Download or read book Krishna Sobti written by Sukrita Paul Kumar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with the life and works of the distinctive Hindi writer Krishna Sobti, known for making bold choices of themes in her writing. Also known for her extraordinary use of the Hindi language, she emerges as an embodiment of a counter archive. While presenting the author in the context of her times, this volume offers critical perspectives to define her position in the canon of modern Indian literature. Alongside important critical essays on her, the inclusion of excerpts from the translations of some major works by the author, such as Zindaginama, Mitro Marjani and Ai Ladki, greatly facilitate an understanding of her worldview and the contexts in which she wrote. Also included in this book are some of her reflections on the creative process that help in unfolding the complexities of her characters and her specific approach to the language of fiction. Writing in the times of significant political and cultural churnings, her fiction includes themes such as the Partition of the country and its aftermath, women and their sexuality, desire and violence, history and memory. Her writing subverted the dominant narratives of the times and de-historicised history. Her own essays and other critical writings demonstrate the way Krishna Sobti’s characters are abundantly polyphonic and seeped in social realities. They encapsulate the cultural milieu of their times and serve as a site of resistance to the dominant archive of power. Her interactions with her fellow Hindi writers such as Nirmal Verma and Krishan Baldev Vaid, as also her letters, her memoirs and the reminiscences of others, further enrich this volume and establish her unique voice. Part of the ‘Writer in Context’ Series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of Indian literature, English literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, gender studies, translation studies and Partition studies.
Download or read book Krishna Sobti s Views on Literature and the Poetics of Writing written by Rosine-Alice Vuille and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a writer discuss her creative process and her views on a writer’s role in society? How do her comments on writing relate to her works? The Hindi writer Krishna Sobti (1925-2019) is known primarily as a novelist. However, she also extensively wrote about her views on the creative process, the figure of the writer, historical writing, and the position of writers within the public sphere. This study is the first to examine in detail the relationship between Sobti’s views on poetics as exposed in her non-fictional texts and her own literary practice. The writer’s self-representation is analysed through her use of metaphors to explain her creative process. Sobti’s construction of the figure of the writer is then put in parallel with her idiosyncratic use of language as a representation of the heterogeneous voices of her characters and with her conception of literature as a space where time and memory can be "held." At the same time, by delving into Sobti’s position in the debate around "women’s writing" (especially through the creation of a male double, the failed writer Hashmat), and into her views on literature and politics, this book also reflects on the literary debates of the post-Independence Hindi literary sphere.
Download or read book A Gujarat Here a Gujarat There written by Krishna Sobti and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delhi, 1947. The city surges with Partition refugees. Eager to escape the welter of pain and confusion that surrounds her, young Krishna applies on a whim to a position at a preschool in the princely state of Sirohi, itself on the cusp of transitioning into the republic of India. She is greeted on arrival with condescension for her refugee status, and treated with sexist disdain by Zutshi Sahib, the man charged with hiring for the position. Undaunted, Krishna fights back. But when an opportunity to become governess to the child maharaja Tej Singh Bahadur presents itself-and with it a chance to make Sirohi her new home once and for all-there is no telling how long this idyll will last. Part novel, part memoir, part feminist anthem, A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There is not only a powerful tale of Partition loss and dislocation but also charts the odyssey of a spirited young woman determined to build a new identity for herself on her own terms.
Download or read book Listen Girl written by Kr̥shṇa Sobatī and published by Katha. This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ai Ladki is prose in poetry, the tale of an old woman awaiting death and musing about her life. Without any fear of the imminent death, she is eager to start all over. The book describes the life instinct, the undaunted will to live.
Download or read book Tohellwithyou Mitro written by Kr̥shṇa Sobatī and published by Katha. This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Krishna Sobti's lively, unapologetic portrayal of a married woman who brooks no limits to her sexuality is as compelling, pertinent and provocative today as when it first shook the Hindi literary world in 1966. Katha presents another masterpiece from one of the most spirited writers of our times. Mitro Marjani was not a writer's story ... I was amazed at the surprises Mitro gave me at every turn. Brought up outside the walls of patriarchy ... Mitro is her mother's daughter who can voice her desires and get away with it. She has no inhibitions about talking of things tabooed by tradition. She really impressed me .- Krishna Sobti
Download or read book The Music of Solitude written by Krishna Sobti and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aranya and Ishan are neighbours. They are in the autumn of their lives. She is impulsive, anarchic and fiercely feminist. He is gentle, sensitive, orderly and believes in the institution of family, even though he has no one to call his own. Aranya thinks about the many Delhis, from the older one glimmering on the other side of the river to the trans-Yamuna residential complex where she lives now. Ishan is deeply spiritual and draws strength from his Danish guide in the Himalayas. The two of them banter about time, existentialism, changing landscapes, food, music and human nature. They think aloud about aeging and death, and wonder living the way they do amounts to biding time. Krishna Sobti's Samay Sargam is a novel about sharing solitudes and growing old in a city that is at once keenly private and aggressively collective. This is as much a portrait of the changing times as it the story of a beautiful romance that thrives on companionship.
Download or read book Crossing Boundaries written by Geeti Sen and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To commemorate fifty years of Independence in the subcontinent it seems appropriate to cut across the borders which separate Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. This book is a collection of outstanding essays, containing 45 black and white photographs, includes contributions by authors and artists from all three countries of the subcontinent.
Download or read book Zindaginama written by Krishna Sobti and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is sometime in the first decade of the 20th century. The British Imperialists have been in India for over 150 years. However, life in the small village of Shahpur in undivided Punjab has remained largely unchanged. The menfolk look to the wealthy and worldly-wise Shahji and his benevolent younger brother Kashi for support and advice, while it is Shahji's wife's home and hearth that is the centre of all celebrations for the women. Local disputes, trade, politics, a trickling of news from the Lahore newspaper are all discussed every evening at the Shah's haveli. But as the Ghadar Movement gains momentum elsewhere in Punjab and in Bengal, bringing into focus the excesses of the British, the simple village of Shahpur cannot help looking at itself. The discontent has set in. Krishna Sobti's magnum opus, Zindaginama brilliantly captures the story of India through a village where people of both faiths coexisted peacefully, living off the land.
Download or read book Memory s Daughter written by Kr̥shṇa Sobatī and published by Katha. This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sunflowers Of The Dark written by Krishna Sobti and published by Katha. This book was released on 2008 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daar Se Bichhudi written by Krishna Sobti and published by Rajkamal Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: पाशो अभी किशोरी ही थी, जब उसकी माँ विधवा होकर भी शेखों की हवेली जा चढ़ी । ऐसे में माँ ही उसके मामुओं के लिए 'कुलबोरनी' नहीं हो गई, वह भी सन्देहास्पद हो उठी । नानी ने भी एक दिन कहा ही था-' 'सँभलकर री, एक बार का थिरका पाँव जिन्दगानी धूल में मिला देगा !' ' लेकिन थिरकने-जैसा तो पाशो की जिन्दगी में कुछ था ही नहीं, सिवा इसके कि वह माँ की एक झलक देखने को छटपटाती और इसी के चलते शेखों की हवेलियों की ओर निकल जाती । यही जुर्म था उसका । माँ ही जब विधर्मी बैरियों के घर जा बैठी तो बेटी का क्या भरोसा! जहर दे देना चाहिए कुलच्छनी को, या फिर दरिया में डुबो देना चाहिए!. ..ऐसे ही खतरे को भाँपकर एक रात माँ के चल में जा छुपी पाशो, लेकिन शीघ्र ही उसका वह शारण्य भी छूट गया, और फिर तो अपनी डार से बिछुड़ी एक लड़की के लिए हर ठौर-ठिकाना त्रासद ही बना रहा । इसके बावजूद प्रख्यात कथा-लेखिका कृष्णा सोबती ने अपनी इस कथाकृति में जिस लाड़ से पाशो-जैसे चरित्र की रचना की है, और जिस तरह स्त्री-जीवन के समक्ष जन्म से ही मौजूद खतरों और उसकी विडम्बनाओं को रेखांकित किया है, आकस्मिक नहीं कि उसका एक ऐतिहासिक परिप्रेक्ष्य भी है; और वह है सिक्स और अंग्रेज सेनाओं के बीच 849 में हुआ अन्तिम घमासान! पाशो उसमें शामिल नहीं थी, लेकिन वह उसकी जिन्दगी में अनिवार्य रूप से शामिल था । एक लड़ाई थी, जिसे उसने लगातार अपने भीतर और बाहर लड़ा, और जिसके लिए कोई भी समयान्तराल कोई मायने नहीं रखता । यही कारण है कि पाशो यहाँ अपनी धरती और संस्कृति, दोनों का प्रतिरूप बन गई है । संक्षेप में कहा जाए तो कृष्णा सोबती की यह जीवन्त रचना नारी-मन की करुण-कोमल भावनाओं, आशा-आकांक्षाओं और उसके हृदय को मथते आवेग-आलोड़न का मर्मस्पर्शी साक्ष्य है । साथ ही इसके भाषा-शिल्प में जो लोकलय और सादगी है, उसमें पंजाब के गन्दुमी वैभव और उसके अदृश्य उजाड़, दोनों को ही उजागर करने की अपूर्व क्षमता है ।
Download or read book The Wordsmiths written by Meenakshi Sharma and published by Katha. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are 5 scintillating interviews that capture the magic and the mystery of the world of the contemporary Indian writer. U R Anantha Murthy, Bhupen Khakhar, Mahasweta Devi, Krishna Sobti and M T Vasudevan Nair offer insights into the art and craft of writing, share their hopes and fears and reveal that unique creative urge which makes their work what it is.
Download or read book Dissonance and Other Stories written by Jeyakāntan̲ and published by Katha. This book was released on 2008 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from Tamil.
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 Images of Delhi written by Ramesh Chandra Dhussa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main objective of this book is to analyze prominent literary images of Delhi in post-independence India. The author has probed into a number of eminent writings in Hindi, English and other languages. The author's methodology, a humanistic and phenomenological approach, allows exploration of experiential dimension of writers’ and their characters in various genres of literature. An inquiry into perceptions and imagination in literature enriches the understanding of place, space, time, and seasons, the concerns central to geography. The Perceptions of the metropolis of Delhi interestingly vary between authors and their characters. The images of Delhi in plethora of literary works show a wide spectrum of colors. The images evoke feelings of reverence, love, adoration, dislike, indifference or neutrality. Experiences vary from places of beauty and grandeur to utterly ugly environments. Natives express different views and attitudes toward the city of Delhi from those of expatriate writers.
Download or read book Quarterly Current Affairs Vol 1 January to March 2019 for Competitive Exams written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quarterly Current Affairs Vol. 1 - January to March 2019 for Competitive Exams is a unique handy magbook as it gives the complete update of the 1st three months of 2019. The book talks of all the recent evelopments in the field of Polity, Economics, Sience & Technology, Sports, Art & Culture etc. The book has been updated with an Exam Special Update - Banking, Railways, Agriculture, Environment, Science & Technology. This book would prove to be an asset for all students aspiring for the different competitive exams. The book uses unique analytical tools like Game Changers, Causes & Effects, Quote & Unquote, At a Glance, Emerging Trends, SWOT, MindMaps, Essays, Essay Ideas etc.
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:
