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The Living-Dead

Author : Abhijeet Ingle
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1482815516
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book The Living-Dead written by Abhijeet Ingle and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the summer of 2004. But over five decades of independence, and a decade of economic liberalization does not mean much to the cotton farmers of Vidharbh in India, which has witnessed a spate of farmer suicides that continue to rise with every passing day. Yet; Ramwadi, a village in Vidhrabh, reeling in the clutches of a despotic headman and greedy moneylender, has ducked the trend. Then a jeep arrives in Ramwadi, carrying GM cottonseeds, which transform the simple lives of a few families in Ramwadi. Vasu, a small indebted farmer dreams of living a life of dignity, and chooses to drill a tube well to tap water for his six acres of dry land. The journey of his dream, through a series of ironic circumstances affects many people, encompassing their conflicts, which transcend the boundaries of Ramwadi, leading to Capitol Hill in Washington, the forests of Siberia and jungles of Gadchiroli. At the same time, it raises many profound and disturbing questions about democracy, agrarian policies, Kyoto Protocol and the environment, International politics, tiger conservation and human-animal conflicts, tribal unrest and revolutionary movements. Ironically, to live his small dream, Vasu and his family must survive these complex glocal conflicts.

Mumbai Fables

Author : Gyan Prakash
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400835941
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Mumbai Fables written by Gyan Prakash and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping cultural history of India’s largest city A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have washed up on its shores, bringing with them their desires and ambitions. Mumbai Fables explores the mythic inner life of this legendary city as seen by its inhabitants, journalists, planners, writers, artists, filmmakers, and political activists. In this remarkable cultural history of one of the world's most important urban centers, Gyan Prakash unearths the stories behind its fabulous history, viewing Mumbai through its turning points and kaleidoscopic ideas, comic book heroes, and famous scandals—the history behind Mumbai's stories of opportunity and oppression, of fabulous wealth and grinding poverty, of cosmopolitan desires and nativist energies. Starting from the catastrophic floods and terrorist attacks of recent years, Prakash reaches back to the sixteenth-century Portuguese conquest to reveal the stories behind Mumbai's historic journey. Examining Mumbai's role as a symbol of opportunity and reinvention, he looks at its nineteenth-century development under British rule and its twentieth-century emergence as a fabled city on the sea. Different layers of urban experience come to light as he recounts the narratives of the Nanavati murder trial and the rise and fall of the tabloid Blitz, and Mumbai's transformation from the red city of trade unions and communists into the saffron city of Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena. Starry-eyed planners and elite visionaries, cynical leaders and violent politicians of the street, land sharks and underworld dons jostle with ordinary citizens and poor immigrants as the city copes with the dashed dreams of postcolonial urban life and lurches into the seductions of globalization. Shedding light on the city's past and present, Mumbai Fables offers an unparalleled look at this extraordinary metropolis.

Metabolic Living

Author : Harris Solomon
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374447
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Metabolic Living written by Harris Solomon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining how people in Mumbai, India, experience the porosity between food, fat, the body, and the city. Solomon contends that obesity and diabetes pose a problem of absorption between body and environment. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Mumbai's home kitchens, metabolic disorder clinics, food companies, markets, and social services, he details the absorption of everything from snack foods and mangoes to insulin, stress, and pollutants. As these substances pass between the city and the body and blur the two domains, the onset and treatment of metabolic illness raise questions about who has the power to decide what goes into bodies and when food means life. Evoking metabolism as a condition of contemporary urban life and a vital political analytic, Solomon illuminates the lived predicaments of obesity and diabetes, and reorients our understanding of chronic illness in India and beyond.

Bal Thackeray & The Rise of the Shiv Sena

Author : Vaibhav Purandare
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 8174369910
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book Bal Thackeray & The Rise of the Shiv Sena written by Vaibhav Purandare and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaibhav Purandare grew up in Mumbai in the 1980s and 90s, the tumultuous decades in which Bal Thackeray and his Shiv Sena went from being regional political players to champions of a militant Hindutva that carried their rhetoric and rage across India. He began his journalistic career with the political newsmagazine Blitz in 1993, in the early part of which Thackeray and his organisation played a key role in the Mumbai riots, and has since worked with India’s leading newspapers such as The Indian Express, The Asian Age, Daily News and Analysis (DNA), Mid Day and Mumbai Mirror, apart from writing for a host of other publications. His first book, The Sena Story was published in 1999, when he was only 23. His second book, Sachin Tendulkar: A Definitive Biography (Roli Books) and is now into its fifth edition. He is currently Senior Associate Editor with the Hindustan Times, Mumbai.

Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India

Author : Swapna Gopinath
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100082991X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India written by Swapna Gopinath and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines cinematic practices in Bollywood as narratives that assist in shaping the imagination of the age, especially in contemporary India. It examines historical films released in India since the new millennium and analyses cinema as a reflection of the changing socio-political and economic conditions at any given period. The chapters in Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India: Cinematic Representations and Nationalist Agendas in Hindi Cinemas also illuminate different perspectives on how cinematic historical representations follow political patterns and market compulsions, giving precedence to a certain past over the other, creating a narrative suited for the dominant narrative of the present. From Mughal-e-Azam to Padmaavat, and Bajirao Mastani to Raazi, the chapters show how creating history out of myths validate hegemonic identities in a rapidly evolving Indian society. The volume will be of interest to scholars of film and media studies, literature and culture studies, and South Asian studies.

Mumbai / Bombay

Author : Sujata Patel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000595005
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Mumbai / Bombay written by Sujata Patel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mumbai / Bombay is a quintessential urban expression which represents the questions and puzzles related to Indian urbanity. This book traces the various ways through which majoritarianism and neoliberal capitalist accumulation has reorganised Bombay or Mumbai in India. The book assesses Mumbai’s present trajectories and processes as being embedded in its recent past. It looks at these changes by exploring work and labour; health and education; spatial planning and infrastructural development; politics and identity; and shows how financialisation, land speculation, deregulation, and informality have impacted the city’s culture and everyday living. The contributors to this volume analyse the consequences of these changes for women and men across ages, as they live their material and cultural lives; evaluate the role of the changing nature of work, urban infrastructure, and planning; determine its outcome for public health and education; and take a measure of its manifestation in the field of arts and culture. The volume explores the processes that reorient these changes, the socio-spatial and political implications of these on the inhabitants of the city, and the resistance and response to marginalisation. This interdisciplinary volume will interest students and researchers of economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, public policy, development studies, and urban studies. It will also be useful to urban practitioners, planners, bureaucrats, activists, and general readers.

Khallaas - an A to Z Guide to the Underworld

Author : J. Dey
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 8179928500
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book Khallaas - an A to Z Guide to the Underworld written by J. Dey and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a journalist on the crime beat, the author has spent long hours talking to those in uniform, those in the underworld and those in the grey zone – people who work as police informers. Much of what he has seen, heard and observed in over a decade of covering crime has found its way into print. But there’s a lot that’s spoken of in hushed tones, or buried in underworld lore. The underworld speaks its own language, and words are invented on the spur of the moment. A shooter is referred to as an “artist”, an informer is simply “zero dial”, Dubai is “Delhi”, while arrest is “get admitted”. Most of these are aimed at sending the police or adversaries on a wild goose chase. It’s a world that thrives on the spirit of enterprise, actively courts power and danger, and has conquered fear. The rules are straight and the ethics sacrosanct. The principles of ‘dhanda’ apply equally here – risk, profit and competition are at the very core. An informer will think nothing of selling precious information on a rival if it can earn him extra bucks or goodwill from the police.

Fake Gods and False History

Author : Jonathan Galton
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1800085788
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fake Gods and False History written by Jonathan Galton and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age where history is a global battleground and fake news proliferates, culture wars are being waged across India over its future – majoritarian or inclusive, neoliberal or socialist, religious or secular? Fake Gods and False History takes us to the BDD Chawls, a central Mumbai neighbourhood of tenement blocks (chawls) on the brink of a controversial redevelopment. It reveals how contested narratives of Indian history play out in the daily life of this divided neighbourhood and how the legacies of certain godlike but very human historical figures, such as Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar and Chhatrapati Shivaji, are invoked by different communities. Jonathan Galton draws on research conducted among the formerly untouchable Dalit Buddhist community, who are staunchly opposed to the redevelopment plans and deeply critical of the religious nationalism they perceive in their Hindu neighbours. We also meet young male migrants living in village-linked dormitory rooms called Gramastha Mandals, trapped in a liminal space between urban and rural. Throughout the book, which is woven through with candid reflections on methodology and research ethics, readers are challenged into drawing connections with their own experiences of history impinging on their lives. A story that might initially seem parochial will thus resonate with a diverse global audience.

The Dashing Ladies of Shiv Sena

Author : Tarini Bedi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438460325
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Dashing Ladies of Shiv Sena written by Tarini Bedi and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in detail, this book tells the stories of women of Shiv Sena (Shivaji's Army), a militant political party in Western India. It provides insight into the political networks powered by lower-level women politicians in postcolonial, globalizing cities and on their margins. Based on more than ten years of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork with the women of Shiv Sena, the work shows how women political activists in urbanizing India conjure political authority through the inventive, dangerous, and transgressive political personas known as "dashing ladies." Tarini Bedi develops a feminist theory of brokerage politics, arguing that political grids where women employ political, symbolic, and material resources through the political system may be seen as channels of what can be termed "political matronage."

The Other Country

Author : Mrinal Pande
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184755724
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Other Country written by Mrinal Pande and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other Country brings together a wide-ranging selection of essays by Mrinal Pande; one of India’s most respected journalists. Through chronicle; anecdote and hard-hitting reportage; Mrinal traces the many; ever-widening fault lines between Bharat and shining India; the small town and the metropolis. Mrinal describes the Great Language Divide between Hindi and English; traces its origin; the role globalization has had in its spread; and the effect of this divide on contemporary literature and media. She vividly describes the anti-outsider movement in Mumbai and analyses the role that inequitable development; and the lack of opportunities in villages and small towns; has played in it. Mrinal tells the story of Prabha Devi of Tehri; Uttarakhand; who picked up scissors and comb to become village barber in the face of opposition and thus came to represent the enormous change in attitudes and stances that are now sweeping Indian society everywhere. And through a hilarious profile of the Mineral Water Baba of Faridabad; who can heal any ailment with a sealed bottle of mineral water; she analyses one of the big issues facing India’s villages and metropolises: its water-management systems.

Putra Vishwastacha

Author : Sharatchandra Belvalkar
Publisher : The Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 0578292254
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book Putra Vishwastacha written by Sharatchandra Belvalkar and published by The Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd.. This book was released on 2022-04-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dnyaneshwar Agashe (1942–2009) Dnyaneshwar Agashe is a name that has made a mark in diverse fields. He was well-known across Maharashtra as a successful industrialist, a reputed banker, and an able cricket administrator. But this is a collection of articles which presents him in a completely new light. His friends, colleagues, and family shed light on many interesting and hitherto unknown facets of his personality. Originally published in Marathi in April 2002. Reissued in English in April 2022.

NOTHING BUT!

Author : Brigadier Samir Bhattacharya
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1482817322
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book NOTHING BUT! written by Brigadier Samir Bhattacharya and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the FIFTH PART of the six part saga titled "NOTHING BUT!" and subtitled 'ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR' This part covers the period 1971 to 1984 and tells the story of how Bangladesh came into being--the rise of Sikh militancy in India --the proxy war in Kashmir --the assassination of Mrs Indira Gandhi and the beginning of the love story between a Bengali Hindu girl and a Muslim army officer.and how circumstances separated them.It also covers the hanging of Mr Bhutto the military regime of General Zia and the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rehman.The political turmoil in India, Pakistan and the Bangladesh and the advent of dynastic and commmunal political parties in India.

Thaamba

Author : Jaidev
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Thaamba written by Jaidev and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror is not something we create, nor is it something that jumps out of a closet in a dark room at an ungodly hour. Horror is not something which always advertises its presence with things falling down, windows banging shut or lights going off. It is something far more subtle, more real, more sinister like your shadow, imagine if it were to grow in length every day even if you stood at the same spot, at the same time of the day and when the lighting is similar. The shadow that grows like a cloak on your back on a day by day basis proportionate to the debauchery and evil you engage in, until it grows to such an extent that it engulfs you, sunlight is blotted out of your life and you are condemned to live in eternal darkness, is the essence of horror. Something that enters your life as a small vice, stays on as a companion, then grows as a master in whose clutches you are until it obliterates “you”. Horror is that which will sink deep roots into your subconscious and change you from within to such an extent that you will appear alien to yourself.

Home, Again!

Author : Dr. Ulhas R. Gunjal
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481749854
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Home, Again! written by Dr. Ulhas R. Gunjal and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home, Again! narrates the story of a European mother and her Indo-European son, who are struggling to understand who they are, against the backdrop of events in Europe and India. Angela Guttenberg, a twenty-two-year-old Austrian woman, graduates in anthropology from the University of Vienna in 1933. Disenchanted with Europe because of Hitlers rise, as well as her lovers conversion to Nazism, she sails to India for her post-graduate research. And she goes to Jejuri, a temple town in the Deccan famous for the folk culture of the sun-god, Khandoba, as well as for the concentration of the Dhangar Samaj, a nomadic community of shepherds, who are his worshippers. While researching the Dhangar culture, she falls in love with a Dhangar with whom she has a son. When her son, Haldiram Johann Holkar, a self-described mongrel child with a hybrid name, grows up, he goes to England for higher education. There, in the early 1960s, he sees the ugliness of British racism, as well as the glory of British liberalism. Upon his return to India, he begins to see the inadequacies of his people. And driven by his own modern vision for India, he confronts religious extremists on a day of communal tension in the Bombay of 1966only to be killed by them. At the end, Angela Guttenberg-Holkar, now middle-aged at fifty-five, returns to Vienna as she had gone to Indiadisenchanted with political life, struggling with her identity. The story progresses primarily through narratives and dialogues and, occasionally, through exchanges of letters, moving from one landscape to the otherfrom Vienna to Jejuri, then back to Europe, finally back to Indiaas the mother and the son strive to define who they are in a world in which diverse cultures meet to produce complicated identities.

Beyond A Billion Ballots

Author : Vinay Sahasrabuddhe
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 8183283470
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Beyond A Billion Ballots written by Vinay Sahasrabuddhe and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond a Billion Ballots is an insightful advocacy of a range of political reforms aimed at making India a resurgent republic. In the process, the book reviews various challenges faced by democracy the world over, focussing on issues pertaining to the lack of robust development of its institutions, particularly the political parties. Holding the ‘crisis of purpose' in party politics responsible for the weak organisational health of parties, the author unfolds a link between activism bereft of ideology, representation sans results and democracy without deliverables. Written more from a practitioner's viewpoint, the book builds a strong case for liberating political parties from the trap of populist politics through a set of key systemic changes in India's democratic infrastructure.

Bombay Brokers

Author : Lisa Björkman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478013087
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Bombay Brokers written by Lisa Björkman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political party worker who produces crowds for electoral rallies. A “prison specialist” who serves other people’s prison sentences in exchange for a large fee. An engineer who is able to secure otherwise impossible building permits. These and other dealmakers—whose behind-the-scenes expertise and labor are often invisible—have an intrinsic role in the city's functioning and can be indispensable for navigating everyday life in Bombay, one of the world’s most complex, dynamic, and populous cities. Bombay Brokers collects profiles of thirty-six such “brokers.” Written by anthropologists, artists, city planners, and activists, these character sketches bring into relief the paradox that these brokers’ knowledge and labor are simultaneously invisible yet essential for Bombay’s functioning. Their centrality reveals the global-scale paradoxes and gaps that these brokers mediate and bridge. In this way, Bombay Brokers prompts a reconsideration of what counts as legitimate and valuable knowledge and labor while offering insight into changing structures of power in Bombay and around the globe. Contributors. Anjali Arondekar, Sarthak Bagchi, Tobias Baitsch, Sangeeta Banerji, Srimati Basu, Tarini Bedi, Amita Bhide, Lisa Björkman, Uday Chandra, Simon Chauchard, Ka-Kin Cheuk, Michael Collins, Daisy Deomampo, Maura Finkelstein, Ajay Gandhi, Rupali Gupte, Kathryn C. Hardy, Lalitha Kamath, Prasad Khanolkar, Bhushan Korgaonkar, Ratoola Kundu, Ken Kuroda, Annelies Kusters, Lisa Mitchell, Shailaja Paik, Gautam Pemmaraju, Lubaina Rangwala, Llerena Guiu Searle, Atreyee Sen, Prasad Shetty, Rohan Shivkumar, Edward Simpson, David Strohl, Rachel Sturman, R. Swaminathan, Aneri Taskar, Yaffa Truelove, Sahana Udupa, Lalit Vachani, Leilah Vevaina

One in Many

Author : Saligrama K. Aithal
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1491816937
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book One in Many written by Saligrama K. Aithal and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to Many in One, the volume One in Many portrays characters in a variety of situations, from playful to serious to deeply moving and boundlessly joyful. In place of Madhav taking different roles in the stories in the earlier volume, each of the stories in One in Many has a separate central character. Nearly all of them are made in the mould of Madhav,--humorous, witty, and serious,--and their differences melt away, just as the differences between people of different countries, nations, and religions do. It is, in fact, hard to describe the characters by their nationality. They may possess Indian names, but their nationality and citizenship are another matter. They have relatives and friends in both the continents and their identities transcend national geographical boundaries. The locale of the stories also lacks distinct unity; it extends from one hemisphere to the other, from Washington, DC, to Balgudi, a town in India not, however, to be found on a map. The focus of the stories is not what separates people, one from the other, but what binds them together, rather what can/ should bind them together.