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Secret Writings of Hoshang Merchant

Author : Akshaya K. Rath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199089612
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Secret Writings of Hoshang Merchant written by Akshaya K. Rath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never a shrinking violet, Hoshang Merchant came out of the closet early in his youth. A bard, a teacher, and a lover who has lived many lives, he is the quintessential gay who once cross-dressed, and yet defies categorization. In Secret Writings, he recounts his extraordinary life and splendid experiences ranging across countries and cultures. His is a story of the prejudice and neglect that are part of everyday gay life, and how he channelled his despair into creating poetry. He quotes Rumi, Ghalib, and Mir, and writes with searing honesty about his long and short love affairs, his ‘improbable’ sex life as both an initiator and a yielding partner, and his inner turmoil. Sex becomes love and love becomes poetry in his writing. Merchant yells at the moral guardians of law and culture, asks uncomfortable questions, and shocks his readers. This rare book opens a window to the myriad worlds of an avant-garde.

Homosexuality in Contemporary Indian Literature : Issues and Challenges

Author : Dipak Giri
Publisher : Dipak Giri
ISBN 13 : 9388963016
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Homosexuality in Contemporary Indian Literature : Issues and Challenges written by Dipak Giri and published by Dipak Giri. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since there is rarity and non-availabilty of book compiling the works of contemporary Indian writers on the theme of homosexuality, the book, Homosexuality in Contemporary Indian Literaure: Issues and Challenges is prepared in such a way as to meet this paucity. Authors are hopeful that the book with its diversity of topics will instill knowledge into the critical minds and explore many unexplored areas of gender and sexuality.

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English

Author : Manju Jaidka
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000933229
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English written by Manju Jaidka and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, Indian writing in English is a fi eld of study that cannot be overlooked. Whereas at the turn of the 20th century, writers from India who chose to write in English were either unheeded or underrated, with time the literary world has been forced to recognize and accept their contribution to the corpus of world literatures in English. Showcasing the burgeoning field of Indian English writing, this encyclopedia documents the poets, novelists, essayists, and dramatists of Indian origin since the pre-independence era and their dedicated works. Written by internationally recognized scholars, this comprehensive reference book explores the history and development of Indian writers, their major contributions, and the critical reception accorded to them. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English will be a valuable resource to students, teachers, and academics navigating the vast area of contemporary world literature.

All My Masters

Author : Hoshang Merchant
Publisher : Queer Ink
ISBN 13 : 1922605026
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book All My Masters written by Hoshang Merchant and published by Queer Ink. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you have lived as fully and openly as poet, professor, and gay Indian icon of a generation, Hoshang Merchant, what secrets are there left to tell? Plenty, as it turns out. And in All My Masters, Merchant tells the story of the times and places and people that have made him. Many of them are famous; some of them - until now - barely known. In this wild ride across the Middle East, Europe, the United States, and back to India, Merchant describes himself as 'homeless for 20 years'. And yet it is always clear that he knows exactly who he is. By turns sharply insightful, wickedly funny, poetic, and tender, All My Masters tells the story of a 'homosexual Parsi, Christian by education, Hindu by culture, Sufi by persuasion'. Any one of those journeys would be enough for most people, but Hoshang Merchant embraces all of them, and in giving himself the freedom to do so, he hopes to liberate others like him. Exhilarating and courageous in its honesty, All My Masters is the unforgettable story of many lives in one.

Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions [2 volumes]

Author : Susan de-Gaia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions [2 volumes] written by Susan de-Gaia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference offers reliable knowledge about women's diverse faith practices throughout history and prehistory, and across cultures. Across the span of human history, women have participated in world-building and life-sustaining cultural creativity, making enormous contributions to religion and spirituality. In the contemporary period, women have achieved greater equality, with more educational opportunities, female role models in public life, and opportunities for religious expression than ever before. Contemporaneously with this increased visibility, women are actively and energetically engaging with religion for themselves and for their communities. Drawing on the expertise of a range of scholars, this reference chronicles the religious experiences of women across time and cultures. The book includes sections on major religions as well as on spirituality, African religions, prehistoric religions, and other broad topics. Each section begins with an introduction, followed by reference entries on specialized subjects along with excerpts from primary source documents. The entries provide numerous suggestions for further reading, and the book closes with a detailed bibliography.

Contemporary Icons of Nonviolence

Author : Anna Hamling
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527541738
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Icons of Nonviolence written by Anna Hamling and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 marked notable anniversaries for two of the most widely recognised icons of the philosophy of nonviolence, representing seventy years since the birth of Dr Martin Luther King Jr and the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. Both brought significant, constructive, and far-reaching social and political change to the world. This volume offers an innovative perspective, placing them, their beliefs and theories within the chronology of the tradition of nonviolence, beginning with Lev Nikolaevicz Tolstoy and encompassing the likes of Óscar Romero, Nelson Mandela, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, and Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan. This collection of essays explores diverse understandings of the concepts of nonviolence in a philosophical and religious context. It also highlights the application of the techniques of nonviolence in the 21st century.

Women’s and Gender Studies in India

Author : Anu Aneja
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429655789
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Women’s and Gender Studies in India written by Anu Aneja and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book frames the major debates and contemporary issues in women’s and gender studies in India. It locates them in the context of key theories, their interlinkages, and significant crossings and overlaps within the field while juxtaposing feminist and queer perspectives. The essays in the volume foreground emerging challenges as well as offer clues to future trajectories for women’s and gender studies in the country through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary survey of intersectionalities in feminist activism and theory; gender, caste and class; feminist, masculinity, queer and transgender studies; disability and feminism; feminist and queer pedagogies; and Indian, Western and transnational feminisms. The volume traces how gender studies have shaped established social science as well as interpretative and representational discourses (psychoanalysis, literature, aesthetics, cinema, new media studies and folklore). It examines their strategic potential to draw upon and transform these areas in national and international contexts. This book will be useful to students, teachers and researchers in women’s studies, gender studies, cultural studies, queer studies and South Asian studies.

The Man Who Would Be Queen

Author : Hoshang Merchant
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9353052505
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Would Be Queen written by Hoshang Merchant and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘As everyone knows by now, I’m homosexual.’ To write this sentence and to speak it publicly, which is a great liberation, is why I write. Provocative and percipient, The Man Who Would Be Queen is a collection of lyric essays on the self that flaunts itself as autobiographical fiction. In the words of its writer: ‘The art of living is the art of creating life-fictions.’ The first and second sections of the autobiography take us through the garden of delight or the no-man’s-land of childhood, and the circle of hell or the coming of age years; it is in the penultimate section ‘How I write/Why I write’ that the poet achieves the desired garden of bliss. Lyrical and erudite, playful and dark, The Man Who Would Be Queen is a significant landmark in Indian writing, both as the autobiography of a homosexual and of a poet.

Gay Icons of India

Author : Hoshang Merchant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789386215956
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Gay Icons of India written by Hoshang Merchant and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Secret Writings of Hoshang Merchant

Author : Hoshang Merchant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199086962
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Secret Writings of Hoshang Merchant written by Hoshang Merchant and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never a shrinking violet, Hoshang Merchant came out of the closet early in his youth. A bard, a teacher, and a lover who has lived many lives, he is the quintessential gay who once cross-dressed, and yet defies categorization. Here he recounts his extraordinary life and splendid experiences ranging across countries and cultures. His is a story of the prejudice and neglect that are part of everyday gay life, and how he channelled his despair into creating poetry. He quotes Rumi, Ghalib, and Mir, and writes with searing honesty about his long and short love affairs.

The Indian National Bibliography

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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The World That Belongs To Us

Author : Aditi Angiras
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9353574587
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book The World That Belongs To Us written by Aditi Angiras and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A bold and necessary correction to the subcontinent's poetry canon.' - Jeet Thayil This first-of-its-kind anthology brings together the best of contemporary queer poetry from South Asia, both from the subcontinent and its many diasporas.The anthology features well-known voices like Hoshang Merchant, Ruth Vanita, Suniti Namjoshi, Kazim Ali, Rajiv Mohabir as well as a host of new poets. The themes range from desire and loneliness, sexual intimacy and struggles, caste and language, activism both on the streets and in the homes, the role of family both given and chosen, and heartbreaks and heartjoins. Writing from Bangalore, Baroda, Benares, Boston, Chennai, Colombo, Dhaka, Delhi, Dublin, Karachi, Kathmandu, Lahore, London, New York City, and writing in languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Urdu, Manipuri, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, and, of course, English, the result is an urgent, imaginative and beautiful testament to the diversity, politics, aesthetics and ethics of queer life in South Asia today.

The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South

Author : Alfred J. López
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000959147
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South written by Alfred J. López and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion Literature and the Global South offers a comprehensive overview of the field at a key moment in its development—a snapshot of where Global South literary studies stands in its second decade. As the aftermath of a string of global cataclysms since the rise of neoliberal globalization has demonstrated, it is the poor, the disenfranchised, and the marginalized who consistently bear the brunt of the suffering. What defines the Global South is the recognition across the world that globalization’s promised bounties have not materialized. It has failed as a global master narrative. Global South studies centers on three general areas: Globalization, its aftermath/failure, and how those on the economic bottom survive it. Organized into three parts, this volume consists of original essays by 25 contributors from around the world. Part I focuses on the origins and objects of Global South studies, and how this field has come to define and historicize its organizing concept. Part II considers subsequent critical developments in Global South studies, particularly those that embrace interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches. Part III features case studies which highlight a range of applications and interventions. The contributors critique the boundaries and definitions explored in the earlier parts and push "settled" literatures or methods into new analytical spaces. This innovative collection is an invaluable resource for anyone studying and researching Global South studies and literature, but also those interested in world literature, contemporary literature, postcolonialism, decolonizing the curriculum, critical race studies, gender studies, and politics.

An Introduction to the Study of Indian History

Author : Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9788171540389
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of Indian History written by Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-11-05 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the culmination of patient research and mature reflection of a profoundly original mind and has earned universal recognition and honour over the last few decades.

Facing the Mirror

Author : Ashwini Sukthankar
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780140283099
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Facing the Mirror written by Ashwini Sukthankar and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1999 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Collection Brings Together For The First Time The Richness And Diversity Of Lesbian Existence In India, Through Fiction And Poetry, Essays And Personal History. Countering The Images Of Perverse Desire Generated By Decades Of Lurid Speculation, The Writers Quarry Memory And Imagination To Describe What It Really Means To Be A Woman Who Loves Other Women.

Sufiana : Poems

Author : Hoshang Merchant
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9789350296394
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Sufiana : Poems written by Hoshang Merchant and published by Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'And at night they close Rumi's museum(for this is what they call his mosque since Ataturk)And a Sufi in green praying at the doorBought a poor vendor's entire store of tomatoesSo he would not sleep hungry(And he wasn't even a Turk, he was American' The cloth is torn Come love, bring me a needle The needle of love For the torn cloth of friendship, my friend, my love.Let us make love one last time ... Such is the magic of Hoshang's poetry. In and out of cultures, countries, homes and beds, Hoshang has his innocence and spirit undimmed. And both shine through luminously in these poems. These poems contextualize Sufism for the twenty-first century using the wisdom and music of the East. This is indeed a glorious addition to the growing list of new world poetry.

Yaraana

Author : Hoshang Merchant
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9352141881
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Yaraana written by Hoshang Merchant and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of gay identity in South Asia. From Ashok Row Kavi's autobiographical piece on growing up gay in Bombay to Vikram Seth's brilliantly etched account of a homosexual relationship in The Golden Gate, the stories, poems, plays and prose extracts in this collection cover a range of literary styles, themes and sensibilities. Mahesh Dattani's play Night Queen is significant as one of the first serious attempts at dramatizing homosexuality on the Indian stage; the poems by R. Raj Rao included here are part of a series that formed the basis for the Bollywood film Bomgay; and the poetry of Dinyar Godrej, Adil Jussawalla and Sultan Padamsee is searing in its intensity. Apart from the pieces written originally in English, there are works translated from Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and other Indian languages, which speak of the agony and the joy of being a man in love with other men. Extracts from the work of well-known writers including Bhupen Khakkar, Kamleshwar and Vishnu Khandekar provide a rare insight into the lives of homosexual men in India s small towns and villages. An extract from Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy details an account of growing up gay in war-torn Sri Lanka, while K.C. Ajay, an illiterate taxi driver, gives us an alternate glimpse of love and friendship in Nepal. Pieces such as these along with the poetry of Agha Shahid Ali and Iftikhar Naseem expand the scope of this collection to include writers from South Asia. With wit, passion and courage, these writings bring to the fore the true meaning of yaraana or male friendship and bonding, an often ignored facet of South Asian life and sexuality.