The Tombstone In My Garden Stories From Nagaland
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The Tombstone In My Garden Stories From Nagaland
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Author : Temsula Ao
language : en
Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
Release Date : 2022-01-10
The Tombstone In My Garden Stories From Nagaland written by Temsula Ao and has been published by Speaking Tiger Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-10 with Fiction categories.
Description In this collection of five spare and poignant stories from Nagaland, Temsula Ao holds up a mirror to the lives of everyday people beyond the headlines. A 'Bihari' coolie at the Dimapur railway station has been hiding a dark secret about his adopted son; a grave threat to both their lives. As her grandson is exiled from the village, a grandmother finally breaks the silence over her mutilated funeral supeti. A rare lily refuses to bloom year after year because she was moved from her usual position in the flowerbed into an ornate pot. Big Father, a uniquely misshapen grandfather tree, becomes the guardian and protector of an entire village. The matriarch Lily Anne, subjected to racial slurs by her own mother on account of her mixed parentage, resumes her position on the ancient reclining chair in her verandah to stare at the eyesore in her overgrown garden. The Tombstone in My Garden - with its pared-down prose and gripping, original stories - reflects Padma Shri award-winner Temsula Ao's deep understanding not just of the human condition, but that of all life.
The Tombstone In My Garden
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
The Tombstone In My Garden written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Indian Modernities
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Author : Nishat Zaidi
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-06-30
Indian Modernities written by Nishat Zaidi and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the 18th to 20th century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and languages from Northeast India, which form a dialogical relationship with each other in this volume. The concurrence and contradictions emerging through these studies problematize the idea of modernity afresh. The book challenges the dominance of colonial modernity through socio-historical and cultural analysis of how modernity surfaces as a multifaceted phenomenon when contextualized in the multilingual ethos of India. It further tracks the complex ways in which modernism in India is tied to the harvests of modernity. It argues for the need to shift focus on the specific conditions that gave shape to multiple modernities within literatures produced from India. A versatile collection, the book incorporates engagements with not just long prose fiction but also lesser-known essays, research works, and short stories published in popular magazines. This unique work will be of interest to students and teachers of Indian writing in English, Indian literatures, and comparative literatures. It will be indispensable to scholars of South Asian studies, literary historians, linguists, and scholars of cultural studies across the globe.
Laburnum For My Head
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Author : Temsula Ao
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2009-10-30
Laburnum For My Head written by Temsula Ao and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-30 with Fiction categories.
Every May something extraordinary happens in the new cemetery of the sleepy little town – a laburnum tree, with buttery yellow blossoms, flowers over the spot where Lentina is buried. A brave hunter, Imchanok, totters when the ghost of his prey haunts him, till he offers it is a tuft of his hair as a prayer for forgiveness. Pokenmong, the servant boy, by dint of his wit, sells an airfield to unsuspecting villagers. A letter found on a dead insurgent blurs the boundaries between him and an innocent villager, both struggling to make ends meet. A woman’s terrible secret comes full circle, changing her daughter’s and granddaughter’s lives as well as her own. An illiterate village woman’s simple question rattles an army officer and forces him to set her husband free. A young girl loses her lover in his fight for the motherland, leaving her a frightful legacy. And a caterpillar finds wings. From the mythical to the modern, Laburnum for My Head is a collection of short stories that embrace a gamut of emotions. Heart-rending, witty and riddled with irony, the stories depict a deep understanding of the human condition.
These Hills Called Home
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Author : Temsula Ao
language : en
Publisher: Zubaan
Release Date : 2006
These Hills Called Home written by Temsula Ao and has been published by Zubaan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
More Than Half A Century Of Bloodshed Has Marked The History Of The Naga People Who Live In The Troubled Northeastern Region Of India. Their Struggle For An Independent Nagaland And Their Continuing Search For Identity Provides The Backdrop For The Stories That Make Up This Unusual Collection. Describing How Ordinary People Cope With Violence, How They Negotiate Power And Force, How They Seek And Find Safe Spaces And Enjoyment In The Midst Of Terror, The Author Details A Way Of Life Under Threat From The Forces Of Modernization And War. No One The Young, The Old, The Ordinary Housewife, The Willing Partner, The Militant Who Takes To The Gun, And The Young Woman Who Sings Even As She Is Being Raped Is Untouched By The Violence. Theirs Are The Stories That Form The Subtext Of The Struggles That Lie At The Internal Faultlines Of The Indian Nation-State. These Are Stories That Speak Movingly Of Home, Country, Nation, Nationality, Identity, And Direct The Reader To The Urgency Of The Issues That Lie At Their Heart.
Once Upon A Life
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Author : Temsula Ao
language : en
Publisher: Zubaan
Release Date : 2014-04-01
Once Upon A Life written by Temsula Ao and has been published by Zubaan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born in 1945 in the Assamese town of Jorhat, Temsula Ao, her father's favourite of his six daughters, remembers her childhood as a time of happiness. The sudden loss of both parents mean that the orphaned children were left to fend for themselves as best they could. Desperately poor, emotionally scarred, lonely and often hungry, the young Temsula made up for her lack of resources with courage and determination. From these unpromising beginnings, Ao went on to become one of Northeast India's best known writers and to build a distinguished teaching career, serving as Director of the Northeast Zone Cultural Centre, and finally, Dean of the School of Humanities and Education, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. Temsula Ao describes her memoir as 'an attempt to exorcise my own personal ghosts from a fractured childhood that was ripped apart by a series of tragedies... [it] is about love and what it is like to be deprived of it.' For her readers, Ao’s memoir gives not only an insight into her role as a leading figure in the Northeast, but is also a moving account of a writerly life. Published by Zubaan.
The Moral Imagination
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Author : John Paul Lederach
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010
The Moral Imagination written by John Paul Lederach 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 2010 with Philosophy categories.
Originally published in hardcover in 2005.
Aosenla S Story
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Author : Temsula Ao
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05-30
Aosenla S Story written by Temsula Ao and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-30 with FICTION categories.
Seventy-year-old Temsula Ao is a pioneer of northeastern Indian literature, who was recognized with India's highest civilian honor in 2007 for her work. The author of many volumes of poetry and short stories, Ao returns in this book to her beloved Nagaland homeland to bring readers the beautifully crafted story of Aosenla, a woman who is coming to terms with herself. The novel opens on a typical summer afternoon that will soon turn into another oppressive evening. Aosenla sits listening to her children playing nearby and is seized by a great lethargy. As she casts a watchful gaze over the house she has called home for so many years, Aosenla wonders how an inanimate structure like a house can exercise such power over a human being. Looking down at a wedding invitation in her hands, Aosenla begins to recall her own wedding ceremony many years ago, initiating a deep and moving reflection on the parts of this life that were made for her, and the parts she has made for herself.
Friends In Wild Places Birds Beasts And Other Companions
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Author : Ruskin Bond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-11-22
Friends In Wild Places Birds Beasts And Other Companions written by Ruskin Bond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-22 with categories.
Description Since he was a young boy, Ruskin Bond has made friends easily. And his most rewarding friendships have often been with animals, birds and plants-big and small; outgoing and shy. This collection focuses on these companions and brings together some of Bond's finest nature stories and essays, both classic and new. There are leopards and tigers; bulbuls and owls; bears in the mountains and elephants on a ship; wise old forest oaks and geraniums on balconies; a talking parrot and a tomcat called Suzie-and many more 'wild' and wonderful friends. Beautifully illustrated, this is a lovely gem of a book.
Big Cat Tales
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Big Cat Tales written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.