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If You Look for Me, I Am Not Here
When Kalika loses one of her twins at childbirth, a daughter she longed for, it is not the only loss in the family. The son that survives loses the love of his mother. Her son grows up needing to be the daughter his mother wants but struggles in a recently Independent India still haunted by its colonial past, its mystical religious rites and its birth into the world. Sarayu Srivatsa has created a family portrait suffused and coloured by the landscape of Southern India, where history, religion and gender collide in a family scarred by its past and struggling with the present.
The Last Pretence
Machilipatnam, a small town on the Coromandel coast in South India where the British first landed to trade in dyes, comes to life through a lively cast of characters - Ammamai, resigned to her widowhood, but a fighter; Saroja, the pseudo-intellectual who owns and runs the Victorian dyes factory; Kamala, the eunuch, who carries within her a painful past and Raman, the mosquito-scientist whose experiment with the malarial insect comes to be known as the Raman Technique. Then there is the ghost of Elizabeth Gibbs, the bored English woman who slept with her equally bored brother George and gave birth to a hermaphrodite. And Nayantara, who teaches Mallika all there is to know about love. But above all, this is Mallika and Siva's story - a mother and son in a complex and deeply disturbing relationship.
Out of God's Oven
On the social problems of India in last two decades; based on the author's travel experience.
The Long Strider
How Thomas Coryate Walked from England to India in the Year 1613 In the early seventeenth century, Thomas Coryate, an eccentric Englishman, a writer and a wanderer, decided to walk from his village of Indies to the court of the Great Mogul, Jehangir, and onwards to Chin, the land from where the silks came. His search was for fame, not fortune; he wanted to be the first man to write about those distant lands. Above all, he wanted to prove himself to his many sceptics in Prince Henry's court, whom he amused for a living, and the lovely Lady Anne Harcourt, whom he loved deeply, only to be hurt. The Long Strider tells the extraordinary story of Coryate s 5000-mile journey on foot to India, acros...
Where the Streets Lead
The Secret Life Of Streets Cities Are Remembered By Their Streets, Which Have A Personality All Their Own. Some Are Broad And Indolent, Others Brisk And Efficient And Some Resemble Courtesans, Painted And Bright By Evening, Drab And Gritty During The Day. Sarayu Ahuja Takes A Leisurely Stroll Through Streets In Cities As Different As Ahmedabad, Jaipur And Mumbai, Viewing Them Not In Terms Of Configuration And Design Alone But Also In The Context Of Their History And Their Sights, Smells, Sounds And People. In The Process She Shows The Evolution Of A City'S Individual Character. She Visits Bustling Jaisalmer, Suspended Like A Drop Of Water Over A Sea Of Sand; Chandigarh, Grand And Imperial; Benaras, Intimate And Feverish With Activity; The Lanes Of Siddpur, Secluded And Withdrawn From The Public Eye, And A Host Of Other Cities. The Outcome Is A Unique Study Of Indian Streets By A Professional Architect Which, Besides Being An Entertaining Travelogue, Shows Us Our Streets In A New And Revelatory Light.
Out of God's Oven
On the social problems of India in last two decades; based on the author's travel experience.
Until Then
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Where Some Things Are Remembered
'...the greatest Indian prose stylist, with the most beautiful sentences.'--Amitav Ghosh, Hindustan Times Dom Moraes was not only one of India's greatest poets, he was also an extraordinary journalist and essayist. He could capture effortlessly the essence of the people he met, and in every single profile in this sparkling collection he shows how it is done. The Dalai Lama laughs with him and Mother Teresa teaches him a lesson in empathy. Moraes could make himself at home with Laloo Prasad Yadav, the man who invented the self-fulfilling controversy, and exchange writerly notes with Sunil Gangopadhyaya. He was Indira Gandhi's biographer--painting her in defeat, post Emergency, and in triumph, when she returned to power. He tried to fathom the mind of a mysterious 'super cop'--K.P.S. Gill--and also of Naxalites, dacoits and ganglords. This collection is literary journalism at its finest--from an observer who saw people and places with the eye of a poet and wrote about them with the precision of a surgeon.
Indian English Literature
This book has been designed to help the students who want to crack the exams like NET JRF, SET SLET, TGT PGT, etc. It contains several writers and their important works in detail that is useful and exam-oriented. Once you read it, you will recommend this book to others, this is expected.
World Literature: A Non-British Approach
This book has been designed to help the students who prepare for competitive exams like UGC NET, SET/SLET, PGT, Assistant Professor Exams, etc. Every important writer across the world has been covered in this book. The Caribbean, African, Canadian, Australian, German, French, Russian, Italian, Greek, Roman, New Zealandia, and several other writers have been given in the book.
