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The volume is a comprehensive study of the life and times of the author and his works, presenting samples of his short stories, novels and non-fictional and journalistic writings. It brings out the critical reception of the author by critics. It explores themes such as the condition of the marginalised, caste conflicts and class structures and the tragedy of the common man that preoccupied the writer through out his career.
Gurdial Singh is a prominent ...
Inter-sections brings together a collection of discursive essays that deal with a range of contemporary issues-from the history of literary genres to the future of humanities; from locating Indian literatures to mapping Indian English fiction and drama; from Punjabi literature, history and culture to the theory and practice of translation; from media-driven literary evaluation to multiple ways of shaping popular consciousness. Divided into four (inter-)sections, ...
A collection of some of the best short stories of the Jnanpith Award Winner, Gurdial Singh, written over the past four decades or so, Earthy Tones creates a mosaic of images of both rural and urban Punjab that seethe, simmer and linger in the memory of the people of Punjab. These stories chronicle the cultural history of the Malwa region with an unerring sense of verisimilitude and incomparable poetic exuberance. With its stubborn, unyielding land, sandy soil, ...
Taking first few, halting steps to wards a theory of relationships, the present book offers rational, holistic understanding of the Sphinx-like riddles that often surround both human nature and relations. Influenced by the thoughts of a host of Western thinckers such as Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Vico, Nietzsche, Marx, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre, Jung, Fromm et al, this book is, in fact, more in the nature of 'literary anthropology.' Digging deep into the ...
The first ever attempt to showcase Raghbir Dhand’s work in the English language, melting Moments, a collection of fourteen stories, is also his best in terms of variety of themes, ideas, technique and craft.As an individual and a writer, Dhand always sought to negotiate the complex ghettoized, feudal Punjabi identity through the mish-mash of racism, politics of exclusion/identity/language and culture. These stories deal exclusively with the problems of dual ...