Download or read book Toward an Anthropology of Ambient Sound written by Christine Guillebaud and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume approaches the issue of ambient sound through the ethnographic exploration of different cultural contexts including Italy, India, Egypt, France, Ethiopia, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, and Japan. It examines social, religious, and aesthetic conceptions of sound environments, what types of action or agency are attributed to them, and what bodies of knowledge exist concerning them. Contributors shed new light on these sensory environments by focusing not only on their form and internal dynamics, but also on their wider social and cultural environment. The multimedia documents of this volume may be consulted at the address: milson.fr/routledge_media.

Download or read book Remote Control written by Shoma Munshi and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the TV shows we’re watching tell us about ourselves? Television is the single most powerful and dynamic agent of change in India today. It is also the country’s most popular and accessible form of entertainment. Remote Control examines three kinds of programming—24x7 news, soap operas and reality shows—that have changed Indian television forever, and analyzes how these three genres, while drawing on different sources, are hybridized, indigenized and manage to ultimately project a distinctively Indian identity. Shoma Munshi’s book shows us how everyday reality in India in the twenty-first century shapes television; and how television, in turn, shapes us.

Download or read book Linguistic Survey of India written by Linguistic Survey of India and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Call the Next Witness written by Philip Mason and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call the Next Witness is an exciting detective story in which the suspense depends not on finding out "who done it," but rather on who will say what. Set in northern India during colonial rule, the story follows the thread of a murder from deed to trial. Mason not only weaves a gripping tale of death and detection in a small village, but also provides a fascinating insight into the religious, economic, political and psychological infrastructure of prewar Indian society.

Download or read book The Mammaries of the Welfare State written by Upamanyu Chatterjee and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2001 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In This Sequel To Upamanyu Chatterjee S Debut Novel, English, August, Agastya Sen-Older, Funnier, More Beleaguered, Almost Endearing-And Some Of His Friends Are Back. Comic And Kafkaesque, The Mammaries Of The Welfare State Is A Masterwork Of Satire By A Major Writer At The Height Of His Powers.

Download or read book Indo Aryan family Mediate group Specimens of the eastern Hindi language written by Linguistic Survey of India and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book River of Fire written by Qurratulain Hyder and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Magisterial” (Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books) and “to Urdu fiction what One Hundred Years of Solitude is to Hispanic literature” (TLS) The most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction, Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire encompasses the fates of four recurring characters over two and a half millennia. These characters become crisscrossed and strangely inseparable over different eras, forming and reforming their relationships in romance and war, in possession and dispossession. River of Fire interweaves parables, legends, dreams, diaries, and letters, forming a rich tapestry of history and human emotions and redefining Indian identity. But above all, it’s a unique pleasure to read Hyder’s singular prose style: “Lyrical and witty, occasionally idiosyncratic, it is always alluring and allusive: Flora Annie Steel and E. M. Forster encounter classical Urdu poets; Eliot and Virginia Woolf meet Faiz Ahmed Faiz” (The Times Literary Supplement).

Download or read book Tales of Tender Teenage written by and published by Blue Hill Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twisha Agrawal, a fun loving and charming girl had the firm and unwavering goal to go to the polytechnic after her tenth class boards. But as events turned out, she was forced to attend the Indo Public Junior College, the place she never wanted to be in. Call it her fate,luck or conspiracy of the universe, she was destined to be there because otherwise she would have never discovered her six special friends. The place which she called as the Dumping Ground eventually become the most special part of her life. It’s a story about the roller-coaster life of Twisha and her friends, who face everything that every teenage goes through or must go through. They face the emotions such as possessiveness, jealousy, contentment, hopelessness, societal burden, joy and freedom. It’s an Imperfect story of their imperfect years where they are trying to learn to handle their lives, their dreams and most importantly their friendship. Do you also badly miss your tender years of innocence? If yes, Twisha’s tale will surely make you nostalgic and give you a ride through your precollege years.

Download or read book Tawaifnama written by Saba Dewan and published by Context. This book was released on with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book A NUANCED AND POWERFUL MICROHISTORY SET AGAINST THE SWEEP OF INDIAN HISTORY. Dharmman Bibi rode into battle during the revolt of 1857 shoulder to shoulder with her patron lover Babu Kunwar Singh. Sadabahar entranced even snakes and spirits with her music, but eventually gave her voice to Baba Court Shaheed. Her foster mothers Bullan and Kallan fought their malevolent brother and an unjust colonial law all the way to the Privy Council—and lost everything. Their great-granddaughter Teema paid for the family’s ruination with her childhood and her body. Bindo, Asghari, Phoolmani, Pyaari … there are so many stories in this family. And you—one of the best-known tawaifs of your times—remember the stories of your foremothers and your own. 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.

Download or read book Kaikeyi just a name written by Gaurav AG Shinde and published by Ajitabha Publishers. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a six year old girl Kaikeyi gets nurtured by a babysitter after her father left her after getting married because of his transfer,she grow up without anyone’s love. While studying engineering in Lucknow University,she encounters a handsome boy who has no goals in his life but the political background and she gradually starts seeing him with no strings attached kinda relationsip.The days pass by and that boy joins the political party coincidentally led by his own beloved uncle.Meanwhile Kaikeyi gets placed in decent IT company in Mumbai. While working passionately as a IT worker in Mumbai, Kaikeyi bumps onto a guy who is a writer and film critic following his passion of filmmaking,quite positive about his life.The circumstances made Kaikeyi to fall in love with him though she doesn’t believe in love. After getting the producer for his film the guy proposes Kaikeyi for a marriage as he believes in eternal love and wants to settle down. But Kaikeyi rejects it, the altercation happens and both falls apart.Meantime Kaikeyi gets promoted as a senior software engineer and moves to Delhi . Kaikeyi’s life changes drastically with unexpecting twists and turns after the guy name Anshul joins her company as a relationship manager which makes her realize what the Love is.

Download or read book River of Fire written by Qurratulain Hyder and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of India through the eyes of four protagonists, reincarnated several times over 2,000 years. They retain the same names and are always involved with each other. A tale of love, war, possession and dispossession. By an Indian woman writing in Urdu.

Download or read book Jimmy written by Omair Ahmad and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Moazzamabad, UP, too large to be a town and too backward to be a city, a young man stabs a police inspector and is beaten to death. The last words he speaks are, ‘My name is Jimmy the Terrorist.’ Journalists descend on the town, ‘like shrill birds’, and a long-time resident decides to tell a story that none of them will know. Jimmy was once Jamaal, son of Rafiq Ansari of Rasoolpur Mohalla, a Muslim neighbourhood in a Hindu town. And his story goes back a long way: to the time when Moazzamabad was named, after Aurangzeb’s son; when Rafiq was seduced by the wealth and refinements of Shabbir Manzil and married Shaista; when the Hanuman temple grew ten storeys high and the head priest was elected mayor; when Shaista died, a mosque was brought down in Ayodhya and Rafiq became a mullah. As Jamaal grows up, watching both his father and his neighbourhood change and curfew reach Moazzamabad, he is changed himself. He becomes Jimmy, one among the countless marginalized trying to find a place in the world, dimly aware that the choices that shape their lives are being made in distant places, where they have no influence. Shortlisted for the Man Asian Prize 2009, this spare, compelling novel, as intimate as it is political, confirms Omair Ahmad’s reputation as one of the most distinctive and exciting new voices in Indian fiction.

Download or read book Book Of Shadows written by Namita Gokhale and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2001 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avengers Of My Vanity Have Broken Me, Humbled Me With These Small Depredations Of Skin And Bone And Tissue, Leaving Me Less Than I Was. Scarred By Her Lover S Suicide And An Acid Attack That Has Left Her Permanently Disfigured, Rachita Tiwari Has Sought Refuge In A Remote House In The Himalayan Foothills. In This Rambling House, Built By A Foolhardy Missionary Over A Hundred Years Ago, She Lives Alone-Save For The Company Of The Ancient And Mysterious Manservant, Lohaniju-Painting And Repainting Her Nails A Bright Red, Careful Not To Look Into Mirrors. As She Retreats Into Herself, Battling For Her Sanity And Fearful Of A World She No Longer Trusts, A Different Dimension Claims Her And The Tremendous History Of The House Is Played Out Before Her. There Is The Vain Fool, Captain Wolcott, And His Tragically Sensuous Mistress, Dona Rosa, Of The Wandering Heart ; The Doomed Lovers Marcus And Munro, Disciples Of Aleister Crowley, Infamous Dabbler In Black Magic; Father Benedictus, Seeker Of Knowledge , At Peace With Himself And His God; And The All-Knowing, Sage Crows. With And Above Them All Is The Resident Ghost Of The House, Solitary And Sad, At Times Merely An Observer As The Fantastical Destinies Unfold Around Him, And At Times Unable To Remain Detached. After A Century Of Silence Something Compels Him To Speak-Words That The Injured Woman Now Inhabiting The House Will Hear; Words That Will Give Her Back To Herself. Part Ghost Story, Part Erotic Romance, The Book Of Shadows Is An Ambitious Book That Investigates The Nature Of Reality, Love And Faith. It Is A Work Of Startling Originality By One Of India S Most Daring And Talented Writers. Our Kind Is Not Nourished By The Sun: It Is The Moon Which Gives Us Sustenance. We Wax And Wane With The Moon, Except When Harnessed By A Human Energy, When The Pull Of The Tides Loses Its Grip. As Dawn Broke Over The Mountains, Lighting Up The Still White Presences Of The Snows, I Fled To My Refuge, My Fated Spot. This Night Of Passion, My First, Had Initiated Me Into The Sorrows Of Mankind; The Unfaith, The Terrible And Tenuous Link Of Love.

Download or read book Foxy Foursome written by Subhadra Sen Gupta and published by Young Zubaan, an imprint of Zubaan. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third of the Foxy Four series, Charu, Padma, Jahan and Mandy are at it again: solving mysteries, breaking the rules, dodging eagle-eyed gatekeepers, careening around in Aunt Razia’s car, and driving their school principal crazy! Travel with our four feisty friends to a crumbling old haveli in Bhopal; to the Kalakshetra dance school in Chennai; pandalhopping at Durga Puja; and crime-busting in the gullies of Old Delhi. Each story is narrated by one of the girls. Mandy, the fashionista babe, reveals a surprising brain beneath that perfect hair. Padma may be a computer geek, but she knows a thing or two about classical music. Jahan seems like the coolheaded type, but even she gets the shivers in a haunted haveli. And then there’s Charu, who everyone knows, is just destined to be a writer. Published by Zubaan.

Download or read book The Pandemic and my emotions written by Ashok Totla and published by True Dreamster. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every individual, shall have distinct emotions. Emotions which are transparent, opaque and something in between. It is upto us to read them, understand and react. Here is an attempt at all these three.

Download or read book Voices from the Periphery written by Marine Carrin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In India as elsewhere, peripheries have frequently been viewed through the eyes of the centre. This book aims at reversing the gaze, presenting the perspectives of low castes, tribes, or other subalterns in a way that amplifies their ability to voice their own concerns. This volume takes a multidimensional perspective, citing political, economic and cultural factors as expressions of the autonomous assertions of these groups. Questioning the exclusive definitions of the Brahmanical, folk and tribal elements, the articles bring together the empowering possibilities enabled by three recent theoretical developments: of anthropologies questioning the fringes of mainstream society in India; critically engaged histories from below, which problematize subaltern identities; and a conceptual emphasis on everyday ethnography as an arena for negotiations and transactions which contest wider networks of power and hegemony. This book will be useful to those in sociology, anthropology, politics, history, study of religions, minority studies, cultural studies and those interested in social development, and issues of marginality, tribes and subaltern identity.

Download or read book The Awakening of Meena Rawat written by Anoop Judge and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, twenty-eight-year-old Meena Rawat is hounded by inner voices reminding her to be grateful for the middle-class American life she has-even if she is stuck in an unhappy marriage. She and her daughter are both safe, clothed, and fed, more than she could say for herself as a child. Born into the "Untouchables" caste in a small village in North India, Meena frequently relives the nightmare of abuses and slurs she suffered in an orphanage. There is only one bright spot in her memories: the fellow 'Untouchable' orphan who became her best friend and first love, Ramu. When Ramu reappears in her new American life, he's different. Unlike her, he has cast off the shame of their upbringing and become a confident entrepreneur. Their meeting rekindles a lost passion and the two find they share a mutual sense of obligation to help the children of the outcast community they left behind. Meena fantasizes about a future with him, but will her responsibility to her daughter-and the certainty that she would lose custody-keep her chained?