes the cloud brings to the weather. Bhura Cloudus (as the media calls it) causes scalding rain to fall, makes birds flee the city, and suffocates every living thing. As chaos continues to build and the climate changes brought by Bhura become disastrous, there are several questions on everyone’s mind: What will the powerful politician, Mota Bhai, do now? Can the scientist twins Vidisha and Bidisha find a solution? What about superstar Pavan Kumar and the amazing cloud-sucking machine? Will Bhura ever be driven away—or is it already too late? Thought-provoking, funny, and inspiring, A Cloud Called Bhura is about changing global climate and the havoc it can cause—as well as the forces of friendship, trust, and community that give hope and help counter this deadly threat to humanity.

The Wild Heart Of India

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Author : T.R. Shankar Raman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-06

The Wild Heart Of India written by T.R. Shankar Raman 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 2019-05-06 with History categories.

Wild—untamed, hostile, remote. Yet, wild can be gentle, welcoming, and inspiring, too. This is the wild that preoccupies biologist Shankar Raman as he writes about trees and bamboos, hornbills and elephants, leopards and myriad other species. Species found not just out there in far wildernesses—from the Thar desert to the Kalakad rainforests, from Narcondam Island to Namdapha—but amid us, in gardens and cities, in farms, along roadsides. And he writes about the forces that gouge land and disfigure landscapes, rip trees and shred forests, pollute rivers and contaminate the air, slaughter animals along roads and rail tracks—impelling a motivation to care, and to conserve nature. Through this collection of essays, Shankar Raman attempts to blur, if not dispel, the sharp separation between humans and nature, to lead you to discover that the wild heart of India beats in your chest, too.

Gender In Modern India

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Author : Lata Singh
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-02-29

Gender In Modern India written by Lata Singh 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 2024-02-29 with Social Science categories.

Gender in Modern India brings together pioneering research on a range of themes including social reforms, caste, and contestations; Adivasis, patriarchy, and colonialism; capitalism, political economy, and labour; masculinity and sexuality; health, medical care, and institution building; culture and identity; and migration and its new dynamics. Commissioned in remembrance of the prolific social historian Biswamoy Pati, this volume examines the gender question through a multilayered and multi-dimensional frame in which interdisciplinarity and intersectionality play an important role. Using case studies on gender from diverse geographies?east, west, north, south, and northeast; community locations?Hindu, Muslim, and Christian; and marginalized socio-economic or ethnic habitations such as those of Dalits and Adivasis, the contributors highlight the complexities and diversities of women's negotiations of patriarchies in varied social, ethnic, and community contexts. Collectively, the chapters in this volume focus on three related and overlapping settings?colonial, colonial and postcolonial continuum, and postcolonial. They delineate the multiple lives of gender by focusing on its intersections with other markers of difference including race, class, caste, sexuality, culture, ethnicity, region, and occupation, thereby questioning stereotypes, challenging dated notions and interpretations of gender, and demonstrating the ubiquity of patriarchy.

My Name Is Gauhar Jaan

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Author : Vikram Sampath
language : en
Publisher: Rupa
Release Date : 2012

My Name Is Gauhar Jaan written by Vikram Sampath and has been published by Rupa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Musicians categories.

Biography of Gauhar Jan, 1870-1930, Indian musician

Skyfall

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Author : Saba Karim Khan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-12-30

Skyfall written by Saba Karim Khan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-30 with Fiction categories.

Born in Heera Mandi, Lahore's famous red-light district, Rania is a tour guide by day and a classical singer by night. Despite the worst of humanity every day – her madrassa-running father selling her mother's body and beating her sister – Rania remains the 'troublemaker', unable to give up on her dreams. When an Indian filmmaker encourages her to enrol in a music contest that can take her to New York, her dreams take flight. But even as she wins the hearts of her listeners, a family secret threatens to bring her life in Heera Mandi back in sharp relief, upending the new life she has built for herself. From the oppressive walls of religious hypocrisy to the orange jumpsuits of American prisons, Skyfall is a tender, piercing debut that teaches us the strength of human endeavour and our desire for love in a time of hate.