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The long short story is a compelling literary form. Neither as brief as the classic short story nor as long as the novella, it is a piece of writerly art that can be read in a single sitting, yet allows the writer to properly explore setting, character, atmosphere and plot. In the hands of a master, ‘the long short’ is just the right length to provide an extraordinary reading experience - a story that you can sink into.
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This translation of Marathi classic, Mazha Pravas, published in 1907, presents an eye-witness account of the 1857 Rebellion. Using 19th century idiom, it describes rituals and prayer, bizarre cross-dressing, battle and blood, and, most memorably, the fall of Jhansi.
Straddling both historiography and literature, it interprets the Rebellion as a righteous one and pins its failure to a moral point: in killing women and children the rebels violated the Hindu code of ...
This is a complete biography of the late VT Bhattathiripad, one of the most accomplished thought leaders and social reformers of modern Kerala. Translated for the first time in English by his daughter Sindhu V. Nair, this exhaustive yet comprehensive text contains in-depth interviews of the author in his last year with three historians and is also well supplemented with rare photographs. This translation is directed at students and teachers of Indian writing, ...