Download or read book Alma Kabutari written by Maitreyī Pushpā and published by Katha. This book was released on 2006 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga of Alma Kabutari does not begin with Alma herself. It has its roots in centuries of social and sexual subjugation of the kabutaris by the upper-caste kajjas. Like Chittor's Rani Padmini of yore, from whom the kabutaris are descended, the onus of breaking the vicious circle and reclaiming human status for her people falls on young Alma. The engrossing story of young Alma's evolution from victim to survivor to tenacious rebel, Alma Kabutari opens a window to the suffering and exploitation of a tribe that teeters at the very fringes of society even today, and that urgently needs our concern and understanding.

Download or read book Sketches from Memory written by Lakshmībāī Ṭiḷaka and published by Katha. This book was released on 2007 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A writer par excellence. A woman who had the courage to go against the grain. Who thought nothing of flinging societal restrictions to the wind and plunging into selfless service. Who could take that magical and most difficult step that separated truth from hypocrisy. Sketches from Memory is the autobiography of Laxmibai Tilak, who singularly championed the cause of girls' education in Maharashtra in the early twentieth century. Adeptly translated by Louis Menezes, it traces her relationship with her husband, the revolutionary Marathi poet, Narayan Wamanrao Tilak, through his conversion to Christianity and her self-education. Katha presents the story of Laxmibai Tilak's zest for life, love and god.

Download or read book Cut written by Merle Kröger and published by Katha. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the last reel winds down in the projection room of the old cinema house, Madita Junghans, the German with Indian genes, teams up with her boyfriend Nikolaus as detective couple, Nick and Mattie, to set off on a search for Madita s biological father. Their only clue is that he is an Indian. Mattie s mother lives in a psychotic dream world. Her foster father Hinnarck is anything but talkative. Mattie and Nick soon get sucked into a deadly adventure, centred around a dark chapter of Indo-Germanic history.

Download or read book Indian Feminist Ecocriticism written by Douglas A. Vakoch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Françoise d’Eaubonne’s creation of the term “ecofeminism” in 1974, scholars around the world have explored ways that the degradation of the environment and the subjugation of women are linked. In the nearly three decades since the publication of the classical work Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva in 1993, several collections have appeared that apply ecofeminism to literary criticism, also known as feminist ecocriticism. The most recent of these include anthologies that emphasize international perspectives, furthering the comparative task launched by Mies and Shiva. To date, however, there have been no books devoted to gaining a broad-based understanding of feminist ecocriticism in India, understood in its own terms. Our new volume Indian Feminist Ecocriticism offers a survey of literature as seen through an ecofeminist lens by Indian scholars, which places contemporary literary analysis through a sampling of its diverse languages and in the context of millennia-old mythic traditions of India.

Download or read book SUBALTERN DISCOURSES written by T. Deivasigamani and published by MJP Publisher. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNIT I Introduction, UNIT II Dalit Literature, UNIT III Tribal Literature, UNIT IV African American Literature, UNIT V Aboriginal or Indigenous Literature, UNIT VI Comparison and Similarities of Dalit and African Literatures, UNIT VII Comparison and Similarities of Tribal and Aboriginal Literature.

Download or read book Dark Afternoons written by Bāṇī Basu and published by Katha. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Katha Prize Stories written by Geeta Dharmarajan and published by Katha. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Search For Excellence Has Brought To Readers Some Of The Best Stories Being Written In Indian Languages. To Celebrate The Crop Of The 90S, Katha Invited Five Giants Of Indian Cinema To Choose The Best For Us From 150 Award-Winning Stories From 15 Languages. The Best Of The Best Are Represented Here.

Download or read book Home Truths written by Deepti Priya Mehrotra and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-05-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Indian single mothers and explores their lives, with their attendant dilemmas and challenges. The author details a phenomenon that is fast becoming common. Deftly using a free-flowing narrative, she raises questions about marriage, children and relationships. This seminal work draws attention to truths that usually lie buried in the rubble of daily life and conventional social sciences.

Download or read book Gulab Bai written by Deepti Priya Mehrotra and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2006 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Nearly A Century, Nautanki Reigned As North India'S Most Popular Form Of Entertainment, And Gulab Bai Shone As Its Brightest Star. Fusing Dance And Dialogue, Music And Romance, Humour And Melodrama, This Travelling Folk Theatre Was A Precursor To Bollywood. In Cities And Villages, People Watched All Night, Drawn Into A World Of Fantasy And Make-Believe. Gulab, A 12-Year-Old Girl From The Bedia Caste, Joined Nautanki In 1931. Reputed To Be The First Female Actor In Nautanki, She Rose To Dizzy Heights As The Heroine Of Countless Dramas And Later Started The Great Gulab Theatre Company. Gulab Bai Was Awarded The Padmashree, A Mark Of National Honour&Mdash;Yet She Died Sad And Bewildered, For The Form To Which She Had Devoted Her Life Was Languishing. To Tell Gulab Bai'S Story&Mdash;And Reconstruct The Social History Of A Genre&Mdash;The Author Travelled To Gulab'S Village And Kanpur'S Rail Bazaar, Met Family Members And Co-Artistes, Gathered Oral Narratives, Traced Drama Scripts And Song Recordings. The Tale That Emerges Is A Wonderfully Intimate Portrayal Of A Dying Art And Its Uncrowned Queen.

Download or read book Die Said the Tree written by and published by Katha. This book was released on 2012 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memory s Daughter written by Kr̥shṇa Sobatī and published by Katha. This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dance written by Eṃ Mukundan and published by Katha. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dissonance and Other Stories written by Jeyakāntan̲ and published by Katha. This book was released on 2008 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from Tamil.

Download or read book Sunflowers Of The Dark written by Krishna Sobti and published by Katha. This book was released on 2008 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Not Flowers of Henna written by Kamaleśvara and published by Katha. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen hanpicked stories in this collection meld memory with experience, craft with subtle art.restive , moving memorable.

Download or read book Anoma s Daughter written by Śāntanu Kumāra Ācāryya and published by Katha. This book was released on 2007 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ordinary Women written by Maitreyi Pushpa, Translator: Paritosh and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basumati is forced to choose between her traditional role as a housewife, and her responsibility towards the Panchayat that is accidentally thrust upon her. After spending her life as a spinster and devoting her life to work, Sister D’Souza is drawn to the warmth of family relationships, but for how long? Lallan is seduced by her enhanced standing in the village, only to realize it is taking her away from her real calling and work. Savitri lives an imaginary life as the famous courtesan Rai Praveen in her dreams, but when she plays her role in reality to save her village, she has to face rebuke and rejection. In her short stories- ten of which are collected in this volume- she writes about the dilemmas, conflicts, joys, sorrows, dreams, hopes, and anxieties that women face throughout their lives. Her protagonists are ordinary women living in villages and small towns, who have to negotiate an extraordinary maze of challenges and opposition from the traditional mores of the society, but never let go of their hopes, aspirations, and desires.