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Nari Gandhi
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Nari Gandhi

"This is the first monograph of Nari, the talented apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright, featuring 87 photographs ... from eight of his built works. It includes short analytical essays on Nari's life and works by Canada based Architect-Poet-Calligrapher, Prof. H Masud Taj. It also includes a long poem ?Domain of Inbetween? that occurred while Prof. Taj stayed in several of Nari?s houses." --- Publisher's website.

Alphabestiary
  • Language: en

Alphabestiary

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Combining East and West, this volume of poetry and prose ruminations presents a celebration of the international language of fauna--the animals that reside at the core of the imagination. Each letter of the alphabet is linked to a different living thing, allowing these creatures to exist in the fabric of language and providing a categorical list of the beings that travel within thoughts and dreams. In the tradition of the Eastern voice and the Western custom of exegesis and explanation, this volume allows two very different approaches to literature to converge, creating an experience that is accessible, informative, and entertaining.

Portraits of Canadian Writers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Portraits of Canadian Writers

Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Ray Robertson, Bronwen Wallace—these are just a few authors whose unforgettable words have made them icons of Canadian literary expression. In Portraits of Canadian Writers, Bruce Meyer presents his own personal experience of these and many more seminal Canadian authors, sharing their portraits alongside amusing anecdotes that reveal personality, creativity, and humour. Meyer’s snapshots, both visual and textual, reveal far more than just physical appearance. He captures tantalizing glimpses into the creative lives of writers, from contextual information of place and time to more intangible details that reveal persona, personality and sources of imaginative inspiration. Through these portraits, Meyer has amassed a visual archive of CanLit that illustrates and celebrates an unparalleled generation of Canadian authorship.

American Journal of Islam and Society (AJIS) - Volume 40 Issues 1-2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

American Journal of Islam and Society (AJIS) - Volume 40 Issues 1-2

In this issue, you will find three peer-reviewed articles and two forum essays. Adrien A. P. Chauvet’s “Cosmographical readings of the Qurʾan” is a trained physicist’s probing, multidisciplinary inquiry about a topic of great interest to the recent generations of Muslims about the compatibility of Islam and science, and about the obvious exuberance Muslims feel when some modern discoveries point to the Qurʾanic truth. As a trained physicist, he wonders whether and how we can be sure that the scientific paradigms endorsed today will endure, and therefore, more pertinently, “how can the text stay scientifically relevant across the ages, while science itself is evolving?” It thus ...

Icons: Men and Women who Shaped Today's India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Icons: Men and Women who Shaped Today's India

Sixty glorious years of independence of India mark several milestones and immense contributions from great men and women who have become part of its history. For the first time ever, this book showcases post-Independent India's twenty greatest living personalities who have and continue to set extraordinary examples for the nation. Brilliantly orchestrated and edited by renowned author Anil Dharker, the book singularly establishes the unparalleled greatness and iconic status of these men and women, including A P J Abdul Kalam, Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar, M F Husain, Charles Correa and Sonia Gandhi, by some of India's best known writers - Srinivas Laxman, Prem Shankar Jha,...

Talk of the Town
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

Talk of the Town

Here&Rsquo;S A Quiz. If You Answer All The Questions Right, You Do Not Need This Book. 1.When King Charles Ii Received The City Of Bombay As His Dowry, He Thought It Was In A) India&Nbsp; B) Brazil&Nbsp;&Nbsp; C) Portugal&Nbsp; D) Brighton&Nbsp; &Nbsp; 2. Every Resident Of This City Speaks Only One Language. That City Is &Nbsp;A) Patna&Nbsp; B) Thiruvananthapuram&Nbsp;&Nbsp; C) Panjim&Nbsp; D) Diu 3. Mamola Bai Ruled From This City, For Almost Fifty Years. Of Course, She Did It In Purdah, But She Ruled It Nevertheless. A) Patna&Nbsp; B) Tangiers C) Lalalajpatnagarameshwar&Nbsp; D) Bhopal 4. With Which Indian City Is Marks &Amp; Spencer, The Famous Department Store, Associated? A) Madras&Nbsp...

The English Language Poetry of South Asians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

The English Language Poetry of South Asians

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-01-24
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  • Publisher: McFarland

In this study, ten independent critical essays and a coda explore the English-language poetry of South Asians in terms of time, place, themes and poetic methodologies. The transnational perspective taken establishes connections between colonial and postcolonial South Asian poetry in English as well as the poetry of the old and new diaspora and the Subcontinent. The poetry analysis covers the relevance of historical allusions as well as underlying concerns of gender, ethnicity and class. Comparisons are offered between poets of different places and time periods, yielding numerous sociopolitical paradigms that surface in the poetry.

The Making of Navi Mumbai
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

The Making of Navi Mumbai

This book uses the case of the Navi Mumbai urban project to bring out many of the problems inherent in the urbanisation process and in the nature of urban policy-making in post-colonial India. It illustrates how even a new city, built from scratch, is riddled with social and economic contradictions---well-planned and serviced areas coexisting with slums and shanties. The work questions some of the accepted solutions to urban policy especially with regard to urban land and distribution of civic infrastructure. Navi Mumbai is being used as a model for building new towns outside other cities in India. This detailed case study of Navi Mumbai reveals the strengths and weaknesses of this model of urbanisation and indicates the policy directions that can obliterate the duality that has characterised the Indian city all through the twentieth century.

Anywhere
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 92

Anywhere

"In the end, the only theology that matters is the personal one. Heaven is not merely a vision or an aspiration, neither is it just an incomplete metaphor. Heaven is the highest form of irony; what goes unsaid in everything that is loved. Whether it is a beach from a long-lost summer, a snowy field on a winter morning, a child’s blue eyes or the love between two people, one thing is certain: heaven is whatever one makes of it, and it can be anywhere"--Back cover.

Reasons for Belonging
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

Reasons for Belonging

Reasons For Belonging Brings Together Some Of The Most Striking Voices In Contemporary Indian Poetry In English. These Poets Are At Home In The World. Most Of Them Operate From India S Metropolitan Centres, And Their Poetry Reflects The Formal Assurance And Urbane Fluency Of That Position. They Celebrate The Possibilities Of Hybridity; They Are Cosmopolitan In Their Attitudes, And English Is Their First Language Of Creative Expression. Their Poetry Emerges From The Metropolitan Experience: Speed, Exchange, Novelty, Interplay, Violence, Solitude And Isolation, And Nostalgia For Other Regions And States Of Being. And Their Tones Range From Frenzy And Anger Through Coolness To Quietness And Ref...