The Indian Diary of Vera Luboshinsky (1938-1945)

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192889702
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Indian Diary of Vera Luboshinsky (1938-1945) written by Vera Luboshinsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Diary of Vera Luboshinsky narrates life at the Indian princely court of Bhopal, during the 1940s. Vera was the daughter of Professor M. J. Herzenstein, a member of the State Duma in pre-revolutionary Russia, and married to Count Mark Luboshinsky. After the Bolshevik revolution, they emigrated to Czechoslovakia where they met Hamidullah Khan, Nawab of Bhopal, an important political figure during the last decades of the British Empire and India's fight for independence. Impressed by Mark Luboshinsky's managerial abilities, the Nawab invited him to come to India to manage his estates. The couple spent seven years in India (winter 1938 - winter 1945). They stayed in and around Bhopal taking part in palace business or travelling across India accompanying the Nawab's family on long journeys. The Diary is a unique and completely unknown text to the Anglophone world: a rich primary source for historians of India's princely states, providing an interesting and uncommon depiction of the Nawab, his family, acquaintances, associates, and more generally, the life of Indians and foreigners in India during World War II. With literary flair, Vera describes not only her life in India, but also her intimate relationship with the Begum and British residents of Bhopal as well as meetings with well-known people like Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarojini Naidu, Fatima Jinnah, or Anandamayi Ma, and Paul Brunton. Importantly, the Diary also offers an extremely rare Eastern European female voice in late colonial India: a voice that both submits to and transgresses the Orientalist moods of its time.

Charity and Sylvia

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199335451
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Book Synopsis Charity and Sylvia by : Rachel Hope Cleves

Download or read book Charity and Sylvia written by Rachel Hope Cleves and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America. But as Rachel Hope Cleves demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marriage is hardly new. Born in 1777, Charity Bryant was raised in Massachusetts. A brilliant and strong-willed woman with a clear attraction for her own sex, Charity found herself banished from her family home at age twenty. She spent the next decade of her life traveling throughout Massachusetts, working as a teacher, making intimate female friends, and becoming the subject of gossip wherever she lived. At age twenty-nine, still defiantly single, Charity visited friends in Weybridge, Vermont. There she met a pious and studious young woman named Sylvia Drake. The two soon became so inseparable that Charity decided to rent rooms in Weybridge. In 1809, they moved into their own home together, and over the years, came to be recognized, essentially, as a married couple. Revered by their community, Charity and Sylvia operated a tailor shop employing many local women, served as guiding lights within their church, and participated in raising their many nieces and nephews. Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of their extraordinary forty-four year union. Drawing on an array of original documents including diaries, letters, and poetry, Cleves traces their lives in sharp detail. Providing an illuminating glimpse into a relationship that turns conventional notions of same-sex marriage on their head, and reveals early America to be a place both more diverse and more accommodating than modern society might imagine, Charity and Sylvia is a significant contribution to our limited knowledge of LGBT history in early America.

The Sacred Willow

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019061451X
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sacred Willow by : Mai Elliott

Download or read book The Sacred Willow written by Mai Elliott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tied in to Ken Burns' forthcoming (2017) TV series on Vietnam, to which the author is a major contributor, the reissue of a Pulitzer finalist memoir of a Vietnamese family in the 20th century

Listening on the Edge

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199859302
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis Listening on the Edge by : Mark Cave

Download or read book Listening on the Edge written by Mark Cave and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergent inclination for oral historians to respond to document crisis calls for a shared conversation among scholars. This dialog, at the heart of this anthology, addresses both the ways in which we think about oral history and the manner in which we use it.

Along the Red River

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Publisher : Zubaan
ISBN 13 : 9383074264
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis Along the Red River by : Sabita Goswami

Download or read book Along the Red River written by Sabita Goswami and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran journalist Sabita Goswami has written a unique, unusual and rare autobiography, documenting the extraordinary, single-handed fight of an ordinary woman in the heart of Assam, against family and social obstacles, and her attempt to establish herself emotionally and professionally. An unbiased and ruthless no-holds-barred account of turbulent contemporary Assam in particular and the Northeast in general, the book offers an exceptional analysis of a volatile region and its intricate and complex social and political history. The racy and strong narrative recounted simply and with rare passion, makes this book a compelling read.

Anything But a Wasted Life

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9353020204
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Anything But a Wasted Life by : Sita Kaylin

Download or read book Anything But a Wasted Life written by Sita Kaylin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working as a stripper is anything but easy. You're often treated like a living blow-up doll and a therapist simultaneously. It's a life that many judge easily ... until you know more. Sita Kaylin, a California-based veteran in the sex industry, has lived the pitfalls of being naked in front of strangers and the absurdities that arise when you fake intimacy for a living. She left home when she was sixteen, worked hard at several jobs and eventually started college after dropping out of high school. There, a roommate turned her on to stripping, revealing a way out of the crushing financial pressures she felt and her struggles as a pre-law student with very little time or energy to study. She had no idea how wild her journey would become and what a large part of her life it would be. Sita's stories take shape through an often altered, occasionally sarcastic, sometimes illegal and frequently funny magnifying glass she holds up to not just the sex industry, but also to human needs and desires, modern relationships, mental health, personal independence. Anything But a Wasted Life is the memoir of an unorthodox life about a woman who has rarely said 'no' to life.

Almost Home

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9351369838
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Book Synopsis Almost Home by : Githa Hariharan

Download or read book Almost Home written by Githa Hariharan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This word, home. So easy to say, so casually said every day. Why then is home so hard to see, the way you see other places you visit for a week or two?' What do a medieval city in South India and Washington D.C. have in common? How do people in Kashmir imagine the freedom they long for? Who does Delhi, city of grand monuments and hidden slums, actually belong to? Most of all, what makes a city, or any place, home? In large parts of the world, including India, the prevailing view of people and places - and their multiple voices - has been a western version. How does this story change when it is located in India, and the view complicated by several cultures, languages, traditions and political debates? From Delhi, Bombay/Mumbai, Ooty and Kashmir, to Palestine, Algeria and eleventh-century Cordoba, these intricately carved essays explore cities and other places through the lives of people, and how they see home and belonging. Combining memoir and polemic, historical and imagined narrative, anecdote and poetry, Githa Hariharan recounts defining moments - in which people experience the frictions of day-to-day survival, or the collisions of ideas, culture, war or colonization. The result is a fascinating and layered story of home: a sense of home, too many homes, broken or lost homes.

What She Has to Say

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Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1639976833
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (399 download)

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Book Synopsis What She Has to Say by : Sahithi Chintakunta

Download or read book What She Has to Say written by Sahithi Chintakunta and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of small yet significant events in one seemingly random week left Sahithi Chintakunta confused about her identity as a feminist. After a few conversations with her friends, she took to expressing herself through her writing and thus opened the door to exploring feminism in her life. Penning her initial thoughts has now unravelled into an honest and refreshing book about one woman’s journey against sexism, patriarchy and gender inequality. Using her passion for storytelling and her curious, empathetic personality, Sahithi walks us through the intricacies of her ideas and conflicts in an unfiltered voice. From wearing short clothes to facing taboos about periods; from navigating beauty standards to identifying her privilege - this book goes beyond the categories of right and wrong. With valid questions and sharp observations, it sparks thoughts and conversations about gender and feminism long after you have finished reading.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184752687
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Book Synopsis Adoor Gopalakrishnan by : Gautaman Bhaskaran

Download or read book Adoor Gopalakrishnan written by Gautaman Bhaskaran and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most critically acclaimed directors after Satyajit Ray, Adoor Gopalakrishnan occupies a unique space in the world of cinema. His life intertwining with his art, and his art drawing upon real people and real lives, Gopalakrishnan’s cinema turns the mundane into the magical, the commonplace into the startling. In Adoor Gopalakrishnan: A Life in Cinema, the first authorized biography of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner, Gautaman Bhaskaran traces the ebbs and flows of the life of this enigmatic director. From his birth during the Quit India movement to his lonely childhood; from his belief in Gandhian values and life at Gandhigram to his days and nights at the Pune Film Institute; and from his first film, Swayamvaram, to his latest and long-awaited, Pinneyum, Bhaskaran’s lucid narrative tracks the twists and turns of Gopalakrishnan’s life, revealing an uncommon man and a rare auteur.

The Blue Book

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9354893821
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (548 download)

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Book Synopsis The Blue Book by : Amitava Kumar

Download or read book The Blue Book written by Amitava Kumar and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In those terrible days of the lockdown during the pandemic, we were all waiting. We were waiting for things to be all right. And one day, they will indeed be all right. But the dead will never come back. The businesses that have closed and will not reopen; the dreams dashed; the families and relationships that could not withstand the strain. This is why it is important to note down all the changes in our lives. Write them down in a journal. When we do that, we are recording our own history.' - Drawing as a way of keeping a diary, writing down thoughts in a journal as a way of maintaining a historical record - in watercolours and also in words. These were resources that Amitava Kumar had been using even before the pandemic arrived. But the task gained urgency just when he felt most isolated and afraid. The Blue Book is a writer's artistic response to our present world: one that has bestowed upon us countless deaths from a virus, a flood of fake news, but also love in the face of loss, travels through diverse landscapes, and - if we care to notice - visions of blazing beauty. From one of the acclaimed and accomplished authors of our time, this writer's journal is a panoramic portrait of the experience, both individual and collective, of the pandemic. - 'To mull over a beautiful line while looking upon a beautiful painting is the sublime pleasure offered by Amitava Kumar's The Blue Book. This painted diary is a collage of the personal and the political, of terrifying news, the fleeting seasons, everyday pleasures, precious conversations, families and friendships-and on every page, the solace of art.' -- KIRAN DESAI 'A lovely homage to--and extension of--the tradition of writer-artists such as John Berger.' -- GEOFF DYER 'It's not good to read another person's diary. But Amitava Kumar makes the experience so intimate in The Blue Book that you don't feel guilty. You feel like it is your own.' -- GULZAR

Anusual: Memoir of a Girl Who Came Back from the Dead

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Publisher : Harpercollins
ISBN 13 : 9789350297391
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (973 download)

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Book Synopsis Anusual: Memoir of a Girl Who Came Back from the Dead by : Anu Aggarwal

Download or read book Anusual: Memoir of a Girl Who Came Back from the Dead written by Anu Aggarwal and published by Harpercollins. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anusual is the story of Anu Aggarwal, the dusky Delhi girl who went to Bombay and became an international model, and then a star with her very first Bollywood movie, Aashiqui, only to chuck it all up and join a yogashram.Coming back to Bombay, she was involved in a horrifying car crash that put her in a coma for twenty-nine days. Miraculously, the girl who broke into a million pieces recovered, and put the pieces of her life back together, first taking sanyas and then returning to Bombay to teach yoga. This fascinating story of a woman's self-discovery, a near-death experience and amazing recovery is told in a straight-from-theheart, unbuttoned style, including details of the men in her life, from millionaire jet-setters to superyogis. In the end, as she says, love is all there is.

The Town Slowly Empties

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Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1909394769
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis The Town Slowly Empties by : Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

Download or read book The Town Slowly Empties written by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one record an extraordinary time? Confined to his Delhi apartment, Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee unravels the intimate paradoxes of life he encounters in the first weeks of a global pandemic. His stories about local fish sellers, gardeners, barbers and lovers merge with his concerns for the exodus of migrant labourers, the challenges faced by health workers, and a mother braving checkposts to bring her son home. Drawing inspiration from contemporary literature and cinema, The Town Slowly Empties is a unique window on a world desperate for love, care and hope. Manash is our Everyman, urging us to slow down and mend our broken ties with nature. Written with rare candour and elegance, this meditative book is a compelling account of the human condition that soars high above the empty streets.

The Year That Wasn't

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ISBN 13 : 9781954021679
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book The Year That Wasn't written by Brisha Jain and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Brisha made a New Year's resolution to write a diary for the coming year, little did she realize that these entries would eventually turn into a treasure trove of experiences. The year 2020 brought forth a barrage of impossible challenges, monumental odds, and unforeseen calamities. The diary tells a story that's much more than the sum of its entries--a tale of self-improvement, understanding the consequences of action and inaction, patience, strength, tenacity, and most importantly, inner peace. This was the year that turned several 14-year old boys and girls into adults as they dealt with issues and lifestyle changes that they could not have envisioned in their wildest imagination. These life lessons might not have been learnt in any other way and will carry them through several of life's hardships, joys, and successes. This is not just Brisha's diary, it is the diary of an entire generation that has learnt to cope, hope, struggle, and survive through an epochal time.

Ahmedabad

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9350297981
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Ahmedabad by : Esther David

Download or read book Ahmedabad written by Esther David and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Ahmedabad from a winner of the Sahitya Akademi award There are many legends around the founding of Ahmedabad. One has it that some time in 1411 AD, a dog was looking for easy prey on the banks of the Sabarmati when a hare attacked him and drove him away. Sultan Ahmed Shah witnessed the scene and, impressed by the hare's spirit, decided to build a city right there.Now, six hundred years later, Ahmedabad is a city at the intersection of the old and the new. Centuries-old dargahs and havelis stand alongside high-rises and glitzy shopping malls. Once known for its textile mills, it is now one of the world's fastest developing cities. But while the fortifications of the walled city crumbled long ago, divisions between its varied groups have come to the fore, pulling them apart.Esther David, a member of Ahmedabad's small Bene Israel Jewish community, is a storehouse of city stories. In Ahmedabad: City with a Past, she takes the reader on an intimate rickshaw ride through a city full of life and wondrous contradictions.

This is Going to Hurt

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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509858644
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis This is Going to Hurt by : Adam Kay

Download or read book This is Going to Hurt written by Adam Kay and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Major BBC Series Starring Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards. ‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know – and more than a few things you didn't – about life on and off the hospital ward. Sunday Times Number One Bestseller for over eight months and winner of a record FOUR National Book Awards: Book of the Year, Non-Fiction Book of the Year, New Writer of the Year and Zoe Ball Book Club Book of the Year. This edition includes extra diary entries and an afterword by the author.

And Then One Day

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 935118840X
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book And Then One Day written by Naseeruddin Shah and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naseeruddin Shah’s sparkling memoir of his early years, ‘from zero to thirty-two’, spans his extraordinary journey from a feudal hamlet near Meerut, to Catholic schools in Nainital and Ajmer, and finally to stage and film stardom in Mumbai. Along the way, he recounts his passages through Aligarh University, the National School of Drama and the Film and Television Institute of India, where his luck finally began to change. And Then One Day tells a compelling tale, written with rare honesty and consummate elegance, leavened with tongue-in-cheek humour. There are moving portraits of family members, darkly funny accounts of his schooldays, and vivid cameos of directors and actors he has worked with, among them Ebrahim Alkazi, Shyam Benegal, Girish Karnad, Om Puri and Shabana Azmi. The accounts of his struggle to earn a living through acting, his experiments with the craft, his love affairs, his early marriage, his successes and failures are narrated with remarkable frankness and objective self-assessment. Brimming with delightful anecdotes as well as poignant, often painful revelations, this book is a tour de force.

Alexandra Kollontai

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ISBN 13 : 9781608463688
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Alexandra Kollontai written by Cathy Porter and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kollotai was a brilliant and passionate defender of the ideals of the Russian revolution and women's liberation.