Sita's Curse

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9387471993
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Sita's Curse written by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere, behind closed doors, in her solitary world; somewhere, under the sheets with an indifferent lover; somewhere, is a woman who will not be denied... Trapped for fifteen years in the stranglehold of a dead marriage and soulless household domesticity, the beautiful, full-bodied and passionate Meera Patel depends on her memories and her flights of fancy to soothe the aches that wrack her body; to quieten an unquenchable need. Until one cataclysmic day in Mumbai, when she finally breaks free... Bold, brazen and defiant, Sita's Curse looks at the hypocrisy of Indian society and tells the compelling story of a middle-class Indian housewife's urgent need for love, respect, acceptance – and sexual fulfilment.

Sita's Curse

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ISBN 13 : 9789387863194
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Sita's Curse written by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere, behind closed doors, in her solitary world; somewhere, under the sheets with an indifferent lover; somewhere, is a woman who will not be denied... Trapped for fifteen years in the stranglehold of a dead marriage and soulless household domesticity, the beautiful, full-bodied and passionate Meera Patel depends on her memories and her flights of fancy to soothe the aches that wrack her body; to quieten an unquenchable need. Until one cataclysmic day in Mumbai, when she finally breaks free... Bold, brazen and defiant, Sita's Curse looks at the hypocrisy of Indian society and tells the compelling story of a middle-class Indian housewife's urgent need for love, respect, acceptance - and sexual fulfilment.

Sita's Curse

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ISBN 13 : 9789387471986
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (719 download)

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ISBN 13 : 9788172234478
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis Sita's Curse by : Seema Sirohi

Download or read book Sita's Curse written by Seema Sirohi and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sita S Curse Is A Landmark Book About A Social Evil That Has Been Tolerated For Too Long. Dowry Deaths Have Disappeared From The National Consciousness Even Though Thousands Of Women Continue To Be Burnt, Poisoned, Electrocuted Or Are Forced To Commit Suicide Every Year. In The First Book Of Its Kind, Seema Sirohi Gives Voice To Six Such Dowry Victims And Retraces Their Lives, Without The Abstraction Of Theory. She Also Shows How, If The Victims Tried To Bring Their Tormentors To Justice, They Faced A Backlash From The Male-Dominated Establishment.

Sita's Kitchen

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438403801
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Sita's Kitchen by : Ramchandra Gandhi

Download or read book Sita's Kitchen written by Ramchandra Gandhi and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-08-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the meaning of a Buddhist story, this book is a testimony of faith in the urgent relevance of India's spiritual traditions to the future of life on Earth, and it is an inquiry into the meaning of some central notions of these traditions. The value of spiritual traditions and of life itself is at stake here. In the Introduction, Ramchandra Gandhi raises the Ayodhya issue to international and universal levels. In the text, he offers a solution on the local and national levels. The temple mound in Ayodhya --the sacred hill on which the present Babri Masjid was built, also known as "Sita's Kitchen"--was originally a sacred place of the Adivasis (the aboriginal inhabitants of the subcontinent). It was sacred to the Goddess, the great nurturing earth, the fecund source of all life, the aboriginal presupposition of all later religions. As an aboriginal place sacred to the Mother Goddess, the hill in Ayodhya brings together all religions. Rather than a source of conflict, Ayodhya should become a meeting ground for the divergent religious traditions of the world to see their ultimate harmony. In the Buddhist story, the principal female character is an adivasi named Ananya ("not other"). The opposing sides come to see their oneness in Ananya. The frame-story is taken from the Vinaya-pitaka of the Pali Canon. It is the Bhaddavaggiyavatthu or "The Story of the Group of Well-Off Ones."

Faraway Music

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9387471977
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Faraway Music written by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A liberated, dynamic and successfully writer, Piya has everything she has ever wanted, until she's revisited by her past... Faraway Music is the story of a young Bengali girl, and her stumbles through the world of love. First as an adolescent in Calcutta, where she grows up in a loving home with her mother and grandparents, then as a gutsy journalist in love with her married boss, who finds herself caught in the nexus between politicians and the media, and finally as the reclusive writer married to an artist in the United States. Sensuous, profound, lyrical and moving, Faraway Music is the story of family, friendship, fame, love, loss...and all that lies in between.

The Liberation of Sita

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9352775023
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (527 download)

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Book Synopsis The Liberation of Sita by : Volga

Download or read book The Liberation of Sita written by Volga and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valmiki's Ramayana is the story of Rama's exile and return to Ayodhya, of a triumphant king who will always do right by his subjects. In Volga's retelling, it is Sita who, after being abandoned by Purushottam Rama, embarks on an arduous journey towards self-realization. Along the way, she meets extraordinary women who have broken free from all that held them back: husbands, sons, and their notions of desire, beauty and chastity. The minor women characters of the epic as we know it -- Surpanakha, Renuka, Urmila and Ahalya -- steer Sita towards an unexpected resolution. Meanwhile, Rama too must reconsider and weigh his roles as the king of Ayodhya and as a man deeply in love with his wife. A powerful subversion of India's most popular tale of morality, choice and sacrifice, The Liberation of Sita opens up new spaces within the old discourse, enabling women to review their lives and experiences afresh. This is Volga at her feminist best.

The Curse of Bigness

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ISBN 13 : 9780999745465
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (454 download)

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Book Synopsis The Curse of Bigness by : Tim Wu

Download or read book The Curse of Bigness written by Tim Wu and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the man who coined the term "net neutrality" and who has made significant contributions to our understanding of antitrust policy and wireless communications, comes a call for tighter antitrust enforcement and an end to corporate bigness.

Plague and Ash

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Publisher : NineStar Press
ISBN 13 : 1648904467
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (489 download)

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Book Synopsis Plague and Ash by : Sita Bethel

Download or read book Plague and Ash written by Sita Bethel and published by NineStar Press. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah only went to Oreburn University of Incantations so her parents would stop asking her when she’d settle down. However, after a strange plague decimates her hometown, Sarah finds herself fleeing with the undead chasing her. As she escapes, she meets Brighid, a half orc noble, and together, they must reach Oreburn before the undead can overrun the city. Sarah discovers a decay sorcerer created the original curse, and only a wizard powerful enough to destroy him can end the plague. But now they have to find that wizard.

You've Got the Wrong Girl

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9387471934
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book You've Got the Wrong Girl written by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the wrong girl is the one right for you? On a sultry night, on a deserted lawn overlooking a moonlit Taj Mahal, two strangers make passionate love and promise never to meet again... But promises are meant to be broken, right? This is the story of Dushyant Singh Rathore - the 30-something bestselling author of Kinda Cliched, a blockbuster romance novel based on his one night of bliss with a girl whose name he does not know. Under pressure to produce a money-spinning sequel - from his obsessive fans, his hit-seeking publisher and a sceptical journalist ready to expose the true-story angle as a marketing gimmick - he sets off, three years on, to find the elusive girl whom he had promised never to seek out... When his quest, many twists and turns later, leads him to the unlikeliest of places, Dushyant discovers there's a little more to this love story than he had anticipated. Will Dushyant get a second chance at love? What if the wrong girl was really always the right one for him?

Cut

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9388271602
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book Cut written by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a world of government censure and ruthless stifling of anyone who questions their ways, CUT is a posthumous look at the personal and professional life of a visionary theatre artist. Would he be considered an 'urban naxal' today or remembered as a fearless agent who fought for social change? Did he and those close to him have to pay the price for their voices to be heard? Told in disparate voices, CUT explores commitment to artistic integrity and art as a platform for social reform against all odds, even when it becomes a question of survival.

Status Single

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Publisher : Amaryllis - an imprint of Manjul Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9381506906
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Status Single written by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu and published by Amaryllis - an imprint of Manjul Publishing House. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage. It’s the obvious path for every girl in India. It’s supposed to define us, shape us and give meaning to our life. But does it, really? Figures show that nearly 74.1 million women in India are either divorced, separated, widowed or have never been married. And the number is on the rise. In what promises to be a path-breaking work on female identity, Sreemoyee Piu Kundu, a proud-to-be-single woman herself, spills the beans on what it is like being over 30 and unattached in India, through her own compelling story and the chequered lives and journeys of nearly 3,000 urban single Indian women from all walks of life. Women, whether single by choice or circumstance, are under scathing societal pressure, invasive scrutiny and pervasive criticism. Be it the difficulty in renting an apartment, being character-assassinated by your gynaecologist, or being slut- shamed as having slept your way to the top, even when you’re successful professionally, a single woman’s life choices are the easiest to dissect. From one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Indian writing, comes a passionate narrative of grit and gumption, anger and loneliness and the daily struggle of being single in a country where the highest validation of your gender remains marriage and motherhood. Fiercely honest and painfully vulnerable, Status Single is a book that every woman and man—single or otherwise—must read.

The Curse of Kehama:

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Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis The Curse of Kehama: by : Robert Southey

Download or read book The Curse of Kehama: written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Seal of Surya

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Publisher : Pirates
ISBN 13 : 819268105X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Book Synopsis The Seal of Surya by : Amritanshu Pandey

Download or read book The Seal of Surya written by Amritanshu Pandey and published by Pirates. This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘He did not stop to observe his kills, nor to wipe blood off his face. I am a King, he reminded himself. I must be the best among my men, the most fearsome warrior that Solar blood can produce.’ More than a thousand years before Rama, civilization lay fragmented by wars between Aryas and their enemies. From a tribe at the frontlines of this battle, rose the boy king Ikshvaku, the first Manava, founder of the first kingdom in the Indian subcontinent. This is a story of the first King of our lands – the founder of Suryavansha – of betrayal and loyalty, of dynasties and destruction. A perfect beginning to The Scrolls of Aryavarta. Who founded the ancient cities such as Prayaga and Kashi? Who established Ayodhya, and when? What were the various Arya tribes that populated ancient India? The Scrolls of Aryavarta seeks to answer these and many other questions, and The Seal of Surya is one story in this universe. ‘A rocking read. True blast from the ancient past.’- Krishna Udayasankar

Dalit Visions

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Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125028956
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (289 download)

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Book Synopsis Dalit Visions by : Gail Omvedt

Download or read book Dalit Visions written by Gail Omvedt and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dalit Visions explores and critiques the sensibility which equates Indian tradition with Hinduism, and Hinduism with Brahmanism; which considers the Vedas as the foundational texts of Indian culture and discovers within the Aryan heritage the essence of Indian civilisation. It shows that even secular minds remain imprisoned within this Brahmanical vision, and the language of secular discourse is often steeped in a Hindu ethos. The tract looks at alternative traditions, nurtured within dalit movements, which have questioned this way of looking at Indian society and its history. While seeking to understand the varied dalit visions that have sought to alter the terms of the dominant order, this tract persuades us to reconsider our ideas, listen to those voices which we often refuse to hear and understand the visions which seek to change the world in which dalits live.

Sita

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351183254
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Book Synopsis Sita by : Devdutt Pattanaik

Download or read book Sita written by Devdutt Pattanaik and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-10-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is significant that the only character in Hindu mythology, a king at that, to be given the title of ekam-patni-vrata, devoted to a single wife, is associated with the most unjust act of abandoning her in the forest to protect family reputation. This seems a deliberate souring of the narrative, made even more complex by Ram’s refusal to remarry despite the pressure on royalty to produce an heir. The intention seems to be to provoke thought on notions of fidelity, property and self-image. And so mythologist and illustrator Devdutt Pattanaik narrates the Ramayan, drawing attention to the many oral, visual and written retellings composed in different times by different poets, each one trying to solve the puzzle in their own unique way. This book approaches Ram by speculating on Sita—her childhood with her father, Janak, who hosted sages mentioned in the Upanishads; her stay in the forest with her husband who had to be a celibate ascetic while she was in the prime of her youth; her interactions with the women of Lanka, recipes she exchanged, emotions they shared; her connection with the earth, her mother; her role as the Goddess, the untamed Kali as well as the demure Gauri, in transforming the stoic prince of Ayodhya into God.

Ramayana Stories in Modern South India

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253219531
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis Ramayana Stories in Modern South India by : Paula Richman

Download or read book Ramayana Stories in Modern South India written by Paula Richman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh perspectives on the classic Indiana epic.