Metro Reads: Close Call In Kashmir
Author : Bharat Wakhlu
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN : 0143414607
Reading New India
Author : E. Dawson Varughese
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441105565
Book Description
Reading New India is an insightful exploration of contemporary Indian writing in English. Exploring the work of such writers as Aravind Adiga (author of the Man-Booker Prize winning White Tiger), Usha K.R. and Taseer, the book looks at how the 'new' India has been recreated and defined in an English Language literature that is now reaching a global audience. The book describes how Indian fiction has moved beyond notions of 'postcolonial' writing to reflect an increasingly confident and diverse cultures. Reading New India covers such topics as: - Representation of the city: Mumbai and Bangalore - Chick Lit to Crick Lit - Call centre dramas and corporate lives - Crime novels and Bharati narratives - Graphic novels Including a chronological time-line of major social, cultural and political reforms, biographies of the major authors covered, further reading and a glossary of Hindi terms, this book is an essential guide for students of contemporary world literature and postcolonial writing.
Your Dreams Are Mine Now
Author : Ravinder Singh
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 16,12 MB
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 935118868X
Book Description
‘It can’t be love . . .’ he thinks and immediately his heart protests. They are complete opposites! She’s a small town girl who takes admission in Delhi University (DU). An idealist, studies are her first priority. He’s a Delhi guy, seriously into youth politics in the DU. He fights to make his way. Student union elections are his first priority. But then opposites attract as well! A scandal on campus brings them together, they begin to walk the same path and somewhere along, fall in love . . . But their fight against evil comes at a heavy price, which becomes the ultimate test of their lives. Against the backdrop of dominant campus politics, Your Dreams Are Mine Now is an innocent love story that is bound to evoke strong emotions in your heart.
Death in Kashmir
Author : M. M. Kaye
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250089247
Book Description
Written by celebrated author M. M. Kaye, Death in Kasmir is a wonderfully evocative mystery ... When young Sarah Parrish takes a skiing vacation to Gulmarg, a resort nestled in the mountains above the fabled Vale of Kashmir, she anticipates an entertaining but uneventful stay. But when she discovers that the deaths of two in her party are the result of foul play, she finds herself entrusted with a mission of unforeseen importance. And when she leaves the ski slopes for the Waterwitch, a private houseboat on the placid shores of the Dal Lake near Srinagar, she discovers to her horror that the killer will stop at nothing to prevent Sarah from piecing the puzzle together.
Public Librarianship and Glorious Heritage of Karmabir Nabin Chandra Bordoloi Library (Reading Hall)
Author : Nabajyoti Das
Publisher : Assam Library Association
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Book Description
Public Librarianship and Glorious Heritage of Karmabir Nabin Chandra Bordoloi Library (Reading Hall): Plan for Renovation and Development
In Search of Return
Author : Shifa Haq
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1498582494
Book Description
Beginning in 1989, more than 8,000 men disappeared in Kashmir. These disappearances were publicly denied, leaving mourners to grapple with unrecognized grief. Drawn from ten years of psycho-historical research in Kashmir, Shifa Haq reflects on the bereaved families’ intricate experiences of mourning. Haq expands the psychoanalytic understanding of loss and argues for a mourning that includes porous affective links with the political.
Paris Was the Place
Author : Susan Conley
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307739872
Book Description
When Willie Pears arrives in Paris, she’s looking for adventure and to reconnect with her brother, Luke. Even so, when she takes a job teaching at a center for immigrant girls who are all hoping for French asylum, she does not expect to feel so connected to the ups and downs of their lives—or to find romance with their attractive and committed lawyer, Macon. But as Willie learns the girls’ histories, the lines between teaching and mothering quickly begin to blur, leading her to make a risky move that will threaten to upend the life and relationships she’s found.
Girl In Room 105
Author : Chetan Bhagat
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2024-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9354899161
Book Description
Hi, I'm Keshav, and my life is screwed. I hate my job and my girlfriend left me. Ah, the beautiful Zara. Zara is from Kashmir. She is a Muslim. And did I tell you my family is a bit, well, traditional? Anyway, leave that. Zara and I broke up four years ago. She moved on in life. I didn't. I drank every night to forget her. I called, messaged, and stalked her on social media. She just ignored me. However, that night, on the eve of her birthday, Zara messaged me. She called me over, like old times, to her hostel room 105. I shouldn't have gone, but I did... and my life changed forever. This is not a love story. It is an unlove story. From the author of Five Point Someone and 2 States, comes a fast-paced, funny and unputdownable thriller about obsessive love and finding purpose in life against the backdrop of contemporary India.
Family and Kinship
Author : T.N. Madan
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2002-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195657852
Book Description
With a new preface highlighting the loss of these communities and the way of life between then and now, due to the conflict in the area, this classic will be of interest to a wide scholarly audience and to the general public as well.
Kashmir Watch
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Jammu and Kashmir (India)
ISBN :
