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Author | : Kālidāsa |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2009-09 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0814741118 |
One of the three surviving plays by Kali dasa (fifth century), universally acknowledged as the supreme poet in classical Sanskrit, How Urvashi Was Won, like the other two, is a masterpiece of lyricism, subtle characterization, and the working through of a bold theme. How Urvashi Was Won is the story of King Puru ravas and his love for an immortal, the dancer Urvashi, who normally lives in the heaven of the gods but who has come down to earth in order to realize her passion for the alltoo- mortal king. The tragic love of this asymmetrical couple was described already in the ancient "Rig Veda" and later often expanded. Kali dasa has reworked the narrative so as to depict a goddess in the process of becoming fully, and dangerously, human—since only human beings (at their best) are, in Kali dasa’s vision, truly capable of the depths and intricacies of loving. This great work of love, loss, and eventual restoration speaks to the human condition generally in highly nuanced verses, accessible to any modern reader.
Author | : Urvashi Butalia |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780822324942 |
Chiefly on the partition of Punjab, 1947.
Author | : Urvashi Vaid |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2015-11-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1101972343 |
A veteran activist tackles urgent questions about where the gay movement should go and what the movement wants with a unique combination of visionary politics and hard-earned pragmatism. "A valuable, encyclopedic compendium of the gay movement’s modern history and challenges." —San Francisco Chronicle Since the decade to lift the ban on gays in the military, the emergence of gay conservatives, and the onslaught of antigay initiatives across America, the gay and lesbian community has been asking itself tough questions. In Virtual Equality, Urvashi Vaid offers wise answers.
Author | : Niharika Dinkar |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2019-09-19 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1526139650 |
Light was central to the visual politics and imaginative geographies of empire, even beyond its role as a symbol of knowledge and progress in post-Enlightenment narratives. This book describes how imperial mappings of geographical space in terms of ‘cities of light’ and ‘hearts of darkness’ coincided with the industrialisation of light (in homes, streets, theatres) and its instrumentalisation through new representative forms (photography, film, magic lanterns, theatrical lighting). Cataloguing the imperial vision in its engagement with colonial India, the book evaluates responses by the celebrated Indian painter Ravi Varma (1848–1906) to reveal the centrality of light in technologies of vision, not merely as an ideological effect but as a material presence that produces spaces and inscribes bodies.
Author | : Urvashi Chakravarty |
Publisher | : Raceb4race: Critical Race Stud |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-02-27 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781512826272 |
In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England in the period that preceded the development of an organized trade in enslaved persons. Despite the persistent fiction that England was innocent of racialized slavery, Chakravarty argues that we must hold early modern England--and its narratives of exceptional and essential freedom--to account for the frameworks of slavery that it paradoxically but strategically engendered. Slavery was not a foreign or faraway phenomenon, she demonstrates; rather, the ideologies of slavery were seeded in the quotidian spaces of English life and in the everyday contexts of England's service society, from the family to the household, in the theater and, especially, the grammar school classroom, where the legacies of classical slavery and race were inherited and negotiated. The English conscripted the Roman freedman's figurative "stain of slavery" to register an immutable sign of bondage and to secure slavery to epidermal difference, even as early modern frameworks of "volitional service" provided the strategies for later fictions of "happy slavery" in the Atlantic world. Early modern texts presage the heritability of slavery in early America, reveal the embeddedness of slavery within the family, and illuminate the ways in which bloodlines of descent underwrite the racialized futures of enslavement. Fictions of Consent intervenes in a number of areas including early modern literary and cultural studies, premodern critical race studies, the reception of classical antiquity, and the histories of law, education, and labor to uncover the conceptual genealogies of slavery and servitude and to reveal the everyday sites where the foundations of racialized slavery were laid. Although early modern England claimed to have "too pure an Air for Slaves to breathe in," Chakravarty reveals slavery was a quintessentially English phenomenon.
Author | : Alice Albinia |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2012-01-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393083497 |
"Steeped in the tradition of the Indian epic, yet modern and vastly entertaining." —The Times (London) In her fiction debut, Alice Albinia weaves a multithreaded epic tale that encompasses divine saga and familial discord and introduces an unforgettable heroine. Leela—alluring, taciturn, haunted—is moving from New York back to Delhi. Worldly and accomplished, she has been in self-imposed exile from India and her family for decades; twenty-two years earlier, her sister was seduced by the egotistical Vyasa, and the fallout from their relationship drove Leela away. Now an eminent Sanskrit scholar, Vyasa is preparing for his son’s marriage. But when Leela arrives for the wedding, she disrupts the careful choreography of the weekend, with its myriad attendees and their conflicting desires. Gleefully presiding over the drama is Ganesh—divine, elephant-headed scribe of the Mahabharata, India’s great epic. The family may think they have arranged the wedding for their own selfish ends, but according to Ganesh it is he who is directing events—in a bid to save Leela, his beloved heroine, from Vyasa. As the weekend progresses, secret online personas, maternal identities, and poetic authorships are all revealed; boundaries both religious and continental are crossed; and families are ripped apart and brought back together in this vibrant and brilliant celebration of family, love, and storytelling.
Author | : Krishna mishra |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2016-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1479852643 |
The Rise of Wisdom Moon was composed during the mid-eleventh century by Krishna mishra, an otherwise unknown poet in the service of the Chandella dynasty, whose cultural and religious capital was Khajuraho. The early popularity of Krishna mishra’s work led to its frequent translation into the vernaculars of both North and South India, and even Persian as well. Famed as providing the enduring model of the allegorical play for all subsequent Sanskrit literature, The Rise of Wisdom Moon offers a satirical account of the conquest of the holy city of Benares by Nescience, of the war of liberation waged by the forces of Intuition, and of the freedom of the Inner Man that then follows the rise of Wisdom. But at the outset, when Nescience still has the upper hand, with minions like Lord Lust, such developments seem unlikely.
Author | : Mohan Rakesh |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2015-04-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9352140125 |
In a remote village in the foothills of the Himalayas, a gifted but unknown poet named Kalidas nurtures an unconventional romance with his youthful muse, Mallika. When the royal palace at Ujjayini offers him the position of court poet, Kalidas hesitates, but Mallika persuades him to leave for the distant city so that his talent may find recognition. Convinced that he will send for her, she waits. He returns years later, a broken man trying to reconnect with his past, only to discover that time has passed him by. // A classic of postcolonial theatre, Mohan Rakesh’s Hindi play is both an unforgettable love story and a modernist reimagining of the life of India’s greatest classical poet. It comes alive again in Aparna and Vinay Dharwadker’s new English translation, authorized by the author’s estate. This literary rendering is designed for performance on the contemporary cosmopolitan stage, and it is enriched by extensive commentary on the play’s contexts, legacy, themes and dramaturgy.
Author | : Stanley A. Wolpert |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520221727 |
"To all of us who delightedly and sometimes repetitively call ourselves Old India hands, Stanley Wolpert is the acknowledged authority. This book tells why. Indian history, art, culture, and contemporary politics are here in accurate, wide-ranging, and lucid prose."--John Kenneth Galbraith
Author | : Urvashi Balasubramaniam |
Publisher | : Notion Press |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1946556939 |
Once a man came strolling by, But he stopped, and asked why, The trees and birds had all turned blue Just like his small hat and shoe, He looked up to the sky and said, Why is the sky green instead? Get drawn into the imaginative world of an 11-year old. Little Glow is an inspiring collection of eclectic poems written by Urvashi Balasubramaniam, who gives the readers a peep into her world. Sometimes funny and sometimes sensitive and serious, she writes on a variety of subjects. Written over several years, the poems range from the funny to the poignant. From candies and chocolates, in her early years, she has moved on to write poems on the state of the environment and gender issues. Whether it is an 8-line poem on popcorn or two-page on princesses, you will be enthralled by her sensitivity and delight at her control on language. Margie Sastry, ex-editor and writer at Amar Chitra Katha writes, “It is apparent as you go through the collection that they have been written over the years, tracing the innocent joys of childhood through simple ditties to poetry that communicates her concern for the world she is growing up in. Put up your feet and enjoy reading about the world of an 11-year old girl.