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Download or read book Behenji written by Ajoy Bose and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-03-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of Behenji, first published in 2008, examines Mayawati’s record as chief minister since 2007. It pinpoints the reasons behind the BSP’s poor performance in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, her return to the Dalit agenda prior to the 2012 assembly elections, as well as its surprising results. Also scrutinized are Mayawati’s performance as a dalit leader and administrator, besides the rampant corruption and failure of her social engineering project during these years. Though no longer likely to become prime minister, the author sees Mayawati playing a pivotal role in UP, and, indeed, Indian politics post the 2014 elections.
Author :Geetanjali Shree Publisher :Penguin Random House India Private Limited ISBN 13 :9357081089 Total Pages :141 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (57 download)
Book Synopsis The Roof Beneath Their Feet by : Geetanjali Shree
Download or read book The Roof Beneath Their Feet written by Geetanjali Shree and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully crafted novel, roofs have a special place; they are meant for wild things, for romance and for play, they are places to dry pickles and grains while exchanging gossip about quiet caresses. But above all, they are realms of freedom. In The Roof Beneath their Feet, Chachcho and Lalna use their roofs to build a friendship that transcends time and memory. Suddenly one day, Lalna has to leave, to return only after Chachcho's passing. Amidst rumors and gossip in the neighborhood, Chachcho's nephew tries to piece together his memories of the two women, one of whom is his mother. The truth he is searching for could destroy him forever, but to not find out is no longer an option. A story of twists and turns, The Roof Beneath Their Feet, translated from the original Hindi by Rahul Soni, is easily one of the best contemporary novels you have read in a long time.
Book Synopsis Childhood and Youth in India by : Anandini Dar
Download or read book Childhood and Youth in India written by Anandini Dar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume advances the conceptual framework of the 'everyday urban' to unpack the ways in which processes of modernity in India shape young subjects and, in so doing, centers the analytical categories of childhood and youth. In rejecting simplistic binaries of agency, and teleological logics of development and modernity, the authors focus on the complex pathways of negotiation and conflict that mark the lives of young people across various historical and contemporary contexts in urban India. Chapters are organized across two key themes: Shaping Modern Subjects and Being Modern Subjects, while spanning multiple disciplines including anthropology, history, sociology, disability studies, and psychology. Together, the contributions aim to advance the field of childhood and youth studies in South Asia and beyond.
Book Synopsis Professional Identity Constructions of Indian Women by : Priti Sandhu
Download or read book Professional Identity Constructions of Indian Women written by Priti Sandhu and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the narratives of urban, North Indian women for the diverse ways in which they construct the impact of their medium of education – Hindi, English, or a combination of both – on varied aspects of their professional and personal lives. It examines how participants reinforce or interrogate firmly entrenched power heirarchies that have long elevated English in India. Adopting a social constructionist perspective, and treating oral narratives as impacted both by local interactional contingencies and by larger social contexts, this book provides an innovative framework for the analysis of narratives told in qualitative research interviews. Stylization, mock languages, similes and metaphors, reported speech, and varied interactional cues are some of the devices used to examine the intersectioanlity of power and identity within participants’ oral narratives.The book will be of interest to scholars and students of narrative analysis, gender and identity studies, postcolonialism, and professional identity constructions of women.
Download or read book Kaleidoscope written by Padma Jha and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian woman is deified, glorified and worshipped; she is also killed in the home, burnt for dowry, humiliated, tortured and raped. Despite all this hypocrisy and savagery, she has braved all circumstances and has shown her mettle. In the early days getting education was not easy for herso many egos had to be satisfied, much knowledge surreptitiously garnered and she learnt the art of showing that she knew much less than she actually did. Though adjusting to all situations, she would be totally focused on her goal. She would also go to great lengths to protect her honourno matter what her station in life would be. Now, she sees man being controlled and coerced by his family, yet she energizes and sustains him. Take any field of work-- right from train drivers to astronauts, to doctors to entrepreneurs, you will find her shining wherever she is. Like the humble grass the more she is flattened, the tougher and swifter she rises. The stories in this book deal with the multifaceted Indian woman and are dedicated to her. They span many ages and times, dealing with the complexity that is life.
Download or read book The Broken Mirror written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Beero and his motley group friends is set against the impending partition of India. Beero’s passage through adolescence is told through a series of vignettes involving characters who are each more eccentric than the next—wrestler, quack, prostitute; Hindu, Muslim, Sikh. But when partition becomes a reality, in a time of terror and carnage, the insane turn out be the only ones sane.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Horizon by : UMA BALASUBRAMANIAM
Download or read book Beyond the Horizon written by UMA BALASUBRAMANIAM and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Beyond the Horizon' is a journey of a dreamer who goes through childhood and adolescence walking the primrose path of fantasy. Married at twenty, she is pushed from this path to tread one submerged in prejudice, deceit and subterfuge while trying to find her feet in the ethos of Brahmanical culture to which she finds herself an alien. From a childhood governed by algebraic equations and riders, to murders and arsenic, the protagonist finds her hands full.
Download or read book Being Indian written by Pavan K. Varma and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misconceptions About India And Indians Abound, Fed By The Stereotypes Created By Foreigners, And The Myths About Themselves Projected By Indians. In Being Indian, Pavan K.Varma Demolishes These Myths And Generalizations As He Turns His Sharply Observant Gaze On His Fellow Countrymen To Examine What Really Makes Indians Tick And What They Have To Offer The World In The 21St Century. Varma S Insightful Analysis Of The Indian Personality And The Culture That Has Created It Reaches Startling New Conclusions On The Paradoxes And Contradictions That Characterize Indian Attitudes Towards Issues Such As Power, Wealth And Spirituality. How, For Example, Does The Appalling Indifference Of Most Indians To The Suffering Of The Poor And The Inequities Of The Caste System Square With Their Enthusiastic Championing Of Parliamentary Democracy? The Book Also Examines India S Future Prospects As An Economic, Military And Technological Power, Providing Valuable Pointers To The Likely Destiny Of A Nation Of One Billion People. Drawing On Sources As Diverse As Ancient Sanskrit Treatises And Bollywood Lyrics, And Illuminating His Examples With A Wealth Of Telling Anecdotes, Pavan Varma Creates A Vivid And Compelling Portrait Of Indians As He Argues That They Will Survive And Flourish In The New Millennium Precisely Because Of What They Are, Warts And All, And Not Because Of What They Think They Are Or Would Like To Be. This Book, Which Will Stimulate Reflection, Discussion And Controversy, Is A Must Read For Both Foreigners Who Wish To Understand Indians And Indians Who Wish To Understand Themselves.
Book Synopsis Stories of the Soil by : Nirupama Dutt
Download or read book Stories of the Soil written by Nirupama Dutt and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of the Soil is a collection of over forty classic Punjabi short stories. Combining a rich oral tradition of kissas with tropes from Western literature, Punjabi short-story writers have developed their own unique way of portraying love, longing, ecstasy and malice. Spanning a century, these stories talk of life in the village and the town. There are haunting tales about Partition like 'A Matter of Faith' by Gulzar Singh Sandhu where a horrible tragedy is viewed through the eyes of a child. Along with sensitive accounts of life from across the border in Pakistan are tales by the Dalits who until recently had been rendered voiceless. Amrita Pritam's 'The Vault', a metaphor for a barren womb, explores the identity of a Punjabi woman while stories like Surjit Birdi's 'Flies' reveals the concerns faced by the Punjabi diaspora. Translated and edited by Nirupama Dutt, these carefully selected stories reflect every aspect of life in the land of five rivers.
Book Synopsis Politics as Social Text in India by : Jayabrata Sarkar
Download or read book Politics as Social Text in India written by Jayabrata Sarkar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the emergence of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) as an alternative political force in Uttar Pradesh. It focuses on the historical continuity of Dalit social justice movements and organizational politics from pre- to post-colonial India and its subsequent institutionalization as a political force with the rise of the BSP in the state since the 1980s. The volume discusses the new age Dalit–Bahujan politics and its ethnicization of caste groups to create a bahujan samaj. The book analyzes the focused political leadership of Kanshiram and Mayawati, the strong party organization, and how they evolved an empowered Dalit ideology and identity by grassroots mobilization and championing Dalit icons and history. The author also explores the party’s strategies, slogans and alliances with other political parties and communities and its political manoeuvrings to retain its influence over the electorate. The book also effectively identifies the reasons for the political marginalization of the BSP in present times in the context of the phenomenal rise of the BJP in the state. The book will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of political science, sociology, Dalit and subaltern studies, exclusion studies and those working on the intersectionality of caste and class. It will also be useful for policy makers, think tanks and NGOs working in the domain of caste, marginality, social exclusion and identity politics.
Book Synopsis Eastwards / Westwards by : Clara Sarmento
Download or read book Eastwards / Westwards written by Clara Sarmento and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eastwards / Westwards: Which Direction for Gender Studies in the XXIst Century? is a collection of essays which focus on themes and methods that characterize the current research on gender in Asian countries in general, under a comparative approach that tries to cut across the boundaries of time and space. In this collection, ideas derived from Gender Studies as they are practised all over the world have been subjected to scrutiny for their utility in helping to describe and understand regional phenomena. But the concepts of ‘local’ and ‘global’–with their discoursive productions–have not functioned here as a binary opposition: localism and globalism are mutually constitutive and the authors have interrogated those spaces of interaction between the ‘self’ and the ‘other’, bearing in mind their own embeddedness in social and cultural structures and their own historical memory. Eastwards / Westwards: Which Direction for Gender Studies in the XXIst Century? provides a critical transnational perspective on some of the complex effects of the dynamics of cultural globalization, by exploring the relation between gender and education, politics, economics, anthropology, linguistics, historiography, sociology, literature, and popular culture, as agents of the (re)invention of old and new, male and female identities, their conversion into concepts and their circulation through time and space.
Book Synopsis English and the Indian Short Story by : Mohan Ramanan
Download or read book English and the Indian Short Story written by Mohan Ramanan and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume seek to explore the genre of the short story in India and its relationship with English language and literature. Various aspects of the question are taken up the impact of colonialism; the way English has shaped (or not) short story writing; why, how and in what contexts English words are used, feminist perspectives in the writings of women; the Indian diaspora; the teaching of the short story to Indian students and so on.
Book Synopsis He loves me, He loves me not by : Pratibha Mishra
Download or read book He loves me, He loves me not written by Pratibha Mishra and published by BecomeShakespeare.com. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Priyanka, a tom-boy Delhiite girl was living her life content until she encounters a break-up she had never imagined. Her best buddies helped her moving on but the incidence was too much of a shock for her to take and left her in say-no-to-boys-ever-again decision. Then what made her fall for another guy that too from a distinct city when she knows her family would never support that? Is falling in love enough for getting married? Why even on the date of her marriage, Priyanka was not sure if she will be getting married today or not? What all they had to go through to get married? Did they disappoint their parents whom they loved and respected most or they had to sacrifice their love for family? Enjoy Priyanka and Arjun’s roller coaster ride for their marriage through this novel.
Download or read book Many Fish to Fry written by Abha Iyengar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reena Rajan leads a busy life as a part-time businesswoman and full-time housewife, when a fish and a private detective arrive, unannounced, on her Delhi doorstep. Over many cups of tea Reena and her unlikely accomplice Harinmoy Banerjee grapple to find answers to big city problems, to discover their place in the changing mix of old India and modern India, and to uncover the fishy goings-on next door in Flat No. 69, Seaside View Apartments. ""Many slices of life fried to a perfect crisp Abha Iyengar's unmistakable eye for detail and the absurd makes for a quirky and layered novel. Many Fish to Fry is an intricate, well-paced and humorous look at marriages and lives around us."" Nandita Bose, author of 'Tread Softly' and 'The Perfume of Promise'
Book Synopsis The Endless Learning Curve by : R.S. AHUJA
Download or read book The Endless Learning Curve written by R.S. AHUJA and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Every person has dreams; some may be realized while some may remain dreams only. I have always believed in dreaming and dreaming big. I have also believed that mere dreaming is not enough. One must work hard to realize those dreams by putting in honest efforts in the right direction. I have also had several dreams, some of which were realized but some did remain dreams only. It is reasonable to analyze, at this advanced age, which of the dreams could be turned into realities, and which remained dreams only. I have the pleasure of sharing with my readers my life time experience in this direction.”
Book Synopsis The Other World by : Madhumita Thakur
Download or read book The Other World written by Madhumita Thakur and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prized accolade. Unknown world. Life changing revelations. Life takes an unexpected turn when a gum chewing yippy from India lands in Australia for his exchange program. The cultural difference hits him hard on his face sometimes making him cry, sometime making him laugh and other times leaving him irritated and wondering. Sushants life changes dramatically as he is totally unprepared to face the vagaries of life down under. Sprinkled with some social commentary this book takes you through a series of anecdotes which become highlight in shaping up his future and also the two most important relationships in his life.
Book Synopsis In The Shadow of Crows by : David Charles Manners
Download or read book In The Shadow of Crows written by David Charles Manners and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bindra contracts leprosy, she is driven from her home in the Himalayan foothills with her two small sons and embarks upon a seemingly impossible course in search of salvation. David's first journey to India is driven by devastating loss, and yet he finds unexepected solace in the discovery of an exceptional family legacy, and insights offered by an unorthodox mountain tradition. As these individual journeys progress their stories are woven together, cultural differences are dissolved, and an extraordinary relationship is formed which forges unanticipated changes in both their lives. In the Shadow of Crows is a remarkable account of love and loss, a lyrical ode to the wonderful and terrible beauty of India, and a masterly meditation on the interweaving of separate lives.
