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Joginder Paul
The Writerly Writer
Inbunden, 2021
2888 kr
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This book is a comprehensive volume on the life and works of Joginder Paul, a well-known Urdu fiction writer and thinker. It presents a selection from the writer’s oeuvre – a few of his short stories, extracts from his long fiction, samples of his micro-fiction, personal reminiscences, and some of …
Krishna Sobti
A Counter Archive
Av Sukrita Paul Kumar, Rekha Sethi
Inbunden, 2021
2888 kr
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This book engages with the life and works of the distinctive Hindi writer Krishna Sobti, known for making bold choices of themes in her writing. Also known for her extraordinary use of the Hindi language, she emerges as an embodiment of a counter archive. While presenting the author in the context …
Mahasweta Devi
Writer, Activist, Visionary
Inbunden, 2023
2888 kr
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Mahasweta Devi occupies a singular position in the history of modern Indian literature and world literature. This book engages with Devi’s works as a writer-activist who critically explored subaltern subjectivities, the limits of history and the harsh social realities of post-independence India.The …
Amrita Pritam
The Writer Provocateur
Av Hina Nandrajog, Prem Kumari Srivastava
Inbunden, 2023
2453 kr
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Amrita Pritam was a prominent Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist who captured the realities of everyday life in the India of the early 1900s India and presented the unique voices of the women of the Indian subcontinent. This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the writer’s work by …
Mahasweta Devi
Writer, Activist, Visionary
Häftad, 2024
745 kr
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Mahasweta Devi occupies a singular position in the history of modern Indian literature and world literature. This book engages with Devi’s works as a writer-activist who critically explored subaltern subjectivities, the limits of history and the harsh social realities of post-independence India.The …
Indira Goswami
Margins and Beyond
Av Namrata Pathak, Dibyajyoti Sarma
Inbunden, 2022
2888 kr
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This book engages with the life and works of Indira Goswami, the first Assamese woman writer to win the highest national literary award, the Jnanpith Award, in 2001. From sociological treatises to a springboard of a socio-political milieu, Goswami’s texts are intersections of the local and the …
Indira Goswami
Margins and Beyond
Av Namrata Pathak, Dibyajyoti Sarma
Häftad, 2024
795 kr
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This book engages with the life and works of Indira Goswami, the first Assamese woman writer to win the highest national literary award, the Jnanpith Award, in 2001. From sociological treatises to a springboard of a socio-political milieu, Goswami’s texts are intersections of the local and the …
O. V. Vijayan
The Critical Insider
Av E. V. Ramakrishnan, K. C. Muraleedharan
Inbunden, 2024
2888 kr
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O.V. Vijayan (1930–2005) was an acclaimed Malayalam novelist, short story writer, cartoonist, translator, columnist, political analyst, and public intellectual. In a literary career spanning almost half a century, he published six novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eight volumes of …
Bama
Writer as Activist
Inbunden, 2024
2888 kr
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Bama is a Tamil Dalit feminist writer and novelist. Her autobiographical novel Karukku, which chronicles the joys and sorrows experienced by Dalit Christians in Tamil Nadu, catapulted her to fame. As a prolific writer, she has experimented with all kinds of genres, such as novels, short stories, …
Vyankatesh Madgulkar
A Villageful of Stories and a Forestful of Tales
Av Sachin Ketkar, Keerti Ramachandra
Inbunden, 2023
879 kr
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Vyankatesh Madgulkar (1927–2001) was one of the pioneers of modernist short fiction (nav katha) as well as ‘rural’ (grameen) fiction in Marathi in the post-World War II era. He wrote eight novels, two hundred short stories, several plays, including some notable ‘folk plays’ (loknatya), screenplays …
Vyankatesh Madgulkar
A Villageful of Stories and a Forestful of Tales
Av Sachin Ketkar, Keerti Ramachandra
Häftad, 2025
812 kr
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Vyankatesh Madgulkar (1927–2001) was one of the pioneers of modernist short fiction (nav katha) as well as ‘rural’ (grameen) fiction in Marathi in the post-World War II era. He wrote eight novels, two hundred short stories, several plays, including some notable ‘folk plays’ (loknatya), screenplays …
O. V. Vijayan
The Critical Insider
Av E. V. Ramakrishnan, K. C. Muraleedharan
Häftad, 2026
812 kr
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O.V. Vijayan (1930–2005) was an acclaimed Malayalam novelist, short story writer, cartoonist, translator, columnist, political analyst, and public intellectual. In a literary career spanning almost half a century, he published six novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eight volumes of …
Krishna Sobti
A Counter Archive
Av Sukrita Paul Kumar, Rekha Sethi
Häftad, 2023
745 kr
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This book engages with the life and works of the distinctive Hindi writer Krishna Sobti, known for making bold choices of themes in her writing. Also known for her extraordinary use of the Hindi language, she emerges as an embodiment of a counter archive. While presenting the author in the context …
Amrita Pritam
The Writer Provocateur
Av Hina Nandrajog, Prem Kumari Srivastava
Häftad, 2023
745 kr
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Amrita Pritam was a prominent Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist who captured the realities of everyday life in the India of the early 1900s India and presented the unique voices of the women of the Indian subcontinent. This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the writer’s work by …
Devanura Mahadeva
The Prose of Alterity
Inbunden, 2026
2888 kr
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Devanura Mahadeva’s is a powerful and influential voice in contemporary South Asian and Dalit literature. His compact oeuvre has been widely commented upon in Kannada and, occasionally, in English as well. They have changed existing views among Kannada readers on literature’s relationship with …
Joginder Paul
The Writerly Writer
Häftad, 2023
828 kr
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This book is a comprehensive volume on the life and works of Joginder Paul, a well-known Urdu fiction writer and thinker. It presents a selection from the writer’s oeuvre – a few of his short stories, extracts from his long fiction, samples of his micro-fiction, personal reminiscences, and some of …
Bama
Writer as Activist
Häftad, 2025
812 kr
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Bama is a Tamil Dalit feminist writer and novelist. Her autobiographical novel Karukku, which chronicles the joys and sorrows experienced by Dalit Christians in Tamil Nadu, catapulted her to fame. As a prolific writer, she has experimented with all kinds of genres, such as novels, short stories, …
Rahi Masoom Reza
The Question of Text and Context
Av Bodh Prakash
Inbunden, 2026
2888 kr
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Rahi Masoom Reza (1927–1992) was a trailblazing Hindi-Urdu writer of the 20th century - best known for his novels Adha Gaon (1966), which vividly portrays a Shia Muslim village during Partition, Topi Shukla (1968), which captures the tragic rupture between Hindu and Muslim friends, and for …
