Download or read book Palpasa Caf written by Narayan Wagle and published by Publication Nepalaya. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palpasa Café tells the story of an artist, Drishya, during the height of the Nepalese Civil War. The novel is partly a love story of Drishya and the first generation American Nepali, Palpasa, who has returned to the land of her parents after 9/11. It is often called an anti-war novel, and describes the effects of the civil war on the Nepali countryside that Drishya travels to.
Download or read book Palpasa Caf written by Narayan Wagle and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist sits in a café waiting for his subject—an artist called Drishya about whom he wants to write a novel. But Drishya doesn’t come. For that morning he has been visited by Maoists at his home and abducted by them... So begins Palpasa Café, the extraordinary novel by Nepali journalist Narayan Wagle, which has become a sensation in the country. Starting with the murders of the royal family, it tells the troubled story of contemporary Nepal through the eyes of a romantic artist who falls in love, wanders the war-struck countryside and dreams of creating a café named after his beloved which serves the best coffee in the country. Playful, moving and melancholic, fusing the boundaries between fiction and non fiction, Palpasa Café presents a rare picture of Nepal at war. It is one of the most important novels to come out of the country.
Download or read book Cultural Politics of Emotion written by Sara Ahmed and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotions work to define who we are as well as shape what we do and this is no more powerfully at play than in the world of politics. Ahmed considers how emotions keep us invested in relationships of power, and also shows how this use of emotion could be crucial to areas such as feminist and queer politics. Debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, as well as reconciliation and reparation, are explored through topical case studies. In this book the difficult issues are confronted head on. The Cultural Politics of Emotion is in dialogue with recent literature on emotions within gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and philosophy. Throughout the book, Ahmed develops a theory of how emotions work, and the effects they have on our day-to-day lives. New for this editionA substantial 15,000-word Afterword on 'Emotions and Their Objects' which provides an original contribution to the burgeoning field of affect studiesA revised BibliographyUpdated throughout.
Download or read book Leela s Book A Novel written by Alice Albinia and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Steeped in the tradition of the Indian epic, yet modern and vastly entertaining." —The Times (London) In her fiction debut, Alice Albinia weaves a multithreaded epic tale that encompasses divine saga and familial discord and introduces an unforgettable heroine. Leela—alluring, taciturn, haunted—is moving from New York back to Delhi. Worldly and accomplished, she has been in self-imposed exile from India and her family for decades; twenty-two years earlier, her sister was seduced by the egotistical Vyasa, and the fallout from their relationship drove Leela away. Now an eminent Sanskrit scholar, Vyasa is preparing for his son’s marriage. But when Leela arrives for the wedding, she disrupts the careful choreography of the weekend, with its myriad attendees and their conflicting desires. Gleefully presiding over the drama is Ganesh—divine, elephant-headed scribe of the Mahabharata, India’s great epic. The family may think they have arranged the wedding for their own selfish ends, but according to Ganesh it is he who is directing events—in a bid to save Leela, his beloved heroine, from Vyasa. As the weekend progresses, secret online personas, maternal identities, and poetic authorships are all revealed; boundaries both religious and continental are crossed; and families are ripped apart and brought back together in this vibrant and brilliant celebration of family, love, and storytelling.
Download or read book Temalpakh from the Earth written by Lowell John Bean and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copy 1 is typescript with corrections; copy 2 is Bean's ms. with ms. notes and corrections, 318 leaves.
Download or read book Muna Madan written by Laxmi Prasad Devkota and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Karnali Blues written by Buddhisagar and published by India Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2022-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karnali Blues, by Buddhisagar, is the most widely read Nepali novel to have appeared in the last twenty years. As it recounts the evolution of a father-son relationship-a son's search for approval, a father's small acts of kindness and forgiveness, a son's fears for his father's dignity as his fortunes and faculties begin to fail-the reader is deeply drawn into young Brisha Bahadur's world. His father is kind and idealistic; his mother, though she is kind too, is often frustrated and irascible. The characters in this book are some of the most carefully drawn and authentic in all of Nepali literature. In a backwater district of a country about to undergo radical social, political and cultural change, Brisha's dreams, his games and his mischief, his loves, his hopes and his fears come alive. Translated from the Nepali by Michael Hutt, this highly original piece of work, with the simplicity of its language and its emotional range, holds the power to take your breath away. Its principal themes-the love between a son and his father, the joys and sorrows of childhood, the daily struggle for survival-are universal, and will resonate with readers the world over.
Download or read book The Yoga of Dejection written by Satya Narayana Dasa and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mountains Painted with Turmeric written by Līla Bahādura Kshatrī and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in the late 1950s, Mountains Painted with Turmeric has struck a chord in the hearts of hundreds of thousands of Nepali readers. Set in the hills of far eastern Nepal, the novel offers readers a window into the lives of the people by depicting in subtle detail the stark realities of village life. Carefully translated from the original text, Mountains Painted with Turmeric tells the story of a peasant farmer named Dhané (which means, ironically, "wealthy one") who is struggling to provide for his wife and son and arrange the marriage of his beautiful younger sister. Unable to keep up with the financial demands of the "big men" who control his village, Dhané and his family suffer one calamity after another, and a series of quarrels with fellow villagers forces them into exile. In haunting prose, Lil Bahadur Chettri portrays the dukha, or suffering and sorrow, endured by ordinary peasants; the exploitation of the poor by the rich and powerful; and the social conservatism that twists a community into punishing a woman for being the victim of a crime. Chettri describes the impoverishment, dispossession, and banishment of Dhané's family to expose profound divisions between those who prosper and those who are slowly stripped of their meager possessions. Yet he also conveys the warmth and intimacy of village society, from which Dhané and his family are ultimately excluded.
Download or read book The Beauty of All My Days written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruskin Bond, India's most loved author, is known for his innumerable stories, essays, poems and novels. A wordsmith, his life, work and philosophy open a window to a myriad world where solitude sits by tranquillity to ruminate time now and then. In The Beauty of All My Days, Ruskin opens a window to his relationships: his friends, his love-unsaid and unrequited, his parents' difficult marriage, his passage to England, his meeting with Diana Athill and the making of his first book The Room on the Roof and many other journeys-real as well as imaginary-that continue to remain untold and therefore unknown. Oneiric and candid, this memoir-with the rarest of photographs-is going to be one of the most sought-after books of our times.
Download or read book Arresting God in Kathmandu written by Samrat Upadhyay and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “a major new talent” come short stories set in modern Nepal, about arranged marriages, forbidden desires, and the universal yearning for human connection (Amitav Ghosh). Set in a city where gods are omnipresent, privacy is elusive, and family defines identity, these are stories of men and women caught between their own needs and the demands of their society and culture. Psychologically rich and astonishingly acute, with “a masterful narrative style” (Ian MacMillan), Arresting God in Kathmandu introduces a potent new voice in contemporary fiction. “Upadhyay brings to readers the flavor of Nepal and its culture in this impressive collection of nine short stories. Like Ha Jin’s Bridegroom, Upadhyay’s stories portray the lives of simple yet psychologically complex characters and reveal much about the universal human condition in us all. . . . Upadhyay’s stories leave the reader with much food for thought and will make a good choice for book discussion groups.” —Library Journal
Download or read book Yama s Lieutenant written by Anuja Chandramouli and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2016-05-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inhabitants of the thousand hells of Yama have broken free from their prison and vowed to wreak havoc on the heavens, the earth and hell. With the asuras and rakshasas teamed up with Naganara, a terrifying necromancer hungry for power, the universe is headed for war and destruction—unless one human has something to do with it. Agni Prakash, a debonair young man whose world has been turned upside down by the death of his twin sister, Varu, has been enlisted to stop these forces and be Yama’s very own lieutenant. As the mythical world clashes with his own, Agni discovers a manuscript left behind by his sister. Hauntingly, it draws parallels to the treacherous path upon which he has been thrust. Equipped with an acerbic wit and winning charm, and hardened by the grief of his sister’s bereavement, Agni undertakes a battle, where the odds seem tipped wildly against him, and finds unlikely companions along the way. Will he be able to uncover the secret behind his sister’s writings? And more importantly, will he be able to avert the destruction that seems imminent?
Download or read book Forget Kathmandu written by Manjushree Thapa and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's impression on the political conditions in Nepal post 2001 while travelling through the affected areas of political strife.
Download or read book The Royal Ghosts written by Samrat Upadhyay and published by HMH. This book was released on 2006-02-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Startlingly good” stories of Nepali society set against the backdrop of violent Maoist insurgencies (San Francisco Chronicle). From an author like “a Buddhist Chekhov,” The Royal Ghosts features characters trying to reconcile their true desires with the forces at work in Nepali society (San Francisco Chronicle). As political violence rages, these people struggle with their duties to their aging parents, an oppressive caste system, and the complexities of arranged marriage, striving to find peace and connection, and often discovering it in unexpected places. These stories, from the Whiting Award–winning author of Arresting God in Kathmandu and The Guru of Love, brilliantly examine not only Kathmandu during a time of upheaval, crisis, and cultural transformation but also the effects of the city on the individual consciousness. “Like William Trevor, Samrat Upadhyay compresses into a short story the breadth of vision and human consequence we expect from a novel, and he does so in a prose that seems as natural as breathing.” —Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe “Takes us straight into the heart of the troubled and enchanting kingdom of Nepal.” —The Washington Post “Upadhyay’s not-so-simple stories are lucid and often luminous.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Mochan written by Tulasi Acharya and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: यो किताव यो तलको लिंकमा गएर किन्न सक्नुहुनेछ:https://tulasiacharya.wordpress.com/buy-books/ This is a best seller Nepali novel, published by Phoenix publication in Nepal. Love and romance, marriage and divorce, conflict and meditation, filled with action packed story. The Nepali content in this book is printed incorrectly, so you can purchase a copy from this link: https://tulasiacharya.wordpress.com/buy-books/ पारिजातको ''शिरीषको फूल''लाई प्रस्थानबिन्दु बनाएर न्यून पात्रहरूको उपस्थापनमा जीवन भोगाइका अनेक आयाम अभिरेखित यो उपन्यासले जीवनका अक्करिला बाटा र सम्बन्धका अनपेक्षित मोडलाई सादृश्य गराउँदै आशा र निराशाजन्य अभिव्यक्ति एकसाथ मुखरित गरेको छ । नेपाल र अमेरिकाको परिवेश र जीवन पद्धतिको रोचक वर्णनले कथानक जीवन्त बनेको मात्र छैन पाठकलाई नयाँ खुराक समेत पस्किएको छ । यो संघर्षशील एक पात्रको यस्तो जीवनयात्राको आलेख हो जसले पाठकलाई पात्रसँगै सानिध्य गराउँछ; दुःखि बनाउँछ, खुसि बनाउँछ, हँसाउँछ र रुवाउँछ पनि । जीवनदर्शन, ध्यान, योग र अध्यात्मका अलावा वैवाहिक र विवाहेत्तर रतिराग र प्रेम प्रणयको चित्ताकर्षक वर्णन मूलतः वयस्क पाठकलाई अझ बढी अर्थपूर्ण र उपयोगी छ । कथानकको संरचना र प्रस्तुतीले पाठकलाई यसरी लट्ठ्याउँछ कि उपन्यास समाप्त नहुँदासम्म पाठकले न परिणामको आँकलन गर्न सक्छ न पठनलाई विश्राम नै दिन सक्छ । यस उपन्यासमा एक पुरुष पात्रको प्रेम, माया र सम्बन्धको अन्तरङुग प्रस्तुत छ । पारिवारिक उत्साहका साथ विवाह गरेर ल्याइएकी श्रीमतीसँग सम्बन्धको बढुदो टकराब र चिसोपनले ऊ पारपाचुके नै नगरी अलग्गिन्छ र अर्कै युवतीसँग विवाह गर्छ । स्थापित सम्बन्धको बिग्रह र नयाँ सम्बन्धको थालनीबीचको दुर्दान्त पीडा, मानसिक तनाव, जिजीविषा, विजिगीषा र प्राप्त ज्ञान ''इपिफेनी'' नै यो उपन्यासको कथ्य हो । उक्त पात्रले सहजताबाट असहजतातर्फ, अपरिपक्वताबाट परिपक्वतातर्फ, प्रेम-घृणा-प्रेमबाट प्रगाढ र प्रेमिल सम्बन्धतर्फ, भौतिकताबाट अध्यात्मतर्फ र देखिएको जीवनबाट भोगिएको जीवनतर्फको यात्रा गरेको छ । प्रेम र आत्मीय सम्बन्ध साँचो अर्थमा के हो ? यसलाई आत्मसात गर्न नसक्ता जीवन कसरी क्षतबिक्षत हुन्छ ? उपन्यास दृष्टान्त छ । भावना, घृणा र संवेदनाको अन्तर्य प्लावित यस उपन्यासले अस्तित्ववादी é
Download or read book Gopallapuram written by Ki. Rajanarayanan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highway robber murders a pregnant young woman for her jewellery. He is caught and sentenced to death by impalement in Gopallapuram. A community of Telugu speakers migrates to the Tamil country to escape Muslim rule. They transform a barren land, turning it into a fertile, verdant village. A horde of bandits attempts to raid a village but is foiled by the unarmed, inventive villagers. Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Awars, Ki. Rajanarayanan weaves legend, myth, history and good old-fashioned storytelling in this wonderful contemporary classic.
Download or read book Unleashing Nepal written by Sujeev Shakya and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unleashing Nepal tells the story of Nepal’s changing economy, from the time of unification to a remittance economy driven by the labour of Nepal’s diaspora. Acclaimed columnist and business leader Sujeev Shakya examines not only the squandered opportunities of the past but also what Nepali citizens need to do to escape from a feudal history of dependence and powerlessness. Here is a Nepal that could be an Asian Tiger. Here are resourceful village communities who manage their own electricity, aspirational Nepali youth, energetic migrant workers, and driven foreign-aid workers, who can make this dream a reality. Compelling and eminently readable, this updated and enriched version brings the country alive with its acute business understanding, humour and local colour.
