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Calling the Naga movement the mother of armed struggle in India, the volume deals with the history of the Naga people, covering events from the history of the birth of the state of Nagaland to the current movement by the National Socialist Council of Nagalim for the unification of Naga-inhabited areas in the North-east of India under one administration. It deals with the armed movement the Nagas launched under the leadership of Zapuhizo in the early 1950s to form ...
Forever Free is an intense dry eyed prose new in Indo English Literature. It is a story of an ebullient young woman who, in Raji Narasimhans deft hands, is a loving, throbbing, passionate, exciting woman who sets out in search of freedom wide as the horizon. Married to a man she didnt love. Restless, ruthless, in quest of self-fulfillment and freedom, she clawed her way through from one lover to another, only to arrive nowhere.
The seventeen stories in this collection are about women driven to the edge of society. They are there because of major breaks from family and tradition they have felt compelled to make in order to remain true to themselves. They try to somehow redeem the beauty, truth and poetry of life smothered in dogmas. The women are tough. None of them has a breakdown. Working at their jobs in public, engaged in private in their secret lives of introspection and ...
The saga of Alma Kabutari does not begin with Alma herself. It has its roots in centuries of social and sexual subjugation of the kabutaris by the upper-caste kajjas. Like Chittor’s Rani Padmini of yore, from whom the kabutaris are descended, the onus of breaking the vicious circle and reclaiming human status for her people falls on young Alma. The engrossing story of young alma’s evolution from victim to survivor to tenacious rebel, Alma Kabutari opens a ...