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Almost everybody wants to be lucky in life. Yet many are unlucky. This book tells the reader how to attract good luck.
A study of the lives of thousands of people enabled the author to discover what luck is. Therefore an earnest effort has been made in the book to tell the readers about, not only the origin of luck, but also the methodology of operation of luck in human lives. Simple and practical methods have been detailed to enable the readers to command good ...
Peter Pan is one of the most popular of all children's classics. Though it is nowadays mostly staged as a children's play, it is meant for adults as well. This is a rare and deeply moving piece of introspection, brimming with the energy of actual experience seen through the eyes of a woman whose own background in literature, women's studies and social activism forms the perspective from which she speaks.
The faces, an anthology of twelve short stories by Dibyendu Palit, a noted Bengali writer, is evocative of the growing isolation in an urban context. Amongst others, the faces in this volume are of a middle-class man whose own weakness forces him to look up to the local ruffian to protect him against more ruffians like him; a housewife who feels trapped in a marriage that ties her destiny with the runs scored by her cricketer husband; and a mother living out her ...
The fables in Just So Stories were first narrated by Kipling to an audience of his own children. In theme and subject matter, they range from animals and insects to the origins of the alphabet. How the Leopard got his Spots, How the Rhinoceros got his Skin and How the Camel got his Hump are some of the most famous tales of this collection, which has endeared itself to generations of young readers.
From the introduction: "This introduction comprises two sections. The first addresses significant issues related to language, exile, and translation in a postcolonial context, that of India, as they apply to translations from a colonized language (Hindi in this collection of stories) into the colonizer’s language, English. The second section introduces Nirmal Verma and offers some readings of various emblems and motifs in this collection ...
An extremely handy guide by Krishna Sahai to understand and appreciate Bharata Natyam, the ancient and esoteric dance form preserved through the ages with astonishing purity. The holistic overview takes one through the purpose behind all Indian art forms, the development and history of Bharata Natyam, stories that are set to dance and, finally, to the technique. The well-researched text, illustrated with photographs, and line drawings by Gautam Vaghela, will help ...
Minoti Chatterjee, an academic and a theatre activist, explores how Bengali theatre and the upsurges of nationalist movements inform and appropriate each other during the turbulent era of 1905-1947. As Bengal was the centre of the interaction, negotiation and conflict between the native and the British, its theatre experienced different spatial, and consequently, thematic and technical dislocations and relocations. The theories and practices of theatre underwent ...
A compendium of 20 entertaining stories from Panchatantra which will delight both young and seniors alike.
This geo-political thriller is set a few years in future and is enacted in Tibet, India, and the United States of America. It all begins with a little boy in Tibet being identified as reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. What follow is roller-coaster ride of epic proportions, involving the attempt to bring the boy to India.
Legends of India is a collection of well-known Indian myths and fables addressed primarily to young readers between twelve and sixteen years of age, to inform them of their own rich heritage. It is also addressed to children possibly in other age-groups, in other parts of the world, who may or may not have come across the legends elsewhere.
A study of modernity in the work of Satyajit Raj, Suranjan Ganguly's book examines in depth six of Ray's major films, focusing on such issues as the nature of human subjectivity, the importance of education, the emancipation of women, the rise of the new middle class, and the crisis of identity in post-independence India. Ganguly provides close readings of Pather Panchali (1955); Aparajito (1956); Apur Sansar (1959); Charulata (1964); Aranyer Din Ratri ...
The subcontinent was divided decades ago. But Partition's harvest of pain, violence and trauma continues to haunt us even today. In literature, as in life, its spectre rises time and again from the ashes of 1947, igniting memory as it locates itself in communal tension and rioting crowds. Metaphors and fictive narratives grapple with the human indulgence in bestial violence and navigate through varied psychological and emotional terrain. ...
"Hushed Voices" by Munmun Ghosh makes compelling reading as it delves sensitively in to the lives of Mumbai's migrants. It is the story of the innermost desires that brings them to this 'city of dreams.' It is a story of the anguishes they suffer and the optimism that enables them to hold on to their dreams and survive. They are part of the fabric that is Mumbai, yet somehow they are just living in its periphery.
The Mahanadi Dream is not just the story of a young man's travails and tribulations in his search for a new meaning in his life in a modernizing and industrializing but conservative society. It is also a definitive account of the political-administrative culture, social orthodoxy and economic deprivation of our times. While charting Arun's journey in finding a new meaning in his life through self-reliance, the novel brings out the hurdles that stand in his way.
Erotic in style and content, this collection unearths the forgotten and lesser known tales of love from the great epic. The narrative is sensuous and often sensual in detail, pulsating with the blood and throb of bodies that breath in unison, in a world particularized by its own mores. Parikshit and sushobhana, Agni and Svaha, Agastya and Lopamudra, and many more lovelorn couples take the reader on a journey through the crosscurrents of physical ...
One night stands, betrayals of body and mind, the Judas kiss of the soul, a world turned traitor-36 tales of infidelity made all the more tragic by a touch of lightness and mad magic.This is Shinie Antony’s second collection of short stories. Her first, Barefoot and Pregnant, was published in 2002.
They are women of steel, women who have seen terror in its most violent forms. Bombs, bullets or even lowly machetes have shattered their lives. Homemakers without the Men: Assam’s Widows of Violence is a real-life narrative of widows of violence in northeastern India’s Assam state who have lost their bread-winning partners to insurgency or ethnic strife. Wasbir Hussain brings out the pathos, trauma, struggle and challenges of these remarkable women who ...
Stories from the Raj takes one into the lives of Sahibs and Memsahibs, and offers an array of entertaining tales about their interests and lifestyles-from the Sahibs' enthusiasm for nautch parties and pig-sticking, to the First Imperial Durbar in Delhi, to intriguing stories about Brahmin astrologers, and fascinating accounts of jugglers adept at the great Indian rope trick. Nevile's prose has the relaxed, easy familiarity of a veteran dinner-table raconteur, and ...
Through his immortal short stories and other writings, Saki has created some of the most loved stereotypes that are almost caricaturesque in their droll exaggeration. Aunts are the unfailing tyrants in their unreasonable cruelty or downright imbecility. Families eat porridge, believe in the weather forecast and have no sense of humor. No one falls in love and if love does happen, it's placid love between placidly lovable couples. Isms are grotesque jokes with ...
Stress is a mind-borne discomfort that infects us through our thought-process and sense organs. But the point worth considering is why we allow stress to infect us? Are we not intelligent human beings? Yes indeed we are. But, in spite of all our intelligent achievements, we allow stress to infect us because of following four fundamental reasons: 1. We are lonely in the crowd.2. We don’t trust life3. We are non-co-operative and hostile towards ourselves.4. Life ...