Download or read book Yajnaseni written by Pratibhā Rāẏa and published by Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited. This book was released on 1995 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pratibha Ray makes a determined effort for a portrayal of the epic character and brings to the surface the broader and deeper aspects of Draupadi s mind that lay submerged in the majestic sweep of the grand Mahabharata. The novel won her the Bharatiya Jnanpith s prestigious ninth Moortidevi Award in 1993.
Download or read book The Primal Land written by Pratibhā Rāẏa and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Primal Land is the story of the Bonda tribe inhabiting a mountainous portion of Orissa. The novel includes faint glimmers of political awakening among the semi-literate Bondas about their exploitation, even though the only incorruptible outsider who works for the betterment of the Bondas, a women schoolteacher, is suspended, there is hope for the Bondas yet.
Download or read book Six Acres and a Third written by Fakir Mohan Senapati and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-12-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Fakir Mohan Senapati's Six Acres and a Third, originally published in 1901 as Chha Mana Atha, is a wry, powerful novel set in colonial India.
Download or read book Pratibha Ray Stories written by Pratibhā Rāẏa and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ahalya written by Pratibha Ray and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ahalya is a very popular mythological character in Indian literature. Her story is as old as the Vedas and epics like the Ramayana. In her original novel in Odia, titled Mahamoha, Dr. Pratibha Ray has become one with her. Ahalya had the blessings and problems of a typical woman, which transcends any fixed historical period. With her magic pen, Dr. Ray has transformed Ahalya to represent a woman of all ages, signifying the struggles of a woman from ancient time to the modern, from her childhood, marriage, and child-rearing to old age. In this translation of Mahamoha, Ahalya is portrayed as an eternal emblem of women's quest for equality and love. This novel, even though based on a mythological story of the Vedic period, is very much appropriate to make the reader ponder about the social concerns of the modern age across all cultures.
Download or read book Transgression and Other Stories written by Pratibha Ray and published by Black Eagle Books. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Pratibha Ray's collection of stories, Transgression and Other Stories has fifteen unique stories surfing between tradition and modernity, pathos and poignant reflections to make it a stimulating collection. Pratibha, as a story teller inhabits a world which is solid, holistic and suffused with different colours of life. In this collection, stories 'The Curse" and "The Ketaki Grove" have received New Delhi's Katha Award. "Salvation" received the best regional feature film award and Transgression, the Sahitya Akademi award.
Download or read book Contemporary Odia Short Stories written by Various Authors and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology has thirty-one Odia short stories translated into English. Each story gives a new taste in so far as treatment of the subject matter and style are concerned.
Download or read book Singin in the Rain written by Earl J. Hess and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title combines prose with scholarship to provide the complete inside story of how 'Singin' in the Rain' was made, marketed, and received.
Download or read book Spark of Light written by Valerie Henitiuk and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spark of Light is a diverse collection of short stories by women writers from the Indian province of Odisha. Originally written in Odia and dating from the late nineteenth century to the present, these stories offer a multiplicity of voices—some sentimental and melodramatic, others rebellious and bold—and capture the predicament of characters who often live on the margins of society. From a spectrum of viewpoints, writing styles, and motifs, the stories included here provide examples of the great richness of Odishan literary culture. In the often shadowy and grim world depicted in this collection, themes of class, poverty, violence, and family are developed. Together they form a critique of social mores and illuminate the difficult lives of the subaltern in Odisha society. The work of these authors contributes to an ongoing dialogue concerning the challenges, hardships, joys, and successes experienced by women around the world. In these provocative explorations of the short-story form, we discover the voices of these rarely heard women.
Download or read book The Greatest Odia Stories Ever Told written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Her Story So Far written by Monica Das and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 2003 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important collection showcases the most sensitive short fiction on the subject of the girl child by some of India's finest writers. The stories cut across social, economic and regional divides to reveal what life is like for a girl growing up in India. And they raise a crucial question: will our society ever rise above its innate hypocrisies and change the way it regards its women? To read these stories is to feel pain, bewilderment, outrage, compassion and a sudden surge of hope at finding love and tenderness where one least expects it.
Download or read book One Amazing Thing written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed novel by the author of The Mistress of Spices, and Before We Visit the Goddess. Jhumpa Lahiri praises: "One Amazing Thing collapses the walls dividing characters and cultures; what endures is a chorus of voices in one single room." Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an unexpected gift. An upper-class Caucasian couple whose relationship is disintegrating. A young Muslim-American man struggling with the fallout of 9/11. A graduate student haunted by a question about love. An African-American ex-soldier searching for redemption. A Chinese grandmother with a secret past. And two visa office workers on the verge of an adulterous affair. When an earthquake rips through the afternoon lull, trapping these nine characters together, their focus first jolts to their collective struggle to survive. There's little food. The office begins to flood. Then, at a moment when the psychological and emotional stress seems nearly too much for them to bear, the young graduate student suggests that each tell a personal tale, "one amazing thing" from their lives, which they have never told anyone before. And as their surprising stories of romance, marriage, family, political upheaval, and self-discovery unfold against the urgency of their life-or-death circumstances, the novel proves the transcendent power of stories and the meaningfulness of human expression itself. From Chitra Divakaruni, author of such finely wrought, bestselling novels as Sister of My Heart, The Palace of Illusions, and The Mistress of Spices, comes her most compelling and transporting story to date. One Amazing Thing is a passionate creation about survival -- and about the reasons to survive.
Download or read book After the Deluge written by Pratibha Ray and published by Black Eagle Books. This book was released on 2021-07-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest work of Pratibha Ray is definitely her novel Magnamati (After the Deluge) first published in the Odia in 2004, translated into several Indian languages and into English by Prafulla Kumar Mohanty. Based on the 1999 killer cyclone of Odisha which devastated the entire coastal belt, it is one of the most original novels depicting the saga of mother Earth and her relationship with her children, the human race. Which she holds in display as she does trees, rivers, mountains and seas. Man is sustained by this mother, nourished in his destiny. But when man transgresses the epitomic tolerance of mother Earth, she chastises him with her demonic fury. The cyclone in this novel is symbolic of nature's fury which she lashes out on man and civilization with as much diabolism as she lavishes her love, kindness and divine grace with tenderness. Pratibha creates a world of villages, valleys, rivers, seas and people, tracing the history of the fisherman community to it's a mythical ancestor. This community, in the novel, grows organically, spreading far and wide like a world full of men of all religions, languages and professions, and how it grows and expands into a modern civilized unit despite primitive professions and poverty. After the Deluge is a powerful saga of the jest for life of man on the Earth and how Bikram and Girima unite the survivors into a human group to fulfill destiny's course in a new world called Basumatipur (Mother earth).
Download or read book Daily Joy written by National Geographic and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in National Geographic's 365-photo-a-day line of inspirational books, Daily Joy unites inspiring words of joy with lovely National Geographic images of the world--a perfect gift to keep on your bedside table to read just before bed or first thing in the morning. As poet John Keats wrote, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever," and readers will turn to Daily Joy year after year to find wonder, awe, and happiness in the world around them.
Download or read book Living With Values Book 4 written by Pratibha Nath and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S Chand's Value Education Series.This is another small steps, after the introductory volume. It aims at developing the right values among children.
Download or read book Sampurna Chanakya Niti Gujarati eBook written by Chanakya and published by R R Sheth & Co Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2014-01-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ચાણક્ય - ભારતીય ઈતિહાસના એક યુગ પુરુષ. તેમણે ભારતની સામાજિક વ્યવસ્થાના ઘડતરની ઉત્કૃષ્ટ બૌદ્ધિક પરંપરાને જન્મ આપ્યો અને આજીવન ચારિત્ર્ય, સ્વાભિમાન અને કર્તવ્યનિષ્ઠાને જ મહત્ત્વ આપ્યું, તેઓ મહાપંડિત, કુશળ રાજનીતિજ્ઞ, તીક્ષ્ણ બુદ્ધિમાન, મક્કમ ઇરાદાવાળા અને સમયની પેલે પાર જોઈ શકનારા હતા. તેઓ પોતાના જ્ઞાનથી ભારતના ઈતિહાસનું એક સુવર્ણ પ્રકરણ બની શક્યા. તેમણે સમાજ, ધર્મ, રાજનીતિ, કર્મનું અમૂલ્ય જ્ઞાન રજૂ કર્યું, જે આજે ૨૩૦૦ વર્ષ પછી પણ એટલું જ વ્યાવહારિક છે. તેમની આ શાશ્વત નીતિ જીવનના અતિ મુશ્કેલ પ્રશ્નોમાં પણ સચોટ માર્ગદર્શન આપે છે. અહીં એ નીતિઓને સરળ અને સ્પષ્ટ ભાષામાં રજૂ કરવામાં આવી છે.
Download or read book Riot written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2011-12-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who killed twenty-four-year-old Priscilla Hart? This highly motivated, idealistic American student had come to India to volunteer in women’s health programs, but had her work made a killer out of an enraged husband? Or was her death the result of a xenophobic attack? Had an indiscriminate love affair spun out of control? Had a disgruntled, deeply jealous colleague been pushed to the edge? Or was she simply the innocent victim of a riot that had exploded in that fateful year of 1989 between Hindus and Muslims? Experimenting masterfully with narrative form in this brilliant tour de force, internationally acclaimed novelist Shashi Tharoor chronicles the mystery of Priscilla Hart’s death through the often contradictory accounts of a dozen or more characters, all of whom relate their own versions of the events surrounding her killing. Like his two previous novels, Riot probes and reveals the richness of India, and is at once about love, hate, cultural collision, the ownership of history, religious fanaticism, and the impossibility of knowing the truth.
