Summer in Calcutta

Summer in Calcutta PDF Author: Kamalā Sur̲ayya
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Summer in Calcutta

Summer in Calcutta PDF Author: Kamalā Sur̲ayya
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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The Calcutta Chromosome

The Calcutta Chromosome PDF Author: Amitav Ghosh
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 0143066552
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered I.D. card of a long-lost acquaintance, he is suddenly drawn into a spellbinding adventure across centuries and around the globe, into the strange life of L. Murugan, a man obsessed with the medical history of malaria, and into a magnificently complex world where conspiracy hangs in the air like mosquitoes on a summer night.

My Story

My Story PDF Author: Kamala Das
Publisher: D C Books
ISBN: 9788126437863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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First published in Malayalam in 1973, My Story, Kamala Das' sensational autobiography, shocked readers with its total disregard for mindless conventions and its fearless articulation of a subject still considered taboo. Depicting the author's intensely personal experiences in her passage to womanhood and shedding light on the hypocrisies that informed traditional society, this memoir was far ahead of its time and is now acknowledged as a bona fide masterpiece.

Summer In Calcutta 2Nd/ Ed.

Summer In Calcutta 2Nd/ Ed. PDF Author: Kamala Das(madhavikutty)
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ISBN: 9788126409198
Category : Indic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 67

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The Epic City

The Epic City PDF Author: Kushanava Choudhury
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 163557157X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Shortlisted for the 2018 Ondaatje Prize Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year A masterful and entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and dashed dreams in a mythical city from a major new literary voice. Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta. When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times. After graduating from Princeton, he moved back to the world which his immigrant parents had abandoned, to a city built between a river and a swamp, where the moisture-drenched air swarms with mosquitos after sundown. Once the capital of the British Raj, and then India's industrial and cultural hub, by 2001 Calcutta was clearly past its prime. Why, his relatives beseeched him, had he returned? Surely, he could have moved to Delhi, Bombay or Bangalore, where a new Golden Age of consumption was being born. Yet fifteen million people still lived in Calcutta. Working for the Statesman, its leading English newspaper, Kushanava Choudhury found the streets of his childhood unchanged by time. Shouting hawkers still overran the footpaths, fish-sellers squatted on bazaar floors; politics still meant barricades and bus burnings, while Communist ministers travelled in motorcades. Sifting through the chaos for the stories that never make the papers, Kushanava Choudhury paints a soulful, compelling portrait of the everyday lives that make Calcutta. Written with humanity, wit and insight, The Epic City is an unforgettable depiction of an era, and a city which is a world unto itself.

Selected Poems

Selected Poems PDF Author: Kamala Das
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351188744
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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A major poet in English, Kamala Das’s taboo-breaking work explores themes of love and betrayal, the corporeal and the spiritual, while celebrating female sexuality and remaining deeply rooted in the poet’s ancestral tradition and landscape. A rigorous selection from her oeuvre—six published volumes and other uncollected and previously unpublished poems—this edition offers a unified perspective on her poetic achievement. An illuminating introduction to her poetry by Devindra Kohli traces the sources of its ferment, and showcases its originality of style and its acts of resistance.

Encountering Kamala

Encountering Kamala PDF Author: Kamalā Suṟayya
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ISBN: 9780974346854
Category : Indic poetry (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Poetry. Asian Studies. "For over 40 years, Kamala Das, considered India's 'Poet Laureate, ' has set a bold new tone for India's women, poor and disenfranchised. Now her message comes to the United States in her first American book--ENCOUNTERING KAMALA. When no one else dared, a young woman named Kamala Das took a poetic stance for those who had no voice in India. Her powerful words helped slowly change India's views on the role of women--to the point where its first female president was recently elected. Now in this book, Kamala speaks to all, touching on elements common to people worldwide: love, hope, despair, religion, and old age. ENCOUNTERING KAMALA: SELECTIONS FROM THE POETRY OF KAMALA DAS, INDIA'S POWERFUL VOICE FOR CHANGE features works previously published around the world, plus poems for her new audience. Also included are original drawings, photographs, and her personal correspondence with Andrew Arkin, longtime friend and publisher of this book. Encountering Kamala captures the courageous spirit of a Nobel Prize-nominated poet. "Kamala Das's poems epitomise the dilemma of the modern Indian woman who attempts to free herself, sexually and domestically, from the role of bondage sanctioned by the past"--The Hindu

Kamala Das and Her Poetry

Kamala Das and Her Poetry PDF Author: Amar Nath Dwivedi
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Only the Soul Knows how to Sing

Only the Soul Knows how to Sing PDF Author: Kamalā Sur̲ayya
Publisher:
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Category : Indic literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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The Old Playhouse and Other Poems

The Old Playhouse and Other Poems PDF Author: Kamala Surayya
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 54

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