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58 produkter
Aranyak
Of the Forest
Av Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Häftad, 2018
255 kr
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was one of the greatest writers in modern Bengali literature, best known for his autobiographical novel Pather Panchali, which, along with another of Bandyopadhyay’s books, formed the basis for Satyajit Ray’s classic Apu Trilogy. In this semi-autobiographical novel, …
Just Being
A Memoir
Inbunden, 2026
500 kr
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Historian Romila Thapar reflects on a rich, path-breaking life—and the ideas, friendships, and journeys that shaped her.In Just Being, historian Romila Thapar invites us into her illustrious world—a rich, extensive memoir from a scholar who has profoundly shaped our understanding of India’s past …
Very Close to Pleasure, There's a Sick Cat
And Other Poems
Inbunden, 2018
203 kr
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In the early 1960s, the Hungry Generation revitalized Bengali poetry in Calcutta, liberating it from the fetters of scholarship and the fog of punditry and freeing it to explore new forms, language, and subjects. Shakti Chattopadhyay was a cofounder of the movement, and his poems remain vibrant and …
Wildfire
And Other Stories
Av Banaphool
Häftad, 2018
255 kr
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Banaphool—which means wildflower—was the pen name of beloved Bengali writer Balaichand Mukhopadhyay (1899–1979). Wildfire brings together forty-five short pieces by Banaphool that are brilliantly representative of his uncompromising, multifaceted talent. Stark and short, often much too short, some …
Delhi Thaatha
A Great Grand Story
Inbunden, 2018
172 kr
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Written for young children, Delhi Thaatha is a biography of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a much-loved teacher and world-renowned philosopher who served as the first vice president of the Republic of India, then, beginning in 1962, president of the country. Written by his great-granddaughter, who …
Open-Winged Scorpion
And Other Stories
Av Abul Bashar
Inbunden, 2018
203 kr
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The Open-Winged Scorpion and Other Stories is a collection of ten powerful Bengali short stories, all translated into English for the first time. Hailing from Murshidabad district in West Bengal, Abul Bashar pens stories about precarious lives of marginal Muslim communities in that district. His …
Logic in a Popular Form
Essays on Popular Religion in Bengal
Häftad, 2019
291 kr
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Taking its title from Karl Marx’s description of religion as the world’s “logic in a popular form,” this book explores the hidden logic behind popular religions in nineteenth-century Bengal. Sumanta Banerjee examines cross-religious cults and the construction of Bengali myths and beliefs about …
Parlour and the Street
Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta
Häftad, 2019
300 kr
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In this book, Sumanta Banerjee analyzes the development of the folk culture of Calcutta’s urban poor following the establishment of the British colonial system in Bengal. Consisting primarily of traditional artisans who migrated from neighboring villages, Calcutta’s working-class forged a new urban …
Rain-Maiden and the Bear-Man
And Other Stories
Inbunden, 2019
255 kr
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In Easterine Kire’s stories, the boundaries between magic and reality drift away, leaving us to marvel at simple yet fantastical folktales about human connection. The title story in this collection is about feeling trapped by other people’s definitions of who we are. The Bear-man finds love in the …
Monsoon
Av Vimala Devi
Inbunden, 2020
219 kr
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An actor of traditional Hindu dramas meets an adolescent girl who turns out to be his half-sister. A man returns to Goa from Mozambique to father a child for a family whose unmarried daughters has produced no heirs. Another man feels out of place in his family home after returning from Portugal to …
Is It the Same for You?
Av Neha Singh
Inbunden, 2019
219 kr
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“The day they found my brother with a blood stain, I found one on my kurta too, but no one noticed my blood stain.” Thus begins the story of a young girl in Kashmir as she goes through the turbulence of adolescence in her conflict-ridden world. While larger issues of terrorism, violence, and death …
Thousand Cranes for India
Reclaiming Plurality Amid Hatred
Häftad, 2021
219 kr
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In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their wishes realized. But folding cranes, and the meditative, solemn care that it involves, has come to mean more than just an exercise in wish making. Origami cranes have become a symbol of renewal, atonement, …
Wolves
and Other Stories
Inbunden, 2021
204 kr
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Written during the final stages of the Indian Independence movement, between the gloom and angst of the interwar period and at the cusp of the beginning of modern India, Bhuwaneshwar’s short stories both capture the melancholy of the time and ask what it means to be human in an indifferent and …
Indian Cultures as Heritage
Contemporary Pasts
Inbunden, 2021
230 kr
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Every society has its cultures: patterns of how people live and express themselves and how they value objects and thoughts. Recently, there has been considerable debate about what constitutes Indian culture and heritage and about how much diversity those categories ought to contain. Romila Thapar …
Our Santiniketan
Inbunden, 2022
188 kr
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A brief, evocative memoir from one of India’s greatest writers.“Like a dazzling feather that has fluttered down from some unknown place. . . . How long will the feather keep its colours, waiting? The ‘feather’ stands for memories of childhood. Memories don’t wait.” In Our Sanitikentan, the late …
Goat Days
Häftad, 2021
243 kr
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Now in paperback, Benyamin's wry and tender telling transforms the strange and bitter comedy of Najeeb’s life in the desert into a universal tale of loneliness and alienation.In the southern Indian state of Kerala, Najeeb’s dearest wish is to work in a Persian Gulf country and earn enough money to …
Hawa Hawa
and Other Stories
Inbunden, 2023
204 kr
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A collection of inventive and surprising short stories from one of India’s most prominent countercultural writers. In this wildly inventive collection of Nabarun Bhattacharya’s stories, we meet characters such as a trigger-happy cop in an authoritarian police state, a man who holds on to a piece of …
Barricade
Av Utpal Dutt, Ananda Lal
Häftad, 2022
176 kr
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A political play staging the Nazi takeover of Germany with an eye on India.Although Utpal Dutt is acknowledged as a trailblazer of post-Independence Indian theater, English readers have not had access to the range and wealth of his drama. Barricade is a political play that stages the Nazi takeover …
Magic of Making
Essays on Art and Culture
Inbunden, 2026
316 kr
Kommande
Essays on the evolving aesthetic sensibilities of a globalized, rapidly changing world. In this collection of essays, written by K. G. Subramanyan over twenty-five years, this artist delves into the evolving aesthetic sensibilities in a globalized world, offering profound reflections on art, …
Creative Circuit
Inbunden, 2024
355 kr
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An exploration of the weight of history and the demand for originality on the contemporary artist, written by one of India’s best-known artists. What conception does a modern artist or critic have of contemporary art activity? How do modern artists react to their environment and cultural …
Living Tradition
Perspectives on Modern Indian Art
Inbunden, 2024
355 kr
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An engaging exploration of the quest for individuality within the rich tapestry of artistic traditions, by one of India’s best-known artists. “The fulfillment of a modern Indian artist's wish to be part of a living tradition, i.e. to be individual and innovative, without being an outsider in his …
Moving Focus
Essays on Indian Art
Inbunden, 2024
253 kr
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Reflections on the chords and discords inherent in the relationship between tradition and modernism. Written between the early 1960s and the mid-1970s, the articles and lectures collected in Moving Focus reflect on some of the major concerns of the practicing artist and scholar of modern Indian …
Social Life of Democracy
Inbunden, 2023
185 kr
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A plea for bringing democracy to our lived daily experience written in lucid prose.TheSocial Life of Democracy is a response to the polarization of our times and the crisis in democracy being experienced across the world today. Drawing from B. R. Ambedkar’s view that democracy is not a form of …
Murderer’s Mother
Inbunden, 2024
252 kr
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A tense sociopolitical novel exploring power, violence, and morality in 1970s India. The Murderer’s Mother takes readers to the late 1970s in the Indian state of West Bengal, where the Communist Party–led Left Front has just been voted into power. It tells the story of Tapan, who has been installed …
Bondhu
My Father, My Friend
Av Kunal Sen
Häftad, 2023
210 kr
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A behind-the-scenes look at the life of filmmaker Mrinal Sen through the eyes of his son Kunal, who grew up immersed in the world of Indian cinema.“No one remembers when and why I started calling my father Bondhu. It was a strange way to address a father, as the word means ‘friend’ in Bengali. . . …
Our History, Their History, Whose History?
Inbunden, 2024
183 kr
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An overview of nationalism and its impact on the study of history from one of India’s most prominent historians. In this timely book, historian Romila Thapar delves into the complex world of nationalism and its impact on the interpretations of the past and on the discipline of history itself. …
General Firebrand and His Red Atlas
Inbunden, 2024
252 kr
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A fast-paced and action-packed dystopian novel, addressing the nature of power, the limits of rationality, and the dominance of fear.In a world on the brink of totalitarian rule, one man rises from the shadows to ignite a revolution and becomes the unlikely leader of a war of resistance that will …
Beggar’s Bedlam
Inbunden, 2024
215 kr
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A hilarious and absurdist take on the political landscape of West Bengal, India.Beggar’s Bedlam is a surreal novel that unleashes the chaos of the carnival on the familiar. Part literary descendent of Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita and part a reconstruction of lost Bengali history, Nabarun …
Dreaming a Paradise
Migrations and the Story of Buland Masjid
Av Chitvan Gill
Inbunden, 2024
194 kr
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The story of the people of Buland Masjid, a community of migrants in Delhi.In Dreaming a Paradise, Chitvan Gill draws on years of research and photographic reportage to unveil the tales of individuals driven to escape poverty, violence, and despair in search of happiness and a place to call home. …
Habib Tanvir and His Legacy in Theatre
A Centennial Reappraisal
Inbunden, 2024
1129 kr
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Essays exploring the lasting impact of Habib Tanvir's pioneering theatre which blended tradition with modernity in the post-Independence Indian theatre scene. This collection of essays delves into the profound legacy of Habib Tanvir (1923–2009), a luminary in the post-Independence Indian theater …
