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Writing India, Writing English

Literature, Language, Location

by G. J. V. Prasad ...

The essays in this book look at the interaction between English and other Indian languages and focus on the pressure of languages on writers and on each other. Divided into two parts, the first part of the book deals with the pressure that English language has exerted, and continues to exert, in India and our ideas of connectedness as a nation in the ways in which we deal with this pressure. The ... Read more

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The essays in this book look at the interaction between English and other Indian languages and focus on the pressure of languages on writers and on each other. Divided into two parts, the first part of the book deals with the pressure that English language has exerted, and continues to exert, in India and our ideas of connectedness as a nation in the ways in which we deal with this pressure. The
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India in Translation, Translation in India

by GJV Prasad ...

India in Translation, Translation in India seeks to explore the contours of translation of and in India-how Indian texts travel around the world in translation, how Indian texts travel across languages in the subcontinent and how texts from various languages of the world travel to India. The book poses pertinent questions like:· What influences the choice of texts and the translations, both within ... Read more

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India in Translation, Translation in India seeks to explore the contours of translation of and in India-how Indian texts travel around the world in translation, how Indian texts travel across languages in the subcontinent and how texts from various languages of the world travel to India. The book poses pertinent questions like:· What influences the choice of texts and the translations, both within
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Reclaiming the Disabled Subject

Representing Disability in Short Fiction (Volume 1)

by Someshwar Sati, GJV Prasad, Ritwick Bhattacharjee ...

Mired inside its rather archaic comprehension as a medical phenomenon, disability, for a long time now, has been ignored as a marker of identity. The world has only been busy in rectifying the absences that have, ostensibly “dis-abled”, rather than accepting such impaired existences as human beings themselves. The volume intends to reclaim the representations of disability and present narratives ... Read more

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Mired inside its rather archaic comprehension as a medical phenomenon, disability, for a long time now, has been ignored as a marker of identity. The world has only been busy in rectifying the absences that have, ostensibly “dis-abled”, rather than accepting such impaired existences as human beings themselves. The volume intends to reclaim the representations of disability and present narratives
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Heartwreck

by Imayam ...

Translated by GJV Prasad ...

In a small town in Tamil Nadu, mayhem ensues when English professor Sriranga Perumal is suddenly struck by romance.Sasikala is a much younger professor in a different college, but when an Orientation Course brings the two together, an unexpected affair blossoms. They exchange texts, long phone calls, and sweet nothings. But all is brought to a halt when these are inter-cepted by Sriranga’s wife, ... Read more

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In a small town in Tamil Nadu, mayhem ensues when English professor Sriranga Perumal is suddenly struck by romance.Sasikala is a much younger professor in a different college, but when an Orientation Course brings the two together, an unexpected affair blossoms. They exchange texts, long phone calls, and sweet nothings. But all is brought to a halt when these are inter-cepted by Sriranga’s wife,
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Disability in Translation

The Indian Experience

Edited by Someshwar Sati, G.J.V. Prasad ...

This volume explores how disability is seen, written about, read and understood through literature and translation. Foregrounding the asymmetrical world of power relations, it delves into the act of translation to exhibit how disability is constructed and deployed in language and culture.The essays in the volume reflect and theorise on experiences of translating various Indian-language stories ... Read more

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This volume explores how disability is seen, written about, read and understood through literature and translation. Foregrounding the asymmetrical world of power relations, it delves into the act of translation to exhibit how disability is constructed and deployed in language and culture.The essays in the volume reflect and theorise on experiences of translating various Indian-language stories
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The Dark Hours of the Night

by Salma . ...

Translated by GJV Prasad ...

Rabia is growing up in a conservative family in Tamil Nadu. She is subject to all the restrictions that young girls in conservative families experience, and looking forward, with some nervous excitement, to all the changes that puberty may bring to her life.She does what all teens do—sneaks off to see a movie with friends, plays till the cows come home, and shares everything with her best friend, ... Read more

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Rabia is growing up in a conservative family in Tamil Nadu. She is subject to all the restrictions that young girls in conservative families experience, and looking forward, with some nervous excitement, to all the changes that puberty may bring to her life.She does what all teens do—sneaks off to see a movie with friends, plays till the cows come home, and shares everything with her best friend,
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A Woman Burnt

by Imayam ...

Translated by GJV Prasad ...

Revathi, an engineer, is besotted with Ravi, an auto driver, and marries him against her family’s wishes. As her life unravels, we are brought face-to-face with the realities of narrow-minded, small lives, where it remains impossible for people to rise above the societal chains that shackle them.The novel explores one’s helplessness and vulnerability in prose that is deceptively simple, it lays ... Read more

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Revathi, an engineer, is besotted with Ravi, an auto driver, and marries him against her family’s wishes. As her life unravels, we are brought face-to-face with the realities of narrow-minded, small lives, where it remains impossible for people to rise above the societal chains that shackle them.The novel explores one’s helplessness and vulnerability in prose that is deceptively simple, it lays
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Feminism in Indian Writing in English

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by Amar Nath Prasad ...

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Feminism is a diverse collection of social theories, political movements and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women, especially in terms of their social, political, and economic Situation. As a social movement, feminism largely focuses on limiting or eradicating gender inequality and promoting womens rights, interests and issues in society. ... Read more

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Feminism is a diverse collection of social theories, political movements and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women, especially in terms of their social, political, and economic Situation. As a social movement, feminism largely focuses on limiting or eradicating gender inequality and promoting womens rights, interests and issues in society.
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Buddha

A Very Short Introduction

by Michael Carrithers ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give about the life and teaching of the Buddha. He discusses the social and political background of India in the Buddha's time, and traces the development of his thought. He also assesses the rapid and widespread assimilation of Buddhism and its contemporary relevance. ABOUT THE SERIES: The ... Read more

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Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give about the life and teaching of the Buddha. He discusses the social and political background of India in the Buddha's time, and traces the development of his thought. He also assesses the rapid and widespread assimilation of Buddhism and its contemporary relevance. ABOUT THE SERIES: The
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Waking Up

A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

by Sam Harris ...

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who follow no religion but who suspect that important ... Read more

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For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who follow no religion but who suspect that important
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The Bookseller of Kabul

by Åsne Seierstad ...

This phenomenal international bestseller is " an admirable, revealing portrait of daily life in a country that Washington claims to have liberated but does not begin to understand" ( Washington Post) .This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary ... Read more

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This phenomenal international bestseller is " an admirable, revealing portrait of daily life in a country that Washington claims to have liberated but does not begin to understand" ( Washington Post) .This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary
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The Parcel

by Anosh Irani ...

Finalist for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and for the Governor General's Literary Award, this powerful new work, about a transgender sex worker in the red-light district of Bombay who is given an unexpected task, is a gripping literary page-turner--difficult and moving, surprising and tender. Anosh Irani's best novel yet, and his first with Knopf Canada.The Parcel's astonishing heart, soul and ... Read more

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Finalist for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and for the Governor General's Literary Award, this powerful new work, about a transgender sex worker in the red-light district of Bombay who is given an unexpected task, is a gripping literary page-turner--difficult and moving, surprising and tender. Anosh Irani's best novel yet, and his first with Knopf Canada.The Parcel's astonishing heart, soul and
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