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Theeyoor Chronicles

Author : N. Prabhakaran
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9354224377
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Theeyoor Chronicles written by N. Prabhakaran and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A work of historic significance' - BENYAMIN A journalist goes to Theeyoor - 'the land of fire' - to investigate the unnaturally large number of suicides and disappearances in the city. After completing this project, however, Theeyoor refuses to leave his consciousness, and he decides to write its history. This history is told through various documents: the writer's notes, the anecdotes told to him while researching the suicides, Wardha Gopalan's book The History of Theeyoor, information provided by a local newspaper agent, personal papers of individuals, as well as some 'incidents' that the journalist himself imagines. In N. Prabhakaran's masterful hands - and in Jayasree Kalathil's brilliant translation - history, myth, facts, nature, political events, and everyday concerns of ordinary people weave together into a story that is at once local and universal.

Diary of a Malayali Madman

Author : N. Prabhakaran
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1646052331
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Malayali Madman written by N. Prabhakaran and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of sensitive, world-bending human portraits from short story writer N. Prabhakaran. A research scholar whose notebook reveals a surreal pig farm... A psychologist in search of the truth about one of his clients... An aspiring writer who emulates Gogol... The unforgettable men and women in N. Prabhakaran's stories have an uncanny ability to expose the fault lines between the real and the unreal, the normal and the mad, as they explore their own inner worlds and psychic wounds. A pioneer of the post-modern aesthetic turn, N. Prabhakaran weaves the nitty-gritty of everyday, small-town lives into his imaginative tales. Set in northern Kerala, these five stories are steeped in folklore, nature, factional politics and the intricacies of human relationships. Brilliantly translated by Jayasree Kalathil, Diary of a Malayali Madman marks the very first time this major Indian writer's work is available in English.

Moustache

Author : S. Hareesh
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9353576032
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Moustache written by S. Hareesh and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE JCB PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2020. 'A novel of epic dimensions ... easily among the most accomplished fictional works in Malayalam.'K. SATCHIDANANDAN Vavachan is a Pulayan who gets the opportunity to play a policeman with an immense moustache in a musical drama. The character appears in only two scenes and has no dialogue. However, Vavachan's performance, and his moustache, terrify the mostly upper-caste audience, reviving in them memories of characters of Dalit power, such as Ravanan. Afterwards, Vavachan, whose people were traditionally banned from growing facial hair, refuses to shave off his moustache. Endless tales invent and reinvent the legend of his magic moustache in which birds roost, which allows its owner to appear simultaneously in different places and disappear in an instant, which grows as high as the sky and as thick as rainclouds -- and turn Vavachan into Moustache, a figure of mythic proportions.Set in Kuttanad, a below-sea-level farming region on the south-west coast of Kerala, the novel is as much a story of this land as it is of Vavachan and its other inhabitants. As they navigate the intricate waterscape, stories unfold in which ecology, power dynamics and politics become key themes. Originally published in Malayalam as Meesha, S. Hareesh's Moustache is a contemporary classic mixing magic, myth and metaphor into a tale of far-reaching resonance.

Flight of the Unicorns

Author : Soum Paul
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9352644786
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Flight of the Unicorns written by Soum Paul and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years 2015 and 2016 were watershed years in the history of the Indian startup ecosystem. Not only did the word 'startup' enter common parlance as large sums of money were poured in, several firms also achieved the fabled 'unicorn' status of billion-dollar valuation. However, immediately afterwards, the exuberance disappeared as the bubble burst and the very viability of these celebrated ventures came into question. And with it, began a new era. In Flight of the Unicorns, Soum Paul takes a deep dive into the trajectory of Indian startups in the recent past and explores the trials and tribulations of starting up. Through the voices of many innovators, entrepreneurs and investors, he studies the patterns in successes and parallels from other emerging markets. He builds on theories around what works and what doesn't, and paints a vision for the future of startups in this part of the world.

As The River Flows : The HarperCollinsBook Of Assamese Stories

Author : Ranjit Biswas
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9789350291221
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book As The River Flows : The HarperCollinsBook Of Assamese Stories written by Ranjit Biswas and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother watches as her daughter, intent upon cleaning the house, tries to throw away a cherished piece of embroidered cloth; a father realizes that age is catching up with him when his children's plans no longer include him; a rape victim tries to settle into a life without her husband; a serf finds the courage to stand up to the indignities he has to face; a whole village is targeted as the armed forces come looking for a single insurgent. As the River Flows brings together some of the finest contemporary short stories from Assam which rank along with the best of Indian literature. With the wide variety of styles and content, these stories give us a glimpse into the lives of those living beside the Brahmaputra. Spanning from the 1950s to the present, this collection presents an eclectic mix of well-known stories by writers who set the tone of modern Assamese stories as also those who have gained from their pioneering efforts.

Theatres of Democracy: Between the Epic and the Everyday - Selected Essays

Author : Shiv Visvanathan
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9789351775621
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Theatres of Democracy: Between the Epic and the Everyday - Selected Essays written by Shiv Visvanathan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unburdened by partisanship or political correctness, these essays by Shiv Visvanathan, one of India's foremost public intellectuals, chronicle the democratic ferment and political upheavals in contemporary India. Written over the last twenty years, they engage with issues as diverse as the new dimensions of violence, the value of dissent, the creativity in popular culture and the pathologies of nationalism and religious fundamentalism. Always alert to nuance, Visvanathan offers novel portraits of politicians, intellectuals, and sport and film personalities. Combining wit, irony and analytical brilliance, the writings collected in Theatres of Democracy show a commitment to thinking creatively about India.

The Braided River

Author : Samrat Choudhury
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9390327598
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Braided River written by Samrat Choudhury and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brahmaputra is by some margin the largest river in India. After its confluence with the Ganga in Bangladesh, it becomes the largest in Asia. In The Braided River, journalist Samrat Choudhury sets out to follow its braided course from the edge of Tibet where it enters India down to where it meets the Ganga at a spot marked by the biggest red light district in Bangladesh. Along the way, he meets suspicious Indian spies, gets packed off on the back of a cement truck by soldiers, visit a shelter home for baby rhino and elephant orphans in Kaziranga, and hops from river island to riverside town meeting the locals. The tales of these encounters spice up a story that weaves in the history of the emergence of the border between India and China in Arunachal Pradesh, the formation of the Assamese identity -- a matter of great contemporary relevance owing to the National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act -- and the ecological challenges posed by proposed dams. This is a genre-bending book that touches upon several hot-button issues -- environmental, military and political -- as it blends travel, memoir and history with the present.

Quirky History

Author : Mini Menon
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9353578809
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Quirky History written by Mini Menon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eccentric maharajas and nawabs, bizarre believe it or not tales and hilarious twists and turns come together in this first book of the Quirky History series. From the Nizam who hid a priceless diamond in a shoe to the Swan Car of the Maharaja of Nabha to the Nawab of Junagadh who got his dog, Roshanara, married in brocades and pearls with over 700 guests in attendance and many more quirky, unusual stories.Get ready for history to pop right out of this book!'We need offbeat, quirky stories like the ones in this collection to make history come alive' - Ruskin Bond

The Goat Thief

Author : Perumal Murugan (N. Kalyan Raman Tr.)
Publisher : Juggernaut Books
ISBN 13 : 9386228491
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The Goat Thief written by Perumal Murugan (N. Kalyan Raman Tr.) and published by Juggernaut Books. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perumal Murugan is one of the best Indian writers today. THE GOAT THIEF is a selection of his ten best stories focused on men and women who live in the margins of our society.

Warlord of Ayodhya: Rebellion

Author : Shatrujeet Nath
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9391019889
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Warlord of Ayodhya: Rebellion written by Shatrujeet Nath and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bharat. Son of Kaikeyi. Brother of Rama. Reluctant king of Kosala. Bharat’s carefree life in Kekeya is turned upside down by the death of his father Raja Dashratha and the exile of his brother and crown prince Rama. Untrained in statecraft and unsure of himself, Bharat begins his rule over Kosala by tackling an audacious rakshasa attack on Ayodhya. There’s more trouble brewing. As the magic that sustains the kingdom starts weakening and a drought looms over Kosala, Ayodhya’s citizens begin to disappear mysteriously. Ambitious aristocrats manipulate the inexperienced king to their ends, while fickle allies seize the opportunity to assert their independence. And unknown to Bharat, the Lord of Lanka has put a cunning plan into action that will break the back of Ayodhya’s resistance. Beset by challenges, will Bharat lose Ayodhya so early in his reign? Crackling with characters overlooked and forgotten by the Ramayana, The Warlord of Ayodhya is a thrilling spinoff by bestselling fantasy author Shatrujeet Nath. SHATRUJEET NATH is the creator of the runaway national bestselling series Vikramaditya Veergatha, and the upcoming alternative mythology series Warlord of Ayodhya. Described as “a new face to Indian mythology” by DNA, Shatrujeet writes for movies and web shows as well.

The Brass Notebook

Author : Devaki Jain
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620978016
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Brass Notebook written by Devaki Jain and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lyrical and globe-spanning memoir by the influential feminist economist, with introductory pieces from two American icons “Your heart and world will be opened by reading The Brass Notebook, the intimate and political life of Devaki Jain, a young woman who dares to become independent.” —Gloria Steinem When she was barely thirty, the Indian feminist economist Devaki Jain befriended Doris Lessing, Nobel winner and author of The Golden Notebook, who encouraged Jain to write her story. Over half a century later, Jain has crafted what Desmond Tutu has called “a riveting account of the life story of a courageous woman who has all her life challenged what convention expects of her.” Across an extraordinary life intertwined with those of Iris Murdoch, Gloria Steinem, Julius Nyerere, Henry Kissinger, and Nelson Mandela, Jain navigated a world determined to contain her ambitions. While still a young woman, she traveled alone across the subcontinent to meet Gandhi’s disciple Vinoba Bhave, hitchhiked around Europe in a sari, and fell in love with a Yugoslav at a Quaker camp in Saarbrücken. She attended Oxford University, supporting herself by washing dishes in a local café. Later, over the course of an influential career as an economist, Jain seized on the cause of feminism, championing the poor women who labored in the informal economy long before mainstream economics attended to questions of inequality. With a foreword by Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen and an introduction by the well-known American feminist Gloria Steinem, whose own life and career were inspired by time spent with Jain, The Brass Notebook perfectly merges the political with the personal—a book full of life, ideas, politics, and history.

Wanderers, Kings, Merchants

Author : Peggy Mohan
Publisher : Viking
ISBN 13 : 9780670093687
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Wanderers, Kings, Merchants written by Peggy Mohan and published by Viking. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of India's most incredible and enviable cultural aspects is that every Indian is bilingual, if not multilingual. Delving into the fascinating early history of South Asia, this original book reveals how migration, both external and internal, has shaped all Indians from ancient times. Through a first-of-its-kind and incisive study of languages, such as the story of early Sanskrit, the rise of Urdu, language formation in the North-east, it presents the astounding argument that all Indians are of mixed origins.It explores the surprising rise of English after Independence and how it may be endangering India's native languages.

Baby Doll

Author : Gracy
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9390327881
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Baby Doll written by Gracy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complex, compelling and shocking - PAUL ZACHARIA An intimate chronicle of the world we live in ... deceptively simple but searingly truthful - K.R. MEERA Endlessly playful, cleverly mischievous, enchantingly magical, scarily nightmarish - K. SATCHIDANANDAN When they were first published, Gracy's stories shocked readers with their sexual candour and frank celebration of female desire. She is now widely recognized as one of the most important contemporary writers in Malayalam. Her short stories, which vary from half a page to novella-length, draw the reader into the world of modern men and women caught in quagmires of desire, lust, jealousy and vengeance - emotions that they often carry even into the afterlife. In these pages we will find: the bitter defiance of a daughter going to her mother's funeral in her most alluring sari; a contemporary retelling of the story of Draupadi; the sinister coming-of-age tale of a young girl... Brilliantly rendered by award-winning translator Fathima E.V., Baby Doll brings a comprehensive selection of Gracy's work to English readers for the very first time.

Landscapes of Loss

Author : Kavitha Iyer
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9390327474
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Loss written by Kavitha Iyer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE TATA LITERATURE LIVE FIRST BOOK AWARD (NON-FICTION) 2021 Maharashtra, India's richest state by GDP, has its eyes set on becoming the country's first trillion-dollar economy by 2025. At the same time, Marathwada - a historically backward part of the state adjoining the distressed Vidarbha region - has seen a surge in farmer suicides. At the heart of the crisis is a cyclical drought that has persisted for almost a decade. Relief packages and loan waivers have not reversed the trend. On the contrary, the stories of dystopia grow more tragic every year as thousands of farmer families flee to the big cities, while those who stay back are plagued by bad credit and crop loss. Landscapes of Loss tells the story of Marathwada through the accounts of its people: marginal farmers, Dalits, landless labourers, farm widows and children. It lays bare the complex factors that have brought the region to this pass - a story representative, in many ways, of the agrarian unrest in large parts of rural India.

A Preface to Man

Author : Subhash Chandran
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9353026636
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book A Preface to Man written by Subhash Chandran and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Marie reads fragments of her dead husband's unfinished book, and the many love letters he sent her, and in them the social and political events of the time. As she ponders over the writing and the years that the brilliant Jithendran squandered working for a toy company that makes drum-playing monkeys, the narrative gives way to the sweeping saga of a village by the river Periyar. Grappling with issues of equality, love, caste, religion and politics, Thachanakkara is a microcosm of twentieth-century Kerala. Told through the history of three generations of a feudal Nair family, this sprawling story is reminiscent of the craft of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and has the scale of Sunil Gangopadhyay's Those Days. Manushyanu Oru Amukham is an artistic meditation on human existence and is a contemporary classic.

Values and Ethics in Mental Health

Author : Alastair Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350313181
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Values and Ethics in Mental Health written by Alastair Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental health is the one area of health care where people are often treated against their will, with the justification that it is in their own interest. This raises significant ethical questions and value dilemmas; questions of autonomy, human rights, power and treatment. An understanding of how values matter is of vital importance across all disciplines working within the mental health field. This book provides a comprehensive and exploratory text for practitioners, students and all those interested in developing a knowledge of both ethics and the wider framework of values-based practice. It is unique in being fully co-written by authors representing both service user and service provider perspectives. This exciting new text will enable the mental health practitioner to work more co-productively with service users within a humane and just approach to care. With an emphasis on rights-based compassionate care throughout, this book: - Tackles the issues of how mental health is understood through key theoretical debates about mental distress, values and labelling; - Encourages readers to think critically about their understanding of key issues such as recovery, autonomy, power, knowledge, diagnoses and empathy; - Draws on a wide range of case examples and exercises to help readers deepen their knowledge of values-based practice and ethics in mental health.

Tell Me How to Be

Author : Neel Patel
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9354924492
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Tell Me How to Be written by Neel Patel and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renu Amin always seemed perfect: doting husband, beautiful house, healthy sons. But as the one-year anniversary of her husband's death approaches, Renu is binge-watching soap operas and simmering with old resentments. She can't stop wondering if, thirty-five years ago, she chose the wrong life. In Los Angeles, her son, Akash, has everything he ever wanted, but as he tries to kickstart his songwriting career and commit to his boyfriend, he is haunted by the painful memories he fled a decade ago. When his mother tells him she is selling the family home, Akash returns to Illinois, hoping to finally say goodbye and move on. Together, Renu and Akash pack up the house, retreating further into the secrets that stand between them. Renu sends an innocent Facebook message to the man she almost married, sparking an emotional affair that calls into question everything she thought she knew about herself. Akash slips back into bad habits as he confronts his darkest secrets-including what really happened between him and the first boy who broke his heart. When their pasts catch up to them, Renu and Akash must decide between the lives they left behind and the ones they've since created, between making each other happy and setting themselves free. By turns irreverent and tender, filled with the beats of '90s R&B, Tell Me How to Be is about our earliest betrayals and the cost of reconciliation. But most of all, it is the love story of a mother and son each trying to figure out how to be in the world.