Download or read book Rich Like Us written by Nayantara Sahgal and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Delhi, one month after the declaration of the Emergency, is the setting for Nayantara Sahgal's novel Rich Like Us, an ironic, tender and exquisitely crafted study of India and its people in the aftermath of Independence.The Emergency in India meant many things to many people - profit and power for some; jail for others; mobile vasectomy clinics for thousands more. For idealistics like Sonali it meant the end of a dream, the extinguishing of a bright flame of promise for the country's future that had burned since Independence. An unmarried woman, proud of her senior ranking in the civil service, she finds herself demoted and humiliated through a corrupt deal at governmental level. For opportunists like Dev, a beneficiary of the deal, it means a chance to quite his ailing father's business and make it on his own as a leader of the New Entrepreneurs. Sonali's colleague, Ravi Kachru, once a passionate Marxist, makes himself indispensable to the "royal line". Meanwhile, the stubborn shopkeeper, Kishori Lal, bloodied survivor of Partition, lands in a filthy prison cell for a non-existent crime.Rich Like Us is many individual histories, and many voices, in one - a compelling and vivid tapestry of India's past and present. Above all it is the story of Rose the cockney memsahib, brought by the worldly Ram from London forty years before to a family that neither wants nor welcomes her. In Nayantara Sahgal's tale, with its humour and tragedy, is mirrored some of the grandeur and folly of the Indian experience itself.
Download or read book Mistaken Identity written by Nayantara Sahgal and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sahgal, Mistaken Identity. A fable concerning the implacable workings of Karma.
Download or read book Indira Gandhi written by Nayantara Sahgal and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Indira Gandhi reach the pinnacle of Indian politics? Did India move away from freedom under her leadership? What kind of woman was she? Indira Gandhi made unorthodox use of power and possessed a highly individual style of functioning. In this book, Nayantara Sahgal persuasively argues that authoritarianism was the inevitable outcome of Indira’s personality and temperament. Her leadership marked a drastic break with the democratic tradition of her family and of Indian politics. During her regime, the political landscape of India underwent profound changes.The Emergency of 1975–77 was used to promote her son Sanjay as her ultimate successor. The entry of her elder son, Rajiv, into politics after Sanjay’s death, and his immediate political prominence showcased Indira’s essential belief in her family’s right to rule. Nayantara Sahgal’s personal knowledge of her cousin, in combination with her unparalleled access to letters exchanged between Nehru and her mother,Vijaylakshmi Pandit, makes for an unusually penetrating psychological and political portrait from an intimate family viewpoint.
Download or read book Prison and Chocolate Cake written by Nayantara Sahgal and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Seldom does one get a chance to become acquainted with India's great leaders through a young woman so intimately associated with them.'-New York Times Book ReviewA dramatic portrait of the spirit of sacrifice that carried India through the years of the struggle for independence, this evocative memoir of an unusual childhood ends with the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948.Nayantara Sahgal describes what it was like growing up in Anand Bhavan, Allahabad, the home of her parents shared with her maternal uncle, Jawarlal Nehru, during the years when Gandhi was leading the movement for independence. It describes in loving detail the lives of a family for whom the country's fight for freedom was more important than anything else, certainly coming before comfort and riches.The book is particularly delightful for its picture of Nehru who springs from these pages as a man of friendly humanity and a joy in life that made him a beloved uncle, yet with an inborn greatness that inspired awe and admiration in the little girl who played with him.'She is brilliant...complex and questioning.' - Pearl S. Buck
Download or read book Out Of Line written by Ritu Menon and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nayantara Sahgal's life folds history into experience. Ritu Menon unfolds that experience into a historical narrative of surpassing appeal.' - Gopalkrishna Gandhi 'Nayantara Sahgal's personal life was enmeshed with historical events in India: Ritu Menon's biography of her is a delicate exploration of both. I enjoyed reading it very much.' - Leila Seth Nayantara Sahgal, born into the first family of Indian politics, is one of India's finest writers. Novelist, essayist, political commentator and memoirist, everything she wrote, whether political or literary, followed the evolution of democracy in post- Independence India. What connects Sahgal's fiction and non-fiction is politics; what propels her politics is the idea of India. The three strands of personal, political and literary are inextricably woven in her writing, and just as it is impossible to separate a writer's life from her text, Nayantara Sahgal cannot be read without reference to the political life of the country. Charged with stepping out of line in her political writing, Sahgal displayed a similar tendency in her personal life, risking both social disapproval and political displeasure. She carried on regardless. This literary, personal and political biography of this important writer is a first, based on interviews, private papers and letters, first-hand information and archival research.
Download or read book Nayantara Sahgal written by Maninder Sidhu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive critical re-reading of Nayantara Sahgal’s oeuvre. One of the most significant Indian English writers, her fictional and non-fictional engagement with historical events and political dilemmas inextricably links her to the colonial, anti-colonial and post-colonial discourse in India. Drawing transcontinental connections with the ideas of Fanon, Foucault, Said, Beauvoir, White, Beck and Habermas the monograph juxtaposes recurring themes in her writing with the ideas of significant Indian post-colonial commentators. Tracing the subliminal tendencies in her writing to Gandhian humanity and Nehruvian pragmaticism, the book moves beyond clichés of feminist criticism and genealogical ties to unveil a unique artist who has folded nearly a century of Indian experience in her work. Drawing on novels, essays, speeches, journalism and interviews by Nayantara Sahgal, this volume will be of great interest to scholars of South Asian literature, post-colonialism, politics and contemporary history/culture/change.
Download or read book A Situation in New Delhi written by Nayantara Sahgal and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &Lsquo;She Missed The Sense Of Values Shivraj Had Planted Like Roses With His Two Hands. It Was Their Fragrance, Something As Ephemeral As That, That Had Bound The Country Together In A Unity, Not Any Hidebound Principle Or Rule From A Book.&Rsquo; Shivraj Is Dead And With Him The Values With Which He Had Governed The Country For Over A Decade. While His Successors Destroy The Idealistic World He Had Built, Shivraj&Rsquo;S Circle Of Intimate Friends&Mdash;His Sister Devi, The Education Minister; Usman Ali, Vice Chancellor Of Delhi University; And Michael Calvert, An English Writer&Mdash;Struggle To Find Order In The Chaos, Even As Rishad, Devi&Rsquo;S Son, Loses Himself In It. Juxtaposing The Conflict Of Personal Relationships With The Larger Canvas Of Corrupt Politics In A Situation In New Delhi, Nayantara Sahgal Masterfully Weaves A Tale That Grips The Reader From Start To Finish. &Lsquo;A Brilliant And Provocative Piece Of Fact-Based Fiction&Rsquo;&Mdash;Financial Times &Lsquo;A Moving, Even Inspiring Novel&Rsquo;&Mdash;Sunday Times
Download or read book Relationship Pb written by Nayantara Sahgal and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2008-08-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exchange of letters dating from an extremely turbulent period of their lives, Nayantara Sahgal and E.N. Mangat Rai, two very public figures who had remained at the same time intensely private, broke their self-imposed silence for the first time. When Relationship was first published in 1994, it was received with varying degrees of shock and appreciation. This newly revised edition includes all of the correspondence carried in the previous one, with a short but significant addition: Diary from Chandigarh is an honest and often emotionally wrenching account of Nayantara's life with her husband and children before the break-up. Both the diary and the letters highlight one woman's endeavour to remain true to herself, her writing, her ideals and relationships, both outside and within marriage. They speak of a growing and passionate involvement, of the author's joy and pain at discovering an intellectual companionship while recognizing the difficulties of keeping such a relationship alive. They reflect too, on the dilemmas and compulsions that bind men and women into particular relationships, and the exigencies of public life and its implications for the private sphere. A mirror of the times when a kind of idealism and commitment still seemed possible, Relationship gives the reader an insight into the life and thoughts of one of India's most successful writers, and one of the most distinguished civil servants of his generation
Download or read book A Time to be Happy written by Nayantara Sahgal and published by . This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Time To Be Happy: A Novel is a story about people of the upper middle class in the India that was struggling for, achieving, and then testing independence on one level it is a charming, intimate family chronicle; on another it is a comedy of manners a
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 Plans For Departure written by Nayantara Sahgal and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the eminent scientist Sir Nitin Basu, spending the summer of 1914 at a remote hill station in the Himalayas, the arrival of a single Danish woman - hired as his secretary by his sister didi - is as alarming as an invasion. Tall, fair, unconventional Miss Anna Hansen is a feminist, a woman ahead of her times, enjoying a year of travel before her marriage to an English diplomat. Before her short stay in Himapur is over, she will have come dangerously close to loving another man, stumbled on the evidence, she believes, of a secret crime, and been shaken by a violet and mysterious death.Making up the small European community in Himapur are the missionary Marlowe Croft, a bullying, obsessive man determined at all costs to build a Christian church in the hills; his shrill, foolish wife Lulu, the chief obstacle to his mission; and the district Magistrate Henry Brewster, an enigmatic figure, ill-at-ease with the imperial authority he represents. Deserted by his wife Stella, for whom ge gave up his dreams of a new political life in England, he is still consumed with love for her. Anna's fascination with rewster, her involvement in India's growing political unrest, lead her to reconsider her future, but a horrific accident and a startling find in a forest glade make it impossible for her to stay. Tormented by unanswered questions, Anna makes her plans for departure, as the intimate tragedies of Himapur are swept away by the cataclysm of war.Plans for Departure is both a love story and mystery, set in a continent poised for revolution and a world on the edge of war. Nayantara Sahgal has a written a new novel of haunting power and superb craftsmanship, rich in intrigue, gentle humour and exquisite observation.
Download or read book Jawaharlal Nehru written by Nayantara Sahgal and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book : - Written by Nayantara Sahgal, prize-winning novelist and political commentator, Jawaharlal Nehru presents an intimate view of the influences, encounters and defining historical moments that forged the vision of India s first prime minister. Drawing from the Nehru and the Vijayalakshmi Pandit Papers, and from Nehru s letters to Sahgal, his niece, this book combines history with personal recollections to show how Nehru helped navigate India s transition from a colony to an influential, modern nation. Discussing the significant issue of independent India s foreign policy characterized by the non-alignment principle and the establishment of relations with the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and China Sahgal reveals much about Nehru s political astuteness, realism and aversion to rigid economic doctrines, as well as the profound impact India s non-aligned policy had on the world of the time. Perceptive, original and stimulating, Jawaharlal Nehru draws much-needed attention back to the man and his unmatched ability to engineer a consensus among seemingly irreconcilable sides. About the Author : - Nayantara Sahgal is the author of nine novels, five non-fiction works and wide-ranging literary and political commentary. She has received the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Sinclair Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Eurasia. She is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has held fellowships in the United States at the Bunting Institute, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the National Humanities Center. A resident of Dehradun, she has been awarded the Doon Ratna, and has also received the Distinguished Alumna Award from Wellesley College, Massachusetts, in 2003 and from Woodstock School, Mussoorie, in 2004.
Download or read book Indian Women Novelists in English written by Jaydipsinh Dodiya and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed essays.
Download or read book The Fate of Butterflies written by Nayantara Sahgal and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prabhakar, returning home one evening, comes upon a corpse at a crossroads, naked but for the skullcap on his head. Days later, he listens to Katerina's stark retelling of a gang rape in a village, as chilling as only the account of a victim can be. And in a macabre sequence, he finds his favourite dhaba no longer serves gular kebabs and rumali roti, while Bonjour, the fine dining restaurant run by a gay couple has been vandalised by goons. Casting a long shadow over it all is Mirajkar, the 'Master Mind', brilliant policy maker and political theorist, who is determined to rid the country of all elements alien to its culture - as he, and his partymen, perceive it.--Amazon.com
Download or read book The Day in Shadow written by Nayantara Sahgal and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twentieth Century Literature in English written by Ed. Manmohan K. Bhatnagar and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Present Anthology Of Critical Essays On Twentieth Century English Literature Seeks To Put Together The Body Of Writing Criticism, Poetry, Fiction, Short-Story, In England, America, Australia, Africa And India In The Present Age, To Discover How, Despite Its Seeming Divergence And Dissimilarities, It Falls Into A Broad Pattern With Regard To The Choice Of Themes And Formal Strategies.The Essays Included Are Theoretical, Com¬Parative And Exigetical, Expounding Move¬Ments Like Modernism And Post-Modernism; Critical Perspectives Like The Scientifico-Psychological Approach And Its Practical Application, And Critiques Of T.S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, G.B. Shaw, Harold Pinter, Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Wole Soyinka, Manohar Malgonkar, Nayantara Sahgal, C.J. Koch And Frank Moorhouse.The Anthology Reveals The Family Re¬Semblance In Twentieth Century English Literature Irrespective Of Geographic And Cultural Barriers, Reinforcing The View That In The Global Village That The World Has Become, Literature In English All Over The World In The Modern Context Has Come To Assume The Form Of A Community-Discourse.
Download or read book Indian Women Novelists and Psychoanalysis written by Mittapalli Rajeshwar and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neurosis Reminds Us Of The Fact That There Is A Seamy Side To Our Civilization. Society Compels Every Individual To Repress Instinctual Urges And The Desire For The Free Exercise Of Will, All In The Name Of Upholding Its Ideals And Expectations Which Are Very Often Oppressive And Anti-Human. If The Individual Is Too Ill-Equipped To Oppose The Societal Sanctions Openly He Or She Will Find An Alternative In Neurosis Because It Is A Form Of Protest Among Other Things. Neurosis Is Thus Invested With Profound Psychological And Social Significance. It Is Basically Subversive.Indian Society Continues To Be Rigid And Conservative And The Repression One Has To Put Up With Is Often Very Severe. Women Especially Bear The Brunt Of It As The Social Norms And Moral Codes Are Heavily Loaded Against Them.It Is Against This Background That Some Of The Indian Women Novelists In English Have Fictionally Treated The Neurotic Suffering Of Susceptible Characters. Through This Fictional Endeavour They Seem To Underscore The Need For Subverting The Present Oppressive Value System In Order To Make Way For A Humane Social Order.This Book Proposes To Discuss The Neurotic Characters Of The Indian Women Novelists In The Light Of Freudian And Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis Which Has Equipped The Modern Literary Critic With Remarkable Knowledge Of The Inner Struggles Of Literary Characters And Other Aspects Of The Literary Product. The Novels Studied Here Are: Anita Desai S Cry, The Peacock And Where Shall We Go This Summer?, Bharati Mukherjee S Wife, Kamala Markandaya S A Silence Of Desire, Shashi Deshpande S That Long Silence, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala S Get Ready For Battle, Nergis Dalal S The Inner Door And Nayantara Sahgal S The Day In Shadow. Apart From This, The Book Contains A Chapter And An Appendix Which Prespectivise And Discuss In Detail Freudian Psychoanalysis, Characters And Neurosis, And Indian Women Novelists In English.Psychoanalytic Critical Study Of Literary Works Is Limited To A Few Stray Articles In India. This Book Is, In Fact, The First Full-Length Psychoanalytic Critical Study Of Indian Fiction In English.
