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These three stories by Parashuram offer a short, yet vivid glimpse into the colourful cultural confusion of the colonial encounter in the hilarious world of the upper-middle-class Bengali. They playfully invert the colonial gaze, showing how the subjects viewed the ruler. But most importantly, these are stories of humour, implying, perhaps, that the ground on which two cultures collide is not necessarily just a space of conflict, but also a fertile ground on which laughter grows, uninhibited.
A young girl falls off her building on suspicious grounds. Most people and the police believe it to be an attempt to suicide, but the girls father suspects foul play behind the incident. His prime suspect is his would be son-in-law, who has been missing for several months, but keeps prowling around the building at certain nights like a pattern. Some suspect he is involved in some drug racket and some that he simply chose to get rid of the young girl. Read this book to unravel the real suspense.
About the Book A LUCID, NECESSARY ACCOUNT OF HOW DRASTICALLY THE INDIAN STATE FAILS ITS CITIZENS The story of democratic failure is usually read at the level of the nation, while the primary bulwarks of democratic functioning-the states-get overlooked. This is a tale of India's states, of why they build schools but do not staff them with teachers; favour a handful of companies so much that others slip into losses; wage water wars with their neighbours while allowing rampant sand mining and groundwater extraction; harness citizens' right to vote but brutally crack down on their right to dissent. Reporting from six states over thirty-three months, award-winning investigative journalist M. Rajs...
Sociological study of Gamras, a village near the industrial city of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
Temples of Desire and Other Stories have a compelling narrative that takes you through a multitude of intrigues and happenings, woven around the very social fibre of countryside India, gripping the reader like a vice. Sexual promiscuity and permissiveness, greed and integrity and blind beliefs, are the engines of stimulus that drive the behaviour of the characters of the five short stories from the author’s quiver. Read on, as the realisation dawns that she had become helpless and migratory like a stray chicken in the world of foxes.
2022-23 All IAS/PCS General Studies Volume-4 History Of Ancient & Medieval India Solved Papers
2023-24 UPSC & All State PSC (Pre) General Studies-4 Ancient History & Medieval History Solved Papers
Handbook on Hindu pilgrimages of India.