Puranic Tales for Cynical People

Puranic Tales for Cynical People
Author: Rajshekhar Bose
Publisher:
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In a style that is curiously light and acerbic at the same time, Rajshekhar Parashuram Bose places well-known characters from the Puranas in situations that might have been. Surpanakha s wooden nose and ear pieces fall off as she becomes hysterical reminiscing about her heartbreaking love for Ram; Mahaveer Hanuman s wife-hunt ends in despair; Durvasa finds his rattle years later, in the Kali Yug, tangled in his beard thanks to a few mice; and Hanuman appears again at a séance in the 1950 s to explain Ram s rule and the politics of power, and even delivers the proverbial kick in the butt to a couple of so-called patriots.

The Fourth Monkey

The Fourth Monkey
Author: Sushil Kumar Gupta
Publisher: Indialog publications P Ltd.
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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 wife and her god and between the husband and his organ. Shades of Calvin and Hobbes! The imagery of cricket for sex creates its own humour. In the midst of human characters, a god's shadowy presence looms over the happenings. A Joycean epiphany at the end caps it all.

Luminous Peaks

Luminous Peaks
Author: Nanda Caturvedī
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN:

Beyond the immediate, Nand Babu's poetry evolves as a metaphor of social resistance at the cross-section of myths, history and political reality. It is an aesthetic resistance premised on a linguistic sensibility which is inclusive; psychologically engaging, socially responsible and politically conscious. In invoking a multiplicity of responses his poetry invites the reader to participate in and witness the present, thus ensuring a complexity of awareness, necessary for ushering in a progressive future.

I.I.M., Ganjdundwara

I.I.M., Ganjdundwara
Author: Rohithari Rajan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2008
Genre: Indic fiction (English)
ISBN:

Could you ... Live without email for two months? Make do with a ten acre field for a restroom? Drive a tractor out of a ditch? IIM Ganjdundwara is a fictionalized narration of how a large multinational company devised a unique rural initiative. Two young MBAs find themselves in a remote Indian village, and this is their story - an account of the often funny, frequently insightful experiences of city dwellers trying to adjust to rural life, of young men hoping to make a difference, and of one India discovering another. A compelling read, IIM Ganjdundwara highlights the similarities between urban and rural India. It is a story of the hopes, dreams and realities of everyday folk eager to make a difference.

Pancha- Kanya

Pancha- Kanya
Author: Pradip Bhattacharya
Publisher:
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2005
Genre: Hindu mythology
ISBN: 9788181573490

Study on the depiction of virginity of women mythological characters in Hindu epics.

Krishna-charitra

Krishna-charitra
Author: Baṅkimacandra Caṭṭopādhyāẏa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1991
Genre: Krishna (Hindu deity)
ISBN:

On Krishna (Hindu deity).