Download or read book Over to You Kadambari written by Alakā Sarāvagī and published by Katha. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruby Gupta- heiress, social worker, mother of two has built, brick by brick, a wall around herself to soak up the fire within. It is her granddaughter, Kadambari, who manages to connect with her precious Nani. They live individual lives, die fleeting deaths, trying all the while to grasp the silences in between. And then a stranger comes into Rubydi s life
Download or read book Kadambari written by Bana and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-03-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bana is among the three most important prose writers in classical Sanskrit, all of whom lived in the late sixth and early seventh centuries AD. It is clear, from his writings, that his mind was amazingly modern, humane and sensitive, especially for the seventh-century India in which he lived. Bana had a healthy irreverence towards many of the established orthodoxies of his time and his strength lies in his skill as a storyteller and as a creator of characters vibrant with life and individuality. Kadambari is a lyrical prose romance that narrates the love story of Kadambari, a Gandharva princess, and Chandrapida, a prince who is eventually revealed to be the moon god. Acclaimed as a great literary work, it is replete with eloquent descriptions of palaces, forests, mountains, gardens, sunrises and sunsets and love in separation and fulfillment. Featuring an intriguing parrot-narrator, the story progresses as a delightful romantic thriller played out in the magical realms between this world and the other, in which the earthly and the divine blend in idyllic splendour.
Download or read book Classic Sunil Gangopadhyay written by Sunil Gangopadhyay and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 2008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special omnibus edition brings together the three great historical novels Sunil Gangopadhyay wrote. The Bengal Renaissance forms the backdrop to the Sahitya Akademi Award-winning Those Days, in which a feudal aristocracy awakens to its social obligations. In its sequel First Light, a turn-of-the-century Bengal, led by Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda, awakens to a new, modern sensibility. And in The Lonely Emperor, the story of India’s greatest professional stage actor Sisir Bhaduri, the past gives way to the present as the country gains independence. Those Days (Sei Somoy), First Light (Prothom Alo), The Lonely Emperor (Nisshongo Samrat) Translated by Aruna Chakravarti and Sreejata Guha
Download or read book First Light written by Sunil Gangopadhyay and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 995 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Those Days, First Light is a magnificent novel set at the turn of the twentieth century in a Bengal where the old and young India are jostling for space. Prominent among its many characters are Rabindranath Tagore or Robi, the young, dreamy poet, torn between his art and the love for his beautiful, ethereal sister-in-law, Kadambari Devi, and the handsome, dynamic Naren Datta, later to become Swami Vivekananda, who abandons his Brahmo Samaj leanings and surrenders himself completely to his Guru, Sri Ramakrishna. The story also touches upon the lives of the men and women rising to the call of nationalism; the doctors and scientists determined to pull their land out of the morass of superstition and blind beliefs, and the growing theatre movement of Bengal, with its brilliant actors and actresses who leave behind the squalor of their lives every night to deliver lines breathtaking in their beauty. Through all this runs the story of Bharat and Bhumisuta - one an illegitimate prince, the other a slave who rises to become the finest actress of her age - who cling to their self-respect and love in a society which has little time for people like them. Grand in its scale and crackling with the energy of its prose, First Light is a rich and comprehensive portrait of Bengal, from its sleepy, slow-changing villages to the bustling city of Calcutta where the genteel and the grotesque live together. Equally, it is a chronicle of a whole nation waking up to a new, modern sensibility.
Download or read book Katha Prize Stories written by Geeta Dharmarajan and published by Katha. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katha Prize Stories: 13 Is A Collection Of Six Short Stories And Two Novellas. All Of These Are Katha Award Winning Best Short Fictions First Published In Six Regional Languages Over The Past Two Years.
Download or read book Lost to the Gray written by Amanda Bonilla and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did he do the right thing? No one loves Darian like Tyler does. Not her friends. Not her fellow Shaedes. Not the Shaede king who wants her for himself. Tyler is the only one who sees beyond the swagger and swordplay that make her the most fearsome Shaede assassin in the world—the only one who recognizes her loyal heart and vulnerability. But her evolving powers and compulsion to finish every job no matter the stakes fills him with fear. For he knows it's only a matter of time before he loses her. When that moment nearly comes—and Tyler discovers a trail of deceit that prevented him from protecting Darian—he snaps. He breaks. And he leaves. Now he must learn to live without her, even as they remain bound to one another. And when a friend of Darian’s faces an unknown threat, Tyler must find a way to enter the fray without crossing paths with Darian.
Download or read book Best Stories from Indian Classics written by V.S. Naravane and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this selection of stories from the classics of Sanskrit fiction, Professor Naravane offers fascinating glimpses of life in ancient India. Retold in modern English and presented in a lively, fluent style, those stories are marked by an amazing diversity of atmosphere, situation, attitudes and characterization. They reveal the centuries, and convey the unique, distinctive flavour of Indian life and culture.
Download or read book The Indian Review written by G.A. Natesan and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drowning Fish written by Swati Chanda and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `And what of those whose roots are planted deep in the soil of their land? What does it take for them to thrive, transplanted?? East Pakistan, 1950. Nayantara flees riot-ridden Narayanbari with her two daughters, leaving behind her life as she knew it. The only link to her past is the legacy she is determined to leave her granddaughter, Neelanjana ? the precious pieces of teakwood furniture that oppress the rooms of her tiny flat in Calcutta, where she arrives to take refuge. Decades later, Neelanjana leaves for the US, in a bid to forge an independent life. But, she discovers, as she is gradually bruised by alienation and heartbreak in a country far from her own, that the burden of her family's history is one she cannot slough off easily, that rejection and violence can stretch across geographies and generations, and that `home? is simply the place where one finally learns to accept oneself. Compelling and deeply affecting, Drowning Fish is about lives trapped in the tumult of motivations and desires, and forged inescapably by events beyond their control.
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 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 Cut written by Merle Kröger and published by Katha. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the last reel winds down in the projection room of the old cinema house, Madita Junghans, the German with Indian genes, teams up with her boyfriend Nikolaus as detective couple, Nick and Mattie, to set off on a search for Madita s biological father. Their only clue is that he is an Indian. Mattie s mother lives in a psychotic dream world. Her foster father Hinnarck is anything but talkative. Mattie and Nick soon get sucked into a deadly adventure, centred around a dark chapter of Indo-Germanic history.
Download or read book One Last Story and That s it written by Etgar Keret and published by Katha. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordianry collection has the kind of writing that could hook a lot of readers, including some who rarely open a book
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 Tamil New Poetry written by and published by Katha. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words translated. Thoughts in transit. Layered with dark humour and precise imagery, a collection of poems to plunge you into the core of meaning, Katha proudly presents its first anthology, tinted in every wash of life and dotted with the Sirissa trees and wailing Palms of the Tamil landscape. An art-tradition is living, breathing history, a contemporary past. Tamil Poetry traces its origin to thousands of years ago. Beautifully translated by Dr K S Subramanian, the anthology is the latest chapter in this history. Featuring a range of poets, from stalwarts like Na Pichamurthy to young artists like Kanimozhi, seeking a sun aflame as a sandal bowl, and a name that does not respond/ To anyone's voice; it brings together diverse voices united in their expertise.
Download or read book Die Said the Tree written by and published by Katha. This book was released on 2012 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
