Download or read book The Sthory of Two Wimmin Named Kalyani and Dakshayani written by R. Rajasree and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sthory of Two Wimmin Kalyani and Dakshayani traces luminous paths of female friendship in the rural worlds of north Malabar, through the lives of two rural women, Kalyani and Dakshayani. Rebelling against the patriarchy in school at the age of six ('Rot in 'ell, yuh sonofabitch', yells Dakshayani at the school master who lifted her skirt to pinch her thigh, and walks out of school, with Kalyani following in solidarity), the two friends take on life and love. Women have no native place, they learn-but they have each other. Rajashree's cleverly crafted narrator pauses and plays the scenes of their struggles, pains and laughter, drawing strength from them for her own battle against the mind-police. The bittersweet longing for one's place of birth, the dialects of Malayalam, animals, spirits-all come alive in Rajashree's beautifully crafted tale, enabled by Devika's magnificent and careful translation.
Download or read book Storizen Magazine March 2023 Anuja Chandramouli written by Pria Raiyani and published by Storizen Media. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It gives us immense pleasure to announce that Storizen Magazine has completed five successful years of publication post-re-launch. This milestone is a testament to our commitment to showcasing the best of contemporary writing and emerging voices in literature. To mark this occasion, we are thrilled to feature the work of a master storyteller who has been keeping the myth and magic alive through her writing, Anuja Chandramouli. Anuja Chandramouli is a critically acclaimed author known for her gripping retellings of ancient myths and epics. Her work has been widely praised for its vivid imagery, intricate plotting, and deep understanding of human nature. Check out the exclusive feature on page 6! We'd also like to express our gratitude to all the talented contributors who have sent us their stories, articles, and poems over the years. Your work inspires us and helps us create a platform for diverse voices and perspectives. We're grateful to all our readers who have supported us over the years.
Download or read book Sthory of Two Wimmin Named Kalyani and Dakshayani written by R. Rajasree and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 2023-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classic Ruskin Bond written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Ruskin Bond's six novels evoking nostalgia for time gone by This collection of six novels sparkles with the quiet charm and humanity that are the hallmarks of Ruskin Bond's writing. Evoking nostalgia for a time gone by, these poignant chronicles of life in India's hills and small towns describe the hopes and passions that capture young minds and hearts, highlighting the uneasy reconciliation of dreams and destiny. The six novels included in the collection are: The Room on the Roof, Vagrants in the Valley, Delhi Is Not Far, A Flight of Pigeons, The Sensualist, A Handful of Nuts.
Download or read book The Broken Mirror written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Beero and his motley group friends is set against the impending partition of India. Beero’s passage through adolescence is told through a series of vignettes involving characters who are each more eccentric than the next—wrestler, quack, prostitute; Hindu, Muslim, Sikh. But when partition becomes a reality, in a time of terror and carnage, the insane turn out be the only ones sane.
Download or read book Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures written by A. Mohan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent.
Download or read book The Cat and Shakespeare written by Raja Rao and published by South Asia Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final Victory written by B K Karanjia and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 8 January 1979, in the late evening, Naval, the third son of Pirojsha Godrej, was brutally stabbed at his residence, along with his daughter-in-law and mother-in-law. This dastardly attack, incited by a powerful trade union leader in Mumbai, outraged people in trade circles and the public at large. The victim was one of those rare industrialists who had forged a legendary bond with his workers; he trusted their essential goodness, believing he could have no enemies---a fatal flaw according to the author---, in as much as they thought Naval could never do them wrong. In Final Victory: The Life---and Death---of Naval Pirojsha Godrej, B.K. Karanjia draws upon his reminiscences of Naval from their five-decade-long friendship, interviews with Naval's family, friends, associates and workers at Godrej, and his private papers, to paint a warm and compelling portrait of a man with an exceptional strength of mind and character. We get a glimpse of Naval, a mechanical wizard, who was chosen by his father to join the business straight out of high school. Learning skills from the shop floor upwards, led Naval to support a hands-on approach in tackling problems, 'never expecting others to do what he would not undertake himself.' His affinity for machines led Naval to develop the Godrej Tool Room, and to initiate the hugely successful typewriter and refrigeration lines of business that, with safes and Storwels, made Godrej a household name. He was deeply involved in the construction of the Godrej industrial garden township at Vikhroli, considered among the monst environment-friendly. In keeping with the Godrej family's deep commitment to worker welfare and human development, Naval played an important role in setting up the Naoroji Godrej Plant Research Center, the Foundation for Medical Research, and the Mandwa Project of the Foundation for Research in Community Health. Rich in detail, the book also brings out Naval's humility and simplicity, his tremendous drive and energy, his quick anger at preceived injustice, his mischievous wit, and love of sports, especially sailing. Full of anecdotes, this lively account of an extraordinary life, affirms Naval's place as one of the builders of the House of Godrej.
Download or read book The Unforgiving City and Other Stories written by Vasudhendra and published by India Viking. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN ECLECTIC COLLECTION OF STORIES BY ONE OF INDIA'S MOST EXCITING NEW WRITERS From the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi winner Vasudhendra comes a powerful collection of stories that shock, move and amuse by turns. As the characters struggle to find their feet in a fast-changing India, they mirror our unspoken dilemmas, torn loyalties and the loss of innocence. In the extremely popular 'Red Parrot', an innocuous image from childhood returns to haunt a man when he visits his idyllic hometown. In 'Recession', the desire for a child leads a couple down unexpected paths. In other stories, a young woman in love rethinks her future when buried family secrets are suddenly revealed; a boy learns that insomnia may be the symptom of something more ominous; lonely apartment residents discover the thrills and perils of social media. Deftly crafted with gentle wit and a lightness of touch, each gripping story exposes the deepest contradictions of modern life. The fluid translation retains the flavour and nuances of the original Kannada, creating a rich reading experience. FROM THE BOOK 'The dance was called Paper Dance, where couples were asked to dance within the boundaries of a newspaper spread out on the floor. Stepping out of the boundary led to disqualification. As Devika was single, someone from the crowd stepped forward. It was Vinayak Kulakarni. . . . Devika sensed her partner's hesitation. He would forget his steps the moment he touched her. His ears turned red and he refused to look into her eyes. His boisterous friends shouted to him from behind: "Hey, Kulki, come on, get closer." But, the more she boldly held his waist and drew him nearer, the more he would shrink; he held on to her gingerly. Devika egged him on nonstop, eventually helping him break out of his shyness. By the time the newspaper size shrank to the size of a paper towel, they were still in the game and, finally, Devika won. That was when she whispered her mobile number in his ear.'
Download or read book Twenty one Poems written by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of 21 poems by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee highlights the concerns and the convictions, the sensitivity and the determination of the leader of a nation of over a billion people. In addition to clear and forceful verses on the evils of violence, the perils of self-serving attitudes and the supreme importance of love for the nation and our fellow human beings, the collection also contains moving and very personal poems written at moments of crisis.
Download or read book Yellow Is the Colour of Longing written by K.R. Meera and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A literary heavyweight’—Indian Express In these bold, wry and ebullient stories, Meera’s astonishing range of narrative techniques is on full display as she expertly lays bare the faultlines behind the façade of everyday life, sometimes with dark humour and sometimes with astoundingly bitter sadness.
Download or read book New Lamps for Old written by J. Devika and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a large number of interviews with women politicians of many generations and women who have entered the three-tier Panchayati Raj institutions since the mid-1990s in Kerala, this book tries to initiate fresh debate on the impact of the large-scale induction of women into the institutions of local self-government in India. The State of Kerala has been hailed as a success story in accommodating gender concerns in local-level planning and political decentralisation; this conclusion has been based on relatively simple evaluative exercises that ask whether women of diverse backgrounds have gained entry into formal institutions of governance or not. This book seeks to place political decentralisation and its possibilities for women within the historical and contemporary contexts. Against the popular assumption that the liberal feminist promise made by the state will be delivered, say, once the noxious influence of male relatives is removed, the book points to the multiple social forces that shape possibilities and hindrances for women, and reshape gender divisions in the political field. The book thus pays attention to women in both local governance and politics. Secondly, it examines how women have utilised, extended, survived within or subverted these spaces. In the present context in which fifty per cent of the seats in the institutions of local self-government are being reserved for women, and there exists considerable skepticism about reservations for women in the Parliament, this book offers reflections on both local governance and ‘high’ politics. Published by Zubaan.
Download or read book How to Become a Hindu written by Subramuniya (Master.) and published by Himalayan Academy Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history-making manual,interreligious study and names list, with stories by Westerners who entered Hinduism and Hindus who deepened their faith"--Cove
Download or read book On the Far Side of Memory written by Lalithambika Antharjanam and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housewife by day, daring writer at night, seated on the bare floor, this thinker of gender engaged with the thriving social and community reform movements of early-mid twentieth century Malayali society. The first prominent voice who spoke on behalf of women, the first startling insights that represented the struggle against the repression of the women of the Namboodiri Brahmin community, Lalithambika Antharjanam’s stories cover half a century of her engagement with caste, gender, and nationalist uprisings. In writing some of the founding texts of feminism in Kerala, she made powerful feminist interventions into literary realism in Kerala. Relatively unknown outside Kerala and yet to receive the critical attention that is her due, this book seeks to resurrect Lalithambika as a feminist public intellectual.
Download or read book Sri Chakra Yantra written by Vinita Rashinkar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how a 12,000-year-old mystical symbol holds the key to awakening your deepest inner potential and enhancing your powers of manifestation. The Sri Chakra Yantra is an ancient symbol depicting the process of creation in a powerful matrix which represents both the macrocosm (the Universe) and microcosm (the human body), thus acting as a powerful, cosmic antenna that allows you direct access to communicate with the Universe. This book equips you with information and skills necessary to harness the tremendous cosmic energies available in the Universe and channelize it to make life’s dreams come true by presenting the Sri Chakra Yantra as a tool for self-development. The author has kept in mind the sensibilities of the modern spiritual seeker and their needs and interests, presenting the information in a non-dogmatic and practical manner, thereby allowing everyone an opportunity to learn and experience the benefits of the precious Sri Chakra Yantra.
Download or read book A Brief History of India written by Emiliano Unzer and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we define India? In historical terms, India originates in the Indus River Valley today on Pakistani territory. In cultural and religious terms, India was home to Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism among others, and sheltered the Zoroastrians from the Persian lands to the west, as well as the place where Islam flourished since the 7th century through Gujarat and Sind in northwest India. In geographical terms the country since 1947 is bordered to the north with Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and China. With ex-Burma, today Myanmar, to the east. Also the proximity to the island of Sri Lanka to the south. Or would India be its enormous diaspora community in the world estimated at more than 30 million? Is India simply Hindu that makes up almost 80% of its population? If so, would the Hindus be only the Brahmins or the Vishunists or Shivitists, or the other popular currents? And the large Hindu communities in Nepal, Mauritius, Bali and other parts of the world? Are they India as well? And the approximately 14% of the Indian population claiming to be Muslims, around 172 million people, the second largest Muslim community in the world, are not they also Indians? And the Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains and Christian community in India? In linguistic terms, India has more than 20 official languages, more than 1,500 dialects and ethnic groups. Who would be more Indian than the others? The concept of India, therefore, is much more complex than it seems to be at first glance. In order to understand this stunning and kaleidoscopic region, we must seek its history that may give us some insight into how India has formed, consolidated, influenced and assimilated its policies, identities, values and cultures. In short, India is perhaps much more a civilizational concept than a mere expression defined only in geographical, religious and ethnic terms.
Download or read book The Adventures of Tenali Raman written by Penguin Books India and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timeless Tales. Endless Humour. Everlasting Fun. Tenali Raman, the favourite court jester in the kingdom of Vijayanagara, finds his popularity bringing him many unwanted enemies. Join him as he teaches his enemies a lesson with his sharp mind and quick-witted antics. Read about the interesting story of Tenali Ramans origin, meet the gluttonous Persian elephant, chase the flying machine that goes berserk, and watch the entire kingdom search for mangoes to appease the ailing queen mother. Tenali Raman is also in for some soul searching when a brilliant poetess arrives at the kingdom, ready to outshine him. The Adventures of Tenali Raman Vol 1 features some timeless stories about this legendary character, regaling us with Ramans wit, wisdom, ingenuity and charm. Peppered with endearing characters like the shrewd Rajguru, silly Tingary, Ramans pet cat Sundari and a horde of common people with quirky characteristics, this comic book edition takes us on a rollicking journey of adventure and humour.
