Download or read book J J Some Jottings written by Cuntara Rāmacāmi and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structured As A Biography Of A Fictional Malayalam Writer-It Is At One Level A Critique Of The World Of Tamil Letters And On Another, A Novel Of Ideas Engaged With The Burning Questions Of To Bring And Existece. Represents The Best Of Tamil Writing Even To-Day, More Than 20 Years After Its First Apperance.
Download or read book Tamil Characters written by A. R. Venkatachalapathy and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamilnadu’s politics and culture befuddle outside observers. Ruled for half a century by two regional parties – DMK and AIADMK – its politics has been marked by language pride, non-Brahmin movement, caste-based reservation, regionalism, welfare populism, and cinema. Despite the negative coverage it tends to get from outside, Tamilnadu is a developed state scoring high on all human development indicators. In Tamil Characters, noted historian A. R. Venkatachalapathy provides a ringside view of contemporary Tamilnadu beginning with an assessment of political figures such as Periyar and Anna, Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa, and significant poets, writers and thinkers including Subramania Bharati and Iyotheethos Pandithar. The final section discusses contentious issues such as language politics, prohibition, jallikattu and Dalit rights.
Download or read book Language Culture and Power written by C. T. Indra and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of translation in redefining culture and ethnic identity. During the first phase of colonialism, mid-18th to late-19th century, the English-speaking missionaries and East India Company functionaries in South India were impelled to master Tamil, the local language, in order to transact their business. Tamil also comprised ancient classical literary works, especially ethical and moral literature, which were found especially suited to the preferences of Christian missionaries. This interface between English and Tamil acted as a conduit for cultural transmission among different groups. The essays in this volume explore the symbiotic relation between English and Tamil during the late colonial and postcolonial as also the modernist and the postmodernist periods. The book showcases the modernity of contemporary Tamil culture as reflected in its literary and artistic productions — poetry, fiction, short fiction and drama — and outlines the aesthetics, philosophy and methodology of these translations. This volume and its companion (which looks at the period between 1750 to 1900 CE) cover the late colonial and postcolonial era and will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers of translation studies, literature, linguistics, sociology and social anthropology, South Asian studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, literary and critical theory as well as culture studies.
Download or read book In Those Days There was No Coffee written by Ā. Irā Vēṅkaṭācalapati and published by Yoda Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for both the academician as well as the layman, this book draws from sources as varied as fiction, essays, reviews, and more.
Download or read book Mole written by Acōkamittiran̲ and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fictional events narrated in Mole! an English translation of Otran, a novel by Ashokamitran take place within a period of seven months, nearly all of them in the American Midwest. The narrator, a culturally rooted writer from Chennai, is transplanted amidst a motley group of fellow-writers from distant parts of the world, all of them as dangerously dislocated as him. Deprived of the language that has brought them fulfillment and distinction, these writers struggle to retain their place of precarious honour in a strange, unfamiliar and sometimes hostile environment. And in the background looms the endearing, if exasperating, landscape of twentieth-century America. Kalyan Raman s English translation illumines the subtle, spare strength of Ashokamitran s prose.
Download or read book Translating Power written by Saugata Bhaduri and published by Katha. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of short stories from Indic langauges.
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 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 Remembering Amma written by Ti Jān̲akirāman̲ and published by Sixthsense Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thi Jaa weaves a lyrical story of a vedapadasalai by the Kaveri and an orthodox household in Madras with an array of vivid, lifelike characters. His portrayal of women who pursue their passions with calm self-assurance is bold and uncritical.
Download or read book The Heart Has Its Reasons written by Kr̥shṇa Sobatī and published by Katha. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the first quarter of 20th century Delhi, The Heart Has Its Reasons dwells on the fine balance between love and family. Writer par excellence and recipient of the Katha Chudamani and Sahitya Akademi Awards, Sobti s powerful narratives defy territorial specifics.
Download or read book Seven Sixes are Forty Three written by Kiran Nagarkar and published by Katha. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It s a complex universe that Kiran Nagarkar leads us into. Seven Sixes are Forty Three explores the dimensions of relationships in terms of an empty physicality and loneliness as an inherent element in modern lives. Translated by Subha Slee, the novel s quest for compatibility is inspiring.
Download or read book Short Stories written by Mauni and published by Katha. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Innovative Narration Encompassing A Wide Range Of Emotions And Experience In Mauni`S Mindscape, This Volume Is An Expression Of Life`S Irregular Rhythm And Qualifies It As A Compulsive Read.
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Download or read book Upendranath Ashk written by Daisy Rockwell and published by Katha. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bully. Outsider. Iconoclast. Villain. Antagonist. Misfit. This is how the Hindi literary world perceives Upendranath Ashk. In this powerful biography, Daisy Rockwell presents the many faces of the writer and his tumultuous life and times, unfolding in the process, the period, the literary histroy of Hindi and the Hindi-Urdu divide. She also traces the development of Modern Standard Hindi, participants in its evolution and Ashk's role in it.
Download or read book Twenty Stories from South Asia written by Indira Chandrasekhar and published by Katha. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award winning translations of great South Asian writing from the first Katha South Asian Translation Contest held in association with the British Council Division. No geographical censorship, no barbed wires just human relationships in all their complexity. Twenty stories from various languages and countries including India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan bring together the work of prominent Asian authors to an English audience.
Download or read book Red Lilies and Frightened Birds written by Ā. Irā Vēṅkaṭācalapati and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the red lilies bloom on the waterlogged fields, the birds panic that the water is on fire. They fly helter-skelter trying to guard their nestlings under their wings. Red Lilies and Frightened Birds is a collection of poems in praise of the three ancient Tamil royal dynasties Cheras, Cholas and Pandyas. Translated from the early medieval Tamil classic Muttollayiram, these beautifully crafted verses retain a surprisingly contemporary tone a testament to their enduring appeal over the centuries. While some of them are odes to the splendour of the king's country and city, his prowess in war, and the ruining of the enemy country, others reveal how young women, deeply infatuated with the king, pine and long for him. M.L. Thangappa's translation brilliantly brings to life the playful inventiveness and heady imagery of the original verses. This edition also includes an illuminating introduction by A.R. Venkatachalapathy which places this classic in its historical and cultural context.
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:
