Download or read book Anurima written by Rani Dharker and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This girl. is going to make it to the top with her second novel,' I said to myself (as I finished Rani Dharker's first novel) . In her, we have a clever, erudite woman who can communicate Indian thought and tradition to the Western world as few living writers of India today.' Khushwant Singh Here's Anurima, the second novel Khushwant Singh spoke about. It takes us to Sonapur, once a princely state, now a bustling city, where the lives of three people, very unlike each other, collide in unusual circumstances. There's Royina, young but stubbornly quiet; Krishan, a charismatic young artist. And then there's Elise, a Jew from Austria, who spends her last days reliving memories of Sonapur's lost glory. Memories whose dominant figure is the hauntingly beautiful Princess Anurima. Mesmerising and dream-like, Anurima is also Royina's journey into that past, a journey in which she rediscovers herself.
Download or read book Pandemic Diaries written by "Vaidiki Das Alisha" and published by Spectrum Of Thoughts. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present residing situation has forced each being to change it's regular monotonous routine towards life. It has spectacularly erased irrespective of cast and creed or religion. This book is just the penned down outbrought version of a few very abled writers, who brought out their daily journals, thoughts they faced and some deep held melancholic incidents. A book would be an understatement to what these young minds have women together after they grabbed the chance thrown their way by life to cross paths with their very own mindtype people. By supporting one another we now want to express and also relate to many other hidden writers out there, who might find it hard to come out.... A small message from our writers: "You are not alone, we are there for you. "
Download or read book When It Mattered written by Aditya Pawar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backstabbed by the United States during the Kargil War, Karthik, a space scientist, is now passionately striving to realize his dream of developing a highly functional indigenous GPS for India. Meanwhile, Govind is enduring to carve out a life for himself in the French waters, unaware that these waters are about to change his fate. Ashwin, on the other hand, is on his way to join a specialized commando regiment. He is unaware of the ill fate he has called upon himself—a decision that he is soon going to regret. Three lives running in parallel dimensions, in different time zones, in different worlds, are about to be transacted by a common force. In a gut-wrenching sequence of events, the lives of three friends are about to be braided in an unimaginable, high-octane climax. The bond that the trio had nurtured is going to be tested by fire, and answers will be sought for one of the most profound questions of life - who stood by… When It Mattered?
Download or read book Dancing Odissi written by Anurima Banerji and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Born Again on the Mountain written by Anurima Sinha and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I realised that I had to do something in my life so that people would stop looking at me with pity’ National level volleyball player Arunima Sinha had a promising future ahead of her. Then one day she was shoved from a moving train by thieves as she attempted to fight them off. The horrific accident cost the twenty-four-year-old her left leg and sporting career, but it never deterred her. Two years later she had retrained as a mountaineer and become the first female amputee to reach Mount Everest. This is her unforgettable story of hope, courage and resilience.
Download or read book How To Do Politics With Art written by Violaine Roussel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major issue in the relation of art to the rest of society is the question of how art penetrates politics. From the perspective of most art scholars, this is a question of aesthetics—whether politics necessarily pollutes and debases the quality of the arts. From the perspective of social science, it has been primarily a question of meaning—how political messages are conveyed through artistic media. Recent work has begun to broaden the study of the arts and politics beyond semiosis and content focus. Several strands of scholarship are converging around the general issue of the social relationships within which art takes political form, that is, how art and artists do politics. This perspective of "doing" moves analysis beyond addressing the meaning of culture, to focus on the ways that art is embedded in—and intervenes in—social relationships, activities, and institutions. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from France and the United States to investigate these directions and themes by exploring the question of "how to do politics with art" from a comparative standpoint, putting sociological approaches in conversation with other disciplinary prisms. It will be of interest to scholars of social movements and politicization, the sociology of art, art history, and aesthetics.
Download or read book Dance Technology and Social Justice written by Kaustavi Sarkar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book theorizes dance technique as the Greek techne translated as art, and shows how movement can inspire epistemic, philosophical, and cultural conversations in technology studies. Combining dance studies, religious studies, and technology studies, it argues that dance can be a technology of social justice bringing equanimity, liberation and resistance. It focuses on the eastern Indian art form Odissi and applied experimentations with motion capture technology, virtual reality (VR) gaming, and Arduino. It specifically examines tthe work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT), a Minnesota based contemporary Indian dance company that deconstructs Odissi towards social justice activism.
Download or read book OPPORTUNITY A PATH written by Anjana Sahu and published by INDC PUBLICATION HOUSE. This book was released on with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opportunity that guides us the way to get Success. This Books gives everyone a best definition what is Opportunity and what is Success, OPPORTUNITY which gives us chance to move forward. And SUCCESS is our last dream which has been fulfilled. So whoever reads this book, we hope this book change a person to a better successful person. Everyone always having a great success but they need a opportunity to move Forward. And We Hope this book will give you the best Sunshine.
Download or read book Desire To Grow written by Janvi and published by Wordsgenix Publication. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is all about inspiration & our desires. The co-authors from different parts of the world have shared their insightful journey. There is a great contribution of all Co-Authors. Like hitting a rock with a hammer, life hits us hard sometimes. But Never ever lose hope, Life might be full of sadness and grief, Most of the time it’s so very brief, It’s full of struggle & a lot of painful sensation… But never despair you have a dream which will lead you to your destination.
Download or read book Connected Constellations written by Vasantha Lakshmi, and published by Wordsgenix Publication. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Connected Constellations" is an anthology book compiled by Harkirat Singh and Vasantha Lakshmi. Amazingly talented writers from around the globe have written poetically beautiful things that could seperate you from the reality or give you a deeper meaning of it. We hope you enjoy the adventurous journey. Have a heavenly day!
Download or read book Dine with Valentine written by Rubleena Behera and published by Wordsgenix Publication. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valentine's day is named after Saint Valentine, an catholic priest and is celebrated annually on February 14. This day is celebrated for believing in the importance of love. It is celebrated every February 14 as couples across the globe honor their spouses, partners and sweethearts. This anthology shows the love and the purest feelings of our coauthors, who pen down their love through inks. It is compiled by Rubleena Behera, and without the support of the team members and coauthors this won't be a successful project. "True love is like little roses,sweet, fragrant in small doses."
Download or read book The Choreographic written by Jenn Joy and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of dance and choreography that views them not only as artistic strategies but also as intrinsically theoretical and critical practices. The choreographic stages a conversation in which artwork is not only looked at but looks back; it is about contact that touches even across distance. The choreographic moves between the corporeal and cerebral to tell the stories of these encounters as dance trespasses into the discourse and disciplines of visual art and philosophy through a series of stutters, steps, trembles, and spasms. In The Choreographic, Jenn Joy examines dance and choreography not only as artistic strategies and disciplines but also as intrinsically theoretical and critical practices. She investigates artists in dialogue with philosophy, describing a movement of conceptual choreography that flourishes in New York and on the festival circuit. Joy offers close readings of a series of experimental works, arguing for the choreographic as an alternative model of aesthetics. She explores constellations of works, artists, writers, philosophers, and dancers, in conversation with theories of gesture, language, desire, and history. She choreographs a revelatory narrative in which Walter Benjamin, Pina Bausch, Francis Alÿs, and Cormac McCarthy dance together; she traces the feminist and queer force toward desire through the choreography of DD Dorvillier, Heather Kravas, Meg Stuart, La Ribot, Miguel Gutierrez, luciana achugar, and others; she maps new forms of communicability and pedagogy; and she casts science fiction writers Samuel R. Delany and Kim Stanley Robinson as perceptual avatars and dance partners for Ralph Lemon, Marianne Vitali, James Foster, and Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. Constructing an expanded notion of the choreographic, Joy explores how choreography as critical concept and practice attunes us to a more productively uncertain, precarious, and ecstatic understanding of aesthetics and art making.
Download or read book The Sun Never Sets written by Vivek Bald and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sujani Reddy is Five College Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies in the Department of American Studies at Amherst College. Manu Vimalassery is Assistant Professor of History at Texas Tech University.
Download or read book Transcending Parallels written by Abhishek Sen and published by Notion Press. This book was released on with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A reigning starlet latches onto the ledge from the heights of her towering success as she dangles between life and death while she is being pulled down by those who cannot stomach the assertion of her femininity in a predominantly patriarchal society—so much for daring to be a woman in a man’s world! While a starlet takes on a battle to reinstate the dignity of womankind, an unassuming wife is left to fend for her dignity and all that is rightfully hers as she is faced with the reality of her philandering husband. Whereas, a resilient mother fights for the dignity of life of her differently abled child as she strives unrelentingly to instil a sense of normality in the life of this specially gifted child. While it’s a fight for dignity for these three women, it’s a struggle of mores and family values for another. A young IT professional who stands at the crossroads of life as she finds herself conflicted between her heart and upholding family honour. She is willing to pass on the possibility of one true love as she lives in denial of her feelings for the sake of a spoken word. Read on to find out how life turns out for these four women. Will the feisty foursome tread on a path lead by life or will they take in the reins, helming the course of their future themselves? With a mix of romance, pathos, and playful moments played out by an endearing child with an impish charm and moments of glimmering hope in the face of blinding despair, Transcending Parallels promises to be an entertaining ride as it meanders through the lives of four distinct women, but one in their show of strength. It traces the tumultuous and turbulent journey of a starlet that culminates in an unpredictable climax. But not before highlighting the trials and triumphs of the other three women. Transcending Parallels captures the essence of every woman by exuding their strength and their innate survival instinct that pushes them to fight back even in the harshest of conditions."
Download or read book Dancing on Violent Ground written by Arabella Stanger and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of theater dance is commonly theorized in relation to bodily freedom, resistance, agitation, or repair. This book questions those utopian imaginaries, arguing that the visions and sensations of canonical Euro-American choreographies carry hidden forms of racial violence, not in the sense of the physical or psychological traumas arising in the practice of these arts but through the histories of social domination that materially underwrite them. Developing a new theory of choreographic space, Arabella Stanger shows how embodied forms of hope promised in ballet and progressive dance modernisms conceal and depend on spatial operations of imperial, colonial, and racial subjection. Stanger unearths dance’s violent ground by interrogating the expansionist fantasies of Marius Petipa’s imperial ballet, settler colonial and corporate land practices in the modern dance of Martha Graham and George Balanchine, reactionary discourses of the human in Rudolf von Laban’s and Oskar Schlemmer’s movement geometries; Merce Cunningham’s experimentalism as a white settler fantasy of the land of the free, and the imperial amnesia of Boris Charmatz’s interventions into metropolitan museums. Drawing on materialist thought, critical race theory, and indigenous studies, Stanger ultimately advocates for dance studies to adopt a position of “critical negativity,” an analytical attitude attuned to how dance’s exuberant modeling of certain forms of life might provide cover for life-negating practices. Bold in its arguments and rigorous in its critique, Dancing on Violent Ground asks how performance scholars can develop a practice of thinking hopefully, without expunging history from their site of analysis.
Download or read book Valuing Dance written by Susan Leigh Foster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history and all the labor that has gone into its making. It examines two ways that dance can be exchanged, as commodity and as gift, reflecting on how each establishes dance's relative worth and merit differently. When and why do we give dance? Where and to whom do we sell it? How are such acts of exchange rationalized and justified? Valuing Dance poses these questions in order to contribute to a conversation around what dance is, what it does, and why it matters.
Download or read book Childhood Traumas written by Kamayani Kumar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contributes to understanding childhoods in the twentieth and twenty-firstcentury by offering an in-depth overview of children and their engagement with the violent world around them. The chapters deal with different historical, spatial, and cultural contexts, yet converge on the question of how children relate to physiological and psychological violence. The twentieth century has been hailed as the "century of the child" but it has also witnessed an unprecedented escalation of cultural trauma experienced by children during the two World Wars, Holocaust, Partition of the Indian subcontinent, and Vietnam War. The essays in this volume focus on victimized childhood during instances of war, ethnic violence, migration under compulsion, rape, and provide insights into how a child negotiates with abstract notions of nation, ethnicity, belonging, identity, and religion. They use an array of literary and cinematic representations—fiction, paintings, films, and popular culture—to explore the long-term effect of violence and neglect on children. As such, they lend voice to children whose experiences of abuse have been multifaceted, ranging from genocide, conflict and xenophobia to sexual abuse, and also consider ways of healing. With contributions from across the world, this comprehensive book will be useful to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, literature, education, education policy, gender studies, child psychology, sociology, political studies, childhood studies, and those studying trauma, conflict, and resilience.
