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Afternoon Raag

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681378051
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Afternoon Raag written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the UK’s Encore Award for best second novel, a lyrical story of a Bengali student at Oxford University who is caught in the complications of a love triangle. Afternoon Raag is a book of branching and overlapping stories, a book that like memory moves unpredictably in time. In it, a nameless first-person narrator looks back at his student days in Oxford, a period of loneliness and discovery when his affections were torn between two women, and to the summer vacations that took him from England to Bombay, where his parents lived, and later to Calcutta, where he was born. Descriptions of Oxford’s green lawns and drab dorms, of friends and classes and the relentless drizzle, sit beside Bombay street scenes and recollections of the teacher, now dead, from whom the narrator and his mother learned music. Afternoon Raag is a book about the uncertainty of youth and the strange inevitability of growing up. Its images are wonderfully vivid; its rhythms elastic and entrancing. Throughout it is haunted by the spirit of the music teacher, the master singer who gives shape to the elusive and annihilating passage of time.

Afternoon Raag

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681378043
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Afternoon Raag written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the UK’s Encore Award for best second novel, a lyrical story of a Bengali student at Oxford University who is caught in the complications of a love triangle. Afternoon Raag is a book of branching and overlapping stories, a book that like memory moves unpredictably in time. In it, a nameless first-person narrator looks back at his student days in Oxford, a period of loneliness and discovery when his affections were torn between two women, and to the summer vacations that took him from England to Bombay, where his parents lived, and later to Calcutta, where he was born. Descriptions of Oxford’s green lawns and drab dorms, of friends and classes and the relentless drizzle, sit beside Bombay street scenes and recollections of the teacher, now dead, from whom the narrator and his mother learned music. Afternoon Raag is a book about the uncertainty of youth and the strange inevitability of growing up. Its images are wonder fully vivid; its rhythms elastic and entrancing. Throughout it is haunted by the spirit of the music teacher, the master singer who gives shape to the elusive and annihilating passage of time.

The Novels of Amit Chaudhuri

Author : Sheo Bhushan Shukla
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176254465
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book The Novels of Amit Chaudhuri written by Sheo Bhushan Shukla and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amit Chaudhuri, b. 1962, Indo-English novelist; contributed articles.

A Strange and Sublime Address

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681378094
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book A Strange and Sublime Address written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer and musician Amit Chaudhuri’s elegant debut novel, in which an Indian ten-year-old experiences the entirely distinct experiences of life in Bombay, where his family lives, and Calcutta, where he visits relatives during his summer vacation. Ten-year-old Sandeep lives in a high-rise in Bombay, where his father has an important job that keeps him busy all the time. Come summer, Sandeep and his mother travel to Calcutta to spend time with his aunt, his self-absorbed and improvident uncle, and Abhi, his favorite cousin. His relatives’ house is shadowy and rambling; the vast city around it ramshackle and alluring. They fascinate curious, observant Sandeep. Days pass; the heat grows; the rains come; the visit ends. In the winter, Sandeep and his family return to Calcutta—and encounter an unexpected turn of events. But Sandeep has arrived at a new sense of things, an understanding of how the marvelous inheres in the mundane, that will be his, we feel, for good. At once delicate and incisive, A Strange and Sublime Address succeeds in both immersing us in a boy’s inner world and depicting that boy and his world from outside. It was Amit Chaudhuri’s first book, the work of a novelist whose striking originality of conception would subsequently become ever more clear. The three decades since the publication of A Strange and Sublime Address have only confirmed its appeal and poetry.

(in)fusion Approach

Author : Ranjan Ghosh
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761834649
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book (in)fusion Approach written by Ranjan Ghosh and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (In)fusion theory challenges efforts to see theory as inhibiting by presenting an approach that is innovative, eclectic, and subtle in order to draw out competing and constellating ideas and opinions. This collected volume of essays examines (In)fusion theory and demonstrates how the theory can be applied to the reading of various works of Indian English novelists.

Finding The Raga

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9390914493
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Finding The Raga written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns essay, memoir and cultural study, Finding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's singular account of his discovery of, and enduring passion for, North Indian music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose principles and practices will alter the reader's notion of what music might - and can - be. Tracing the music's development, Finding the Raga dwells on its most distinctive and mysterious characteristics: its extraordinary approach to time, language and silence; its embrace of confoundment, and its ethos of evocation over representation. The result is a strange gift of a book, for musicians and music lovers, and for any creative mind in search of diverse and transforming inspiration.

The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English

Author : Ed. Mohit K. Ray
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126908325
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English written by Ed. Mohit K. Ray and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended To Serve The Academic Needs Of The Students Of English Literature, The Companion Is An Ultimate Literary Reference Source, Providing An Up-To-Date, Comprehensive And Authoritative Biographies Of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Journalists And Critics Ranging From Literary Giants Of The Past To Contemporary Writers Like Peter Burnes (1931-2004), Anthony Powell (1905-2000), Patrick O Brian (1914-2000), Iris Murdoch (1919-1999), Grace Nicholas (1950- ) And Douglas Adams (1952-2001). Over The Last Few Decades English Literary Canon Has Become Relatively More Extensive And Diverse. In Recognition Of The Significance Of The New Literatures In English, Special Emphasis Has Been Given On The Writers Of These Literatures. In Addition, The Indian Writers Writing In English Have Been Given A Prominent Place In The Book, Thereby Making It Particularly Useful For The Students Of Indian English Literature. The Companion Is Unique Of Its Kind As It Gives A Broad Outline Of The Story And Not Merely A Brief Account Of The Plot Structure Of A Literary Work So As To Enable The Students To Have A Fairly Good Idea Of The Story. Likewise, Before Getting Down To The Writings Of An Author, The Companion Provides An Invaluable And Authoritative Biographical Note Believing That An Author S Biography Facilitates Proper Understanding Of His/Her Contributions.On Account Of Its Clear And Reliable Plot Summaries And Descriptive Entries Of Major Works And Literary Journals And Authentic Biographical Details, The Companion Is A Work Of Permanent Value. It Is Undoubtedly An Indispensable And Path-Breaking Handy Reference Guide For All Those Interested In Literatures In English Produced In The United Kingdom, The United States, Canada, Australia, Africa, The Caribbean, India And Other Countries.

Music and Identity in Postcolonial British South-Asian Literature

Author : Christin Hoene
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317679156
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Music and Identity in Postcolonial British South-Asian Literature written by Christin Hoene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It focuses on novels that explore the postcolonial condition in India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag, Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album, and Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet, with reference to other texts, such as E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and Vikram Seth's An Equal Music. The analyzed novels feature different kinds of music, from Indian classical to non-classical traditions, and from Western classical music to pop music and rock 'n' roll. Music is depicted as a cultural artifact and as a purely aestheticized art form at the same time. As a cultural artifact, music derives meaning from its socio-cultural context of production and serves as a frame of reference to explore postcolonial identities on their own terms. As purely aesthetic art, music escapes its contextual meaning. The transgressive qualities of music render it capable of expressing identities irrespective of origin and politics of location. Thereby, music in the novels marks a very productive space to imagine the postcolonial nation and to rewrite imperial history, to express the cultural hybridity of characters in-between nations, to analyze the state of the nation and life in the multicultural diaspora of contemporary Great Britain, and to explore the ramifications of cultural globalization versus cultural imperialism. It will be a useful research and teaching tool for those interested in postcolonial literature, music studies, cultural studies, contemporary literature and South-Asian literature.

Indian English Novel in the Nineties

Author : Sheo Bhushan Shukla
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176252690
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Indian English Novel in the Nineties written by Sheo Bhushan Shukla and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.

Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2023

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681377004
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2023 written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amit Chaudhuri, one of the most exploratory writers of English-language fiction, has also written and published poetry that shares many of the concerns of his prose while sounding a distinct and memorable note of its own. This book collects the greater portion of that work for the first time, starting with St Cyril Road (2005), Sweet Shop (2019), Ramanujan (2021), and a selection of new and uncollected poems, as well as translations from Bengali.

St. Cyril Road and Other Poems

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780670058211
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book St. Cyril Road and Other Poems written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In St Cyril Road And Other Poems, His First Collection Of Verse, Amit Chaudhuri Brings Together Many Of The Poems He Has Written Over The Last Two Decades. The Early Poems Are Permeated With A Sense Of Place And An Understated But Powerful Belief In The Capacity Of Language To Renovate Our Perceptions Of The Everyday Qualities We Have Now Come To Associate With Chaudhuri S Fiction. The Later Poems Might Be Said To Be About The Heterogeneity And Unpredictability Of Inspiration A Walk To The Local Medical Store, A Whiff Of Old Spice Aftershave, War In Iraq, Voices Overheard In A Multi-Storeyed Building, A Seasonal Downpour, A Kashmiri Apple & Luminous And Redolent, These Poems Magnify Our Sense Of The Many Worlds That Form Our Past And Present.

The Politics of English as a World Language

Author : Christian Mair
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042008762
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of English as a World Language written by Christian Mair and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex politics of English as a world language provides the backdrop both for linguistic studies of varieties of English around the world and for postcolonial literary criticism. The present volume offers contributions from linguists and literary scholars that explore this common ground in a spirit of open interdisciplinary dialogue. Leading authorities assess the state of the art to suggest directions for further research, with substantial case studies ranging over a wide variety of topics - from the legitimacy of language norms of lingua franca communication to the recognition of newer post-colonial varieties of English in the online OED. Four regional sections treat the Caribbean (including the diaspora), Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Australasia and the Pacific Rim. Each section maintains a careful balance between linguistics and literature, and external and indigenous perspectives on issues. The book is the most balanced, complete and up-to-date treatment of the topic to date.

Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture

Author : Alison Donnell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134700253
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture written by Alison Donnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture is the first comprehensive reference book to provide multidisciplinary coverage of the field of black cultural production in Britain. The publication is of particular value because despite attracting growing academic interest in recent years, this field is still often subject to critical and institutional neglect. For the purpose of the Companion, the term 'black' is used to signify African, Caribbean and South Asian ethnicities, while at the same time addressing the debates concerning notions of black Britishness and cultural identity. This single volume Companion covers seven intersecting areas of black British cultural production since 1970: writing, music, visual and plastic arts, performance works, film and cinema, fashion and design, and intellectual life. With entries on distinguished practitioners, key intellectuals, seminal organizations and concepts, as well as popular cultural forms and local activities, the Companion is packed with information and suggestions for further reading, as well as offering a wide lens on the events and issues that have shaped the cultural interactions and productions of black Britain over the last thirty years. With a range of specialist advisors and contributors, this work promises to be an invaluable sourcebook for students, researchers and academics interested in exploring the diverse, complex and exciting field of black cultural forms in postcolonial Britain.

Finding the Raga

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 168137479X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Finding the Raga written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography An autobiographical exploration of the role and meaning of music in our world by one of India's greatest living authors, himself a vocalist and performer. Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic, and essayist, is also a musician, trained in the Indian classical vocal tradition but equally fluent as a guitarist and singer in the American folk music style, who has recorded his experimental compositions extensively and performed around the world. A turning point in his life took place when, as a lonely teenager living in a high-rise in Bombay, far from his family’s native Calcutta, he began, contrary to all his prior inclinations, to study Indian classical music. Finding the Raga chronicles that transformation and how it has continued to affect and transform not only how Chaudhuri listens to and makes music but how he listens to and thinks about the world at large. Offering a highly personal introduction to Indian music, the book is also a meditation on the differences between Indian and Western music and art-making as well as the ways they converge in a modernism that Chaudhuri reframes not as a twentieth-century Western art movement but as a fundamental mode of aesthetic response, at once immemorial and extraterritorial. Finding the Raga combines memoir, practical and cultural criticism, and philosophical reflection with the same individuality and flair that Chaudhuri demonstrates throughout a uniquely wide-ranging, challenging, and enthralling body of work.

Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis

Author : Cecile Sandten
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004328769
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis written by Cecile Sandten and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of the postcolonial metropolis has gained prominence in the last two decades both within and beyond postcolonial studies. Disciplines such as sociology and urban studies, however, have tended to focus on the economic inequalities, class disparities, and other structural and formative aspects of the postcolonial metropolises that are specific to Western conceptions of the city at large. It is only recently that the depiction of postcolonial metropolises has been addressed in the writings of Suketu Mehta, Chris Abani, Amit Chaudhuri, Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Helon Habila, Sefi Atta, and Zakes Mda, among others. Most of these works probe the urban specifics and physical and cultural topographies of postcolonial cities while highlighting their agential capacity to defy, appropriate, and abrogate the superimposition of theories of Western modernity and urbanism. These ASNEL Papers are all concerned with the idea of the postcolonial (in the) metropolis from various disciplinary viewpoints, as drawn from a great range of cityscapes (spread out over five continents). The essays explore, on the one hand, ideas of spatial subdivision and inequality, political repression, social discrimination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation, and, on the other, the possibility of transforming, reinventing and reconfigurating the ‘postcolonial condition’ in and through literary texts and visual narratives. In this context, the volume covers a broad spectrum of theoretical and thematic approaches to postcolonial and metropolitan topographies and their depictions in writings from Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, South Asia, and greater Asia, as well as the UK, addressing issues such as modernity and market economies but also caste, class, and social and linguistic aspects. At the same time, they reflect on the postcolonial metropolis and postcolonialism in the metropolis by concentrating on an urban imaginary which turns on notions of spatial subdivision and inequality, political repression, social discrimination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation – as the continuing ‘postcolonial’ condition.

A Sea for Encounters

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9042027657
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Sea for Encounters written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains general essays on: the relevance of ‘Commonwealth’ literature; the treatment of Dalits in literature and culture; the teaching of African literature in the UK; ‘sharing places’ and Drum magazine in South Africa; black British book covers as primers for cultural contact; Christianity, imperialism, and conversion; Orang Pendek and Papuans in colonial Indonesia; Carnival and drama in the anglophone Caribbean; issues of choice between the Maltese language and Its Others; and patterns of interaction between married couples in Malta. As well as these, there are essays providing close readings of works by the following authors: Chinua Achebe, André Aciman, Diran Adebayo, Monica Ali, Edward Atiyah, Margaret Atwood, Murray Bail, Peter Carey, Amit Chaudhuri, Austin Clarke, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Antjie Krog, Hanif Kureishi, Naguib Mahfouz, David Malouf, V.S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, Tayeb Salih, Zadie Smith, Ahdaf Soueif, Yvonne Vera. Contributors: Jogamaya Bayer, Katrin Berndt, Sabrina Brancato, Monica Bungaro, Judith Lütge Coulli, Robert Cribb, Natasha Distiller, Evelyne Hanquart–Turner, Marie Herbillon, Tuomas Huttunen, Gen’ichiro Itakura, Jacqueline Jondot, Karen King–Aribisala, Ursula Kluwick, Dorothy Lane, Ben Lebdai, Lourdes López–Ropero, Amin Malak, Daniel Massa, Concepción Mengibar–Rico, Susanne Reichl, Brigitte Scheer–Schaezler, Lydia Sciriha, Jamie S. Scott, Andrea Strolz, Peter O. Stummer, Cynthia vanden Driesen, Clare Thake Vassallo.

10 Thaats in Harmonium

Author : Sadakat Aman Khan
Publisher : Mr. Harmonium
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 10 Thaats in Harmonium written by Sadakat Aman Khan and published by Mr. Harmonium. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well explained Book about 10 Thaats of Hindustani Classical Music and How to play 10 thaats in Harmonium are written in this book with correct finger patterns and clear diagrams.