Download or read book Critiquing The Novels of Vikas Sharma written by Dr. Vandana Sharma and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vikas Sharma is an established writer in the Indian writing realm. His novels, IAS Today, Love's Not Time's Fool, Raah Ke Patthar, Medicine: Light In Twilight, 498A: Fears and Dreams, Ashes and Fire, and Hope Against Hope, have been well received and thoroughly loved by the readers all over. He has been the face of productivity and optimism through the corona virus pandemic. He is a renowned name in the literary world, hailing as a well-established Researcher, Professor, Poet, and Novelist. He has over fifty research papers to his credit in national and international journals. He has also authored, Epiphanies, a famous collection of poems and short stories. He has made his own place in the writing world in a very short period of time by utilizing the pandemic as an opportunity to nurture his creativity and innovation. His novels have been included in the curriculum at many universities and colleges all over India. And many scholars have also chosen his novels for their Ph.D. and research. This inspired me to undertake this venture of critical work on Vikas Sharma's novels. This is an attempt to bring out more from his novels and provide a reference and guide to young students who study his works and make them the center for their own scholarly journey. This book is an attempt to help various students to gain a better understanding, a wider and newer perspective, and a whole new set of ideas about Vikas Sharma's novels and excel in their scholarly goals as they pursue their work on Vikas Sharma and his novels.
Download or read book Q A by Vikas Swarup Book Analysis written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of Q & A with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Q & A by Vikas Swarup, which tells the story of an uneducated young Indian man who unexpectedly wins a fortune on a quiz show. Accused of cheating, he is forced to explain how he knew the answer to each question by retelling the story of his life so far. While readers may not be familiar with its original title, almost everybody around the world has heard of its film adaptation: Slumdog Millionaire. The rags to riches story has been awarded numerous literary prizes, and the film version won eight Oscars and four Golden Globes. Swarup currently works at the Ministry of External Affairs in Delhi, and has written three bestselling novels. Find out everything you need to know about Q & A in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Download or read book Love s Not Time s Fool written by Prof. Vikas Sharma and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An effort has been made in Love's Not Time's Fool to inspire the readers to face social and economic problems without feeling tense. The author has attached due importance to the rights of women and attracts the attention of the rich people towards the problems of widows, orphans and helpless old people. The theme of love has been painted with the colours of false love. extra-marital affairs and flirtations for merely sexual satisfaction but then the depth of pure love for marriage has been proved victorious towards the end. Richa is bold enough to accept her club-footed son Amitabh and pays money regularly to Nora to take care of this child. She hides this fact from her husband Malya who gets injured playing cricket. As an impotent man he continues to work hard for footwear products and dies with another hit of baseball in U.S.A. Richa, a young widow, gets married with her loving employee Abhilash. The positive side of life has aptly been elaborated in this novel so as to encourage readers to have patience in adverse circumstances. The terrible effects of the pandemic have been described in details and hence the novel is a criticism of life.
Download or read book Marginalized Indian Poetry in English written by Smita Agarwal and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian writing in English, especially fiction, continues to capture the attention of readers all over the English-speaking world. Conversely, the strong and flourishing tradition of poetry in English from India has not impacted the contemporary world in the same manner as the fiction. This book creates a debate to highlight the well-grounded and confident tradition of Indian Poetry in English which began almost two hundred years ago with the advent of the British. Individual essays on poets before and since the Indian Independence focus on the poetry of Derozio, Tagore, Aurobindo and Naidu right down to the modern and contemporary poets like Ezekiel, Mahapatra, Ramanujan, Kolatkar, Das, Moraes, Daruwalla, de Souza, Jussawalla and Patel who ushered in a change both in terms of subject matter and style. On either side of the Atlantic, this book which includes a substantial Introduction, Select Bibliography and Index is of value to scholars, teachers and researchers on Indian Poetry in English.
Download or read book Provincializing Europe written by Dipesh Chakrabarty and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly European assumptions about disenchanted space, secular time, and sovereignty. Measured against such mythical standards, capitalist transition in the third world has often seemed either incomplete or lacking. Provincializing Europe proposes that every case of transition to capitalism is a case of translation as well--a translation of existing worlds and their thought--categories into the categories and self-understandings of capitalist modernity. Now featuring a new preface in which Chakrabarty responds to his critics, this book globalizes European thought by exploring how it may be renewed both for and from the margins.
Download or read book Private Delhi written by James Patterson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We will take on any case, solve any crime, uncover any secret. We are Private. And we're the best. _______________________ Even the world's greatest detective agency sometimes finds itself in too deep... Santosh Wagh quit his job as head of Private India after harrowing events in Mumbai almost got him killed. But Jack Morgan, global head of the world's finest investigation agency, needs him back. Jack is setting up a new office in Delhi, and Santosh is the only person he can trust. Still battling his demons, Santosh accepts, and it's not long before the agency takes on a case that could make or break them. Plastic barrels containing dissolved human remains have been found in the basement of a house in an upmarket area of South Delhi. But this isn't just any house, this property belongs to the state government. With the crime scene in lockdown and information suppressed by the authorities, delving too deep could make Santosh a target to be eliminated.
Download or read book When was Modernism written by Geeta Kapur and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through essays that are interpretive and theoretical, the author seeks to situate the modern in contemporary cultural practice. She sets up an ideological vantage point to view modernism along its multiple tracks in India and the third world.The essays divide into three sections. The first two sections, Artists and ArtWork and Film/Narratives, raise questions of authorship, genre, and contemporary features of national culture that materialize into an aesthetic in the Indian context. The last section, Frames of Reference, formalizes the polemical options developed across the book. The essays here propose resistance to the depoliticization of narratives, and affirm an open-ended engagement with the avant-garde. They explore the possibility of art practice finding its own signifying space that is still a space for radical transformation.Geeta Kapur is an independent art critic and curator living in New Delhi. Her extensive publications on modern Indian art include the book Contemporary Indian Artists (Delhi, 1978), exhibition catalogues and monographs on artists. She is currently writing a monograph on Tyeb Mehta. Her essays on cultural criticism have been widely presented in forums of art history and cultural studies. Her curatorial work includes the show Bombay/Mumbai 1992 2001 in the multi-part exhibition titled Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis , at Tate Modern, London, in 2001. Geeta Kapur is a founder-editor of the Journal of Arts & Ideas and advisory editor to Third Text. She has held research fellowships at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, and Clare Hall, Cambridge University. For the past three decades, [Geeta Kapur s] has been the singular dominant presence in the field to a point that her writings alone seem to have constituted the whole field of modern Indian art theory and criticism. Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Biblio (Delhi), May June 2001. Geeta Kapur is a magisterial presence in the sphere of modern Indian art. [The] insistence on the primacy of bearing witness to creative practice has been the leitmotif of Kapur s work. . . . Kapur s contribution . . . is best understood by reflection on the radical change that her activity has brought about in Indian art criticism. Ranjit Hoskote, Art India (Mumbai), Vol. VI, 1, 2001. When Was Modernism is a book of essays: imaginative, interpretive, argumentative, polemical, political and, in the combined sense of all these, historical. . . . [It] provides an instance of passionate engagement that, at its best moments, verges on the poetic. Chaitanya Sambrani, ART AsiaPacific (Australia), Issue 30, 2001.
Download or read book Flesh and Fish Blood written by Subramanian Shankar and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Flesh and Fish Blood Subramanian Shankar breaks new ground in postcolonial studies by exploring the rich potential of vernacular literary expressions. Shankar pushes beyond the postcolonial Anglophone canon and works with Indian literature and film in English, Tamil, and Hindi to present one of the first extended explorations of representations of caste, including a critical consideration of Tamil Dalit (so-called untouchable) literature. Shankar shows how these vernacular materials are often unexpectedly politically progressive and feminist, and provides insight on these oft-overlooked—but nonetheless sophisticated—South Asian cultural spaces. With its calls for renewed attention to translation issues and comparative methods in uncovering disregarded aspects of postcolonial societies, and provocative remarks on humanism and cosmopolitanism, Flesh and Fish Blood opens up new horizons of theoretical possibility for postcolonial studies and cultural analysis.
Download or read book Personal and National Destinies in Independent India written by Rositta Joseph Valiyamattam and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal and National Destinies in Independent India is an innovative analysis of the interface between individual lives and national history, between citizen and state in modern India, as reflected in contemporary fiction. It critiques the selected works of a host of distinguished Indian English novelists such as Gurcharan Das, Arun Joshi, Rohinton Mistry, Arundhati Roy, Meher Pestonji, Kiran Desai, Vikas Swarup, David Davidar, Aravind Adiga, Manjula Padmanabhan and Tarun Tejpal. The author offers a new interpretation of twelve major novels with reference to the enormous framework of nearly seventy years of the history and politics, culture and economy of independent India. This is a study of fiction that re-writes the grand Indian narrative from a genuine, subaltern point of view and pays tribute to the heroism of ordinary Indians in times of extraordinary transformation. In these times of conflict and disparity which threaten democratic values, these novelists advocate an inclusive and humane India with a strong moral core instead of aggressive or elitist nationalism. They represent an era of painful introspection, an attempt to keep the soul of the nation alive. This unique project would be of interest to students and scholars of Literature, Political Science and History, especially Post-colonial studies. The vast scope of the time period, geographical expanse, social groups, writers and works covered here makes the work comprehensive and contemporary; very few such works on recent Indian history and fiction exist as of now.
Download or read book Success Mindsets written by Alinka Rutkowska and published by Leaders Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For driven individuals searching for a more positive attitude, Success Mindsets is an anthology highlighting the thought process, attitude and approach to your professional life. The difference between success and failure is how you view a problem. WHAT’S THE NUMBER ONE DRIVER OF A SUCCESS MINDSET? FIND OUT NOW IN THE LATEST MIND-BOGGLING ANTHOLOGY FROM LEADERS PRESS! The world prizes success. It rarely shows the effort people make to achieve it. We crave success, but it can seem so unattainable that we assume it’s not for us. What if successful business people were to let us in on their secrets? That what separates the adored from the overlooked is mindset. You will come to understand this by reading the brilliant contributors of Success Mindsets. This anthology gathers advice from several dozen exceptional leaders, ranging from CEOs to champions to game-changers. Success Mindsets reveals that many roads lead to success and you must choose the one that suits your concept best. Each chapter in Success Mindsets will reveal methods for developing the right approach for navigating your journey to success. Dive in now to: Understand the mindset of being adaptable in your pursuit of success. Adopt a growth mindset, to value long-term growth over short-term revenue. Utilize your driven mindset to keep advancing your career even as the world turns completely upside down. Study areas of strength and bolster weaknesses through the mindset of lifelong learning. Embrace the mindset of self-compassion to look out for yourself while leading others. Minds are more effective when they are open. You can always adapt your mindset to the situation in pursuit of your goals. What mindset will shepherd you through your professional journey? Change your mind for the better. Order your copy of Success Mindsets today!
Download or read book 498A Fears and Dreams written by Prof. Vikas Sharma and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2022-02-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 498A : Fears and Dreams the author asserts that right knowledge, right philosophy, and right conduct are main pillars of society, and condemns ego, lechery, greed, violence, falsehood, untruth, unwisdom, hypocrisy etc. Still he hopes for a bright and new prosperous society if people decide to give up deceit, cunningness, and wickedness. Happy married life can be led by couples if they follow the dictates of tolerance, compromise, self-help, personal duty as well as personal freedom. Tanvi, Anjula, and G.K. are responsible for their miseries and loneliness as they go astray and fail to compromise with realities of married life. Men have to realize that women are not mere toys to be played with. Here an effort has been made to support the just demands of women as mental liberty is equally important for them too. Moreover, this fiction has been related with fine arts and truth. Of course, each person has to be conscious of her/his responsibilities to society at large.
Download or read book Kumar Shahani written by Kumar Shahani and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifty-one essays compiled in this book were written over a forty-year period by India's leading independent filmmaker. They provide new insights into a turbulent era in modern India's cultural history. Although known primarily as a filmmaker, Kumar Shahani has taught, spoken and written on a variety of subjects over this period, that include the cinema, but also politics, aesthetics, history and psychoanalysis. In these essays Shahani addresses diverse political issues, aesthetic practice, questions of artistic freedom and censorship. There are also personal essays on filmmakers and artists including his teachers and colleagues. Shahani's often polemical positions, as they occur in several previously unpublished essays and presentations, are essential contributions to film and cultural histories of the Indian cinema as well as of the New Cinema worldwide. The book includes a comprehensive introductory essay, "Kumar Shahani Now," by Ashish Rajadhyaksha.
Download or read book Dalit Studies written by Ramnarayan S. Rawat and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography trace the strategies through which Dalits have been marginalized as well as the ways Dalit intellectuals and leaders have shaped emancipatory politics in modern India. Moving beyond the anticolonialism/nationalism binary that dominates the study of India, the contributors assess the benefits of colonial modernity and place humiliation, dignity, and spatial exclusion at the center of Indian historiography. Several essays discuss the ways Dalits used the colonial courts and legislature to gain minority rights in the early twentieth century, while others highlight Dalit activism in social and religious spheres. The contributors also examine the struggle of contemporary middle-class Dalits to reconcile their caste and class, intercaste tensions among Sikhs, and the efforts by Dalit writers to challenge dominant constructions of secular and class-based citizenship while emphasizing the ongoing destructiveness of caste identity. In recovering the long history of Dalit struggles against caste violence, exclusion, and discrimination, Dalit Studies outlines a new agenda for the study of India, enabling a significant reconsideration of many of the Indian academy's core assumptions. Contributors: D. Shyam Babu, Laura Brueck, Sambaiah Gundimeda, Gopal Guru, Rajkumar Hans, Chinnaiah Jangam, Surinder Jodhka, P. Sanal Mohan, Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana
Download or read book I A S TODAY written by Prof. Vikas Sharma and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juxtaposing the world of greed against that of detachment, IAS Today is a story of Romesh, a Gandhian, who gets married with Trishala Vasu during his training period and later tries to uproot crimes to the best of his abilities. In the same world is also Tinny, a son of noble parents who becomes a ring leader and forms his own gang with Kale, Penny, Vallu and Gannu and leads a lecherous life with Kanti, Rewati and Swati. With his sin bin already full, will he face the repercussions for his mis-deeds? With strong female characters, the novel presents the readers with a conflict between love and lust, violence and nonviolence, rustic and urban life. Still the question remains to be answered Is Fancy a deceiving elf?
Download or read book Medicine Light in Twilight written by Prof. Vikas Sharma and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2022-02-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Medicine : Light In Twilight the narrator describes various shades of medical life and confirms the utility of medicines in everyday life. Various pathies have their utility in modern society though Allopathic medicines enjoy the top position. Vaidya ji earns a lot of money after prescribing Allopathic medicines. Dr. Kamya and Dr. Preetilata make money even during the Corona pandemic. The miseries of the patients of Afghanistan need everyone's pity and sympathy. Girija, like Santiago, does not lose her courage and patience in all the odd situations of life and continues to teach students with full vigour. Like saints, Vaidya ji is admired for his philanthropic zeal. Efforts of Indian Government are admirable as nine medical colleges have been planned in U.P. alone to take care of sick people. The authorities have got to be admired for facing Corona with vigour, zeal, and full enthusiasm. The novel answers the questionHow to live?
Download or read book Revolutionary Desires written by Ania Loomba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary Desires examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India from the late 1920s, shortly after the communist movement took root, to the 1960s, when it fractured. This close study demonstrates how India's revolutionary women shaped a new female – and in some cases feminist – political subject in the twentieth century, in collaboration and contestation with Indian nationalist, liberal-feminist, and European left-wing models of womenhood. Through a wide range of writings by, and about, revolutionary and communist women, including memoirs, autobiographies, novels, party documents, and interviews, Ania Loomba traces the experiences of these women, showing how they were constrained by, but also how they questioned, the gendered norms of Indian political culture. A collection of carefully restored photographs is dispersed throughout the book, helping to evoke the texture of these women’s political experiences, both public and private. Revolutionary Desires is an original and important intervention into a neglected area of leftist and feminist politics in India by a major voice in feminist studies.
Download or read book The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form written by Francesca Orsini and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and Afro-Asian solidarity. Competing internationalist frameworks produced a flurry of writings that made Asian, African and other world literatures visible to each other for the first time. The book’s essays examine a host of print culture formats (magazines, newspapers, manifestos, conference proceedings, ephemera, etc.) and modes of cultural mediation and transnational exchange that enabled the construction of a variously inflected Third-World culture which played a determining role throughout the Cold War. The essays in this collection focus on locations as diverse as Morocco, Tunisia, South Asia, China, Spain, and Italy, and on texts in Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Italian, and Spanish. In doing so, they highlight the combination of local debates and struggles, and internationalist networks and aspirations that found expression in essays, novels, travelogues, translations, reviews, reportages and other literary forms. With its comparative study of print cultures with a focus on decolonization and the Cold War, the volume makes a major contribution both to studies of postcolonial literary and print cultures, and to cultural Cold War studies in multilingual and non-Western contexts, and will be of interest to historians and literary scholars alike.
