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Gods and Ends
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

Gods and Ends

Philomena Sequeira knows what she wants by the time she turns fourteen. Her father wants something else. Her neighbours deal with adultery, abandonment and abuse, by hoping for a place in heaven. Life is unyielding for the tenants of the rundown Obrigado Mansion in Orlem, a Roman Catholic parish in suburban Bombay. They grapple with love, loss and sin, surrounded by abused wives and repressed widows, alcoholic husbands and dubious evangelists, angry teenagers and ambivalent priests, all struggling to make sense of circumstances they have no control over. Gods and Ends takes up multiple threads of individual stories to create a larger picture of darkness beneath a seemingly placid surface. It is about intersecting lives struggling to accept change as homes turn into prisons. This is a book about invisible people in a city of millions, and the claustrophobia they rarely manage to escape from.

The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao

'My story may end with sadness, but I want you to remember that it started with love. Mumbai has moved on now. It doesn't think about 1992 or 1993 because it doesn't want to. People in big cities like to think that the past is not as important as the future. But the past doesn't just disappear.' Mumbai, in the early 90s. The Ram Janmabhoomi movement is at its peak, and the Babri Masjid has just fallen. Decades later, in a corner of the metropolis, a retired postman living alone in a dilapidated room tries to recall those months of madness and how they changed everyone he knew. This is the story of Rameshwar Shinde and Ravinarayan Kumar, a young woman called Janaki, and the neighbours they live with, in the shadows of towers. It is a story of families torn apart by bigotry, an unmissable retelling of the epic Ramayana set at a time when blood mixed with the grime of Mumbai's streets. A tale more pertinent than ever, in a country once again teetering on the edge.

Women's Voices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

Women's Voices

Offers A Wide Range Of Writing In English Fiction, Including Stories For Children, Autobiographies, Articles, Letters-Private And Public. An Informative Introduction To The Period Adds To The Usefulness Of The Volume. Useful For Those Interested In Women`S Literature In Modern India.

Storizen Magazine March 2021 - Seeking Divine Love | Swami Mukundananda
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 88

Storizen Magazine March 2021 - Seeking Divine Love | Swami Mukundananda

Spirituality is not just a science, it's a way of life. In order to realize your full potential, you must be aware of who you are as a person! It's time to awaken your best self. We are immensely glad to feature the spiritual leader, speaker, and author, Swami Mukundananda who has written his latest book, "7 Divine Laws To Awaken Your Best Self". We had a great time interviewing Swami Ji and understood how one can lead a harmonious life and seek divine love! Power-packed with awesome book reviews, hottest new book releases, wonderful poetry, and beautiful stories, this is the issue you can't miss. Without further adieu, we are delighted to share the link to Storizen Magazine March 2021 issue! Do read, like, comment, share, and subscribe.

Factory Summers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 156

Factory Summers

For three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically, this time as a boy amongst men through the universal rite of passage of the summer job. Even as a teenager, Delisle’s keen eye for hypocrisy highlights the tensions of class and the rampant sexism an all-male workplace permits. Guy works the floor doing physically strenuous tasks. He is one of the few young people on site, and furthermore gets the...

I Will Never Forget
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

I Will Never Forget

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: iUniverse

It is painfully difficult to watch a loved one decline as dementia ravages their mind, destroying memories, rational thinking, and judgment. In her touching memoir, I Will Never Forget, Elaine Pereira shares the heartbreaking and humorous story of her mother’s incredible journey through dementia. Pereira begins with entertaining glimpses into her own childhood and feisty teenage years, demonstrating her mother’s strength of character. Years later, as Betty Ward started to exhibit bizarre behaviors and paranoia, Pereira was mystified by her mom’s amazing ability to mask the truth. Not until a revealing incident over an innocuous drapery rod did Pereira recognize the extent of her mother...

Writing India, Writing English
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

Writing India, Writing English

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-03-21
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The essays in this book look at the interaction between English and other Indian languages and focus on the pressure of languages on writers and on each other. Divided into two parts, the first part of the book deals with the pressure that English language has exerted, and continues to exert, in India and our ideas of connectedness as a nation in the ways in which we deal with this pressure. The essays emphasise on the emergence of the hybrid language in the Tamil cultural world because of the presence of English (and Hindi); on the politics of ‘anthologisation’; and how Karnad’s Tughlaq deals with the idea of the nation, looking at its historical location. The second part of the book ...

Poems at the Edge of Differences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Poems at the Edge of Differences

This study consists of two parts. The first part offers an overview of feminism's theory of differences. The second part deals with the textual analysis of poems about 'mothering' by women from India, the Caribbean and Africa. Literary criticism has dealt with the representation of 'mothering' in prose texts. The exploration of lyrical texts has not yet come. Since the late 1970s, the acknowledgement of and the commitment to difference has been foundational for feminist theory and activism. This investigation promotes a differentiated, 'locational' feminism (Friedman). The comprehensive theoretical discussion of feminism's different concepts of 'gender', 'race', 'ethnicity' and 'mothering' b...

Narratives of Indian Cinema
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Narratives of Indian Cinema

This collection of essays by subject specialists examines the politics of violence, communalism, and terrorism as negotiated in cinema; the representations of identitarian politics; and the complex ideological underpinnings of literary adaptations.

Empire, Civil Society, and the Beginnings of Colonial Education in India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 389

Empire, Civil Society, and the Beginnings of Colonial Education in India

Offers a new perspective on the making of colonial education and the history of modern schooling in India.