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Author : Hoshang Merchant
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Yaraana written by Hoshang Merchant and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1999 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About behaviour of gay men in India.
Author : R Raj Rao
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 8178299216
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (782 download)
Download or read book Whistling in the Dark written by R Raj Rao and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whistling in the Dark: Twenty-one Queer Interviews focuses on issues like sexuality, sexual identity, marriage, gay marriage, heteronormativity, gay utopia, gay activism, gay bashing, police atrocities and the laws vis-à-vis these. The interviewees represent a cross section of society ranging from university professors, gay rights activists and students, on the one hand, to working class men such as office boys, auto-rickshaw drivers and even undertrials who have served prison sentences, on the other. The thought-provoking narratives in this book are the outcome of probing and incisive questions put to the respondents by the editors R. Raj Rao and Dibyajyoti Sarma. Appealing to a wide readership, the narratives go beyond the conventional and provide a rare insight into the private lives of the respondents. Besides being a must read for gay activists and organisations, the book will also be a useful resource for post-graduate students and academics working in the fields of sexuality studies, feminism and alternative literature.
Author : Hoshang Merchant
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000083969
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Forbidden Sex, Forbidden Texts written by Hoshang Merchant and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book argues that there is no monolithic homosexuality; there are only homosexualities, that is, there are as many reasons for being gay as there are gays. Some people are born gay, some have gayness thrust upon them, and some do, indeed, achieve to great gayness. Representation of homosexuality/homoeroticism, as it is understood today, is thus a western import. The act and public/social discourses on same-sex love are still illegal; it is, according to many, against the Indian ‘tradition’; and a sense of ‘history’ is seriously problematic when we dig out for a past tradition of homoerotic love and desire. Hoshang Merchant, through an examination of texts, films, poetry, attempts to analyse and crack the codes of sexual (mis)conduct in contemporary India, giving short histories of the fate of several gay writers and explaining the difficulties of ‘coming out’.
Author : Hoshang Merchant
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9352141881
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (521 download)
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.
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Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Trikone written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronie Parciack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131733325X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Popular Hindi Cinema written by Ronie Parciack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular Hindi film industry is the largest in India and the most conspicuous film industry in the non-Western world. This book analyses the pivotal visual and narrative conventions employed in popular Hindi films through the combined prism of film studies and classical Indian philosophy and ritualism. The book shows the films outside Western paradigms, as visual manifestations and outcomes of the evolution of classical Hindu notions and esthetic forms. These include notions associated with the Advaita-Vedānta philosophical school and early Buddhist thought, concepts and dynamism stemming from Hindu ritualism, rasa esthetic theories, as well as Brahmanic notions such as dharma (religion, law, order), and mokṣa (liberation). These are all highly abstract notions which the author defines as "the unseen": a cluster of diversified concepts denoting what subsists beyond the phenomenal, what prevails beyond the empirical world of saṁsāra and stands out of this world (alaukika), while simultaneously being embodied and transformed within visual filmic imagery, codes and semiotics that are teased out and analyzed. A culturally sensitive reading of popular Hindi films, the interpretations put forward are also applicable to the Western context. They enable a fuller understanding of religious phenomena outside the primary religious field, within the vernacular arenas of popular culture and mass communication. The book is of interest to scholars in the fields of Indology, modern Indian studies, film, media and cultural studies.
Author : Jack Drescher
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780789020598
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)
Download or read book The Mental Health Professions and Homosexuality written by Jack Drescher and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-06-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get a unique insight into the attitudes of mental health professionals working outside the United States! The Mental Health Professions and Homosexuality: International Perspectives examines historical and contemporary attitudes toward homosexuality in the theory and practice of mental health professionals working in Europe and Asia. Edited by two noted authors, educators, and practitioners, Drs. Vittorio Lingiardi and Jack Drescher, the book's unique insights are an important step in keeping pace with current international mental health literature about homosexuality. The Mental Health Professions and Homosexuality addresses the relationship between psychiatric institutions and homosexuality; the history of current theoretical frameworks for thinking about homosexuality; the emergence of an international gay, lesbian, and bisexual psychiatric movement; and how changes in psychoanalytic theory and practice both mirror and are influenced by the changing legal and societal status of homosexuality. The Mental Health Professions and Homosexuality: International Perspectives asks three questions of practitioners working in China, India, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, and the United Kingdom: 1) what are the prevailing theoretical models about homosexuality found in professional literature in your country; 2) what is known about the actual clinical experiences of gay and lesbian clients; and 3) what is the status of openly gay and lesbian mental health practitioners in your country? The responses reveal insights on a variety of topics, including: the changing views within British psychiatry a survey of German psychoanalytic institutes regarding their admission policies toward gay and lesbian applicants a detailed review of anti-homosexual biases in Italian scientific literature from 1930 to present the struggle for civil rights of the Chinese tongzhi community the emergence of gay and lesbian civil rights in India efforts to open the World Psychiatric Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association to gay and lesbian mental health professionals The Mental Health Professions and Homosexuality: International Perspectives provides first-hand perspectives on how different cultures have created different ways to view homosexuality and different ways to include—or exclude—gays and lesbians from social and public health policy. The book is an essential resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, psychoanalysts, physicians, social workers, anthropologists, and historians.
Author : E. Dawson Varughese
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441105565
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Reading New India written by E. Dawson Varughese and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading New India is an insightful exploration of contemporary Indian writing in English. Exploring the work of such writers as Aravind Adiga (author of the Man-Booker Prize winning White Tiger), Usha K.R. and Taseer, the book looks at how the 'new' India has been recreated and defined in an English Language literature that is now reaching a global audience. The book describes how Indian fiction has moved beyond notions of 'postcolonial' writing to reflect an increasingly confident and diverse cultures. Reading New India covers such topics as: - Representation of the city: Mumbai and Bangalore - Chick Lit to Crick Lit - Call centre dramas and corporate lives - Crime novels and Bharati narratives - Graphic novels Including a chronological time-line of major social, cultural and political reforms, biographies of the major authors covered, further reading and a glossary of Hindi terms, this book is an essential guide for students of contemporary world literature and postcolonial writing.
Author : Akshaya K. Rath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199089612
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
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.
Author : Sanjana Brijesh Shukla
Publisher : Brown Page Publication
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)
Download or read book YAARANA written by Sanjana Brijesh Shukla and published by Brown Page Publication. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone makes friends but there are very few people who stick with you till the end. This is the story of a few people join them and find out how their friendship hits Rocky edges, nearly break, find out how they go through all this, and struggle to keep their friends safe. You should find out how they rediscover the bonds of friendship and eventually find love. This is a tale of friendship, a friendship so strong it will survive the end of time. Here's a brand new book on friendship and relations written by many writers as well as me. To me, my friend I think you Lord for giving me such a wonderful true friend you knew how much I'd need one, and you knew just whom to send a true friend who is always there with willing helping hands a shoulder I can lean upon and a heart that understands bless my special friend who gives such love so willingly and bless me too dear Lord I pray an equal friend to be A true friend is like a backbone. The very motive behind compiling this anthology was to dedicate a book full of emotions, love, and respect.
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Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bombay Dost written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diptakirti Chaudhuri
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351187993
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Bollybook written by Diptakirti Chaudhuri and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In how many Hindi films has the hero been afflicted by the Big C (cancer)? Who played a double role in Sholay? Which early Dev Anand movie had the song ‘Usne phenka leg break to maine mara chhakka?’ From Geet Gaata Chal (songs that became movies) to Nishabd (ten silent scenes of Amitabh Bachchan), every page in this bumper book is going to engross and entertain you.
Author : Dipak Giri
Publisher : Dipak Giri
ISBN 13 : 9388963016
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (889 download)
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.
Author : E. L. McCallum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316194566
Total Pages : 1203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature written by E. L. McCallum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 1203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on gay and lesbian literature that also addresses the impact of gay and lesbian literature on cognate fields such as comparative literature and postcolonial studies. Covering subjects from Sappho and the Greeks to queer modernism, diasporic literatures, and responses to the AIDS crisis, this volume is grounded in current scholarship. It presents new critical approaches to gay and lesbian literature that will serve the needs of students and specialists alike. Written by leading scholars in the field, The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature will not only engage readers in contemporary debates but also serve as a definitive reference for gay and lesbian literature for years to come.
Author : Nicholas Mag
Publisher : Nicholas Mag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book 1590 Effective Triggers to Break With Emotional Dependency written by Nicholas Mag and published by Nicholas Mag. This book was released on with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Miracle! In this book Nicholas presents you a practical, unique, subliminal, very simple, detailed method of how to Break With Emotional Dependency. You will feel the effects immediately and the results will appear very quickly! So it was in my case. You will not achieve fulfillment and happiness until YOU become the architect of your own reality. Imagine that with a few moments each day, you could begin the powerful transformation toward complete control of your own life and well being through this unique, subliminal method combined with positive affirmations. The order of words is extremely important for every book written by Nicholas. These are arranged to be traversed in a certain way so as to eliminate certain blockages in the human being, blockages that are bringing disease or failure on various plans. You don't need a big chunk of your time or expensive programs. Everything is extremely simple! Health, money, prosperity, abundance, safety, stability, sociability, charisma, sexual vitality, erotic attraction, will, optimism, perseverance, self-confidence, tenacity, courage, love, loving relationships, self-control, self-esteem, enthusiasm , refinement, intuition, detachment, intelligence, mental calm, power of concentration, exceptional memory, aspiration, transcendence, wisdom, compassion. You have the ability to unlock your full inner-potential and achieve your ultimate goals. This is the age-old secret of the financial elite, world class scholars, and Olympic champions. For example, when you watch the Olympics, you'll find one consistency in all of the champions. Each one closes their eyes for a moment and clearly affirms & visualizes themselves completing the event flawlessly just before starting. Then they win gold medals and become champions. That's merely one example of how the real power of mind can elevate you above any of life's challenges. By reading this book, you will feel totally that life deserves to be lived and enjoyed every moment and that everything that you propose for yourself becomes easy for you to fulfill. Nicholas will guide you to touch your longed-for dream and will make you see life from a new perspective, full of freshness and success. This book helps you step by step, in a natural way, in just 3 minutes a day, to change your misguided way of thinking and to Break With Emotional Dependency. (NOTE: For good, Nicholas keep the price of the book as lower as he can, even if is a hard work behind this project. A significant portion of the earnings from the sale of the book are used for these purposes: for charity, volunteer projects, nature restoration, and other inspired ideas to do good where it is needed. If you can not afford to buy the book please contact Nicholas and he will give you a free copy.) You, also have a bonus in the pages of the book that makes you live your success by doing a seemingly trivial thing. You will feel the difference. Yes. The Miracle is possible! Get Your Copy Now!
Author : Param Arunachalam
Publisher : Mavrix Infotech Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 8193848217
Total Pages : 2355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (938 download)
Download or read book BollySwar: 1991 - 2000 written by Param Arunachalam and published by Mavrix Infotech Private Limited. This book was released on with total page 2355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BollySwar is a decade-wise compendium of information about the music of Hindi films. Volume 7 chronicles the Hindi film music of the decade between 1991 and 2000. This volume catalogues more than 1000 films and 7000 songs, involving more than 1000 music directors, lyricists and singers. An overview of the decade highlights the key artists of the decade - music directors, lyricists and singers - and discusses the emerging trends in Hindi film music. A yearly review provides listings of the year's top artists and songs and describes the key milestones of the year in Hindi film music. The bulk of the book provides the song listing of every Hindi film album released in the decade. Basic information about each film's cast and crew is provided and detailed music credits are provided. Where available, music credits go beyond information regarding music directors, lyricists and singers, and include the names of session musicians, assistants, programmers, arrangers, mixers, recordists, etc. Where applicable, music related awards are listed. Interesting trivia is listed for most films. This includes information about artist debuts, plagiarised or sampled songs, controversies and stories behind the making of the film and its music. This book is primarily meant as a quick reference for people looking for information related to a Hindi film or a song, but readers can also browse through the book to get an overview of the events that shaped Bollywood music in the decade. Given that Hindi films are a reflection of the Indian society, the reader can also glean insights about the country's socio-political and cultural environment from the book.
Author : Rama Nair
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Trends and Techniques in Contemporary Indian English Poetry written by Rama Nair and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents A Modest Survey Of The Trends And Techniques In Contemporary Indian English Poetry, Primarily Of The 1980S And 1990S. Also Contains A Section Devoted To The Trends And Techniques In The Poetry Of Contemporary Indian Language Poetry.
