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Black Tongue
Set in contemporary Communist-ruled West Bengal, Black Tongue explores the story of a young servant girl and her employer whom destiny brings together in an intricate dance of love and hate. Street-smart and sassy, 16-year-old Maya has aspirations beyond her means. Then, she disappears. Amrita, Maya's employer and a social worker, is charged with her death. The ubiquitous Party also begins to investigate the murder, a murder that turns out to be not quite what it seems. Maya believes that her black tongue has wrecked Amrita's beautiful world. Hate simmers in her. Amrita, in a bid to save herself, turns to ex-lover Paresh, the minister's right-hand man. Maya's brother, Naren, a cadre worker, sees an opportunity to make a fast buck in her disappearance. Is this part of a sinister, bigger plan? Or are they shielding somebody? Through the novel, Anjana Basu, explores the contradictions that connect middle-class Kolkata and its urban slums with rural West Bengal. As the events unfold, the story looks askance at a strange, but recurrent socio-political phenomenon typical of West Bengal: pre-modern superstition existing in the interstices of an enlightened political apparatus.
In the Shadow of the Leaves
Rohan and his mother are holidaying in the Kumaon Hills. Rohan should be studying his maths because he failed in his exams, but he is spending a lot of time reading Jim Corbetts Maneaters of Kumaon and wandering the hills with a village girl called Manjul who goes to herd her cows every day. The two become friends because Rohan admires the way she can jump streams like a little cat and her knowledge of the woods. Into their lives comes a tiger who is apparently killing cattle in the nearing villages. And then there is a mysterious man with a moustache who materializes at night and seems to be able to talk to both children and tigers. Rohan is convinced that he is Jim Corbetts ghost. Manjul is unconvinced. Whoever the mysterious man is, his task is to save the tiger from poachers and herd it back into the National Park. The result is a story of mystery and magic.
Curses In Ivory
A richly textured tale of three generations of women who live under the spell of an ancestral curse, Curses in Ivorydraws you into the lives of Hansabati, Regina, Brishti who wrote poetry, Queenie Mashi and her veiled life, and Sreya, whose destiny it becomes to uncover the truth. Hansabati, who lives in purdah overshadowed by the memory of her beautiful mother-in-law, thinks she has triumphed over the curse when she bears a son, only to find it alive and well, Her daughter, Regina, lives through her marriage haunted and tormented by the macabre death of her sister-in-law. And Sreya, the third generation and narrator of the story, is blighted by her father's neglect and her mother's rage unt...
Lockdown Tiger
The tiger moved restlessly around the narrow space into which it was penned. There was light and air beyond the long thick stick things that kept it back but no sign of grass. Just a bare stretch of flat stone. Leaf shadows moved across the empty clearing in front with the gusts of wind. Apart from the rustle of the leaves there was no other sound. Nor were there smells of anything on the air. All the tiger could scent were a few stale smells of people and those died when the wind dropped. No scent of monkeys or deer or any of the other jungle creatures he was used to. It was a young tiger barely old enough to hunt for itself. It was still very confused as to how it had got itself into this ...
The Agency Raga and Some Variations
A talented writer plays The Agency Raga with fourteen stories about Calcutta s CSG Advertising agency, and the bizarre doings of its unforgettable executives, models, clients and directors. Six more stories, the Variations, depict characters as unusual, with adventures equally fantastic. Anjana Basu s stories are refreshing draughts of cool wit laced with astringent realism, and her style is as sharp as her observant eye.
Picture Poems and Word Seasons
In Picture Poems and Word Seasons Anjana Basu has created a book that sparkles like the waters she describes. As you read you can almost feel the spray of the waterfalls, hear the rough sawing of a crow's call and scent the flowers on the early mango trees. There's a love of the beauty of nature which shines through in poem after poem. The warp and woof of the book are an alert and agile intelligence, a liveliness of phrasing, a refined sense of form, and, at times, a playful, almost whimsical surrealism.
Hide & Seek Tiger
Jhargram in West Bengal, a rocky arid region where no tiger has been seen for years, Royal Bengal or otherwise. But one morning a tiger’s pug marks appear out of nowhere and the villagers in the area are terrified. Rohan, hearing the news, sets out to visit his uncle’s bungalow near by hoping to discover something. However, even before he reaches the place he finds himself in the heart of an adventure, stumbling upon jackals, elephants and, of course the elusive tiger, which is really lost. A tribal hunting festival is round the corner and things don’t look good at all. However, as Rohan knows, there is always someone he can depend on to come the rescue as long as he is intiger country. …this is not a book to just skip through. You are so spellbound that you just don’t want to miss a word. Paro Anand
Soul Feathers
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AKASHVANI
"Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning ...
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