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The Other Side of Silence
The Partition of India in 1947 caused one of the most harrowing human convulsions in history: over twelve million people were displaced amidst a frenzy of murder, rape and abduction on a massive scale. For decades these violent realities remained buried in silence, even though the memories of brutality never faded. Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side of Silence was the first major work to exhume the personal trauma of the Partition. An undisputed classic, it meticulously locates the individual experiences and private pain at the heart of this cataclysmic event. Furthermore, Butalia reveals how people on the margins of history—children, women, ordinary people, the lower castes, the untouchables—were a ected by this upheaval. In a passionate and stimulating new introduction, Butalia examines not only recent developments in the expanding field of Partition studies but also the heartbreaking ways in which this colossal tragedy continues to impact our lives and what this means for the future of the Indian subcontinent.
Global Memoryscapes
Global Memoryscapesis a collection of eight essays examining the effects of a global society on the collective memories and identities of individual cultures.
Letter Writing as a Social Practice
This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in a wide variety of forms in most domains of life. More broadly, the importance of letter writing can be seen in that the phenomenon has been widespread historically, being one of earliest forms of writing, and a wide range of contemporary genres have their roots in letters. The writing of a letter is embedded in a particular social situation, and like all other types of literacy objects and events, the activity gains its meaning and significance from being situated in cultural beliefs, values, and practices. This book brings together anthropologists, historians, educators and other social scientists, providing a range of case studies that explore aspects of the socially situated nature of letter writing.
Civil Lines
This Volumes Of Civil Lines Carriesthe Best And Most Diverse Collection Of New Short Fiction From Indian Writers That You Are Likely To Read: A Total Of Seven Stories By Amit Choudhuri, Amitava Kumar, Avtar Singh. Mina Kumar And Suketu Mehta. Civil Lines 5 Also Features Exceptional Non-Fiction. Sonia Jabbar Gives Us An Account Of Life And Death In Kashmir, And Urvashi Butalia Literally Revisits Partition: Brilliant Hybrid Narratives, Part Essay, Part Travelogue, That Make Places And Histories Come Alivewith Vividly Realized People And Their Tragedies. And Anita Roy Reminds Us, Funnily And Poignantly, That All Writers Begin As Obsessive Readers.
Invitations to Love
A discussion of the implications of the emergence of love-letter correspondences for social relations in Nepal
There's Gunpowder In The Air
About the Book SHORTLISTED FOR THE JCB PRIZE, THE DSC PRIZE, THE CROSSWORD BOOK AWARD IN 2019 AND THE MATHRUBHUMI BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE IN 2020 It’s the early seventies. The Naxalbari Movement is gathering strength in Bengal. Young men and women have left their homes, picked up arms to free land from the clutches of feudal landlords and the state, and return them to oppressed landless farmers. They are being arrested en masse and thrown into high-security jails. In one such jail, five Naxals are meticulously planning a jailbreak. They must free themselves if the revolution is to continue. But petty thief Bhagoban, much too happy to serve frequent terms for free food and shelter, has been planted by Jailor Bireshwar Mukherjee among them as a mole. Only, Bhagoban seems to be warming up to them. There’s Gunpowder in the Air is a searing investigation into what deprivation and isolation can do to human idealism. And Manoranjan Byapari is perhaps the most refreshing voice to emerge from Bengal in recent times.
Sniper
&Lsquo;He Looked At Everything With A Sniper&Rsquo;S Eye. The World Was One Large Target And He Was Alone In It, In His Own Dark Little Womb, Depending For Survival On His Sniper&Rsquo;S Instincts.&Rsquo; Lieutenant Colonel Eswaran, A Highly Decorated Special Forces Officer In The Indian Army, Is In The Jungles Of Nagaland Trying To Hunt A Sniper, Gul Mohammed, Who Has A Vendetta Against Him. Meanwhile, In Kochi, His Sixteen-Year-Old Daughter Is Kidnapped, Raped, Beaten And Burnt To Death By A Sadist Known Only As The &Lsquo;Grey Man&Rsquo;. Faced By An Apathetic Police Force Eswaran Sets Out To Hunt His Daughter&Rsquo;S Murderer. Will His Training As An Ace Sniper Pay Off Or Will He Fail At Defeating The Now Combined Forces Of The Powerful Grey Man And Gul?
