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An Anthology of Contemporary Bengali Plays by Bratya Basu

Author : Bratya Basu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350289442
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book An Anthology of Contemporary Bengali Plays by Bratya Basu written by Bratya Basu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of six selected plays, written between 2000 and 2020 by Bratya Basu, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2021, is the first collection of Bengali plays that blends avant-garde, pop and traditional cultures with contemporary dramatic themes. The six plays, freshly translated into English, each bring a uniquely Bengali and Indian perspective to the intermingling of past and present, global and local, and magical and real in a postmodern pastiche about India today. The collection is divided into three thematic sections: 1) 'Poignant Challenges, Soulful Remorse' examines power in Indian politics, religion, and family. 2) '(In)visible Boundaries, (Un)democratic Choices' explores the relationship among democracy, nation building, and the role of women in intergenerational political struggle. 3) 'Intimately Political, Politically Intimate' navigates queer identity, mental health and the fabulation of modern Bengali life in a 21st-century India straddling the progressive politics that removed section 377 and Hindu nationalisms that stoke new conservatisms.

An Anthology of Contemporary Bengali Plays by Bratya Basu

Author : Bratya Basu
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 1350289426
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book An Anthology of Contemporary Bengali Plays by Bratya Basu written by Bratya Basu and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of six selected plays, written between 2000 and 2020 by Bratya Basu, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2021, is the first collection of Bengali plays that blends avant-garde, pop, and traditional cultures with contemporary dramatic themes. The six plays, freshly translated into English, each bring a uniquely Bengali and Indian perspective to the intermingling of past and present, global and local, and magical and real in a postmodern pastiche about India today. The collection is divided into three thematic sections: 1) “Poignant Challenges, Soulful Remorse” examines power in Indian politics, religion, and family. 2) “(In)visible Boundaries, (Un)democratic Choices” explores the relationship among democracy, nation building, and the role of women in intergenerational political struggle. 3)“Intimately Political, Politically Intimate” navigates queer identity, mental health, and the fabulation of modern Bengali life in a 21st century India straddling the progressive politics that removed section 377 and Hindu nationalisms that stoke new conservatisms.

The Voltaire Anthology

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1627933328
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book The Voltaire Anthology written by Voltaire and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection containing Candide and the plays Alzire, Amelia, Brutus, Caliline, Mahomet, Mariamne, Merope, Nanine, Oedipus, Olympia, Orestes, Pandora, Semiramis, Socrates, The Orphan of China, The Prude, The Scotch Woman, and Zadig.

The Emperor Jahangir

Author : Lisa Balabanlilar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838600442
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book The Emperor Jahangir written by Lisa Balabanlilar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jahangir was the fourth of the six “Great Mughals,” the oldest son of Akbar the Great, who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian Subcontinent, and the father of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal. Although an alcoholic and opium addict, his reputation marred by rebellion against his father, once enthroned the Emperor Jahangir proved to be an adept politician. He was also a thoughtful and reflective memoirist and a generous patron of the arts, responsible for an innovative golden age in Mughal painting. Through a close study of the seventeenth century Mughal court chronicles, The Emperor Jahangir sheds new light on this remarkable historical figure, exploring Jahangir's struggle for power and defense of kingship, his addictions and insecurities, his relationship with his favourite wife, the Empress Nur Jahan, and with his sons, whose own failed rebellions bookended his reign.

Power and Contestation

Author : Nivedita Menon
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848137575
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Power and Contestation written by Nivedita Menon and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1989 marks the unraveling of India's 'Nehruvian Consensus' around the idea of a modern, secular nation with a self-reliant economy. Caste and religion have come to play major roles in national politics. Global economic integration has led to conflict between the state and dispossessed people, but processes of globalization have also enabled new spaces for political assertion, such as around sexuality. Older challenges to the idea of India continue from movements in Kashmir and the North-East, while Maoist insurgency has deepened its bases. In a world of American Empire, India as a nuclear power has abandoned non-alignment, a shift that is contested by voices within. Power and Contestation shows that the turbulence and turmoil of this period are signs of India's continued vibrancy and democracy. The book is an ideal introduction to the complex internal histories and external power relations of a major global player for the new century.

A Question of Silence

Author : Janaki Nair
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856498920
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book A Question of Silence written by Janaki Nair and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume develop an understanding of the institutions, practices and forms of representation of Indian sexual relations and their boundaries of legitimacy.

Pakistan

Author : Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842771174
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Pakistan written by Christophe Jaffrelot and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of Pakistan's complicated political mosaic focuses on ethnic tensions within the country, the Mohajir movement, Pashtun and Baloch nationalisms, and the "Punjabization" of the country. Contributors also look at the country's complex position within the South Asian region, including its foreign policy, and the dialectic between domestic and foreign policy, and the role of the army. The book raises many thought-provoking questions, including the definition of Palestinian identity, the control of the state, and the deeply flawed institution of democracy.

South Asian Folklore

Author : Frank J. Korom
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Asian Folklore written by Frank J. Korom and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asia is a distant, exotic place to most American students. It is also a land of diverse and fascinating cultures, exemplified by the folklore of the region. This book gives students and general readers a thorough introduction to South Asian folklore. Included are chapters on different types of folklore, the place of folklore in popular culture, and the scholarly response to South Asian folklore. The volume also provides numerous legends, tales, myths, riddles, jokes, and other examples of folklore from South Asia. The book closes with a glossary and a bibliography of print and electronic resources. To most American students, South Asia is a distant and exotic world. It is the birthplace of Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, and the home of hundreds of languages. It is also a region of growing economic importance. Students, travellers, and general readers increasingly need to understand the regions's cultures and customs, at the heart of which is a rich and varied folklore. This book is a brief but thorough introduction to folklore from South Asia, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The volume begins with an overview of the cultural background of South Asia, and examines different types of folklore and the difficulties of defining and classifying folklore genres. It then provides a substantial selection of legends, tales, myths, riddles, jokes, and other pieces of folklore from South Asia. This is followed by a look at research on the subject, along with an exploration of South Asian folklore in literature and popular culture. The volume closes with a glossary and a bibliography of print and electronic resources.

The Sikhs of the Punjab

Author : Joyce Pettigrew
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Sikhs of the Punjab written by Joyce Pettigrew and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1995-04-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Village people in the Punjab have lived with the terror of the conflict between Sikh militants and Indian security forces since the attack on the Sikh Golden Temple in 1984. In this remarkable book, a courageous anthropologist who knows the region intimately presents a very human portrait of the struggle. She argues that, despite its apparent defeat, it can only be in abeyance while the root causes, which have prompted so many young Sikhs to take up arms and fight for an independent Khalistan, remain unaddressed. Through the skilful use of interviews, Dr Pettigrew takes us into the worlds of Punjabi farmers, Sikh militants, and the police commanders responsible for containing a vicious conflict whose ramifications have spilled beyond the Punjab into wider Indian politics.

A Kingdom Under Siege

Author : Deepak Thapa
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Kingdom Under Siege written by Deepak Thapa and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Kingdom under Siege is an authoritative and comprehensive overview of Nepal's Maoist insurgency. It describes how the state's neglect of many of its people combined with political instability and the growth of radical left politics in the Maoist heartlands of mid-western Nepal led to a build up of the tensions that were unleashed in February 1996. The insurgency quickly grew and gained favour with many of Nepal's poor and disadvantaged people as the rebels held out the promise of a more just and equitable society. The government's failure to tackle the causes of the rebellion and to engage the Maoists' agenda had led to more than 10,000 deaths and widespread destruction of infrastructure."--BOOK JACKET.

In the Shadow of the Glen

Author : John Millington Synge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Glen written by John Millington Synge and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Burdens of Freedom

Author : Padraic Kenney
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842776636
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Burdens of Freedom written by Padraic Kenney and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

When Your Angel Arrives

Author : Chima Osakwe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781462028368
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book When Your Angel Arrives written by Chima Osakwe and published by . This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Your Angel Arrives is a play about the immigrant experience particularly in the Western world. Plotted around a black African immigrant who is under pressure from his visiting mother to cast off his Caucasian wife, the play deals with the challenges faced by immigrants and equally touches on cross-cultural marriage and black on black betrayal.

Chowringhee

Author : Śaṃkara
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143101031
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Chowringhee written by Śaṃkara and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1950s Calcutta, this is a saga of the intimate lives of managers, employees and guests at one of Calcutta's largest hotels, the Shahjahan.

New South Asian Feminisms

Author : Srila Roy
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1780321929
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book New South Asian Feminisms written by Srila Roy and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asian feminism is in crisis. Under constant attack from right-wing nationalism and religious fundamentalism and co-opted by 'NGO-ization' and neoliberal state agendas, once autonomous and radical forms of feminist mobilization have been ideologically fragmented and replaced. It is time to rethink the feminist political agenda for the predicaments of the present. This timely volume provides an original and unprecedented exploration of the current state of South Asian feminist politics. It will map the new sites and expressions of feminism in the region today, addressing issues like disability, Internet technologies, queer subjectivities and violence as everyday life across national boundaries, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Written by young scholars from the region, this book addresses the generational divide of feminism in the region, effectively introducing a new 'wave' of South Asian feminists that resonates with feminist debates everywhere around the globe.

Life.After.Theory

Author : Michael Payne
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441178058
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Life.After.Theory written by Michael Payne and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there life after theory? If the death of the Author has now been followed by the death of the Theorist, what's left? Indeed, who's left? To explore such riddles Life. After.Theory brings together new interviews with four theorists who are left, each a major figure in their own right: Jacques Derrida, Frank Kermode, Toril Moi, and Christopher Norris. Framed and introduced by Michael Payne and John Schad, the interviews pursue a whole range of topics, both familiar and unfamiliar. Among other things, Derrida, Kermode, Moi and Norris discuss being an outsider, taking responsibility, valuing books, getting angry, doing science, listening to music, remembering Empson, rereading de Beauvoir, being Jewish, asking forgiveness, smoking in libraries, befriending the dead, committing bigamy, forgetting to forget, thinking, not thinking, believing, and being mad. These four key thinkers explore why there is life after theory...but not as we know it. Jacques Derrida is Professor at the +cole des Hautes +tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author of a range of extraordinarily influential works including Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference and Dissemination. Sir Frank Kermode is a former King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge and author of, among many other books, The Sense of An Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, Shakespeare's Language, and Not Entitled, his memoirs. Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. Her books include Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory, Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman and What Is a Woman? And Other Essays. Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff. He has published some twenty books to date, including, most recently, Deconstruction and the Unfinished Project of Modernity, Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism, Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-Realism, and Response-Dependence, and Hilary Putnam: Reason, Realism, and the Uses of Uncertainty.

The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb

Author : Itty Abraham
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856496308
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb written by Itty Abraham and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974 India exploded an atomic device. In May 1998 the new BJP Government exploded several more, encountering in the process domestic plaudits but international condemnation and a nuclear arms race in South Asia. This book is the first serious historical account of the development of nuclear power in India and of how the bomb came to be made. The author questions orthodox interpretations implying that it was a product of the Indo-Pakistani conflict. Instead, he suggests that the explosions had nothing to do with national security as conventionally understood. Instead he demonstrates the linkages that existed between the two apparently separate discourses of national security and national development, and explores their common underlying basis in postcolonial states. The result is a remarkable book that breaks new ground in integrating comparative politics, international relations and cultural studies.