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Days of Longing
A professional meeting in wintry Prague explodes into a thrilling and passionate encounter between the Austrian tourist Raina and an Indian student. With keenly observed detail, Verma expertly conveys the feverishness of the relationship fated to be short-lived.
Word and Memory
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The Red Tin Roof
Set in Shimla, The Red Tin Roof evokes with rare delicacy and precision the interplay of seasons, nature and people, while it broodingly tells the story of a young girl growing into adolescence, in the company mostly of older women but also of a younger brother who trails her. In this exploration of an inner world, Nirmal Verma does not so much as tell a story as reminisce. Memory is the seed of his story.
The Crows of Deliverance
NIRMAL VERMA (1929-2005) was an acknowledged master of Hindi prose and one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani (new story) movement in Hindi. Throughout his life he was known as a major voice among the Indian intelligentsia for consistently upholding the right of individual liberty and freedom of expression. He famously took a stand against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during the Emergency (1975-77), and he also advocated the cause of a Free Tibet. He traveled widely in Europe and the USA including many years in Prague, leaving after the Soviet invasion. With his fiction and also reportage for The Times of India, he earned the title "an Indian writer exiled in Europe." Readers International pu...
India and Europe
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Anthology of Hindi Short Stories
It Is An Excellent Selection By Bhisham Sahni Of The Best Stories Written In Hindi During The Last Few Decades. It Features Over 25 Stories By Well Known Writers Like Amrit Lal Nagar, Bhisham Sahni, Mohan Rakesh, Amrit Rai, Kamleshwar, Markandaya, Nirmal Verma, Mannu Bhandari And Ram Darash Mishra. The Stories Are Marked By A Wide Variety Of Themes, Mostly Related To Contemporary Social Life, Like Alienation, Loneliness, Weariness, And The Crisis Of Values.
The World Elsewhere
First English language collection by India's Chekhov, Nirmal Verma, inventor of the modern short story form in Hindi.
The Last Exit
Here Are The Sahitya Akademi Award-Winning Short Stories By One Of The Great Mastero Of Hindi Fiction. In A Literary Career Spanning Over Forty Years, Nirmal Verma Is Credited With Inventing The Hindi Language Anew. It Is Fascinating To See How His Delicately Sensuous Language Handles The Themes Of Alienation And Exile On The One Hand, And Philosophical Issues Of Renunciation And Suicide On The Other.
Literature and the Work of Universality
In an age of accelerating ecological crises, global inequalities and democratic fragility, it has become crucial to achieve renewed articulations of human commonality. With anchorage in critical theory as well as world literary studies, this volume approaches literature - and modes of literary thinking - as a key resource for such a task. "Universality" is understood here not as an established "universalism", but as a horizon towards which intellectual inquiry and literary practices orient themselves. In the field of world literature, there is by now a wide repertoire of epistemological resources through which claims to universality can be both questioned and reconfigured. If, at one end of ...
The Essence of Delhi
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