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Book Synopsis Behsharam (Shameless) by : Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti
Download or read book Behsharam (Shameless) written by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two daughters, two mothers, one father, a cardboard cut-out and a foul-mouthed granny – a household at war with itself, and a family which will do anything to protect its' secrets. Behsharam (Shameless) follows second generation sisters, Jaspal and Sati, through the fantasies, dysfunctions and obsessions of their extraordinary extended family. Set in Birmingham, this is a bold, disturbing and at times hilarious exploration of the British Asian experience.
Download or read book Besharam written by Priya-Alika Elias and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besharam roughly translates to "shameless" in Hindi. This collection from Indian writer Priya-Alika Elias is a bold, sassy, and brilliantly written book on love, dating, body image, consent, and other issues that women today relate to and men should be thinking about. Elias reflects on, and challenges, the ideas of how women are told by society to be humble, obedient, and ashamed of their actions and desires. Her writing is fresh, feminist, and thought-provoking, disrupting taboos and exploring what it means to be a young women in today's world.
Book Synopsis Break Free to Break Through by : Inspiring Jatin
Download or read book Break Free to Break Through written by Inspiring Jatin and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the help of Kabir’s character in this book, the book intends to reach out to those who have experienced either, or all of these i.e. dysfunctional family, molestation, bullying, beaten up by parents & teachers, child sexual abuse and its different facets, etc. These kinds of incidents in one’s life create a detrimental impact in all the areas of life in their adulthood. The readers shall be able to understand the impact these made on the protagonist, the other possible impacts that someone else in similar situations might experience and how Kabir was able to identify his blind spots and found a way to overcome the barriers in his life. Even if a reader doesn't find his story, he will be able to relate to some of the incidents from his life that are holding him back. This unique guide shall educate the readers on the importance of a quality upbringing and lead them to how they can set themselves free from any dark memories to live a happy life.
Book Synopsis No Presents Please by : Jayant Kaikini
Download or read book No Presents Please written by Jayant Kaikini and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here are stories on the pathos and comedy of small–town migrants struggling to build a life in the big city, with the dream world of Bollywood never far away. Jayant Kaikini’s gaze takes in the people in the corners of Mumbai—a bus driver who, denied vacation time, steals the bus to travel home; a slum dweller who catches cats and sells them for pharmaceutical testing; a father at his wit’s end who takes his mischievous son to a reform institution. In this metropolis, those who seek find epiphanies in dark movie theaters, the jostle of local trains, and even in roadside keychains and lost thermos flasks. Here, in the shade of an unfinished overpass, a factory–worker and her boyfriend browse wedding invitations bearing wealthy couples’ affectations—”no presents please”—and look once more at what they own. Translated from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana, these resonant stories, recently awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, take us to photo framers, flower markets, and Irani cafes, revealing a city trading in fantasies while its strivers, eating once a day and sleeping ten to a room, hold secret ambitions close.
Book Synopsis The Lady of Two Nations by : Raj Gopal Singh Verma
Download or read book The Lady of Two Nations written by Raj Gopal Singh Verma and published by Global Collective Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A casual encounter between an Oxford University-educated scion of a Nawabi family and a comely young woman belonging to a Christian family of Kumaon transformed into a ‘happily ever after’ alliance. Their romantic entanglement had as its backdrop of the tug-of-war between Congress and Muslim League in undivided India. When Irene converted to Islam, her family ostracised her. Liaqat Ali Khan (1896-1951) went on to become the first Prime Minister of Pakistan and his wife Irene Pant (1905-90) attained fame as his wife and fondly came to be known as Gul-e-Ra’ana. In the 1930s, women were not easily allowed to get an education or work. The writer Raj Gopal Singh Verma narrates the fascinating story of this famous couple in the style of a fast-paced historical novel set against the complexities and upheavals of that time. After Liaqat’s assassination, the Begum brought up their two children alone and made a stellar contribution to Pakistan’s political, social, and cultural domains. She also served as the country’s finance minister and diplomat to several Western countries. On her return, she continued to work for empowerment of Muslim women of the country. She raised her voice against the dictatorial regime of Zia-ul-Haq. This book leaves no doubt that Irene Pant deserves to be counted as an iconic woman leader of South Asia, but we hardly know her.
Download or read book Seeing Things written by Kartik Nair and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths, and dark-caped vampires. Seeing Things is about the sudden cuts, botched prosthetic effects, continuity errors, and celluloid damage in these movies. Such moments may very well be "failures" of various kinds, but in this book Kartik Nair reads them as clues to the conditions in which the films were once made, censored, and seen, offering a view from below of the world's largest film culture. Combining extensive archival research and original interviews with close readings of landmark films including Purana Mandir, Veerana, and Jaani Dushman, this book tracks the material coordinates of horror cinema's spectral images. In the process, Seeing Things discovers a spectral materiality-one that informs Bombay horror's haunted houses, grotesque bodies, and graphic violence and gives visceral force to our experience of the genre's globally familiar conventions"--
Download or read book The Roles We Play written by Sabba Khan and published by Myriad Editions. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-thirds of today's British Pakistani diaspora trace their origins back to Mirpur in Azad Kashmir, a district that saw mass displacement and migration when it was submerged by the waters of a dam built after Partition. Sabba Khan's debut graphic memoir explores what identity, belonging and memory mean for her and her family against the backdrop of this history.
Book Synopsis The Sound of Water by : Sanjay Bahadur
Download or read book The Sound of Water written by Sanjay Bahadur and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2007 Man Asian Prize, a gripping debut novel about an Indian mining disaster as seen from the perspectives of the miners, their families, and the officials charged with rescuing them. Written by a former director of the Indian Ministry of Coal, and loosely based on the disastrous flood at the Bagdihi colliery in 2001, which trapped and killed dozens of miners, The Sound of Water is written with both an insider’s authority and rare literary style. Its suspenseful narrative is presented from three perspectives: The old miner struggling to save himself and his coworkers hundreds of feet below the surface of the earth; the company and government officials charged with managing the rescue efforts, but who are seemingly far more concerned with managing their careers; and, finally, the miners’ families, who stand to gain life-changing sums as a consequence of their losses. A searing fictional exposé of the appalling conditions that Indian miners endure and a moving story of the spiritual strength and conviction that enables one to survive against the odds, The Sound of Water dares to inaugurate “alternate realism,” a fresh genre very different from the soul-baring autobiographies and epic family sagas that have characterized so much of recent Indian fiction.
Book Synopsis Truth Love and A Little Malice by : Khushwant Singh
Download or read book Truth Love and A Little Malice written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-02-10 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1915 in pre-Partition Punjab, Khushwant Singh, perhaps India’s most widely read and controversial writer has been witness to most of the major events in modern Indian history from Independence and Partition to the Emergency and Operation Blue Star and has known many of the figures who have shaped it. With clarity and candour, he writes of leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, the terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the talented and scandalous painter Amrita Shergil, and everyday people who became butchers during Partition. Writing of his own life, too, Khushwant Singh remains unflinchingly forthright. He records his professional triumphs and failures as a lawyer, journalist, writer and Member of Parliament; the comforts and disappointments in his marriage of over sixty years; his first, awkward sexual encounter; his phobia of ghosts and his fascination with death; the friends who betrayed him, and also those whom he failed.
Download or read book First Comes Love written by Shelley Cobb and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the prominence of one-name couples (Brangelina, Kimye) and famous families (the Smiths, the Beckhams), it is becoming increasingly clear that celebrity is no longer an individual pursuit-if it ever was. Accordingly, First Comes Love explores celebrity kinship and the phenomenon of the power couple: those relationships where two stars come together and where their individual identities as celebrities become inseparable from their status as a famous twosome. Taken together, the chapters in this volume interrogate the ways these alliances are bound up in wider cultural debates about marriage, love, intimacy, family, parenthood, sexuality, and gender, in their particular historical contexts, from the 1920s to the present day. Interdisciplinary in scope, First Comes Love seeks to establish how celebrity relationships play particular roles in dramatizing, disrupting, and reconciling often-contradictory ideas about coupledom and kinship formations.
Book Synopsis Indian Modernities by : Nishat Zaidi
Download or read book Indian Modernities written by Nishat Zaidi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the 18th to 20th century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and languages from Northeast India, which form a dialogical relationship with each other in this volume. The concurrence and contradictions emerging through these studies problematize the idea of modernity afresh. The book challenges the dominance of colonial modernity through socio-historical and cultural analysis of how modernity surfaces as a multifaceted phenomenon when contextualized in the multilingual ethos of India. It further tracks the complex ways in which modernism in India is tied to the harvests of modernity. It argues for the need to shift focus on the specific conditions that gave shape to multiple modernities within literatures produced from India. A versatile collection, the book incorporates engagements with not just long prose fiction but also lesser-known essays, research works, and short stories published in popular magazines. This unique work will be of interest to students and teachers of Indian writing in English, Indian literatures, and comparative literatures. It will be indispensable to scholars of South Asian studies, literary historians, linguists, and scholars of cultural studies across the globe.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain by : Gabriele Griffin
Download or read book Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain written by Gabriele Griffin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text was the first monograph to document and analyse the plays written by Black and Asian women in Britain. The volume explores how Black and Asian women playwrights theatricalize their experiences of migration, displacement, identity, racism and sexism in Britain. Plays by writers such as Tanika Gupta, Winsome Pinnock, Maya Chowdhry and Amrit Wilson, among others - many of whom have had their work produced at key British theatre sites - are discussed in some detail. Other playwrights' work is also briefly explored to suggest the range and scope of contemporary plays. The volume analyses concerns such as geographies of un/belonging, reverse migration (in the form of tourism), sexploitation, arranged marriages, the racialization of sexuality, and asylum seeking as they emerge in the plays, and argues that Black and Asian women playwrights have become constitutive subjects of British theatre.
Download or read book The Migrants written by SALMA A SIDDIQUI and published by One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in the first person, this honest, deeply moving and searingly self-critical account of the life of first generation Pakistani migrants in England is imbedded in the kaleidoscopic memories of a generation haunted by the tragic events of history. Burdened by their own secrets, it is the tale of a family in pursuit of hope and happiness in a new world. The narrative lays bare the heart of family life and the cosmos of first generation migrants, as they struggle to find a toehold in an utterly foreign country. Plucked from the warmth of Rawalpindi, transported to a cold foggy London winter, surround by the invisible barriers created by her culture, Salmi’s life becomes confined to the four walls of her family’s two-bed flat in Stockwell. While Abbu and Ammi wish their children to succeed in Western society, they also strive to maintain the heritage and religion they cherish. Enthralled by the allure of the world that lies beyond her family home, Salmi is required to navigate the slippery path between the strict traditions she has inherited and the baffling modern life she encounters every day as she grows up. Battling the yearnings of her family ‘in exile’ as well as her own emotional confusion, Salmi gradually transcends the strict traditions she has inherited. Today, she knows she has triumphed against all odds…but at what cost?
Book Synopsis NOT A NICE MAN TO KNOW by : Khushwant Singh
Download or read book NOT A NICE MAN TO KNOW written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential Khushwant Singh collection. In an essay in this anthology, Khushwant Singh claims that he is not a nice man to know. Whatever the truth of that assertion, there is little question about his skill as a witty, eloquent and entertaining writer. This book collects the best of over three decades of the author’s prose—including his finest journalistic pieces, short stories, translations, jokes, plays as well as excerpts from his non-fiction books and novels. Taken together, the pieces in this selection (some of which have never been published before) show just why Khushwant Singh is the country’s most widely read columnist and one of its most celebrated authors.
Book Synopsis Homosexualities by : Stephen O. Murray
Download or read book Homosexualities written by Stephen O. Murray and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breathtaking in its historical and geographical scope, this book provides a sweeping examination of the construction of male and female homosexualities, stressing both the variability of the forms same-sex desire can take and the key recurring patterns it has formed throughout history. "[An] indispensable resource on same-sex sexual relationships and their social contexts. . . . Essential reading." —Choice "[P]romises to deliver a lot, and even more extraordinarily succeeds in its lofty aims. . . . [O]riginal and refreshing. . . . [A] sensational book, part of what I see emerging as a new commonsense revolution within academe." —Kevin White, International Gay and Lesbian Review
Author :M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest Publisher :Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN 13 :3110368757 Total Pages :340 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (13 download)
Book Synopsis Information Structuring of Spoken Language from a Cross-linguistic Perspective by : M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest
Download or read book Information Structuring of Spoken Language from a Cross-linguistic Perspective written by M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information structure and the organization of oral texts have been rarely studied crosslinguistically. This book contains studies of the grammatical organization of information in languages from different areas (e.g. Amazonian, Finno-Ugric, South-Asian) from a variety of theoretical angles. It will be a valuable resource for researchers investigating the interaction of morphosyntax and discourse in familiar and less familiar languages.
Book Synopsis Halaal Love Starts After Nikah by : Dr. Taqiya Sultana
Download or read book Halaal Love Starts After Nikah written by Dr. Taqiya Sultana and published by OrangeBooks Publication. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love feeling that can make you cry and smile at the same time. Running with this brother and father, the S.J.S empire, that stood as one of the top 10 business companies across the whole of Asia, Syed Imaduddin had achieved success in his very young age. What happens when is life takes a huge turn, a turn that he never thought that existed, the start of his feelings, the sprouting of love. What happens when he accidentally bumps into the girl of his dreams while his family plans of setting him up with a pious girl. Conflicted with the reality of life and splitted between his heart’s desire and the happiness of his family, his life takes a huge turn. As he accepts the new changes and life, life throws another twist, which takes him far away from his family. Halaal Love Starts After Nikah is a Spiritual-Romance Novel that leaves you interguine with roller coaster emotions, life and it’s twists and turns, it’s intricacies it’s hidden blessings, patience, comfort and, loves overall it teaches the right teachings of Love according to Islam, as to what is Halaal and Haram which is the important ingredient that every Muslim should be aware of, every adult Muslim who enters the phase of hormones.
