Mahashweta

Author : Sudha Murty
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351183408
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mahashweta written by Sudha Murty and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anupama looked into the mirror and shivered with shock. A small white patch had now appeared on her arm.' Anupama's fairytale marriage to Anand falls apart when she discovers a white patch on her foot and learns that she has leukoderma. Abandoned by her uncaring in-laws and insensitive husband, she is forced to return to her father's home in the village. The social stigma of a married woman living with her parents, her steother's continual barbs and the ostracism that accompanies her skin condition force her to contemplate suicide. Determined to rebuild her life against all odds, Anupama goes to Bombay where she finds success, respect and the promise of an enduring friendship. Mahashweta is an inspiring story of courage and resilience in a world marred by illusions and betrayals. This poignant tale offers hope and solace to the victims of the prejudices that govern society even today.

Author : Sudha Murty
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351183378
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Man And His God written by Sudha Murty and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As she goes about her work with the villagers, slum dwellers and the common men and women of India, Sudha Murty—writer, social worker and teacher—listens to them and records what they have to say. Their accounts of the struggles and hardships which they have at times overcome, and at other times been overwhelmed by, are put together in this book. There are stories about people’s generosity—and selfishness—in times of natural disasters like the tsunami; women struggling to speak out in a world that refuses to listen to them; and tales of young professionals trying to find their feet as they climb up the corporate ladder. Told simply and directly from the heart, The Old Man and His God is a collection of snapshots of the varied facets of human nature and a mirror to the souls of the people of India.

Author : Sudha Murty
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143103295
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mahashweta written by Sudha Murty and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anupama's fairytale marriage to Anand falls apart when she discovers a white patch on her foot and learns that she has leukoderma.

Author : Sudhā Mūrti
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143062226
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wise and Otherwise written by Sudhā Mūrti and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Vignettes Showcase The Myriad Shades Of Human Nature A Man Dumps His Aged Father In An Old-Age Home After Declaring Him To Be A Homeless Stranger, A Tribal Chief In The Sahyadri Hills Teaches The Author That There Is Humility In Receiving Too, And A Sick Woman Remembers To Thank Her Benefactor Even From Her Deathbed. These Are Just Some Of The Poignant And Eye-Opening Stories About People From All Over The Country That Sudha Murty Recounts In This Book. From Incredible Examples Of Generosity To The Meanest Acts One Can Expect From Men And Women, She Records Everything With Wry Humour And A Directness That Touches The Heart. First Published In 2002, Wise And Otherwise Has Sold Over 30,000 Copies In English And Has Been Translated Into All The Major Indian Languages. This Revised New Edition Is Sure To Charm Many More Readers And Encourage Them To Explore Their Inner Selves And The World Around Us With New Eyes. &Nbsp;

Author : Sudha Murty
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351183386
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dollar Bahu written by Sudha Murty and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-12-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of how money corrupts the way people look at one another and how it can almost tear a family apart Vinuta marries Girish, a bank clerk, and starts living with his family in Bangalore. She adjusts to her new family well, looking after her husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law Gouramma, not taking to heart her mother-in-law's constant picking. But when Girish's elder brother Chandru, who is in the US, decides to get married, Vinuta has to listen to the constant comparisons made between her and Chandru's wife, the 'Dollar Bahu', whose husband earns the valuable dollars that has brought the family its recent affluence. Vinuta slowly loses her peace of mind and health. Then Gouramma decides to visit her US-based son and daughter-in-law. Once there, she sees how liberating life can be, away from the strict norms that govern Indian middle-class life. But she also begins to understand that mere dollars cannot buy the love and respect that she gets as her due back in India. Does Gouramma forge a new relationship with Vinuta and can Vinuta forgive and forget the past?

Author : Mahāśvetā Debī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breast Stories written by Mahāśvetā Debī and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in Bengali of short fiction and novels, and a deeply political social activist who has been working in marginalized communities for decades. Breast Stories is a collection of short fiction that focuses on the breast as more than a symbol of beauty, eroticism, or motherhood. Instead, it is seen as a harsh indictment of an exploitative social system and a weapon of resistance. At a time when violence towards women in India has escalated exponentially, Devi's acerbic writing exposes the inherently vicious systems in Indian society.

Author : Mahāśvetā Debī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mother of 1084 written by Mahāśvetā Debī and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is An Insightful Exploration Of The Complex Relationship Between The Personal And The Political.The Novel Written 1973-74. The Novel Written 1973-74, Deals With The Psychological And Emotional Trauma Of A Mother Who Awakens One Morning To The Shattering News That Her Beloved Son Is Lying Dead In The Police Morgue.

Author : Shelly Dhanania
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paint your own rainbow written by Shelly Dhanania and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paint your own rainbow is the collection of stories about people fighting their fears day after day till destiny forced them to stand up and paint their own rainbow as it's important to embrace all the colours life offers including the colours of strength and courage. Nothing is more beautiful than a woman who refuses to bow down to let someone else fix her crown, the love story that beats securely in her heart for it sacred to unveiled to the world, a warrior who fought his demons till last breath and many more.

Author : Manoranjan Byapari
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789381345139
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interrogating My Chandal Life written by Manoranjan Byapari and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of The Hindu Prize 2018 (Non-fiction) Shortlisted for the 3rd JIO MAMI Word to Screen Award 2018 If you insist that you do not know me, let me explain myself … you will feel, why, yes, I do know this person. I’ve seen this man. With these words, Manoranjan Byapari points to the inescapable roles all of us play in an unequal society. Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit is the translation of his remarkable memoir Itibritte Chandal Jivan. It talks about his traumatic life as a child in the refugee camps of West Bengal and Dandakaranya, facing persistent want—an experience that would dominate his life. The book charts his futile flight from home to escape hunger, in search of work as a teenager around the country, only to face further exploitation. In Kolkata in the 1970s, as a young man, he got caught up in the Naxalite movement and took part in gang warfare. His world changed dramatically when he was taught the alphabet in prison at the age of 24—it drew him into a new, enticing world of books. After prison, he worked as a rickshaw-wallah and one day the writer Mahasweta Devi happened to be his passenger. It was she who led him to his first publication. Today, as Sipra Mukherjee points out, ‘issues of poverty, hunger and violence have exploded the cautiously sewn boundaries of the more affluent world’, rendering archaic the comfortable distances between them. Despite ‘Chandal’ explicitly referring to a Dalit caste, this narrative weaves in and out of the margins.

Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Rupa Publications
ISBN 13 : 9789388292856
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hindu Way written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2019 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hindu Way: An Introduction to Hinduism, the new book by bestselling author Shashi Tharoor, whose last three books have sold over a quarter of a million copies in hardback, is the perfect introduction to one of the world's oldest, largest and most complex religions. Although there are hundreds of books on Hinduism, there are only a few which provide a lucid, accessible, yet deeply layered account of the religion's numerous belief systems, schools of thought, sects, tenets, scriptures, deities, rituals, customs, festivals and philosophies. This book is one of them.