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Download or read book Hangwoman written by K R Meera and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grddha Mullick family bursts with marvellous tales of hangmen and hangings in which they figure as eyewitnesses to the momentous events that have shaped the history of the subcontinent. When twenty-two-year-old Chetna Grddha Mullick is appointed the first woman executioner in India, assistant and successor to her father, her life explodes under the harsh lights of television cameras. When the day of the execution arrives, will she bring herself to take a life? Meera’s spectacular imagination turns the story of Chetna’s life into an epic and perverse coming-of-age tale. The lurid pleasures of voyeurism and the punishing ironies of violence are kept in agile balance as the drama hurtles to its inevitable climax.
Download or read book The Hangwoman written by Pavel Kohout and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1981 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gospel of Yudas written by K R Meera and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young and impressionable, Prema is deeply infatuated with Yudas, the enigmatic man who dredges corpses from the bottom of the nearby lake. Longing to be rescued from the tyranny of her father, a former policeman who zealously tortured Naxalite rebels during the Emergency, Prema dreams of escape and finds herself drawn to the Naxal political ideology. Convinced that Yudas was one of the inmates at her father’s prison camp, Prema believes that only he can save her. But Yudas is haunted by secrets of his own and, like his biblical namesake Judas Iscariot, bears the burden of crushing guilt.
Author :Independent Writer K R Meera Publisher :Penguin Random House India Pvt.Limited ISBN 13 :9780143435532 Total Pages :128 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (355 download)
Book Synopsis The Poison of Love by : Independent Writer K R Meera
Download or read book The Poison of Love written by Independent Writer K R Meera and published by Penguin Random House India Pvt.Limited. This book was released on 2017 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Unseeing Idol of Light by : K R Meera
Download or read book The Unseeing Idol of Light written by K R Meera and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One fateful day, Deepti vanishes mysteriously. Baffled by her disappearance and consumed with grief, Prakash, her husband, loses his eyesight. For Prakash, the inexplicable loss of his wife is doubly painful because she was pregnant with their child. And no amount of consolation can bring him solace in the years that ensue. Into this void steps Rajani, a woman with a tormented past. Despite her initial disdain of Prakash, she steadily finds herself drawn to him. And although an intense desire brings them together, Prakash is unable to give Rajani the love she craves just as he is powerless to dispel the luminous memory of Deepti. But where will this grave obsession lead? The Unseeing Idol of Light is a haunting tale that explores love and loss, blindness and sight, obsession and suffering-and the poignant interconnections between them.
Book Synopsis Yellow Is the Colour of Longing by : K.R. Meera
Download or read book Yellow Is the Colour of Longing written by K.R. Meera and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A literary heavyweight’—Indian Express In these bold, wry and ebullient stories, Meera’s astonishing range of narrative techniques is on full display as she expertly lays bare the faultlines behind the façade of everyday life, sometimes with dark humour and sometimes with astoundingly bitter sadness.
Book Synopsis Ferocious Irish Women by : Edmund Lenihan
Download or read book Ferocious Irish Women written by Edmund Lenihan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of five women from Irish history who illustrate the fact that women in the past were not voiceless and subservient. The women in the book are: Aoibheall the banshee; Maire Rua McMahon; Lady Betty, the Roscommon hangwoman; Moll Shaughnessy; and Alice Kyteler of Kilkenny.
Book Synopsis Ugly Prey by : Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi
Download or read book Ugly Prey written by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ugly Prey tells the riveting story of poor Italian immigrant Sabella Nitti, the first woman ever sentenced to hang in Chicago, in 1923, for the alleged murder of her husband. Journalist Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi leads readers through the case, showing how, with no evidence and no witnesses, Nitti was the target of an obsessed deputy sheriff and the victim of a faulty legal system. She was also—to the men who convicted her and reporters fixated on her—ugly. For that unforgiveable crime, the media painted her as a hideous, dirty, and unpredictable immigrant, almost an animal. Featuring two other fascinating women—the ambitious and ruthless journalist who helped demonize Sabella through her reports and the brilliant, beautiful, 23-year-old lawyer who helped humanize her with a jailhouse makeover—Ugly Prey is not just a page-turning courtroom drama but also a thought-provoking look at the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and class within the American justice system.
Book Synopsis No Presents Please by : Jayant Kaikini
Download or read book No Presents Please written by Jayant Kaikini and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here are stories on the pathos and comedy of small–town migrants struggling to build a life in the big city, with the dream world of Bollywood never far away. Jayant Kaikini’s gaze takes in the people in the corners of Mumbai—a bus driver who, denied vacation time, steals the bus to travel home; a slum dweller who catches cats and sells them for pharmaceutical testing; a father at his wit’s end who takes his mischievous son to a reform institution. In this metropolis, those who seek find epiphanies in dark movie theaters, the jostle of local trains, and even in roadside keychains and lost thermos flasks. Here, in the shade of an unfinished overpass, a factory–worker and her boyfriend browse wedding invitations bearing wealthy couples’ affectations—”no presents please”—and look once more at what they own. Translated from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana, these resonant stories, recently awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, take us to photo framers, flower markets, and Irani cafes, revealing a city trading in fantasies while its strivers, eating once a day and sleeping ten to a room, hold secret ambitions close.
Book Synopsis On the Far Side of Memory by : Lalithambika Antharjanam
Download or read book On the Far Side of Memory written by Lalithambika Antharjanam and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housewife by day, daring writer at night, seated on the bare floor, this thinker of gender engaged with the thriving social and community reform movements of early-mid twentieth century Malayali society. The first prominent voice who spoke on behalf of women, the first startling insights that represented the struggle against the repression of the women of the Namboodiri Brahmin community, Lalithambika Antharjanam’s stories cover half a century of her engagement with caste, gender, and nationalist uprisings. In writing some of the founding texts of feminism in Kerala, she made powerful feminist interventions into literary realism in Kerala. Relatively unknown outside Kerala and yet to receive the critical attention that is her due, this book seeks to resurrect Lalithambika as a feminist public intellectual.
Download or read book Centrestage written by Uday Mahurkar and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Narendra Modi’s government innovative and free of vote-bank politics? How did Narendra Modi bring 24-hour, three-phase domestic power supply to 18,000 villages in Gujarat? How did Modi turn the forlorn Kutch into a top tourist destination? One of the most hotly debated topics in this general elections has been the development and governance of Narendra Modi’s government in Gujarat. In Centrestage, Uday Mahurkar tries to present a balanced assessment of Narendra Modi’s government by uncovering and analysing the Modi mantra of governance. With chapters on energy, technology, agriculture, finance, and innovation to name a few, Mahurkar aims at understanding and revealing the ground reality through facts and research beyond the media hype. Has Gujarat really made progress under Narendra Modi? Is Narendra Modi really a visionary and a good administrator? Read Centrestage to find out and get an insider’s view of Narendra Modi’s governance from a man who has followed him closely for the past three decades.
Book Synopsis Tell Her Everything by : Mirza Waheed
Download or read book Tell Her Everything written by Mirza Waheed and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] a powerful tale of guilt and betrayal…Tell Her Everything…is about a doctor who betrays the principle of empathy. But it is through the empathic act of writing – of putting pen to paper and reckoning with those who have suffered at his hands – that he succeeds in recovering his humanity and coming back from his own living death…plotted with great care.” —The Guardian "Tell Her Everything is a layered recital of intricately woven hauntings, decisions, and confessions...[A] story that is at once haunting, tender, and gripping." — Chicago Review of Books A doctor working in a prosperous Middle Eastern city finds himself placed in an unconscionable situation ... As he prepares for a visit from his long-estranged daughter, Dr K., a retired surgeon enjoying the comforts of retirement in London, rehearses the conversation he will finally have with her. It’s been years since he has seen her, and he has spent much of that time polishing the confession he wants to make to her. But as her visit draws closer, he finds his memories to be freshly torturous. He recalls leaving his childhood home in India to accept a dream job, working for a state hospital in a prosperous oil monarchy. Suddenly, he'd had access to a lifestyle that he would never have had back home. Money and success came quickly . . . as long as he performed certain tasks for the state. The price for that proved steep and often unbearable, especially to a wife and daughter who watch him walk the perilous path of lifelong ambition. Tell Her Everything is a tense, visceral, and moving novel about a father's love for his daughter, and about a medical professional grappling with remorse, shame and despair. Recalling the work of Ishiguro, Coetzee and Kafka, it asks: Where does one draw the line between empathy and sacrifice? Between integrity and survival? Between prosperity and love?
Book Synopsis Hanging Woman Creek by : Louis L'Amour
Download or read book Hanging Woman Creek written by Louis L'Amour and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barnabus Pike is no gunfighter and not much of a street fighter. Eddie Holt is a black boxer in a white man's world. They've both taken their share of hard knocks. Now they're looking to survive a brutal winter in a remote Montana line shack, collect their pay, and settle down for good. Then they cross paths with a hardworking Irish immigrant and his beautiful, spirited sister, who've been burned off their land. It's a fight Pike and Holt don't want, don't need, and don't dare turn their backs on—especially when one of the perpetrators might be one of Pike's old friends. Hunted like animals across the frozen countryside, Pike and Holt will risk everything—including their reputations, their dreams—and their lives.
Book Synopsis The Angel's Beauty Spots by : K. R. Meera
Download or read book The Angel's Beauty Spots written by K. R. Meera and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Angel's Beauty Spots' is a disquieting story about Angela's repeated infidelities and the trauma of failed love; in 'And Forgetting the Tree, I...' Radhika tries to come to terms with a former love that refuses to leave her; and 'The Deepest Blue' uses magic and metaphor to tell the story of a wife who yearns for a love that transcends lifetimes.
Book Synopsis What Millennials Want by : Vivan Marwaha
Download or read book What Millennials Want written by Vivan Marwaha and published by India Viking. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That means that the choices and trajectory of this generation have pivotal consequences on local, regional, and global politics and economics. So the important question is: What do Indian millennials want? What are their economic aspirations and their social views? Most importantly, what makes them tick? It's 2021 and more than 84% of them reported having an arranged marriage, and 65% listed a government job as their top priority. So are millennials really any different from previous generations? In What Millennials Want, Vivan Marwaha documents the aspirations and anxieties of these young people scattered across more than 30,000 kilometers in 13 Indian states. Combining an expansive dataset along with personal anecdotes, he narrates an intimate biography of India's millennials, investigating their attitudes towards sex, marriage, employment, religion, and politics.
Download or read book Yogiplate written by RADHAVALLABHA. DAS and published by Ebury Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In the Country of Deceit by : Shashi Deshpande
Download or read book In the Country of Deceit written by Shashi Deshpande and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-06-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did I do it? Why did I enter the country of deceit? What took me into it? I hesitate to use the word love, but what other word is there?' Devayani chooses to live alone in the small town of Rajnur after her parents' death, ignoring the gently voiced disapproval of her family and friends. Teaching English, creating a garden and making friends with Rani, a former actress who settles in the town with her husband and three children, Devayani's life is tranquil, imbued with a hard-won independence. Then she meets Ashok Chinappa, Rajnur's new District Superintendent of Police, and they fall in love despite the fact that Ashok is much older, married, and-as both painfully acknowledge from the very beginning-it is a relationship without a future. Deshpande's unflinching gaze tracks the suffering, evasions and lies that overtake those caught in the web of subterfuge. There are no hostages taken in the country of deceit; no victors; only scarred lives. This understated yet compassionate examination of the nature of love, loyalty and deception establishes yet again Deshpande's position as one of India's most formidable writers of fiction
