Prem Kissa

Prem Kissa
Author: Pravin Maharaj
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2022-08-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1543770657

Prem was six years old, and the only son to his parents but from the outset, after their daily storytelling evenings with, their grandfather, Baba. He gave all the children stories from the past, when they were noticeably at a young and tender age. Being a brahmin, he hated the caste system in which he grew and lived in, during his growing up days. His life started in a rural area of Deganga, in India, and grew up in an extended family. As a young adult, he graduated as an educated teacher, from an established university. Prem remained a bachelor for a short time only, whilst he lived on the farm, with his mum, until he was twenty-two years old. Soon he was introduced to and then married a pretty damsel. He grew up to be an elegant, handsome and charming person and his journey abroad highlights his attributes, friendliness, career, aligned with his explorative ideals, romance and dreams in all of his endeavors. He was the only member of his family that wanted to get away from the poor life in India, and decided to get away to London, which leads to the second book.

Prem Chand

Prem Chand
Author: Bhisham Sahni
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1980
Genre: Authors, Hindi
ISBN:

Contributed articles on the works of Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (Premchand), 1881-1936, Hindi and Urdu litterateur.

Joothan

Joothan
Author: Omprakash Valmiki
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2008-07-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0231503377

Omprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s. "Joothan" refers to scraps of food left on a plate, destined for the garbage or animals. India's untouchables have been forced to accept and eat joothan for centuries, and the word encapsulates the pain, humiliation, and poverty of a community forced to live at the bottom of India's social pyramid. Although untouchability was abolished in 1949, Dalits continued to face discrimination, economic deprivation, violence, and ridicule. Valmiki shares his heroic struggle to survive a preordained life of perpetual physical and mental persecution and his transformation into a speaking subject under the influence of the great Dalit political leader, B. R. Ambedkar. A document of the long-silenced and long-denied sufferings of the Dalits, Joothan is a major contribution to the archives of Dalit history and a manifesto for the revolutionary transformation of society and human consciousness.

Curfew In The City

Curfew In The City
Author: Vibhuti Narain Rai
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2016-02-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9385890735

A moving story of a Muslim household of beedi workers stuck in a claustrophobic city, this novella narrates how curfew affects simple and ordinary lives. With administrative authorities fanning insecurities, the book unmasks cold, calculated greed and blind senseless hatred that always waits for the opportune moment to tear apart the mask to reveal the actual faces, real and primal.

Cultural Studies in India

Cultural Studies in India
Author: Rana Nayar
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351570374

This volume discusses the development of cultural studies in India. It shows how inter-disciplinarity and cultural pluralism form the basis of this emerging field. It deals with contemporary debates and interpretations of post-colonial theory, subaltern studies, Marxism and post-Marxism, nationalism and post-nationalism. Drawing upon literature, linguistics, history, political science, media and theatre studies, and cultural anthropology, it explores themes such as caste, indigenous peoples, vernacular languages and folklore and their role in the making of historical consciousness. A significant intervention in the area, this book will be useful to scholars and students of cultural studies and theory, literature, history, cultural anthropology, sociology, and media and mass communication, as well as the general reader.

Balancing the Wisdom Tree

Balancing the Wisdom Tree
Author: Film and Television Institute of India
Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Total Pages: 593
Release:
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9354094732

A unique publication focussed on women alumni to mark the diamond jubilee year of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.

Sant Singh Sekhon

Sant Singh Sekhon
Author: Santa Siṅgha Sekhoṃ
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2005
Genre: Indic prose literature (English)
ISBN: 9788126019991

The Volume Includes Selected Writings Of Sant Singh Sekhon, The Most Innovative Writer Of Punjab In 20Th Century. Included Here Are His Critical Articles, Covering Punjabi Poets Of All The Eras. Samples Of His Translation Also Figure In The Volume In Ample Measure In Which He Seeks To Pose A Creative Tension Between Punjabi And English.