Download or read book Kali katha written by Alakā Sarāvagī and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gothic Gnostic written by Anand Bose and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a work of art. I have developed a new style of writing called Still Life Prose. still Life prose comes from Still Life painting and it's a depiction of objects using colorful epiphanies. My work is also a rewriting of the Philosophies of existentialism especially that of Camus and Sartre which negates and paints a dark picture of life. Life for the author is the celebration of meaning. The author has also developed new idioms for contemporary culture and society. The author also dissects his past, in a mode of critical irony. There are also many allusions made by the author.
Download or read book Revelry Rivalry and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal written by Rachel Fell McDermott and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. Richly represented in straw, clay, paint, and decoration, they are similarly displayed in elaborately festooned temples, thronged by thousands of admirers. The first book to recount the history of these festivals and their revelry, rivalry, and nostalgic power, this volume marks an unprecedented achievement in the mapping of a major public event. Rachel Fell McDermott describes the festivals' origins and growth under British rule. She identifies their iconographic conventions and carnivalesque qualities and their relationship to the fierce, Tantric sides of ritual practice. McDermott confronts controversies over the tradition of blood sacrifice and the status-seekers who compete for symbolic capital. Expanding her narrative, she takes readers beyond Bengal's borders to trace the transformation of the goddesses and their festivals across the world. McDermott's work underscores the role of holidays in cultural memory, specifically the Bengali evocation of an ideal, culturally rich past. Under the thrall of the goddess, the social, political, economic, and religious identity of Bengalis takes shape.
Download or read book Aashaa written by Divyā Māthura and published by Star Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection Of Stories By Women Authors.Translated In Hindi.
Download or read book Literature and Nation written by Harish Trivedi and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to deal with the culture of Britain and India over the past two hundred years in an integrated way. Previously unavailable texts make this an invaluable resource for all those interested in British and Indian literature.
Download or read book Writing Gender Writing Nation written by Bharti Arora and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the gendered contexts of the Indian nation through a rigorous analysis of selected women’s fiction ranging from diverse linguistic, geographical, caste, class, and regional contexts. Indian women’s writing across languages, texts, and contexts constitutes a unique narrative of the post-independence nation. This volume highlights the ways in which women writers negotiate the patriarchal biases embedded in the epistemological and institutional structures of the post-independence nation-state. It discusses works of famous Indian authors like Amrita Pritam, Jyotirmoyee Devi, Mannu Bhandari, Mahasweta Devi, Mridula Garg, Nayantara Sahgal, Indira Goswami, and Alka Saraogi, to name a few, and facilitates a pan-Indian understanding of the concerns taken up by these women writers. In doing so, it shows how ideas travel across regions and contribute towards building a thematic critique of the oppressive structures that breed the unequal relations between the margins and the centre. The volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, women’s studies, South Asian literature, political sociology, and political studies.
Download or read book Kalikatha Via Bypass written by Alka Saraogi and published by books catalog. This book was released on 2002 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kishore Babu, born in 1925, wanders back to his school days, sustaining a head injury due to negligence during his heart bypass surgery in 1997 and starts roaming the streets of Calcutta on foot. This jaywalking transcends all the divisions of time and takes him to the times of his Great Grandfather Ramvilas Babu, to the shared story of a community and a city: The community of Marwaris who like migratory birds left their native desert land for Calcutta of the British Raj.
Download or read book Kali Katha Via Bypass written by Alka Saraogi and published by Rajkamal Prakashan. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: श्रीकांत वर्मा पुरस्कार' और 'साहित्य अकादेमी पुरस्कार' से सम्मानित यह उपन्यास अलका सरावगी की पहली औपन्यासिक रचना थी। इस उपन्यास ने न सिर्फ उन्हें हिन्दी साहित्य-जगत का सितारा लेखक बना दिया बल्कि अब तक चली आ रही उपन्यास-परम्परा को भी एक नया मोड़ दिया। इसने कथा-लेखन की एक ठहरी और इकहरी शैली से ऊबे हिन्दी पाठक को एक ऐसी भाषा और कहन दी जिससे उसने अचानक अपने को समृद्ध अनुभव किया। एक मारवाड़ी परिवार की कई पीढ़ियों की दास्तान कहनेवाला यह उपन्यास शायद भाषा में उस दृष्टि को पिरोनेवाला पहला उपन्यास था जिसने नब्बे के दशक में देश में उदारीकरण के बाद जन्म लिया था। आजाद भारत में निर्मित सामाजिकता के प्रचलित पैमानों पर जीते मनुष्य की भीतरी अजनबीयत की पहचान से शुरू होती यह कथा अंग्रेजों द्वारा भारत में रेलवे लाने के शुरुआती दिनों से लेकर सन् 2000 तक के इतिहास का अवलोकन करती है। इसमें कोलकाता शहर का इतिहास भी पढ़ा जा सकता है, और मोटा-मोटी ढंग से भारत में सामाजिक-नैतिक मूल्यों के निर्माण और ध्वंस का भी। कहानी किशोर बाबू की है जो अपनी बाइपास सर्जरी के बाद दुनिया को बिलकुल ही अलग सिरे से देखने लगते हैं, वे किशोर बाबू जो जीवन-भर दक्षिणी कोलकाता के अभिजात समाज का हिस्सा रहे अचानक 'सड़कमापÓ बन जाते हैं, कोलकाता की अभद्र सड़कों पर भटकते दिखने लगते हैं और अपनी इसी यात्रा में अपने परिवार के पुरखों से लेकर अपनी तीन वर्षीय नातिन तक के समय को खंगाल देते हैं।
Download or read book MY LIFE AFTER HER GOODBYE written by Charushila Mahanta and published by Unité Publication. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY LIFE AFTER HER GOODBYE In this book, author had narrated about her mother. Her mother, now living apart from this living world. Here she wrote about her mother's life, how she lived apart from home in a very young age. How much she closed to her mother and got detached from her before experiencing life lessons, experiences. The book is about the life of the author after her mother. How she spent without her mother since she was 13 and the situations she faced after her mother's demise. And the struggles she dare to face without her mother as a sister, a friend. And the real life struggles, which many of us faces after anyone of the parent left us in the half way journey of life.
Download or read book The Goddess Re discovered written by Saumitra Chakravarty and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book critically analyses questions of gender and sexuality in the medieval religious texts of Bengal. It analyses the emergence of religious cults in patriarchal contexts, the humanization of the goddess figure as a wife and mother who is subject to social and ethical codes, and demythologization of folk epics. This book discusses the folk genre of the Mangal Kavyas such as the Chandi Mangal and the Manasa Mangal, against the perspectives of Sanskrit texts like the Devi Mahatmya and the Devi Bhagavata Purana, and compares and contrasts the Kalika Purana against the texts and practices of the Tantric cult, to shed light on the paradoxes and parallels in the images of Kali found in the texts and practices dominant in the eastern region of India. The author also highlights the centrality of Chaitanya in the Gaudiya Vaishnava movement, the social and religious revolution he brought with the philosophy of raganuga bhakti along with the androgynous aspects in his relationships; explores the concept of mystical eroticism in the love of Radha and Krishna as seen in the song sequences of the Gaudiya Vaishnavas; and discusses women’s Rama-kathas found in a variety of languages across India. Rich in archival material, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of gender studies, women’s studies, literature, medieval history, social history, cultural anthropology, religious studies, cultural studies, South Asia studies, and those interested in the history of medieval Bengal.
Download or read book Literary Cultures in History written by Sheldon Pollock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-05-19 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grand synthesis of unprecedented scope, Literary Cultures in History is the first comprehensive history of the rich literary traditions of South Asia. Together these traditions are unmatched in their combination of antiquity, continuity, and multicultural complexity, and are a unique resource for understanding the development of language and imagination over time. In this unparalleled volume, an international team of renowned scholars considers fifteen South Asian literary traditions—including Hindi, Indian-English, Persian, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Urdu—in their full historical and cultural variety. The volume is united by a twofold theoretical aim: to understand South Asia by looking at it through the lens of its literary cultures and to rethink the practice of literary history by incorporating non-Western categories and processes. The questions these seventeen essays ask are accordingly broad, ranging from the character of cosmopolitan and vernacular traditions to the impact of colonialism and independence, indigenous literary and aesthetic theory, and modes of performance. A sophisticated assimilation of perspectives from experts in anthropology, political science, history, literary studies, and religion, the book makes a landmark contribution to historical cultural studies and to literary theory in addition to the new perspectives it offers on what literature has meant in South Asia. (Available in South Asia from Oxford University Press--India)
Download or read book The Forest Flora of North West and Central India written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book Santalia written by Paul Olaf Bodding and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reverend P.O. Bodding lived as a missionary amongst the Santals in Santal Parganas in India for more than 30 years. During that period he helped the Santals to collate their folklore, which he transcribed into the documents which are presented in this catalogue.
Download or read book Kris The Elephant at Sea written by Dr. Alex Kodiath and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kris: The Elephant at Sea is the second adventure of Kris the Elephant. The first adventure is illustrated in the book Elephant Escapes to an Island. This adventure at sea starts with a journey of students who were travelling abroad in a ship. The ship was heading toward the United States, though there were several planned stops, one being Denis Island. Kris was transported to this island to lead a centenary celebration while the students had an educational visit to learn about the culture and tradition of the island. During this trip, Kris and his caretakers Jojo and George are able to attend some English language lessons with some international students. The book also depicts some of the cultural celebrations of southern India. While everybody enjoys the students' demonstrations of their understanding of the culture and traditions in dramatic play, the Somali pirates take control of the ship and take hostage all American students and teachers. In this chaotic situation, Kris runs wild and falls into the sea. What happens to the students, teachers, and crew? For the rest of the story, please read Kris: The Elephant at Sea.
Download or read book The Origin of the World written by C. Munisawmy Mudaliar and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India written by George Watt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissued in nine parts, this monumental work (1889-96) describes India's commercial plants and produce, providing scientific and vernacular names.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India Index prepared by Edgar Thurston assisted by T N Mukerji written by Sir George Watt and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
