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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.
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 ...
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.
The Love Song of Alfred Hitchcock (written in 1991, published in 1994), Hitchcock's intervention (1994) and Music is a time-Art (1995), the three tales that are collected here, have one thing in common: they are all somehow related, in varying degrees, to the world of films, with the first two specifically invoking Alfred Hitchcock. The cinema, for Maythil Radhakrishnan, often provides either a launching pad or a frame of reference. The Love Song of Alfred ...
This premier fiction collection offers readers a passage to an unfamiliar destination - a world in limbo between East and West, India and America, home and away.With piercing insight, Fracis expertly reveals the underlying differences between immersion in India's culture - Hindu, Muslim, or Parsi - and life as an Indian in America. The stories in this collection, alternating between East and West, serve as companion pieces, interrelated across continents in both ...
A Rasika's Journey through Hindustani Music is the author's Journey trying to understand and appreciate the abstract, expansive, fluid and wide-ranging contours of North Indian classical music. Like any other lover of Indian classical music from South India, Rajeev Nair grew up listening to Karnatic music. Over the years, his listening preferences veered in the direction of Hindustani Music. This book is a result of his changed listening ...
The facts: Mrs. Mehrotra, elderly widow of a retired senior bureaucrat who had accumulated wealth far beyond his means, had been found murdered. The late Mr. Mehrotra’s nephew, married to my new client, and Mrs. Mehrotra’s two nieces were now in the running for the booty. But Mrs. Kumar was the only one looking for the old woman’s will, convinced it was all hers. You don’t want me to find the murderer of your aunt-in-law? Me - a PI with vast investigative ...
Madan Swaroop, a professor of English literature in his fifties, recalls 25 years of his married life on his flight to Kanglung, Bhutan, on a teaching tenure. His beautiful wife is an ardent Krishna devotee a la Mira Bai. She restricts marital sex to once a week, which leads to conflict and comedy. A vivid description of the college campus and the Bhutanese way of life follows. He gets involved with two of his students. There are parallel dialogues between the ...
A Loving tribute. A critical study of the distinctive styles and musical achievements of fourteen great masters of fourteen great masters of Carnatic music who appeared during 1930-1965. an illustrated book based on interviews held with the families, disciples and friends of the masters. An unusual section of articles by the masters where they expressed their views on masters relating to music and musicians.
A wonderfully entertaining and a luminous prose poem, this book has a form and texture of a novel and the complexity and pace of a mystery not solved until the final pages. Winner of 1990 Order of Australia Book Prize, this work is an Australian classic. In 1982 Sally Morgan traveled back to her grandmother's birthplace. What started out as a tentative search for information about her family, turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. My ...
Dirty Picture is the story of two sisters whose liaisons create scandal in a small town. Leaving her husband's home in Bombay, Reena returns to Ajmer wearing the ring of a married CEO. She intends to rebuild her life even if it means stepping out of convention. Meanwhile, her teenage sister Bharti has stumbled into local politics. Although imbued with a reformatory zeal, she gets sucked into a veritable quagmire of sexual intrigue because of her naivety and ...
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. ...