The Saga of Dharmapuri

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Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
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Download or read book The Saga of Dharmapuri written by O. V. Vijayan and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1988 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Indira Gandhi and the Emergency as Viewed in the Indian Novel

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Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176254618
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Download or read book Indira Gandhi and the Emergency as Viewed in the Indian Novel written by Dr. O. P. Mathur and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Of The Indian Novels On Emergency - Includes Studie Of Quite A Few Important Novels On The Subject - A Chapter That Covers The Novels Of Salman Rushdie - Raj Gill - Nayantara Sehgal - Manohar Malgaonkar - Shashi Tharoor - O.P. Vijayan - Arun Joshi - Rohington Mistry - Balwant Gargi - Ranjit Gargi - Ranjit Lal - Also Covers Briefly Non-English Indian Emergency Novel - Index.

Selected Fiction

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Total Pages : 660 pages
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Download or read book Selected Fiction written by O. V. Vijayan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Superb Collection Of Fiction From One Of India S Greatest Living Writers Some Of The Stories Included In This Collection Are: -The Legends Of Khasak -The Saga Of Dharmapuri -The Infinity Of Grace O.V. Vijayan Is One Of The Most Brilliant And Original Of The Contemporary Indian Authors. His Fiction, Written In Malayalam, Is Complex And Poetic, A Sumptuous Blend Of Myth, Dark Humour, Eroticism, Mystical Insights And A Uniquely Indian Brand Of Magic Realism. This Collection Brings Together For The First Time All Four Of Vijayan S Books Translated Into English So Far. In His Much-Acclaimed First Novel The Legends Of Khasak , Ravi, A Schoolteacher, Arrives In The Remote Village Of Khasak And Is Gradually Engulfed By The Dreams And Fables Of That Ancient Land. In The Controversial Political Allegory The Saga Of Dharmapuri , The Tyrannical President Of Dharmapuri And Siddhaartha, A Travelling Mystic And Messiah, Engage In An Unending Symbolic Battle. In The Award-Winning The Infinity Of Grace , Kunjunni, A Journalist, Goes To Calcutta To Cover The Bangladesh War, And Attempts To Reconnect With His Estranged Wife And Daughter Who Live There. Through The Personal Trauma That Follows, He Arrives At A Transcendental Understanding Of Life And The Harmony Implicit In Apparently Chaotic Events. The Final Section Of This Volume Comprises Twenty-One Short Stories-Which Include Classics Such As After The Hanging , Oil , Wind Flowers , Anachronisms And The Foetus . Together, They Bear Testimony To Vijayan S Skills As An Unusually Innovative And Evocative Writer Of Romances, Parables And Tales Of The Supernatural. A Definitive Collection, Selected Fiction Is Like A Good Piece Of Halwa. You Ll Never Want It To End. And By The Time You Re Through With It You Will Be A Member Of The Vijayan Fan Club. -The Week

Legends of Khasak

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Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143063674
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Legends of Khasak written by O. V. Vijayan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A restlessness born of guilt and despair leads Ravi to embark on a journey that ends in the remote village of Khasak in the picturesque Palghat countryside in Kerala. A land from the past, potent with dreams and legends, enfolds the traveller in a powerful and unsettling embrace. Ravi is bewitched and entranced as everything around him-the villagers; their children whom he teaches in a makeshift school; the elders who see him as a threat; the toddy-tappers; the shamans-takes on the quality of myth. And then reality, painful and threatening, begins to intrude on the sojourner's resting place and Ravi begins to understand that there is no escape from the relentless dictates of karma... Often poetic and dark, always complex and rich, The Legends of Khasak, O.V. Vijayan's much-acclaimed first novel, translated into English by the author, is an extraordinary achievement

After the Hanging and Other Stories

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Publisher : Penguin Group
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Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book After the Hanging and Other Stories written by O. V. Vijayan and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1989 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rethinking Development

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Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788170227649
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Development written by and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the International Conference on Kerala's Development Experience organized in New Delhi from 8 to 11 December 1996.

Ravan and Eddie

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176510
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Book Synopsis Ravan and Eddie by : Kiran Nagarkar

Download or read book Ravan and Eddie written by Kiran Nagarkar and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ravan and Eddie are the unlikeliest of companions. For one thing, Ravan is Hindu, while Eddie is Catholic. For another, when Ravan was a baby and fell from a balcony, that fall had a dramatic, and very literal, impact on Eddie’s family. But Ravan and Eddie both live in Central Works Department Chawl No. 17—and if you grow up in the crowded Mumbai chawls, you get to participate in your neighbors' lives, whether you like it or not. As we watch the two unlikely heroes of Kiran Nagarkar's acclaimed novel rocket out of the starting blocks of their lives, leaving earth-mothers and absentee fathers, cataclysms and rock ’n’ roll in their wake, we're compelled to sit up and take notice. Recently selected by The Guardian as one of the ten best novels about Mumbai, Ravan and Eddie is a comic masterpiece about two larger- and truer-than-life characters and their bawdy, Rabelaisian adventures in postcolonial India. It is also a timeless journey of self-discovery, a quest for the meaning of guilt and responsibility, sin and sex, crime and punishment.

Tale of a Tamarind Tree

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Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis Tale of a Tamarind Tree by : Cuntara Rāmacāmi

Download or read book Tale of a Tamarind Tree written by Cuntara Rāmacāmi and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Novel, One Of The Finest To Come Out Of Contemporary India, Tells The Memorable Tale Of The Tamarind Tree, Of The Lives Of Men And Women Who Sought Its Shelter And Of Their Greed, Goodness, Selfishness, Sacrifice, Love And Hatred.

The Difficulty of Being Good

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199779600
Total Pages : 487 pages
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Book Synopsis The Difficulty of Being Good by : Gurcharan Das

Download or read book The Difficulty of Being Good written by Gurcharan Das and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should we be good? How should we be good? And how might we more deeply understand the moral and ethical failings--splashed across today's headlines--that have not only destroyed individual lives but caused widespread calamity as well, bringing communities, nations, and indeed the global economy to the brink of collapse? In The Difficulty of Being Good, Gurcharan Das seeks answers to these questions in an unlikely source: the 2,000 year-old Sanskrit epic, Mahabharata. A sprawling, witty, ironic, and delightful poem, the Mahabharata is obsessed with the elusive notion of dharma--in essence, doing the right thing. When a hero does something wrong in a Greek epic, he wastes little time on self-reflection; when a hero falters in the Mahabharata, the action stops and everyone weighs in with a different and often contradictory take on dharma. Each major character in the epic embodies a significant moral failing or virtue, and their struggles mirror with uncanny precision our own familiar emotions of anxiety, courage, despair, remorse, envy, compassion, vengefulness, and duty. Das explores the Mahabharata from many perspectives and compares the successes and failures of the poem's characters to those of contemporary individuals, many of them highly visible players in the world of economics, business, and politics. In every case, he finds striking parallels that carry lessons for everyone faced with ethical and moral dilemmas in today's complex world. Written with the flair and seemingly effortless erudition that have made Gurcharan Das a bestselling author around the world--and enlivened by Das's forthright discussion of his own personal search for a more meaningful life--The Difficulty of Being Good shines the light of an ancient poem on the most challenging moral ambiguities of modern life.

Selected Fiction

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Total Pages : 660 pages
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Download or read book Selected Fiction written by O. V. Vijayan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Superb Collection Of Fiction From One Of India S Greatest Living Writers Some Of The Stories Included In This Collection Are: -The Legends Of Khasak -The Saga Of Dharmapuri -The Infinity Of Grace O.V. Vijayan Is One Of The Most Brilliant And Original Of The Contemporary Indian Authors. His Fiction, Written In Malayalam, Is Complex And Poetic, A Sumptuous Blend Of Myth, Dark Humour, Eroticism, Mystical Insights And A Uniquely Indian Brand Of Magic Realism. This Collection Brings Together For The First Time All Four Of Vijayan S Books Translated Into English So Far. In His Much-Acclaimed First Novel The Legends Of Khasak , Ravi, A Schoolteacher, Arrives In The Remote Village Of Khasak And Is Gradually Engulfed By The Dreams And Fables Of That Ancient Land. In The Controversial Political Allegory The Saga Of Dharmapuri , The Tyrannical President Of Dharmapuri And Siddhaartha, A Travelling Mystic And Messiah, Engage In An Unending Symbolic Battle. In The Award-Winning The Infinity Of Grace , Kunjunni, A Journalist, Goes To Calcutta To Cover The Bangladesh War, And Attempts To Reconnect With His Estranged Wife And Daughter Who Live There. Through The Personal Trauma That Follows, He Arrives At A Transcendental Understanding Of Life And The Harmony Implicit In Apparently Chaotic Events. The Final Section Of This Volume Comprises Twenty-One Short Stories-Which Include Classics Such As After The Hanging , Oil , Wind Flowers , Anachronisms And The Foetus . Together, They Bear Testimony To Vijayan S Skills As An Unusually Innovative And Evocative Writer Of Romances, Parables And Tales Of The Supernatural. A Definitive Collection, Selected Fiction Is Like A Good Piece Of Halwa. You Ll Never Want It To End. And By The Time You Re Through With It You Will Be A Member Of The Vijayan Fan Club. -The Week

The Emergency and the Indian English Novel

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000008630
Total Pages : 329 pages
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Download or read book The Emergency and the Indian English Novel written by Raita Merivirta and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses the Emergency as an event that prompted the writing of several notable novels attempting to preserve the silenced and fading memory of its human rights violations and suspension of democracy. The author reads works by Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor, Nayantara Sahgal and Rohinton Mistry in conjunction with government white papers, political speeches, memoirs, biographies and history. The book explores the betrayal of the Nehruvian idea of India and democracy by Indira Gandhi and analyses the political and cultural amnesia among the general populace in the decades following the Emergency. At a time when debates around freedom of speech and expression have become critical to literary and political discourses, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of English literature, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, media studies, political studies, sociology, history and for general readers as well.

Ancient India

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Total Pages : 490 pages
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Book Synopsis Ancient India by : Sakkottai Krishnaswami Aiyangar

Download or read book Ancient India written by Sakkottai Krishnaswami Aiyangar and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Infinity of Grace

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Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Infinity of Grace by : O. Vi Vijayan

Download or read book The Infinity of Grace written by O. Vi Vijayan and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Magical Realism and Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108621759
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Magical Realism and Literature by : Christopher Warnes

Download or read book Magical Realism and Literature written by Christopher Warnes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the fantastic, and it provided the late-twentieth century novel with an infusion of creative energy in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and beyond. Writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri, and many others harnessed the resources of narrative realism to the representation of folklore, belief, and fantasy. This book sheds new light on magical realism, exploring in detail its global origins and development. It offers new perspectives of the history of the ideas behind this literary tradition, including magic, realism, otherness, primitivism, ethnography, indigeneity, and space and time.

Gandhi and Philosophy

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474221734
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Gandhi and Philosophy by : Shaj Mohan

Download or read book Gandhi and Philosophy written by Shaj Mohan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gandhi and Philosophy presents a breakthrough in philosophy by foregrounding modern and scientific elements in Gandhi's thought, animating the dazzling materialist concepts in his writings and opening philosophy to the new frontier of nihilism. This scintillating work breaks with the history of Gandhi scholarship, removing him from the postcolonial and Hindu-nationalist axis and disclosing him to be the enemy that the philosopher dreads and needs. Naming the congealing systematicity of Gandhi's thoughts with the Kantian term hypophysics, Mohan and Dwivedi develop his ideas through a process of reason that awakens the possibilities of concepts beyond the territorial determination of philosophical traditions. The creation of the new method of criticalisation - the augmentation of critique - brings Gandhi's system to its exterior and release. It shows the points of intersection and infiltration between Gandhian concepts and such issues as will, truth, violence, law, anarchy, value, politics and metaphysics and compels us to imagine Gandhi's thought anew.

Under the Bhasha Gaze

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019269944X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Book Synopsis Under the Bhasha Gaze by : PP Raveendran

Download or read book Under the Bhasha Gaze written by PP Raveendran and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a study of literature in India in the context of recent discussions on modernity and its theoretical extensions such as the everyday and the social imaginary. It is a critique of the aesthetics and politics of modernity as they are embodied in Indian bhasha literature of the past two centuries. The primary objective of the book is to explore the trajectory of modernity after Indian literature encountered colonialism in the early 19th century. The intricate ways in which the bhasha imagination negotiated questions around concepts such as colonialism, aesthetics, the literary, the historical, and the social, have received focused attention in the analysis. Although the study acknowledges the European provenance of modernity as a historical idea, it also recognizes the inherent complexity of the concept and its equivocal connotations when used with reference to the polyphonic bhasha communities in India. Theoretical issues debated in relation to modernity such as its conceptual affinities with the western enlightenment project, its ideological investment in European aesthetics, and its implication for the evolution of what might be called the hermetic aesthetic are significant to this study. The work also examines the regional strengths of the social imaginary that render a conventionally conceived modernity inadequate in explaining the uniquely modern strengths of the Indian bhasha imagination.

The Dialectic of Historicity in Modernist Fiction: a Study Based on Select Works of O V Vijayan and M Mukundan

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Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1543700713
Total Pages : 169 pages
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Book Synopsis The Dialectic of Historicity in Modernist Fiction: a Study Based on Select Works of O V Vijayan and M Mukundan by : Swapna Gopinath

Download or read book The Dialectic of Historicity in Modernist Fiction: a Study Based on Select Works of O V Vijayan and M Mukundan written by Swapna Gopinath and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism when viewed through the spectacles of Marxian aesthetics emerges as a problematic artistic movement, especially when placed within the context of social structures that define the cultural practices at any given point in time. The much discussed debate within the Marxist canon regarding the dialectic relationship between society and art in the context of modernism had stalwarts of Marxist criticism deliberating this relationship between art and society. From Europe, modernism spread to other parts of the world, including India where it captured the imagination of the writers of regional languages as well. In Kerala, with its staunch Marxian perspectives and its supporters including a faithful political network of leaders and followers, modernism invited heated debates of a similar nature. A debate was triggered off challenging the ideological frameworks of modernist aesthetics with a large part of the intelligentsia actively participating in it. Kerala Kaumudi magazine published these arguments as a series, leading to further discussions in the cultural and political discourses that shaped the sensibility of the times. This book is an attempt to explore this relationship with these debates and discussions as referral points. To substantiate the arguments, four texts that emerged as iconic texts are studied - O V Vijayan's The Legends of Khasak (1969)and The Saga of Dharmapuri (1985)and M Mukundan's On the Banks of Mayyazhi (1974) and God's Mischief (1989).