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Faint Promise of Rain
Shortlisted for the 2016 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing It is 1554 in the desert of Rajasthan. On a rare night of rain, a daughter is born to a family of Hindu temple dancers just as India’s new Mughal Emperor Akbar sets his sights on their home, the fortress city of Jaisalmer, and the other Princely States around it. Fearing a bleak future, Adhira’s father, the temple’s dance master—against his wife and sons’ protests—puts his faith in tradition and in his last child for each to save the other: he insists that Adhira is destined to “marry” the temple’s deity and to give herself to a wealthy patron. Thus she must live in submission as a woman revered and reviled. But Adhira’s father may not have the last word. Adhira grows into an exquisite dancer, and after one terrible evening she must make a choice—one that will carry her family’s story and their dance to a startling new beginning.
THIRTY TINY TALES
In Thirty Tiny Tales Biswanath Kundu, presently living in Kolkata, INDIA, the beloved student of venerable Dr. K K Chakraborty surveys the problems that are afflicting the society, from different angles. The work covers matters of everyday life including the peculiarities of some human beings of all ages. He demonstrates how it takes years to make friendship, but requires no moment to break it. He has seen a lot and makes us aware of the pitfalls that are likely to trouble us. The author, who as a youngster came in touch with people of different social and economic orientation by virtue of his long association with different social activities, details his search for meaning of life in this book. He deals every topic with a very simple, clear and illustrative manner. The tales are anchored in such a design that the inner feelings of the author also reach the deepest position of readers’ mental level.
The Rig Veda Reconsidered
Apart for its mythological and philosophical significance Vedas have high literary values which demand in depth studies. Being the oldest among all, Veda, as literature, attained great aesthetic height and this critical analysis of the poems/ hymns/ suktas of the first four books of Rig Veda by Shri. Mukhopadhyay, a triple M.A. , M.Phil and Ph.D with various literary accomplishments, certainly is first ever work in the study of literature on Vedas as a book of Literature. The study is a difficult one as the exact date of composition is unknown. The very fact that it is handed down from generation to generation by verbal transmission, sruti , only. The beautiful part that it is still sung which perhaps acts as the most reliable tests whereby we could landed upon the hypothesis that the Vedas are worthwhile for study as literature
Folklore Identity Development
The essays are written in the context of the so-called tribal areas of the north-eastern region of India. The base data in most cases have however been collected from Meghalaya, the Khasi-Jaintia Hills in particular, my primary research universe. However, the ethnic groups living in the mountainous terrain of India’s north-east, show a characteristic unity, despite linguistic and cultural diversities, that of being in a state of social format called ‘tribal’ facing similar problems of static life, economy and under-development. Added to this are the tensions generated in recent years when education and some waves of development reached the region and tribal self-governing states in the...
A Journey In Poems
This is a collection of poems ranging from philosophical thoughts to most ordinary incidents of our daily life. Most of the poems are dominated by a tone of tortured psyche of the poet. Quite a few are simply musings on life; meditative and halcyon. Through the poems he has unfolded his minds that gathered inputs from different persons in different situations. The poems are all kept limited to fourteen lines, eliminating elaborations, for its natural development by the learned readers. Besides nature poems, science topics have also been touched too. The poems deal with matters of everyday life including an acute concern for disease, decay and death. Some of the poems included in the collection are categorized as ‘vers libre’ i.e. ‘blank verse’ and are intended to articulate poet’s ‘open heart’ for a direct conversation with the erudite readers.
My Thoughts HD
This is a collection of poems containing Haiku and Dico micro poems based on traditional Japanese haiku written in 17 syllables — divided into three lines of 5,7 and 5 syllables and acrostic poem of four lines (the word comes from French acrostiche) where the letters in the line spell out the word ‘DICO’.
QUEST OF MIND
This is a collection of poems ranging from philosophical thoughts to most ordinary incidents of our daily life. Most of the poems are dominated by a tone of tortured psyche of the poet. Quite a few are simply musings on life; meditative and halcyon. Through the poems he has unfolded his minds that gathered inputs from different persons in different situations. His style has wit, sparkle, clarity, and logic.There is nothing loose or vague or obscure in his poetry .There is clear thinking and choice of right words that give neatness, force and clarity to his style. Besides nature poems, science topics have also been touched too. The poems deal with matters of everyday life including an acute concern for disease, decay and death. Some of the poems included in the collection are categorized as ‘vers libre’ i.e. ‘blank verse’ and are intended to articulate poet’s ‘open heart’ for a direct conversation with the erudite readers.
Social Work Practice : Work And Worship
If one goes through these, one will find that Late Sri Chakraborty not only possessed the novel ideas and ideals in the field of rural development but also translated them into practice. There is no branch of rural reconstruction programme which was not enlightened by his thoughts. During his tenure of office, the Lokashiksha Parishad with the blessings of the Headquarters took up one after another numerous projects like Rural Development Programme, Urban Development Scheme, specially Slum Dwellers’ Rehabilitation, Child Care, Mothers’ Health Care, Adult Education, Eradication of illiteracy, Rural Afforestation, Family planning, Rural Banking, Panchayeti Raj and what not? His innovative ...
Southbound
A move at age ten from a Detroit suburb to Chattanooga in 1984 thrusts Anjali Enjeti into what feels like a new world replete with Confederate flags, Bible verses, and whiteness. It is here that she learns how to get her bearings as a mixed-race brown girl in the Deep South and begins to understand how identity can inspire, inform, and shape a commitment to activism. Her own evolution is a bumpy one, and along the way Enjeti, racially targeted as a child, must wrestle with her own complicity in white supremacy and bigotry as an adult. The twenty essays of her debut collection, Southbound, tackle white feminism at a national feminist organization, the early years of the AIDS epidemic in the South, voter suppression, gun violence and the gun sense movement, the whitewashing of southern literature, the 1982 racialized killing of Vincent Chin, social media’s role in political accountability, evangelical Christianity’s marriage to extremism, and the rise of nationalism worldwide. In our current era of great political strife, this timely collection by Enjeti, a journalist and organizer, paves the way for a path forward, one where identity drives coalition-building and social change.
The Story of an Unknown Kolkatan
The book is about the story of an unknown Kolkatan who has undergone different situations of life both good and bad since mid 60s and has found the meaning of life as differently as different situations he has encountered in life. The story revolves about the truth that in spite of a radical shift in priorities of human beings over the last few decades there has been no change in basic human characteristics. The book gives an elegant and beautifully remembered account of different phases of life of a Kolkatan and takes us through different changes during the last few decades. Apart from being a biographical account of Arindam alias Ari intricacies of personal relations are also dealt in very smartly in the book. Another added attraction to the book is the depiction of comparative life styles of the Kolkatans with additions of TV, mobile phones, burgeoning housing complexes, depleting Sab Peyechhir Aasar etc. This book reflects the author’s wide vision, great observation, thoughtful realization, literary acumen to be acclaimed by readers.
