J.P. Das
Showing all 12 books
On the history of Orissa, 1859-1907, in fictional form.
An important but little-known art form of Orissa is illustration on palm-leaf that flourished along with the Orissan tradition of copying kavya texts on palm-leaf manuscripts and illuminating them. This art form touched its zenith during the golden age of Oriya kavya literature in the 18th century when a large number of chitra-pothis (illustrated palm-leaf manuscripts) were done. Chitra-pothi: Illustrated palm-leaf manuscripts from Orissa traces the palm-leaf ...
The play Sundardas recounts the activities of the first Christian missionaries in Orissa between 1826 and 1832, their meagre successes, their discouragement and defeats. But the play is more than a simple retelling of historical facts; rather, it gives reality to the underlying motivations of the individual actors, as well as to the conflicting world views in contact in this meeting of Christianity and Hinduism on the Indian subcontinent, in a context of empire, ...
These stories have been translated from the author’s award-winning Oriya collection, where characters are implicated in relationships they neither control nor fully understand. A husband’s discovery leads him to doubt whether he ever truly knew his wife. A daughter’s marriage concretises a rupture begun long before with her parents attempts to have control over her life. A writer confronts his need for recognition and ponders the nature of true success. ...
Chitrapothi: An important but little-known art form of Orissa is illustration on palm-leaf that flourished along with the Orissan tradition of copying kavya texts on palm-leaf manuscripts and illuminating them. This art form touched its zenith during the golden age of Oriya kavya literature in the 18th century when a large number of chitra-pothis (illustrated palm-leaf manuscripts) were done. Chitra-pothi: Illustrated Palm-leaf Manuscripts from Orissa traces the ...
In these short stories, the author holds the reader in thrall from the opening sentence leading him through convoluted corridors and depositing him on the threshold of some unforeseen mystery. The slow, deliberate accretion of details leaves the reader impatient for the inevitable climax, which provides both a sense of relief as also of disbelief. Drawing successfully upon his own experiences in the bizarre and often grotesque world of bureaucracy as much as from ...
This book is English translation of selected Oriya short stories of Sahitya Akademi and Sarawati Samman award recipient J P Das. Stories in this collection map the relation between writing and social power as they operate in a provincial milieu. Wry, clipped, and clinical, these stories show J P Das at his ironic, debunking and self-reflective best. With an unusual take on social relations and values, the stories are shot through with a fine sense of ...
This book is a ready reckoner on dyslexia, a condensed and undated source of information on the subject, for not only teachers and parents, but also for professionals concerned with Learning Disabilities. For the school psychologist, the book is an interpretation that gives pre-eminence to the PASS (Planning-Attention-Simultaneous-Successive) Theory of cognitive processes--the four major processes that replace traditional views of IQ and redefine intelligence. ...