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My Unskooled Year
Are grades everything? Is it fair to predict a youngster's future plainly based on some numbers? There's more to life than textbooks, and My Unskooled Year chronicles just that. The book presents a refreshing perspective of reality from the eyes of Sagarikka Sivakumar, an average student, who took a year off after her tenth standard to tread the path less taken. Follow this 15-year-old, as she invests in Stocks, goes door to door to sell products, interns with organizations in the hospitality and social sectors, hikes across mountains, makes documentaries and also studies among doing other things! It is one thing to profess and another to walk the talk. This book shares the story of many of us who have secretly aspired to, but have not dared to.
The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was
Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually wear, so that the mask reveals rather than conceals the self beneath the self. In this book, noted scholar of Hinduism and mythology Wendy Doniger offers a cross-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation, whose widespread occurrence argues for both its literary power and its human value. The stories she considers range from ancient Indian literature through medieval European courtly ...
South Asian Security
The South Asian security complex refers to security interdependencies between the states in the region, and also includes the effect that powerful external actors, such as China, the US and Russia, and geopolitical interests have on regional dynamics. This book focuses on the national securities of a number of South Asian countries in order to discuss a range of issues related to South Asian security. The book makes a distinction between traditional and non-traditional security. While state-centric approaches such as bilateral relations between India and Pakistan are considered to be traditional realist approaches to security, the promotion of economic, environmental and human security reflect global concerns, liberal theories and cosmopolitan values. The book goes beyond traditional security issues to reflect the changing security agenda in South Asia in the twenty-first century, and is a useful contribution to studies on South Asian Politics and Security Studies.
The Gin Drinkers
New Delhi's liquid colonialism is on its way out. The old social order is crumbling. Those born into English-speaking privilege - Uma, the England-returned graduate; Madhavi, the academic, and journalist Dhruv; Shantanu, the civil servant, and his wife Anasuya; Deekay, the middle-class revolutionary; Pamela Sen, the dedicated teacher; Ikram Gilchrist, the famous author - are slowly but surely yielding ground to the subaltern. In the roil and rustle of this change, a mysterious gang of thieves is stealing old and rare books from the houses of the well-heeled. Who are these people? Where are they taking these books? And who is the mysterious Jai Prakash? What is his secret? The Gin Drinkers is a tragicomedy of manners and a true mirror to the class and caste conflicts that define modern India.
Fury in the Arabian Sea
The year 2020 will go down in history as the year when COVID pandemic hit the world, originating from Wuhan, China. It will also be remembered as the year in which China decided to take aggressive military postures against her neighbors—Russia, Japan, Philippines, Taiwan, India, Tajikistan, and littoral states of the South China Sea—for territorial gains. This book—the third one of a trilogy—focuses on maritime activities in the Arabian Sea. The Arabian Sea is a beehive of complicated maritime activities shared by those involved in the business of safeguarding their interests in ‘black gold’ from the Gulf countries. It is a fascinating story of China wanting to usurp India’s dominance in the Indian Ocean and the latter’s efforts to repel it. The book is a mix of facts and fiction. It is for the reader to discern where one ends and the other takes over.
FAMILIAR FACES, LESS FAMILIAR STORIES
I am a thief. While travelling through a rather longish journey of life, I was fortunate enough to come across a variety of characters. There were moments with them that were worth stealing. I have stolen them and preserved carefully in a sacred corner of my heart. Now the time has come when it looks selfish that I have failed to share my treasure with the masses in general and the connoisseurs in particular. While going through the book, you are sure to come across the characters that you encounter in day-to-day life. All of them have a story. Some of these strike a chord in you. These are the things you preserve and that is reflected in you as well. Feelings are precious and make a permane...
Once upon a Time in College - Part 2
Everyone is turning matchmaker to hook up newly-single Gaam with girls of their choice, but Gaam is busy with his image makeover and being rude to Sonam – who dumped him in first-year – whenever he gets a chance to do so in his encounters with GPRS (Garima-Pinky-Renu-Sonam); to gratify his urge for ‘cheap enjoyment’. Slash has a whirlwind SMS romance with a love-sick guy who mistakes Slash for a girl. Prem Bhai and Lokha resume chasing Darjeeling girls, though a different college, this time, and Lokha, as usual, is balancing multiple girlfriends at a time. A new, pornoholic, mustard-oil smelling roommate is forcibly thrown into Gaam’s room. An invitation to a Sikkim wedding. A trip down memory lane to grandma’s village. A nightmarish Guwahati-Siliguri bus journey. A senior who needs marathon body massage sessions whenever he pays a visit to the juniors’ hostel… …and many more amusing stories adorn this addictive sequel to the hilarious and much-loved Once Upon a Time in College as it follows the trials and tribulations of the protagonist, Gaam, and his band of friends and seniors in North Bengal Medical College.
If One Door Closes, Another Door Opens
Jayaram, having had completed his post-graduation, is particular that he gets a job as a lecturer in the Degree College of Arts & Commerce rather than a lecturer in the Junior College. As he longed for it, he gets a lecturer's post in Sagarika College of Arts & Commerce, Shahanpur, owned by the famous actress, Sagarika. His college mate, Madhav, who settles donw as a farmer in his village, gets married and has a child now whom Jayaram wants to see, so he visits the village before leaving for Shahanpur. While returning from the village, Jayaram rescues Nidhi, a post graduate student, from abductors. She is injured and unconscious as the kidnappers throw her mercilessly out of the vehicle. Bef...
Just A Few Lies
Understanding a writer’s mind is a complicated thing. He imagines, presumes and sometimes anticipates reality and tries to blend everything with fiction. His mind is a giant maze of his own creativity but what happens when the maze starts to peep out of imagination and enter reality? Anant, a ‘Superstar’ author can feel the end of his era as his words are now betraying him and just to keep his legacy going, he is looking for the 'Next Anant' of the industry. Mysteriously, one day he lands on Sagarika’s blog and gets amazed to know that all her blog posts are inspired from real life incidents of Anant himself. On the other hand, Anant’s mental problem that had traumatized his childhood is haunting him again. He somehow is feeling that Sagarika is hiding something and Anant is desperate to find everything about her. What exactly is happening with Anant? Who this Sagarika really is? What lies are being spoken in the veil of finding next ‘Superstar Bestselling Author’? Answer lies behind ‘Just A Few Lies’.
Recognition
This interdisciplinary collection of essays advances the study of anagnorisis («recognition»), a quintessential concept in Aristotelian poetics. This book explores narrative structure and epistemology by examining how anagnorisis works in narrative fiction, music, and film. Contributors hail from the fields of cinema; opera; religion; medieval and modern English, German, and French literatures; comparative literature; and Indian (Sanskrit) and Islamic (Arabic) literatures, both classical and modern.
