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Have A Laugh My Friend Stinging With Love Collection Of Prem Janmejay Satires
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Book Synopsis Have A Laugh My Friend Stinging with Love Collection of Prem Janmejay Satires by : Prem Janmejay
Download or read book Have A Laugh My Friend Stinging with Love Collection of Prem Janmejay Satires written by Prem Janmejay and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-09-04 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. K. Laxman immortalised the common man in his cartoons. Prem Janmejay's protagonist Radhelal is very similar to him. Like the average Indian, he does not understand much about the game of cricket but feels sad when the Indian team loses an international match and cheers up when it emerges victorious. Through him the satirist depicts the absurdity of cricket mania among those who look at the game more as a status symbol than anything else. Through Radhelal, the satirist takes a critical look at many of the things that trouble society, the overpowering effect of social media being one of them. However, Radhelal is not the only protagonist of this selection. Janmejay is careful to retain variety and therefore introduces a number of characters so that the perspective remains varied and the reader moves from one article to another, without complaining of monotony. The author confines his interest to urban topics, his favourites being politics and corruption. The language is simple; humour is conveyed through puns and skilful use of language.
Book Synopsis Pop Culture India! by : Asha Kasbekar Ph.D.
Download or read book Pop Culture India! written by Asha Kasbekar Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The over-the-top musicals of Bollywood may be the most familiar aspect of Indian popular culture, but there are many more, all explored in this fascinating volume. Pop Culture India! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle follows the rise of modern India's pop culture world, especially since the 1980s, when relaxed censorship and economic liberalization led to an explosion in movies, music, mass media, consumerism, spiritual practices, and more. It is a captivating introduction to a diverse nation whose appetite for entertainment has led to some surprising twists and turns in recent history. How did a popular Indian television series spark a change in government and the rise of Hindu nationalism? Are some Bollywood film companies laundering money for organized crime, or even al Qaeda? What accounts for the overwhelming popularity of that quaint vestige of colonialism, cricket? The answers, and many more intriguing insights, await the reader in Pop Culture India!
Book Synopsis The Hindi Public Sphere 1920–1940 by : Francesca Orsini
Download or read book The Hindi Public Sphere 1920–1940 written by Francesca Orsini and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses how a language became the instrument with which the contours of a new nation were traced. Mapping the success of formalized Hindi in creating a regional public sphere in north India in the early twentieth century, the book explores the way many educated Indians, influenced by the British ideas and institutions, expressed interest in new concepts such as progress, unity, and a common cultural heritage. From the development of new codes and institutions to a language that helped to create space for argument and debate, the book gives an overview of the Hindi public sphere. Furthermore, it throws light on the work of Vasudha Dalmia about the nascent Hindi public sphere and brings to light how early-twentieth-century discourses on language, literature, gender, history, and politics form the core of the Hindi culture that exists today.
Book Synopsis The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar by : Indira Goswami
Download or read book The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar written by Indira Goswami and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indira Goswami’s last work of fiction, The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar is the heroic tale of a Bodo freedom fighter who was, arguably, the first woman revenue collector, a tehsildar, in British India. Set in late 19th-century Assam, the novel generated a great deal of interest when it was published. Thengphakhri is a fascinating character that the author recreated from folklore and songs and stories that she’d heard in her childhood. The image of the protagonist, galloping across the plains of Bijni kingdom in lower Assam to collect taxes for the British, is a compelling one and one that inspires awe and admiration. At a time when educated Indians, social reformers and the British government were trying to fight misogynist practices such as sati, child marriage and the purdah system, here was a woman working with the British officers, shoulder to shoulder, as a tax collector who rode a horse, wore a hat and had knee-length black hair. Indira Goswami has woven a complex tale wherein the foundations of the colonial rulers were shaken by insurgents seeking freedom across Assam just before the rise of the Indian National Congress. Published by Zubaan.
Book Synopsis Languages and Nations by : Thomas R. Trautmann
Download or read book Languages and Nations written by Thomas R. Trautmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-11-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British rule of India brought together two very different traditions of scholarship about language, whose conjuncture led to several intellectual breakthroughs of lasting value. Two of these were especially important: the conceptualization of the Indo-European language family by Sir William Jones at Calcutta in 1786—proposing that Sanskrit is related to Persian and languages of Europe—and the conceptualization of the Dravidian language family of South India by F.W. Ellis at Madras in 1816—the "Dravidian proof," showing that the languages of South India are related to one another but are not derived from Sanskrit. These concepts are valid still today, centuries later. This book continues the examination Thomas R. Trautmann began in Aryans and British India (1997). While the previous book focused on Calcutta and Jones, the current volume examines these developments from the vantage of Madras, focusing on Ellis, Collector of Madras, and the Indian scholars with whom he worked at the College of Fort St. George, making use of the rich colonial record. Trautmann concludes by showing how elements of the Indian analysis of language have been folded into historical linguistics and continue in the present as unseen but nevertheless living elements of the modern.
Book Synopsis A History of Indian Literature by : Sisir Kumar Das
Download or read book A History of Indian Literature written by Sisir Kumar Das and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume, The First To Appear In The Ten Volume Series Published By The Sahitya Akademi, Deals With A Fascinating Period, Conspicuous By The Growing Complexities Of Multilingualism, Changes In The Modes Of Literary Transmission And In The Readership And Also By The Dominance Of The English Language As An Instrument Of Power In Indian Society.
Download or read book The Primal Land written by Pratibhā Rāẏa and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Primal Land is the story of the Bonda tribe inhabiting a mountainous portion of Orissa. The novel includes faint glimmers of political awakening among the semi-literate Bondas about their exploitation, even though the only incorruptible outsider who works for the betterment of the Bondas, a women schoolteacher, is suspended, there is hope for the Bondas yet.
Download or read book Present Pasts written by Andreas Huyssen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas—Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York.
Book Synopsis Mottled Dawn by : Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo
Download or read book Mottled Dawn written by Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Aryans and British India by : Thomas R. Trautmann
Download or read book Aryans and British India written by Thomas R. Trautmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aryan," a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical relationship uniting Sanskrit with the languages of Europe was discovered, it seemed clear that Indians and Britons belonged to the same family. Thus the Indo-European or Aryan idea, based on the principle of linguistic kinship, dominated British ethnological inquiry. In the nineteenth century, however, an emergent biological "race science" attacked the authority of the Orientalists. The spectacle of a dark-skinned people who were evidently civilized challenged Victorian ideas, and race science responded to the enigma of India by redefining the Aryan concept in narrowly "white" racial terms. By the end of the nineteenth century, race science and Orientalism reached a deep and lasting consensus in regard to India, which Trautmann calls "the racial theory of Indian civilization," and which he undermines with his powerful analysis of colonial ethnology in India. His work of reassessing British Orientalism and the Aryan idea will be of great interest to historians, anthropologists, and cultural critics.
Book Synopsis Hindi Nationalism (tracks for the Times) by : Alok Rai
Download or read book Hindi Nationalism (tracks for the Times) written by Alok Rai and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tract looks at the politics of language in India through a study of the history of one language Hindi. It traces the tragic metamorphosis of this language over the last century, from a creative, dynamic, popular language to a dead, Sanskritised, dePersianised language manufactured by a self-serving upper caste North Indian elite, nurturing hegemonic ambitions. From being a symbol of collective imagination it became a signifier of narrow sectarianism and regional chauvinism. The tract shows how this trans- formation of the language was tied up with the politics of communalism and regionalism.
Book Synopsis Wings of Thought by : Raúl Hernández
Download or read book Wings of Thought written by Raúl Hernández and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Penumbral Visions by : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Download or read book Penumbral Visions written by Sanjay Subrahmanyam and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest scholarship on early modern India from one of South Asia's most eminent historians
Download or read book Chaturanga written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bengali Quatrain Or Payar, Itself Based On The Primal Rhythm Of The Santal Drum, And The Classical Four-Part Musical Form Were Of Inexhaustible Interest To Tagore. Creator Of The WorldýS Largest And Most Varied Corpus Of Lieder And Song Cycles, He Constructed Many Of His Stories And Novellas In Four Parts: Exposition, Development, Variation And Recapitulation. He Was Deeply Attached To This Form, Its Varying Rhythms And Speeds, And Used It Repeatedly Not Only In His Early Stories But In The Most Powerful Novella Of His Early Fifties (1914-15), Chaturanga.
Download or read book The Wanderer written by Kahlil GIBRAN and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I met him at the crossroads, a man with but a cloak and a staff, and a veil of pain upon his face. And we greeted one another, and I said to him, “Come to my house and be my guest.” And he came. My wife and my children met us at the threshold, and he smiled at them, and they loved his coming. Then we all sat together at the board and we were happy with the man for there was a silence and a mystery in him. And after supper we gathered to the fire and I asked him about his wanderings. He told us many a tale that night and also the next day, but what I now record was born out of the bitterness of his days though he himself was kindly, and these tales are of the dust and patience of his road. And when he left us after three days we did not feel that a guest had departed but rather that one of us was still out in the garden and had not yet come in.
Book Synopsis Children of the Ghetto by : Israel Zangwill
Download or read book Children of the Ghetto written by Israel Zangwill and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kahlil Gibran written by Suheil Bushrui and published by Oneworld Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-25 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kahlil Gibran’s bestselling poetic masterpiece, The Prophet, originally published in 1923, continues to inspire millions worldwide with its timeless words of love and mystical longing. Yet Gibran’s genius went much further than this, to produce over twenty literary works, in both English and Arabic, as well as over 500 works of art, all characterized by an otherworldly beauty. Going beyond the many myths that surround Gibran, this incisive biography charts his colourful life, his dramatic love affairs, and his artistic achievements, to present a fascinating and unique portrait of this remarkable man.
