Five Plays (Bengali and English Edition)

Mahasweta DEvi

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Andrey Tarkovsky (1934-86) left behind only seven major films, each one unique and unforgettable. Until recently very little has been written about him, and virtually nothing is known about his personal life.Time Within Time, both diary and notebook, covers the years from 1970 until his death in 1986. Intimate, intense and deeply personal, it answers many of the questions which his admirers would like to ask: how did he live, in practical, day-to-day terms, during all the years when he was an acclaimed director but rarely able to make a film? Who were the important people in his life? What were his literary influences? What did he hope for, personally and professionally?There are reflections on Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, Hesse, Mann, plans for films and screenplays, lists and letters. He writes of his family, in particular of his poet father, Arseniy Tarkovsky, whose poems are part of his films. Haunting dreams are recorded in detail. He speaks of the state of society and the future of art; there are harsh - often funny - remarks about the bureaucrats in charge of the Soviet cultural scene in general and cinema in particular. He notes significant world events and purely personal dramas along with fascinating background details of the making of his films.Also included in this volume are the plans and notes for his stage version of Hamlet; a detailed proposal for a two-part film of Dostoievsky's The Idiot; and a glimpse of the more public Tarkovsky answering questions put to him by interviewers and an interested audience.The book is a fragmentary, constantly changing personal journey. Yet despite the uncertainty of much of Tarkovsky's professional life, including the tragedy of exile, this is not a gloomy book; indeed, the spontaneity and warmth of the writing makes for compelling reading. As with his films, the overriding impression is one of integrity of spirit, a sense of beauty and love of life.

Time within time: The diaries, 1970-1986

Andrei Tarkovsky

Biographies & Memoirs

Dangerous Outcast: The Prostitute in Nineteenth Century Bengal

Politics & Social Sciences

Sumanta Banerjee

Social Sciences

On Kauòtalya, ancient Indian writer on statecraft.

Chanakya Vishnugupta

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.

Mahasweta Devi Breast Stories

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Collection of articles by a woman social activist chiefly on socioeconomic condition of India.

Dust on the Road: The Activist Writings of Mahasweta Devi

Mahasveta

Death of Abbie Hoffman and Other Plays

Rana Bose

Paintings with description in form of poems.

Song for Kali: A Cycle of Images and Songes

Ram Proshad

History

Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames offers a personal and social history of the author's foremothers -- Baghdadi Jews who lived most of their lives in the Jewish community in Calcutta. Jael Silliman begins with a portrait of Farha, her maternal great-greandmother, who dwelled almost entirely within the Baghdadi Jewish community no matter where she and her husband traveled on business (Calcutta, Rangoon, Singapore). Next is her maternal grandmother, Miriam (Mary), who was much more Anglicized than Farha and deeply influenced by British colonial practices. The third portrait, of Silliman's mother, Flower, reveals a woman in a double transition: her own and India's. Flower grew up in colonial India, witnessed India's struggle for independence, and lived her middle years in an independent India. The final sketch is of Silliman herself. Born in Calcutta in 1955 in the waning Jewish community, Silliman grew up in a cosmopolitan and Indian world, rather than a Baghdadi Jewish one. Silliman's own travels have taken her to the US, where, as a teacher and scholar, her primary identification is with the "South Asian intellectual and professional diaspora." These rich family portraits convey a sense of the singular roles women played in building and sustaining a complex diaspora in what Silliman calls "Jewish Asia" over the past 150 years. Her sketches of the everyday lives of her foremothers -- from the food they ate and the clothes they wore to the social and political relationships they forged -- bring to life a community and a culture, even as they disclose the unexpected and subtle complexities of the colonial encounter as experienced by Jewish women.

Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope

Jael Silliman

World

Old Maps and New ; Legacies of the Partition : A Pakistan Diary

Travel

KAVITA PANJABI

Asia

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