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Female activists united over issues such as female infanticide, gender bias, women health, and female literacy. Since alcoholism is often associated with violence against women in India, many women groups launched anti-liquor campaigns in Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and other states. Many Indian Muslim women have questioned the fundamental leaders interpretation of women's rights under the Shariat law and have criticized the ...
This volume is a collection of twelve short stories selected from about forty stories published in six collections in Malayalam. These stories involve encounters between characters in the realms of ideas and peculiar contexts of life and history. These stories involve encounters between characters in the realms of ideas and peculiar contexts of life and history. The characters, as is characteristic of Anand’s writing, walk into these pages from mythology, ...
This work is art created anew. Anand combines, in startling fashion, the modern with the traditional, memory with myth, the past with glimpses of the future, revealing the finer aspects of beauty and thought. A complete piece of work, it offers half-complete texts from times far removed from each other and yet woven together in myriad ways. Revealing the finer aspects of beauty and thought, criticism and analysis of society. Politics and myth, this work, in ...
The Stories in this anthology, some of them appearing for the first time in English translation, seek to give a larger view of Yashpal as a short story writer as well as provide a taste of his forthright approach to the questions of his time. Whether exploring the theme of the complicity of the ruled with the rulers, or the unquestioning supplication of human beings to a deity or faith, or social reform and social protest, the stories are coloured by the ...
'The most memorable literary event of my experience . . . Govardhan is that common man who seeks justice from history, from time and society and is punished. Govardhan is everyman. He is a survivor and his story is everyman’s story.' — Mahasveta Devi. Halfway through his famous play on injustice, Andher Nagari Choupat Raja, Bharatendu Harishchandra stops: What is the duty of a writer—to depict reality as it exists or to project what it should actually be? ...