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Book Synopsis Star Crossed India by : G. S. Bhargava
Download or read book Star Crossed India written by G. S. Bhargava and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Unending Quest 2. Gangotri of Gangrene 3. Values versus Power 4. The Gods Who Failed 5. If the "Emergency" had Lasted Longer 6. A New Kind of Leader? 7. Two Bogeys 8. An Abode for Rama 9. Gujarat2002 10. Foreign Policy: First Fifty Years 11. Soft State Syndrome 12. The Israeli Connection 13. Water Management 14. Corruption Incorporated 15. Punishing the Corrupt? 16. The Caste System 17. Jharkhand and its Sisters 18. Terrorist Jitters 19. The Kashmir "Problem" 20. The Kargil 'War' 21. Politics of Presidential Election Epilogue Index
Book Synopsis Asian Interventions in Global Shakespeare by : Poonam Trivedi
Download or read book Asian Interventions in Global Shakespeare written by Poonam Trivedi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume critically analyses and theorises Asian interventions in the expanding phenomenon of Global Shakespeare. It interrogates Shakespeare’s ‘universality’ from Asian perspectives: how this has been modified or even replaced by the ‘global bard’ as a recognisable brand, and how Asian Shakespeares have contributed to or subverted this process by both facilitating the worldwide dissemination of the bard’s plays and challenging and resisting the very templates through which they become globally legible. Critically acclaimed Asian productions have prominently figured at premier Western festivals, and popular Asian appropriations like Bollywood, manga and anime have created new kinds of globally accessible Shakespeare. Essays in this collection engage with the emergent critical issues: the efficacy of definitions of the ‘local’, ‘global’, ‘transnational’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ and of the liminalities and mobilities in between. They further examine the politics of ‘West’ and ‘East’, the evolving markers of the ‘Asian’ and the equation of the ‘glocal’ with the ‘Asian’; they attend to performance and archiving protocols and bring the current debates on translation, appropriation, and world literature to speak to the concerns of global and transnational Shakespeare. These investigations analyse recent innovative Asian theatre productions, popular cinematic and manga appropriations and the increasing presence of Shakespeare in the Asian digital sphere. They provide an Asian standpoint and lens in rereading the processes of cultural globalisation and the mobilisation of Shakespeare.
Book Synopsis Indian Angles by : Mary Ellis Gibson
Download or read book Indian Angles written by Mary Ellis Gibson and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-13 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new historical approach to Indian English literature Mary Ellis Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about figuration, multilingual literacies, and histories of nationalism than novels can. Gibson re-creates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that were experienced by writers in colonial India—writers of British, Indian, and mixed ethnicities. Advancing new theoretical and historical paradigms for reading colonial literatures, Indian Angles makes accessible many writers heretofore neglected or virtually unknown. Gibson recovers texts by British women, by nonelite British men, and by persons who would, in the nineteenth century, have been called Eurasian. Her work traces the mutually constitutive history of English-language poets from Sir William Jones to Toru Dutt and Rabindranath Tagore. Drawing on contemporary postcolonial theory, her work also provides new ways of thinking about British internal colonialism as its results were exported to South Asia. In lucid and accessible prose, Gibson presents a new theoretical approach to colonial and postcolonial literatures.
Book Synopsis Mobilizing Religion and Gender in India by : Nandini Deo
Download or read book Mobilizing Religion and Gender in India written by Nandini Deo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious nationalists and women’s activists have transformed India over the past century. They debated the idea of India under colonial rule, shaped the constitutional structure of Indian democracy, and questioned the legitimacy of the postcolonial consensus, as they politicized one dimension of identity. Using a historical comparative approach, the book argues that external events, activist agency in strategizing, and the political economy of transnational networks explain the relative success and failure of Hindu nationalism and the Indian women’s movement rather than the ideological claims each movement makes. By focusing on how particular activist strategies lead to increased levels of public support, it shows how it is these strategies rather than the ideologies of Hindutva and feminism that mobilize people. Both of these social movements have had decades of great power and influence, and decades of relative irrelevance, and both challenge postcolonial India’s secular settlement – its division of public and private. The book goes on to highlight new insights into the inner dynamics of each movement by showing how the same strategies - grassroots education, electoral mobilization, media management, donor cultivation - lead to similarly positive results. Bringing together the study of Hindu nationalism and the Indian women’s movement, the book will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Religion, Gender Studies, and South Asian Politics.
Book Synopsis Dreaming in Canadian by : Faiza Hirji
Download or read book Dreaming in Canadian written by Faiza Hirji and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As various nations wrestle with issues of immigration, integration, and pluralism, second-generation immigrants are exploring new ways to make sense of who they are and where they belong in the face of competing cultural demands. Dreaming in Canadian turns the spotlight on the role of Bollywood cinema in the production of cultural, religious, and national identities among South Asian youth in Toronto, Vancouver, and Ottawa. By documenting the voices of these young adults and how they draw on media in the formation of uniquely hybrid identities, this book interrogates the realities that underpin media portrayals of diaspora, nationalism, and multiculturalism.
Download or read book Star-crossed written by Acōkamittiran̲ and published by Indian Writing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star-crossed is a novel about the world of Tamil cinema minus theglamour. It takes a keen look at the lives of filmmakers, technicians,producers and actors. Turning the spotlight on the fringes of theentertainment world, Ashokamitran exposes the daily trials andtribulations of a cast of character none too familiar to those who equatethe world of celluloid with the proverbial dream factory.The story revolves around the several minor cogs in the wheels thatmake film production in the studios of Madras go round. An elaborate,albeit chaotic, machinery consisting of people, services and equipment,goes into action everyday, based on a flimsy foundation of ad hocfinancing and superstitions peculiar to the industry. The whole situationis a tragicomedy of people with dreams in their eyes and hearts, andtheir manipulation by the forces of commerce and greed.The novel starts with Natarajan, a production manager in aKodambakkam studio, organising a team of people for a stint of outdoorshooting in the early hours of a typical Madras morning. Reddiar andRama Iyengar, film producers both, Sampat, an errand boy; Rajgopal, awannabe manager of sorts; Chitti, an editor's assistant; Manickaraj, asupplier of stock shots to film-makers and Somanathan, an aspiringscreenplay writer are among several bit players whose ordinary livesprovide a stark contrast from the magic they help create on scren.The story abounds in action and we see people running about doingtheir jobs, but, as the novel proceeds, we realise all the sound and furysignify nothing in the lives of so many that depend on the film industryfor their livelihood. We move from one climax to the next, one anticlimaxto another. To quote one of the characters in the novel, There are nopermanent or temporary jobs in cinema. Every job is permanent. Andtemporary! The hype, the uncertainties and the personality cult thatsurround Indian cinema are brought to life in this realistic tale lacedwith humour and compassion.The original Tamil title, Karainda Nizhalgal, conveys the tragedy anduncertainty inherent in the lives of these providers of mass entertainment,whose fortunes rise and fall or sink altogether with the making of a film.Simply told, the novel provides poignant expression to Ashokamitran'sempathy for his flesh and blood characters, based no doubt on his ownexperience in the film world.
Book Synopsis Indian Cinema by : Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Download or read book Indian Cinema written by Ashish Rajadhyaksha and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One film out of every five made anywhere on earth comes from India. From its beginnings under colonial rule through to the heights of Bollywood, Indian Cinema has challenged social injustices such as caste, the oppression of Indian women, religious intolerance, rural poverty, and the pressures of life in the burgeoning cities. And yet, the Indian movie industry makes only about five percent of Hollywood's annual revenue. In this Very Short Introduction, Ashish Rajadhyaksha delves into the political, social, and economic factors which, over time, have shaped Indian Cinema into a fascinating counterculture. Covering everything from silent cinema through to the digital era, Rajadhyaksha examines how the industry reflects the complexity and variety of Indian society through the dramatic changes of the 20th century, and into the beginnings of the 21st. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Download or read book Star-Crossed written by Vibha Batra and published by Isekai Labs Llp Etail. This book was released on 2023-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of heart-warming romance shorts, peopled with quirky, endearing characters. Meet Krish. He is enamoured of Niru, who runs a support group for the heartbroken. The only hitch? He's never had his heart broken ever. Enter Shweta whose ex-boyfriend is tying the knot. And she's down in the dumps. And then, she runs into his tall dark handsome stranger, and realises attending her ex's wedding might not be such a bad idea, after all. Meera and Ayaan are madly in love with each other. Alas, Ayaan comes from the wrong side of the tracks. And then, a decade later, they bump into each other on a flight. In a period piece set in Bengal, Naren and Binodini start off as teacher and student, before falling in love. But he comes from a humble background and she's soon to be the Zamindar's wife. A historical romance wherein a painter falls in love with his muse. With the help of a crafty astrologer, the lovers hatch a daring plan. Will it succeed or will it end in heartbreak and worse?
Book Synopsis NIGER DELTA:Cusp of the Star-crossed Lovers by : William Warigon
Download or read book NIGER DELTA:Cusp of the Star-crossed Lovers written by William Warigon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Diasporic Identities and Empire by : David Brooks
Download or read book Diasporic Identities and Empire written by David Brooks and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diasporic Identities and Empire: Cultural Contentions and Literary Landscapes explores traditional theories on hybridity, generated in consideration of multicultural infusions, and at times profusions, of colonial migrations. Arguments on defining Englishness and the insinuations of a ‘fixed centre’ for the marginalised are now considered on a global scale as postmodernity defies imperial homogeneity. Although postcolonial studies have largely been Anglocentric and Western in focus, developments elsewhere have opened up theoretical applications on cultural shifters such as that of the diaspora. The Arabian world, the Caribbean, North and Latin America, Australia, and more recently, countries such as Ireland and Scotland, have emerged as regions confronted with comparable power struggles. Mass migration, exile, refugee reshuffling and diasporic repositioning provide neo-hermeneutics on the predicament of the global, which is undergoing major geopolitical and cultural transformation. This volume addresses how writing from the peripheries is developing a new worldview through diasporic modes of thought. By moving beyond the facile search for an imperial ‘centre,’ these contributions provide an understanding of the rupture in identity since there is a feeling of ‘being held back from a place or state we wish to reach . . .’ (Brooks). This volume is a unique collaboration by academic scholars from four different continents, and a vast number of regions, critically converging on the contemporaneous debate that problematizes the diasporic identity.
Book Synopsis The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us by : Robyn Meredith
Download or read book The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us written by Robyn Meredith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meredith offers a compelling look at the major changes in store as America faces increasing competition from India and China--two emerging economic giants.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas by : Poonam Trivedi
Download or read book Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas written by Poonam Trivedi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to explore the rich archive of Shakespeare in Indian cinemas, including less familiar, Indian language cinemas to contribute to the assessment of the expanding repertoire of Shakespeare films worldwide. Essays cover mainstream and regional Indian cinemas such as the better known Tamil and Kannada, as well as the less familiar regions of the North Eastern states. The volume visits diverse filmic genres, starting from the earliest silent cinema, to diasporic films made for global audiences, television films, independent films, and documentaries, thus expanding the very notion of ‘Indian cinema’ while also looking at the different modalities of deploying Shakespeare specific to these genres. Shakespeareans and film scholars provide an alternative history of the development of Indian cinemas through its negotiations with Shakespeare focusing on the inter-textualities between Shakespearean theatre, regional cinema, performative traditions, and literary histories in India. The purpose is not to catalog examples of Shakespearean influence but to analyze the interplay of the aesthetic, historical, socio-political, and theoretical contexts in which Indian language films have turned to Shakespeare and to what purpose. The discussion extends from the content of the plays to the modes of their cinematic and intermedial translations. It thus tracks the intra–Indian flows and cross-currents between the various film industries, and intervenes in the politics of multiculturalism and inter/intraculturalism built up around Shakespearean appropriations. Contributing to current studies in global Shakespeare, this book marks a discursive shift in the way Shakespeare on screen is predominantly theorized, as well as how Indian cinema, particularly ‘Shakespeare in Indian cinema’ is understood.
Book Synopsis John Frith, Scholar and Martyr by : Brian Raynor
Download or read book John Frith, Scholar and Martyr written by Brian Raynor and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Frith was one of the outstanding academics of his time. He had a clear logical mathematical mind, was highly respected and influenced many. Yet, in 1553, at the age of 30, he was burnt at the stake for writing books supporting doctrines of Reformation. This work discusses his life.
Book Synopsis State and Nation in South Asia by : Swarna Rajagopalan
Download or read book State and Nation in South Asia written by Swarna Rajagopalan and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a national community out of a state? Addressing this fundamental question. Rajagopalan studies national integration from the perspective of three South Asian communities - Tamilians in India, Sindhis in Pakistan, and Tamils in Sri Lanka - that have a history of secessionism in common, but with vastly different outcomes Rajagopalan investigates why integration is relatively successful in some cases (Tamil Nadu), less so in others (Sindh), and disastrous in some (Sri Lanka). Broadly comparative and drawing together multiple aspects of political development and nation building, her imaginative exploration of the tension between state and nation gives voice to relatively disenfranchised sections of society.
Book Synopsis RECENT ADVANCES IN COMMERCE & MANAGEMENT, VOLUME-4 by : Sruthi S
Download or read book RECENT ADVANCES IN COMMERCE & MANAGEMENT, VOLUME-4 written by Sruthi S and published by RED'SHINE Publication. Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Media Imperialism in India and Pakistan by : Farooq Sulehria
Download or read book Media Imperialism in India and Pakistan written by Farooq Sulehria and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining anew the notions of media imperialism and globalization of media, this book disrupts the generalised consensus in media scholarship that globalization of media has put an end to media imperialism. One elemental aspect of media imperialism is the structural dependency of television systems in the global South on the imperial North. Taking India and Pakistan as its case studies, this book views globalization of media as the unleashing of processes that have translated into the liberalization of air waves and privatization of television systems whereby commercialization of television is privileged over public interest television. Additionally, it argues that the globalization of media has contributed to corruption, tabloidization, and marginalization of subaltern classes in the Indian and Pakistani media.
Book Synopsis World Cinema through Global Genres by : William V. Costanzo
Download or read book World Cinema through Global Genres written by William V. Costanzo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Cinema through Global Genres introduces the complex forces of global filmmaking using the popular concept of film genre. The cluster-based organization allows students to acquire a clear understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world. Innovative pedagogical approach that uses genres to teach the more unfamiliar subject of world cinema A cluster-based organization provides a solid framework for students to acquire a sharper understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world A “deep focus” section in each chapter gives students information and insights about important regions of filmmaking (India, China, Japan, and Latin America) that tend to be underrepresented in world cinema classes Case studies allow students to focus on important and accessible individual films that exemplify significant traditions and trends A strong foundation chapter reviews key concepts and vocabulary for understanding film as an art form, a technology, a business, an index of culture, a social barometer, and a political force. The engaging style and organization of the book make it a compelling text for both world cinema and film genre courses
