Author: Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
ISBN: 9788126019311
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Book Is A Collection Of Six Well Known Stories By Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, One Of The Finest Bengali Novelist, Clearly In The Direct Line Of Literary Succession To Bankim Chandra Chatterjee And Rabindranath Tagore. The Stories In This Collection Are Guided By Two ConsiderationsýTheir Representative Character And Their Variety. They Also Reflect The Mind And Art Of Sarat Chandra.
The Drought And Other Stories (Bengali)
Author: Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
ISBN: 9788126019311
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Book Is A Collection Of Six Well Known Stories By Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, One Of The Finest Bengali Novelist, Clearly In The Direct Line Of Literary Succession To Bankim Chandra Chatterjee And Rabindranath Tagore. The Stories In This Collection Are Guided By Two ConsiderationsýTheir Representative Character And Their Variety. They Also Reflect The Mind And Art Of Sarat Chandra.
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
ISBN: 9788126019311
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Book Is A Collection Of Six Well Known Stories By Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, One Of The Finest Bengali Novelist, Clearly In The Direct Line Of Literary Succession To Bankim Chandra Chatterjee And Rabindranath Tagore. The Stories In This Collection Are Guided By Two ConsiderationsýTheir Representative Character And Their Variety. They Also Reflect The Mind And Art Of Sarat Chandra.
The Drought and Other Stories
Author: শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্য়ায়
Publisher: New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher: New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Everybody loves a good drought
Author: P Sainath
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184757344
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
The human face of poverty The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry language of development reports and economic projections, the true misery of the 312 million who live below the poverty line, or the 26 million displaced by various projects, or the 13 million who suffer from tuberculosis gets overlooked. In this thoroughly researched study of the poorest of the poor, we get to see how they manage, what sustains them, and the efforts, often ludicrous, to do something for them. The people who figure in this book typify the lives and aspirations of a large section of Indian society, and their stories present us with the true face of development.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184757344
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
The human face of poverty The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry language of development reports and economic projections, the true misery of the 312 million who live below the poverty line, or the 26 million displaced by various projects, or the 13 million who suffer from tuberculosis gets overlooked. In this thoroughly researched study of the poorest of the poor, we get to see how they manage, what sustains them, and the efforts, often ludicrous, to do something for them. The people who figure in this book typify the lives and aspirations of a large section of Indian society, and their stories present us with the true face of development.
Landscapes of Loss
Author: Kavitha Iyer
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9390327474
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
WINNER OF THE TATA LITERATURE LIVE FIRST BOOK AWARD (NON-FICTION) 2021 Maharashtra, India's richest state by GDP, has its eyes set on becoming the country's first trillion-dollar economy by 2025. At the same time, Marathwada - a historically backward part of the state adjoining the distressed Vidarbha region - has seen a surge in farmer suicides. At the heart of the crisis is a cyclical drought that has persisted for almost a decade. Relief packages and loan waivers have not reversed the trend. On the contrary, the stories of dystopia grow more tragic every year as thousands of farmer families flee to the big cities, while those who stay back are plagued by bad credit and crop loss. Landscapes of Loss tells the story of Marathwada through the accounts of its people: marginal farmers, Dalits, landless labourers, farm widows and children. It lays bare the complex factors that have brought the region to this pass - a story representative, in many ways, of the agrarian unrest in large parts of rural India.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9390327474
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
WINNER OF THE TATA LITERATURE LIVE FIRST BOOK AWARD (NON-FICTION) 2021 Maharashtra, India's richest state by GDP, has its eyes set on becoming the country's first trillion-dollar economy by 2025. At the same time, Marathwada - a historically backward part of the state adjoining the distressed Vidarbha region - has seen a surge in farmer suicides. At the heart of the crisis is a cyclical drought that has persisted for almost a decade. Relief packages and loan waivers have not reversed the trend. On the contrary, the stories of dystopia grow more tragic every year as thousands of farmer families flee to the big cities, while those who stay back are plagued by bad credit and crop loss. Landscapes of Loss tells the story of Marathwada through the accounts of its people: marginal farmers, Dalits, landless labourers, farm widows and children. It lays bare the complex factors that have brought the region to this pass - a story representative, in many ways, of the agrarian unrest in large parts of rural India.
Minutes of Glory
Author: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620974665
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls "one of the greatest writers of our time" Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, although renowned for his novels, memoirs, and plays, honed his craft as a short story writer. From "The Fig Tree, " written in 1960, his first year as an undergraduate at Makerere University College in Uganda, to the playful "The Ghost of Michael Jackson," written as a professor at the University of California, Irvine, these collected stories reveal a master of the short form. Covering the period of British colonial rule and resistance in Kenya to the bittersweet experience of independence—and including two stories that have never before been published in the United States— Ngũgĩ's collection features women fighting for their space in a patriarchal society, big men in their Bentleys who have inherited power from the British, and rebels who still embody the fighting spirit of the downtrodden. One of Ngũgĩ's most beloved stories, "Minutes of Glory," tells of Beatrice, a sad but ambitious waitress who fantasizes about being feted and lauded over by the middle-class clientele in the city's beer halls. Her dream leads her on a witty and heartbreaking adventure. Published for the first time in America, Minutes of Glory and Other Stories is a major literary event that celebrates the storytelling might of one of Africa's best-loved writers.
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620974665
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls "one of the greatest writers of our time" Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, although renowned for his novels, memoirs, and plays, honed his craft as a short story writer. From "The Fig Tree, " written in 1960, his first year as an undergraduate at Makerere University College in Uganda, to the playful "The Ghost of Michael Jackson," written as a professor at the University of California, Irvine, these collected stories reveal a master of the short form. Covering the period of British colonial rule and resistance in Kenya to the bittersweet experience of independence—and including two stories that have never before been published in the United States— Ngũgĩ's collection features women fighting for their space in a patriarchal society, big men in their Bentleys who have inherited power from the British, and rebels who still embody the fighting spirit of the downtrodden. One of Ngũgĩ's most beloved stories, "Minutes of Glory," tells of Beatrice, a sad but ambitious waitress who fantasizes about being feted and lauded over by the middle-class clientele in the city's beer halls. Her dream leads her on a witty and heartbreaking adventure. Published for the first time in America, Minutes of Glory and Other Stories is a major literary event that celebrates the storytelling might of one of Africa's best-loved writers.
Chioniso and Other Stories
Author: Shimmer Chinodya
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1779221908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In this new collection, Chioniso and other stories, we are once again reminded how Shimmer Chinodya mines his experience for nuggets. Playing with his doppelganger, Godfrey, he looks back on life in Harare, and in Zimbabwe, over the last decade, exploring it from a familial perspective. How does a father cope with a rebellious daughter or a wife he perceives as wayward? How does one mediate traditional gender roles? What to do when status in the form of a car undermines the stability of a marriage? How does one manage a friendship with a new farmer? What moral compromises are demanded by new wealth and political cronyism? And what is the effect of religion on our lives? Have we become more caring and compassionate, or does piety provide a mask, to disguise greed and ambition, and justify a contempt for the poor? This collection of stories will make you laugh, but it will also challenge you to reconsider what it means to be Zimbabwean in the 21st century.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1779221908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In this new collection, Chioniso and other stories, we are once again reminded how Shimmer Chinodya mines his experience for nuggets. Playing with his doppelganger, Godfrey, he looks back on life in Harare, and in Zimbabwe, over the last decade, exploring it from a familial perspective. How does a father cope with a rebellious daughter or a wife he perceives as wayward? How does one mediate traditional gender roles? What to do when status in the form of a car undermines the stability of a marriage? How does one manage a friendship with a new farmer? What moral compromises are demanded by new wealth and political cronyism? And what is the effect of religion on our lives? Have we become more caring and compassionate, or does piety provide a mask, to disguise greed and ambition, and justify a contempt for the poor? This collection of stories will make you laugh, but it will also challenge you to reconsider what it means to be Zimbabwean in the 21st century.
In Bad Company and Other Stories
Author: Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752347589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: In Bad Company and Other Stories by Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752347589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: In Bad Company and Other Stories by Rolf Boldrewood
In Bad Coompany and Other Stories
Author: Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752401923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: In Bad Coompany and Other Stories by Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752401923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: In Bad Coompany and Other Stories by Rolf Boldrewood
Jesus Was My Pal and Other Stories
Author: Dominick Ricca
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 146913361X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 795
Book Description
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 146913361X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 795
Book Description
Fire from Heaven and Other Stories
Author: Philip Marshall
Publisher: Philip Marshall
ISBN: 0473065908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Publisher: Philip Marshall
ISBN: 0473065908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description