Download or read book The Silent Raga written by Ameen Merchant and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 18, musical prodigy Janaki Venkatakrishnan escapes her father’s plans for an arranged marriage, fleeing her village for the bright lights of Bombay. She leaves behind a gaggle of gossip-mongering old women, but also her younger sister Mallika, who is forced to take care of their increasingly unhinged father. But ten years later, when Janaki announces her return and demands a meeting with Mallika, the buried past is once again excavated. In a span of seven days, memories and misgivings, innocence and wisdom, everyday truths and family secrets are laid bare as the two sisters prepare to face each other, and their childhood experiences, once and for all. Ameen Merchant’s poignant and ambitious debut novel, at once intensely imagined and sensitively nuanced, shines an unsparing light on the complex subject of family obligations and sibling relationships.
Download or read book The Silent Raga written by Ameen Merchant and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the literary tradition of Rohinton Mistry and Arundhati Roy, this ambitious debut novel is a moving tale of family, tradition, loss and reconciliation. Meet Janaki and Mallika, two sisters from a middle-class Brahmin family in Madras, India. Janaki is a musical prodigy, sublimely gifted on the veena, but will soon be eighteen and dreads her aunt's schemes for an arranged marriage. Eschewing tradition, she runs off with a Muslim Bollywood star. Years later, Mallika receives a letter from Janaki, who is returning to Madras. In confident prose that resembles the rhythms and progression of an Indian raga, Ameen Merchant captures in rich detail the world of these Brahmin women, a world restricted by caste and cultural rules but also teeming with colour, music and food. It is a story about the traditions that bind us and the sacrifices we must make along the road to our own individual destinies.
Download or read book The Silent Raga written by Ameen Merchant and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Do Middle-Class, Tamil Brahmin Girls Go When They Turn Eighteen? Meet Janaki Venkatakrishnan, A Musical Prodigy Sublimely Gifted On The Veena, And Her Younger Sister, Mallika. Janaki Escapes Her Father'S Plan For An Arranged Marriage, Fleeing Her Village Home For The Bright Lights Of Bombay, Scandalizing Her Father And The Chatterbox, Gossip-Mongering Women Of The Neighbourhood. She Also Leaves Behind Mallika, Who Is Forced To Take Care Of Their Increasingly Unhinged Father. But Ten Years Later, When Janaki Announces Her Return And Demands A Meeting With Mallika, The Buried Past Is Once Again Excavated, And This Time There Is No Escape From The Old Ghosts Of Loyalty And Betrayal. In A Span Of Seven Days, Memories And Misgivings, Innocence And Wisdom, Everyday Truths And Familial Secrets Are Laid Bare As The Two Sisters Prepare To Face Each Other And Everything About Their Childhood Once And For All. In Their Shared Memories, We Meet Thathappa, Their Cinema-Owner Grandfather, A Man Of Spiritual Extremes; Gayatri Chitti, The Girls' Cosmetics-Addict Aunt, Who Is Scheming To Take Their Dead Mother'S Place; Asgar, The Bollywood Megastar, And Zubeida, His Wheelchair-Bound Wife; Salima Sikri, A Feminist Editor, Poised And Ready For The Scoop Of The Year& The Silent Raga Is A Moving And Ambitious Debut Novel. In Prose That Resembles The Rhythms And Progression Of A Raga, Ameen Merchant Weaves A Finely Wrought Story About The Traditions That Bind Us And The Sacrifices We Must Make Along The Road To Our Own Individual Destinies. Intensely Imagined, The Novel Shines An Honest And Unsparing Light On Family Matters, Only To Reveal The Tug And Pull Of Bloodlines And The Infinite Power Of One Healing Word: Love.
Download or read book Crosstalk written by Diana Brydon and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within contexts of global circulation, this collection argues for the value of attending to narratorial, lyric, and theatrical conventions in dialogue with questions of epistemological and social justice. Using the twinned framing devices of crosstalk and cross-sighting, the contributing authors attend to how the interplay of the verbal and the visual maps public spheres of creative engagement today. Individual chapters present a range of methodological approaches to understanding national culture and creative labour in global contexts. Through their collective enactment of methodological crosstalk, they demonstrate the productivity of scholarly debate across differences of outlook, culture, and training. In highlighting convergences and disagreements, the book sharpens our understanding of how literary and critical conventions and theories operate within and across cultures.
Download or read book Mourning Raga written by Ellis Peters and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominic Felse and his girlfriend escort a young girl through India and investigate a murder in this mystery from the bestselling author of Fallen Into the Pit. When his girlfriend’s beautiful but erratic film-star mother, Chloe, calls to ask a favor, Dominic Felse fears the worst. But she makes the couple an offer they can’t refuse: an all-expense-paid trip to India to escort Anjili Kumar, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Chloe’s costar, to stay with her father while her mother is filming in England. But Dominic’s fears are not unfounded, and they soon discover that traveling with the spoiled, precocious Anjili is no vacation—and the task of delivering her back to her family will be less than easy. For behind the colorful, smiling mask of India that tourists see, there is another country—remote, mysterious, and often shatteringly brutal. . . . Mourning Raga is the 9th book in the Felse Investigations, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Download or read book The Indian English Novel of the New Millennium written by Prabhat K. Singh and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian English Novel of the New Millennium is a book of sixteen pieces of scholarly critique on recent Indian novels written in the English language; some on specific literary trends in fictional writing and others on individual texts published in the twenty-first century by contemporary Indian novelists such as Amitav Ghosh, Kiran Desai, Aravind Adiga, K. N. Daruwalla, Upamanyu Chatterjee, David Davidar, Esterine Kire Iralu, Siddharth Chowdhury and Chetan Bhagat. The volume focuses closely on the defining features of the different emerging forms of the Indian English novel, such as narratives of female subjectivity, crime fiction, terror novels, science fiction, campus novels, animal novels, graphic novels, disability texts, LGBT voices, dalit writing, slumdog narratives, eco-narratives, narratives of myth and fantasy, philosophical novels, historical novels, postcolonial and multicultural narratives, and Diaspora novels. A select bibliography of recent Indian English novels from 2001–2013 has been given especially for the convenience of the researchers. The book will be of great interest and benefit to college and university students and teachers of Indian English literature.
Download or read book Raga Little story about a walker written by Arie Adireksa and published by kata lirih. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raga is a translation novel from an Indonesian book entitled setapak jalan by Arie adireksa. this is not the work of a famous writer Nor from large publisher, This is just a record of a walker About feeling, missing, on a journey. A feeling that you cant tell others. A simple written story about the romance of a trip. Live life against loneliness that continues to tempt. Raga left his word and became a traveler, live life with uncertainty. Until he met someone who was slowly changing his perspective. Giving new meaning in life.
Download or read book The Silent Voices and the Creation of a New Universe written by Pratibha Chawla and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the ideological attitudes of Sikh Gurus toward women and their resulting social impact. This book is an analytical study of the Sikh Gurus' perception of women and their societal roles, with an emphasis on the impact of religious ideology on gender dynamics. Sikhism stands apart in its respectful attitudes towards women. This book explores how these religious perspectives shaped the social relations and evolution of the Sikh community (Sikh Panth), and whether there existed major differences in the views and ideologies of Sikh Gurus, contemporary Bhakti saints and Guru Nanak himself. The book also examines the influence of Sikh Gurus on patriarchal ideology, and whether their normative beliefs were reflected in operative realities. Delving into the Sikh ideological history, so as to fully ascertain and comprehend the nuanced message of the Sikh Gurus who advocated for a more gender sensitive society, this work will help connect past and present, shedding new light on faultlines in our understanding which have occurred over the centuries, and have led us where we are today.
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Download or read book The Immortals written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1980s Bombay, a highly regarded voice teacher and his affluent sixteen-year-old student enter into a relationship that will have unexpected and lasting consequences in their lives, and the lives of their families. With exquisitely sensuous detail, quiet humor, and unsentimental poignancy, Amit Chaudhuri paints a luminous portrait of the spiritual and emotional force behind a revered Indian tradition; of two fundamentally different but intricately intertwined families; and of a society choosing between the old and the new.
Download or read book The Memoirs of Mustapha Hussain written by Mustapha Hussain and published by Utusan Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of Mustapha Hussain, from his coming of age in a Minangkabau Malay community in Perak to his part in the formation of the Young Malays Union.
Download or read book A Silent Journey written by Raghunandan and published by Readworthy. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The spirit of inquiry knocks at the door of our consciousness many times. But we conveniently brush it aside. And when we do nurture it, only a few of us are fortunate enough to come across a person who can clarify our doubts or quench our spiritual thirst. However, if a book is made available, which narrates some of the difficulties the seeker faces during his/her search of oneself, it might be of great help. And this book is an attempt in this direction. Explaining how aspiration (subheccha) for a life gets germinated and what should be the attitude of the seeker of Truth, it discusses at length the different methods of mind control, the intricacies of Asanas, Pranayama, Dharana, Dhyana and Bhakti. The experiences and discoveries of the seeker have also been incorporated."
Download or read book Rabindranath Tagore A Musical Genius written by Dr. Debabrata Chatterjee and published by Authors Click Publishing . This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabindranath Tagore-A Musical Genius is an exploration of Tagore's contributions to Indian music, highlighting how he masterfully combined poetry with the rich traditions of Indian classical music to create the timeless genre referred to as Rabindra Sangeet. It further highlights the musical genius of Rabindranath Tagore, one of India's most well-known artists.
Download or read book Ragas written by David Meltzer and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orissa Society of Americas 18th Annual Convention Souvenir written by and published by Odisha Society of the Americas. This book was released on with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orissa Society of Americas 18th Annual Convention Souvenir for Convention held in Palo Alto, California in 1987 re-published as Golden Jubilee Convention July 4-7, 2019 Atlantic City, New Jersey commemorate edition. Odisha Society of the Americas Golden Jubilee Convention will be held in Atlantic City, New Jersey during July 4-7, 2019. Convention website is http://www.osa2019.org. Odisha Society of the Americas website is http://www.odishasociety.org
Download or read book Katha Prize Stories written by Geeta Dharmarajan and published by Katha. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katha Prize Stories: 13 Is A Collection Of Six Short Stories And Two Novellas. All Of These Are Katha Award Winning Best Short Fictions First Published In Six Regional Languages Over The Past Two Years.
Download or read book The Fourth Sun Sign written by Santanu Chaudhuri and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancer, unlike many disease, is not age related; whether it is a small kid aged five, or a young girl going to college, a pregnant mother, or an old farmer, it spares no one. The emotional state of mind when confronted with the disease is varied; while some take it with calm others react violently. Some survive while some fade beyond space and time. But whatever is the end, they are heroes. This book is about the spiritual and psycho-social interactions between a renowned cancer specialist and some of his patients - a tribute to his three decade practice in Oncology.
