Download or read book Vasudha Thozhur written by Vasudha Thozhur and published by Tulika Books. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of texts that were written as a response to different compulsions--diary entries, seminar papers, catalog essays, and excerpts from a series of nine books that were part of the outcome of an extended project undertaken between 2002 and 2012. Woven together, they create a narrative that exceeds the sum of its parts.
Download or read book Fiction as History written by Vasudha Dalmia and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the Hindi novel’s role in anticipating and creating the story of middle-class modernity and modernization in North India. Vasudha Dalmia offers a panoramic view of the intellectual and cultural life of North India over a century, from the aftermath of the 1857 uprising to the end of the Nehruvian era. The North’s historical cities, rooted in an Indo-Persianate culture, began changing more slowly than the Presidency towns founded by the British. Dalmia takes up eight canonical Hindi novels set in six of these cities—Agra, Allahabad, Banaras, Delhi, Lahore, and Lucknow—to trace a literary history of domestic and political cataclysms. Her exploration of the emerging Hindu middle classes, changing personal and professional ambitions, and new notions of married life provides a vivid sense of urban modernity. She argues that the radical social transformations associated with post-1857 urban restructuring, and the political flux resulting from social reform, Gandhian nationalism, communalism, Partition, and the Cold War shaped the realm of the intimate as much as the public sphere. Love and friendship, notions of privacy, attitudes to women’s work, and relationships within households are among the book’s major themes.
Download or read book Understanding Hinduism written by Vasudha Narayanan and published by Duncan Baird Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's most ancient religious traditions, Hinduism is the dominant faith of India and through its growing expatriate community, an increasingly familiar spiritual force in the West. This book provides a succinct, authoritative and accessible introduction to one of the world's great religious and cultural traditions.
Download or read book Hindu Pasts written by Vasudha Dalmia and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her introduction to Hindu Pasts—which showcases her work as a scholar of social, literary, and religious history—Vasudha Dalmia outlines the central ideas which thread her writings: first, to understand in greater historical depth the relationship between body language, religion, and society in India, as well as the ever-changing role of its religious and social institutions; second, to recognize that the Hindu tradition, which colonials and nationalists tend to see as monolithic, is in fact a multiplicity of distinct and semi-autonomous strands.
Download or read book You Will Sail Through written by Abhishek Bhargava and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Will Sail Through” is a story about Anubha, the protagonist, a young millennial in her mid-twenties, who got dumped by her boyfriend, Ashish. Anubha decides to end her life by committing suicide amidst the beaches of Pondicherry. She ends up meeting Abhishek, the author of this book, who narrates her the “millennials’ things”. The millennials' things revolve around the rationale of “Why we go through, what we go through, and what has to be done to overcome whatever we go through,” answering the millennials’ generation's questions. Be it Mithali, Debanjana, Maddy, or as many as other twenty-six millennials about which the author narrates, they all found it difficult to sail through in their lives in one area or the other they all sailed through in the end. What were those twenty-six millennials going through in their lives? How those twenty-six millennials who found it almost impossible in the beginning sailed through in the end? What did the author narrate to Anubha, which not only sailed her through those throbbing sea waves at the beaches of Pondicherry but also sailed her through the emotional turmoil she was going through and led her finding the lost purpose in her life. This October, Come, Read an exciting, thrilling, and a humorous book inspired by the real-life events of millennials and learn the Art of Sailing Through Remember, “You Will Sail Through” “Sail Through,” What?? “Whatever you are going through!"
Download or read book Indian Women Writers written by Jaydipsinh Dodiya and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed essays.
Download or read book The Heir written by SHASH BENURWAR and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the last century, starting from the mid-thirties to the end of the millennium, this is a story of a Marathi Brahmin Family that goes through many ups and downs through the sands of time. Over the years due to variety of reasons, Brahmins have lost their foothold in the same land they call their own, starting from social boycott for their religious fanaticism, coming out of their vanity about superiority over the other castes, to the total devastation after Gandhi’s assassination and land reforms. The matriarch of the family, though undereducated by today’s standards, is worldly-wise and carries the burden of entire families from both sides courageously and comes out valiant in her efforts to keep the dignity of her husband’s family intact. She has a secret hidden deep down in the labyrinths of her mind that, if surfaced, would have not only devastated the entire family but would have tarnished the image held so far in high esteem. While doing so, she has to make many sacrifices on her personal front, which she braves nonchalantly without compromising either on her poise or intelligence. All in all, The Heir is the story of marginalized Brahmins in today’s context, who, too, had to face the hell to reach where they are today through their perseverance and intelligence!
Download or read book The Vernacular Veda written by Vasudha Narayanan and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares the religious poem "Tiruvaymoli" alongside the "Vedas."
Download or read book A Place to Call Home written by Ramya Ramanath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any city is a product of politics and economics, organizations and people. Yet, the life experiences of women uprooted from its poorest quarters seldom inform urban resettlement plans. In this ethnographic field study, Ramya Ramanath, Associate Professor at DePaul University, examines the lives of women displaced by slum clearance and relocated to the largest slum resettlement site in Asia. Through conversations with diverse women of different ages, levels of education, types of employment, marital status, ethnicity, caste, religion, and household make-up, Ramanath recounts how women negotiate a drastic change in environment, from makeshift housing in a park slum to ownership of a high-rise apartment in a posh Mumbai suburb. Each phase of their city lives reflects how women initiate change and disseminate a vision valuable to planners intent on urban and residential transformations. Ramanath urges the concerted engagement of residents in design, development, and evaluation of place-making processes in cities and within their own neighborhoods especially. This book will interest scholars of public policy, women and gender studies, South Asian studies, and urban planning.
Download or read book Glow written by Vasudha Rai and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that saffron can make you calmer? Or that tulsi protects you against pollution? Or that turnips and radishes clarify your complexion? Whoever said that great skin is purely genetic has obviously never harnessed the power of beauty foods. While it is possible to fake great skin with make-up, you can only be truly radiant when you nourish your body from within. From basic garden-variety fruit and vegetables to potent Ayurvedic herbs, this book tells you what to eat to ensure beauty inside and out. Build strength and immunity, brighten and clarify your skin and obtain peace of mind with these potent Indian remedies. These combinations, recipes, home-made face masks, oils and morning infusions will transform not just your skin but also your body and mind. After all, outer beauty is only a symptom of inner health.
Download or read book The Life of Hinduism written by John Stratton Hawley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-12-04 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Life of Hinduism' collects a series of essays that present Hinduism as a vibrant, truly 'lived' religion. The text offers a glimpse into the multifaceted world of Hindu worship, life-cycle rites, festivals, performances, gurus, and castes.
Download or read book South Asian Religions written by Karen Pechilis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable resource explores the important role which the minority traditions play in the religious life of the subcontinent.
Download or read book She And The Seven written by K. Thulasi K and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you join a University just because some men told you? Would you continue just because whatever they said turned out to be real? She did and it’s a political move, unknown to her.
Download or read book Parubhumi written by Anand Bihola and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled in the untouched beauty of the great Himalayas, Parubhumi is a remote village known to be sacred yet cursed, where villagers reside in peace secluded from the rest of the world. One day, a killer devil emerges from within the land of Parubhumi which keeps spreading and is indestructible by ordinary means. But there's hope – a special something hidden in the distant Himalayas. A perilous journey ensues, marked by unwavering determination and arduous challenges, as the key to liberating the village. Will the people of Parubhumi break free from the clutches of the killer devil?
Download or read book Women Writing in India The twentieth century written by Susie J. Tharu and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1991 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from eleven languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultural history that draws on contemporary scholarship on women and India. This extraordinary body of literature and important documentary resource illuminates the lives of Indian women through 2,600 years of change and extends the historical understanding of literature, feminism, and the making of modern India. The biographical, critical, and bibliographical headnotes in both volumes, supported by an introduction which Anita Desai describes as "intellectually rigorous, challenging, and analytical," place the writers and their selections within the context of Indian culture and history.
Download or read book Governance Theory and Practice written by V. Chhotray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confusion about governance abounds. Many lack appreciation of how different traditions of thought in the social sciences contribute to our understanding. This book tackles these weaknesses head on and aims to provide a wider vision of the area, examining three critical areas of practice: environmental, corporate and participatory governance.
