Author : Yashpal
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The first English translation of these tales, some written in prison, provides new insights into contemporary Indian culture as well as Yashpal's own fascinating life.
Author :
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1512802018
The first English translation of these tales, some written in prison, provides new insights into contemporary Indian culture as well as Yashpal's own fascinating life.
Author : Yashpal
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9391149057
Partly autobiographical and Yashpal's first novel, Dada Comrade is an extraordinary book, fast-paced and philosophical by turn. It tells the story of a young revolutionary, Harish, who, towards the end of the 1930s, is expelled from his revolutionary party, which also plans to kill him as he knows too much. Meanwhile, he and Shailbala, a member of the party and the daughter of a wealthy Lahore industrialist, develop a romantic relationship. An unusual heroine, Shailbala is outspoken about sexual freedom and constantly challenges others about their patriarchal mindsets. As Harish escapes the party's clutches and organizes the railway workers of Lahore into striking en masse, he is framed by the British government that leads to his trial. Shailbala, on the other hand, confronts her father and decides to keep the child conceived with Harish. She finds a new ally in this decision-Dada, the ageing leader of Harish's revolutionary party who had earlier condemned him. Raising questions about the means to achieve freedom and equality, as well as about desire, marriage and birth control, Dada Comrade was far ahead of its time and heralded the arrival of a literary genius. Translated seamlessly and including a scholarly introduction by Simona Sawhney, it will resonate with and compel today's readers to examine their ideals and values.
Author : Gordon C. Roadarmel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520315030
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
Author : Yash Pal
Publisher : NBT India
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788123761060
Author : Khushwant Singh
Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
Release : 2006
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 8122201075
Noted Indian writer and translator Khuswant Singh's tribute to 18 major Punjabi writers whose stories he has translated in this collection of short fiction. The writers included here are familiar names in India - writers such as Amrita Pritam, Saadat Hasan Manto, Khwaja Ahmed Abbas, and also two new women writers, Ajeet Caur and Usha Mahajan - among others.
Author : Biman Basu
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Physicists
ISBN :
Short biography of Yash Pal, b. 1926, Indian scientist.
Author : Basharat Peer
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2011-11-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8184002238
Basharat Peer was a teenager when the separatist movement exploded in Kashmir in 1989. Over the following years countless young men, seduced by the romance of the militant, fuelled by feelings of injustice, crossed over the Line of Control to train in Pakistani army camps. Peer was sent off to boarding school in Aligarh to keep out of trouble. He finished college and became a journalist in Delhi. But Kashmir—angrier, more violent, more hopeless—was never far away. In 2003, the young journalist left his job and returned to his homeland to search out the stories and the people which had haunted him. In Curfewed Night he draws a harrowing portrait of Kashmir and its people. Here are stories of a young man’s initiation into a Pakistani training camp; a mother who watches her son forced to hold an exploding bomb; a poet who finds religion when his entire family is killed. Of politicians living in refurbished torture chambers and former militants dreaming of discotheques; of idyllic villages rigged with landmines, temples which have become army bunkers, and ancient sufi shrines decapitated in bomb blasts. And here is finally the old story of the return home—and the discovery that there may not be any redemption in it. Lyrical, spare, gutwrenching and intimate, Curfewed Night is a stunning book and an unforgettable portrait of Kashmir in war.
Author : Poonam Saxena
Publisher : Rupa Publication
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788194735304
The twenty-five stories in The Greatest Hindi Stories Ever Told represent the finest short fiction in Hindi literature. Selected and translated by editor, writer, and translator Poonam Saxena, and ranging from early literary masters of the form such as Premchand, Chandradhar Sharma Guleri, Bhisham Sahni, Harishankar Parsai, Mannu Bhandari, and Shivani to contemporary greats such as Asghar Wajahat, Uday Prakash, Sara Rai, and others, the collection has stories of darkness, hope, triumph, anger, and irony. In Premchand's 'The Thakur's Well', 'low-caste' Gangi struggles to find drinking water for her ill husband; in 'The Times Have Changed' by Krishna Sobti, the matriarch Shahni bids a heart-breaking farewell to her village during Partition; Krishna Baldev Vaid's 'Escape' is a telling story about women's yearning for freedom; Yashpal's 'Phoolo's Kurta' is a sharp commentary on child marriage and notions of female modesty; in Bhisham Sahni's 'A Feast for the Boss' and Usha Priyamvada's 'The Homecoming', ageing parents find themselves tragically out of sync with their family; Amarkant's 'City of Death' looks at the fragile thread that holds together communal peace; Phanishwarnath Renu's 'The Third Vow' features the lovable bullock-cart driver Hiraman; Bhagwaticharan Varma's 'Atonement' and Harishankar Parsai's 'The Soul of Bholaram' are scathing satires; and 'Tirich' by contemporary writer Uday Prakash is a surreal tale-these and other stories in the collection are compelling, evocative, and showcase an unforgettable range of brilliant styles, forms, and themes
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Short stories, Indic
ISBN : 9788187478171
