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Essays on Indian Writing in English
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 114

Essays on Indian Writing in English

This book is a collection of critical essays on Indian Writing in English- a literary area that has carved a foremost place in global English literatures. Considered as one of the most successful of postcolonial literatures, IWE is today a dynamic and expansive project. The essays on the Indian English novel and poetry cover some important writers like Anita Desai, Kamala Das, Aravind Adiga, Kiran Desai, Meena Kandasamy, Agha Shahid Ali etc. The introduction is an attempt to arrive at a definition of the term IWE and place the writers in perspective. The book is hoped to prove useful to students and teachers engaged in this field.

Yusuf's Fragrance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Yusuf's Fragrance

It can be said of the 19th century Kashmiri poet, Mahmud Ga ̄mi that he was a pioneer in introducing the Persian genres of the ghazal, nazm, masnavi and na ̄t into Kashmiri. Mahmud Gami's contribution to Kashmiri poetry is unique in both scope and depth. Not only is he the first truly prolific poet who has written entirely in the Kashmiri language, but much of his poetry also stands out for its beauty of expression and depth of thought, such as in the lyrical romance of Shireen Khusrau, Yusuf Zulaikha, and Layla Majnun. Yusuf's Fragrance is both a celebration as well as an homage to Gami's oeuvre. Through these beautiful verses, we explore themes of love, both physical and metaphysical, philosophy, folklore, and tradition through different narrative devices, such as nazms, masnavis, and vatsuns.

Personal and National Destinies in Independent India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

Personal and National Destinies in Independent India

Personal and National Destinies in Independent India is an innovative analysis of the interface between individual lives and national history, between citizen and state in modern India, as reflected in contemporary fiction. It critiques the selected works of a host of distinguished Indian English novelists such as Gurcharan Das, Arun Joshi, Rohinton Mistry, Arundhati Roy, Meher Pestonji, Kiran Desai, Vikas Swarup, David Davidar, Aravind Adiga, Manjula Padmanabhan and Tarun Tejpal. The author offers a new interpretation of twelve major novels with reference to the enormous framework of nearly seventy years of the history and politics, culture and economy of independent India. This is a study ...

Myriad Shades of Life in Mirza Ghalib
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

Myriad Shades of Life in Mirza Ghalib

The book is an anthology of seven critical essays on the work of Mirza Ghalib, and considers a number of issues such as comparisons between him and Muhammad Iqbal, William Shakespeare and John Donne. It also foregrounds the most distinguishing features in his poetry, including his art of dialectical poetics, the obsession with the theme of death throughout his poetry, and the representation of Karbala and Ahle-Bayt in his work. The book thus highlights the different shades of meaning in both his poetry and letters. These myriad shades are embedded in Ghalib’s vision of life. Like Shakespeare and Sophocles, Ghalib details the colourfulness of life in all its horror and glory. Just as life itself is colourful in its myriad shades, Ghalib’s poetry offers us a vision of life which is pluralistic, multifarious and universal at the same time.

Novel Molecular Oncotargets and Nano-Oncotherapeutics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

Novel Molecular Oncotargets and Nano-Oncotherapeutics

This book describes the latest findings related to tumor molecular microenvironment and its involvement in cancer progression. It includes authoritative articles on recent progress in the field based on the current results of apoptosis, autophagy, and tumor signaling highlight new cancer targets for therapeutic manipulation as a strategy of cancer control. It explores the advancements of molecular mechanisms in oncology to identify new therapeutic, prognostic, and diagnostic targets in the molecular events of neoplasia. Recent data on nanoformulations in the book for the therapeutic management of various types of cancer indicate a revolutionary change in cancer therapy in the near future. The primary audience of this book is students and faculties from academic institutions, the researchers, scientists, clinicians, and scientists belong to the research and development wing in industries, as the book provides the latest data and findings in the described areas as a valuable source of incredible information in the field in an organized manner.

My Cravings, My Throes: A Collection of Poems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

My Cravings, My Throes: A Collection of Poems

“MY CRAVINGS, MY THROES” is a matchless and peerless collection of poems of Hilal Ahmad Mir. The book is divided into two sections. It depicts the subjective and objective world of the poet. When we go to the depths of the depthless depths of the book, we come to know that the poet craves for something, but his cravings are not fulfilled. Unfulfillment of the cravings pains the poet wildly and the unfulfillment of the cravings gives rise to throes. The book is the best one. Hilal Ahmad has touched every issue in the book. He believes in humanity. He tells in one of the poems that all human beings are one. They belong to the same parents. Allah has given the same air, water, sky, sun, moon, earth. . . to all. Why do they fight in this fleeting world for nothing? He believes in the fraternity, justice, peace, equality. . . This book is good in every sense. It is not inapt to write here that the book is the Panacea of the ills.

Women and Trauma in the Works of Margaret Atwood and Anita Desai
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170

Women and Trauma in the Works of Margaret Atwood and Anita Desai

This book highlights the everyday trauma that women experience while finding themselves as victims of a deeply masculine and prejudiced milieu. It details a kind of counter-memory, broadening readers’ awareness about women’s trauma narratives. The works analysed here are all authored by women, and have significant claims to be treated as feminist trauma fiction, that is, as novels that are preoccupied with a socio-political analysis of women’s status and that espouse social or psychological transformation. The book will serve to expand the reader’s awareness of trauma by engaging them with personalised means of narration that highlight the troubled ambivalence of traumatic memory and warn us that trauma gets reproduced if left unattended. For both Margaret Atwood and Anita Desai, trauma emerges as a major and dominating theme in their works. In spite of being culturally separate, both Atwood and Desai show striking similarities as far as their art of writing is concerned.

Coleridge and Hinduism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

Coleridge and Hinduism

This book extensively investigates Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s profound ties with the Oriental Tales he read throughout his life, from a philosophical, poetical and metaphysical point of view. It is the only comprehensive and dedicated study on how Hindu works, in particular Charles Wilkins’s first translation of the Bhagavadgītā into English (1785), influenced Coleridge’s poetic imagination, affecting all his writings, his poetry above all. In analysing Coleridge’s quest for what he calls the “One life”, the author’s wish is that readers may find some “joyance” in reading this book, and feel inspired to go deeper into the anāhata nāda, the unstruck sound of the heart, fully enjoying the subtle inner resonances of Coleridge’s poetic word.

The Stranger Beside Me
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

The Stranger Beside Me

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Captured Gazelle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

The Captured Gazelle

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-06-15
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

Every moment it seeks to slip from the mind’s nook Fresh poetic meaning is a gazelle to be captured The Captured Gazelle is an elegant and lucent translation of the poems of the seventeenth-century Persian poet Mulla Tahir Ghani, better known as Ghani Kashmiri. Eulogized by poets such as Mir and Iqbal, Ghani is an outstanding representative of sabk-e-Hindi or the ‘Indian style’ in Persian poetry, which became a hallmark of the Mughal–Safavid literary culture. The introduction situates Ghani against his unique background in which Iranian and Indian poetic cultures came together to create a glorious literary age in Kashmir, while the translations capture Ghani in his wide spectrum of moods—satirical, playful, self-pitying, pessimistic, mystically resigned—bringing alive his wit and ingenuity in a modern idiom without losing hold on the tone.