This biography provides new insight into the life and times of Lady Lokasundari Raman, the wife of great scientist C. V. Raman. Going deep into her family background, it describes in detail her birth and childhood, her parents, her schooling and her wedding with C. V. Raman.
It further describes her experiences about her stay with her husband in Calcutta, Rangoon, Nagpur, and Bangalore as well as her foreign travels, especially to Sweden when she accompanied her ...
This volume on Rushdie's early fiction consists of several introductory essays that give a lay reader a basic understanding of Rushdie's literary strategies, and several essays of complex analyses of themse and techniques in his first four novels. Most of the essays were published in various academic journals and/or given as plenary addresses at various conferences.
The essays in this volume a variety of writers such as Kamala Markandaya, Gita Mehta and Shashi Tharoor, and Many writers and artists who live in Canada. Uma Parameswaran brings her own experience of living for forty years outside Indian to her analysis of diasporic identity and culture. The essays, spread over several decades, work through many genres, methodologies and strategies as they display a cross-cultural sensibility and attempt to look at Indian Culture ...