Download or read book In The Heart Of The Brahmaputra And Other Stories written by Sharat Chandra Goswami and published by books catalog. This book was released on 2003 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern Indian short story, as we understand it today, came into its own in the nineteenth century, and has since then scripted a rich history for itself. Rupa Kahani showcases this popular genre of literature, featuring select works of masters of the form, across centuries and locations. Most of the stories in the present collection have an enduring appeal beacause of the depth and truth of feeling revealed. Some of them are also interesting as 'period pieces.'The title story is particularly striking, in its representation of what happens when natural human emotions are forgotten in the pursuit of the higher ideals of learning and scholarship.
Download or read book Asomiya written by and published by Katha. This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated into English, each of the 18 stories tell a new tale. Coming from Assam, the land of the Brahmaputra, the stories bring forth images of an insurgency-affected land and also its rich culture and tradition.
Download or read book The Interpreter of Dreams And Other Stories written by Apendu Ganguly and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories, mostly inspired by true incidents. The stories cover a wide spectrum of the common traits of human nature such as the spirit of adventure, curiosity for the supernatural, stinging feeling of guilt, close friendship, nostalgia, selfishness, jealousy, courage, attachment, and the like. The collection also has stories from the bygone era of the fifties and the sixties inspired by those unique times. The author had traveled extensively to different corners of the country and witnessed unusual incidents at remote places, which greatly enriched him with material for spinning lively and offbeat tales in this collection. The mundane, the supernatural, the old belief systems, and the times of a schoolboy during the early sixties, all find a place in this collection.
Download or read book Anandibai and Other Stories written by Rajshekhar Bose and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raj Shekhar Bose, Eminent Scholar, Scientist And Lexicographer Wrote His Humourous Stories Under The Pen Name Of ýParashuramý. One Of The Greatest Indian Humourist Of The Present Century, His Comic Genius Ranges From Light-Hearted Comedy To Biting Satire. He Laughs Not At Any Person Or Community But At The Follies And Weaknesses Of Human Nature Society At Large.
Download or read book The Escape and Other Stories of 1947 written by Niaz Zaman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Brings Together A Range Of Stories That Focus On The Consequences Of The Partition On The People Of East Pakistan/Bangladesh.
Download or read book The Unquiet River written by Arupjyoti Saikia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-25 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unruly Brahmaputra has always been an agent in shaping both the landscape of its valley and the livelihoods of its inhabitants. But how much do we know of this river’s rich past? Historian Arupjyoti Saikia’s biography of the Brahmaputra reimagines the layered history of Assam with the unquiet river at the centre. The book combines a range of disciplinary scholarship to unravel the geological forces as well as human endeavour which have shaped the river into what it is today. Wonderfully illuminated with archival detail and interwoven with narratives and striking connections, the book allows the reader to imagine the Brahmaputra’s course in history. This evocative and compelling book will be interesting reading for anyone trying to understand the past and the present of a river confronted by the twenty-first century’s ambitious infrastructural designs to further re-engineer the river and its landscape.
Download or read book The Midnight Moon and Other Stories written by Kiśorīcaraṇa Dāsa and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Braided River written by Samrat Choudhury and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brahmaputra is by some margin the largest river in India. After its confluence with the Ganga in Bangladesh, it becomes the largest in Asia. In The Braided River, journalist Samrat Choudhury sets out to follow its braided course from the edge of Tibet where it enters India down to where it meets the Ganga at a spot marked by the biggest red light district in Bangladesh. Along the way, he meets suspicious Indian spies, gets packed off on the back of a cement truck by soldiers, visit a shelter home for baby rhino and elephant orphans in Kaziranga, and hops from river island to riverside town meeting the locals. The tales of these encounters spice up a story that weaves in the history of the emergence of the border between India and China in Arunachal Pradesh, the formation of the Assamese identity -- a matter of great contemporary relevance owing to the National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act -- and the ecological challenges posed by proposed dams. This is a genre-bending book that touches upon several hot-button issues -- environmental, military and political -- as it blends travel, memoir and history with the present.
Download or read book Catalogue of Title entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington Under the Copyright Law Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Boy Who Grew a Forest written by Sophia Gholz and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a boy, Jadav Payeng was distressed by the destruction deforestation and erosion was causing on his island home in India's Brahmaputra River. So he began planting trees. What began as a small thicket of bamboo, grew over the years into 1,300 acre forest filled with native plants and animals. The Boy Who Grew a Forest tells the inspiring true story of Payeng--and reminds us all of the difference a single person with a big idea can make.
Download or read book Are you My Twinflame A story of finding true love written by Neha Sharma and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two women, who have everything to boast about in their lives, are in search of themselves. While Nyra is a perfect homemaker and a mother, Kittu has a successful career and a fascinating life. Are they actually happy? Or, is it just a facade of happiness that they present before the world? Alcohol is ruining Nyra’s life, while Kittu’s husband Sid’s philandering ways are ruining hers. Who would have known that Sid’s next target would be the timid and vulnerable Nyra. Sid’s entry in Nyra’s life changes the smooth trajectory of both these women’s lives. Do they ever find the true happiness that they have been craving for? What was it that kindled the flame of love and desire, lying latent within them since forever? Only a few lucky ones are able to find their twin flame in their life. Who is the chosen one this time?
Download or read book Life And Times Of Dacoit Queen Putli Bai and Some Short Stories the written by O.N. Srivastava and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water written by Giulio Boccaletti and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning millennia and continents, a revealing history that “tackles the most important story of our time: our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity” (Kelly McEvers, NPR Host). "Far more than a biography of its nominal subject ... The book stands as a compelling history of civilization itself." —The Wall Street Journal Book Review Writing with authority and brio, Giulio Boccaletti—honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford—shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates Rivers. Even as he describes how these societies were made possible by sea-level changes from the last glacial melt, he incisively examines how this type of farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, led to a population explosion and labor specialization. We see with clarity how irrigation’s structure informed social structure (inventions such as the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity); how in ancient Greece, the communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy; how the Greek and Roman experiences with water security resulted in systems of taxation; and how the modern world as we know it began with a legal framework for the development of water infrastructure. Extraordinary for its monumental scope and piercing insightfulness, Water: A Biography richly enlarges our understanding of our relationship to—and fundamental reliance on—the most elemental substance on earth.
Download or read book The Search for the Pink Headed Duck written by Rory Nugent and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-two years after the pink-headed duck was last seen in the wild, Rory Nugent set off for India in search of this exceptionally rare bird. In Calcutta he prowled the fowl market, where a few of the ducks used to appear during the Raj. Traveling on to Delhi, he was befriended by a Cambridge-educated smuggler, and he learned of remote regions to the north where the duck might be found. In Sikkim, following the trail of a Yeti, he became lost in the Valley of Bliss and nearly imprisoned inside a forest of rhododendrons, each the size of a ranch house. Making his way to Assam, he bought a 13-foot skiff and paddled the Brahmaputra River from Burma to Bangladesh, with stops on an island, considered to be Kali’s left breast, and at a Tantrist temple, where he stumbled on a grisly ritual in a graveyard. In a secluded marsh along the river he may have spotted the world’s rarest duck.
Download or read book River Dog written by Mark Shand and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birthplace of legends, embracing the great religions of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam, the mighty Brahmaputra begins its journey as a tiny glacial stream high on the desolate plateau of western Tibet, and sweeps eighteen hundred miles through three countries, to end, as wide as a sea, in the Bay of Bengal. No one is known to have travelled its entire length, a challenge described by one explorer as the 'last great Asian adventure'.In River Dog, celebrated travel writer Mark Shand chronicles his attempt to complete this journey. Undeterred by seemingly insurmountable political and geographical logistics and bureaucratic tangles, using superhuman patience, persistence and the black art of persuasion, Mark is constantly manipulated by the power of the legendary river.
Download or read book The Seven Mountain Travel Books written by H. W. Tilman and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tilman has been called "arguably the best expedition writer and best explorer-mountaineer" of the 20th century.
Download or read book Along the Red River written by Sabita Goswami and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran journalist Sabita Goswami has written a unique, unusual and rare autobiography, documenting the extraordinary, single-handed fight of an ordinary woman in the heart of Assam, against family and social obstacles, and her attempt to establish herself emotionally and professionally. An unbiased and ruthless no-holds-barred account of turbulent contemporary Assam in particular and the Northeast in general, the book offers an exceptional analysis of a volatile region and its intricate and complex social and political history. The racy and strong narrative recounted simply and with rare passion, makes this book a compelling read.
