Creating a Profession: Disparate Voices of Indian Women Playwrights is a collection of plays demonstrating a broad variety of contemporary perspectives as told through the eyes of the women who created them. Recently selected by The Guardian as one of the ten best novels about Mumbai, Ravan and Eddie is a comic masterpiece about two larger- and truer-than-life characters and their bawdy, Rabelaisian adventures in postcolonial India. Found insideFirst highlighted in The New Yorker fiction issue, here is award-winning writer Nell Freudenberger’s debut story collection Lucky Girls is a collection of five novella-like stories, which take place mostly in Asia. Found insideMcDonald is a strong writer with a firm grasp of style and structure and an ... Anuradha Marwah's Idol Love (1999), Manjula Padmanabhan's Escape (2008), ... Found insideManjula Padmanabhan First published: 2005 Meet three heroines braver, ... illustrated in the author-illustrator's characteristically bold and quirky style. Found inside... Upamanyu Chatterjee, Amitav Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry, Manjula Padmanabhan, ... Her writing style is marked by an absence of flamboyance or literary ... A rich, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. Presents a collection of crime and noir stories set in Delhi, India. Found insideIn this sparkling collection, award-winning writer Rishi Reddi weaves a multigenerational tapestry of interconnected lives, depicting members of an Indian American community struggling to balance the demands of tradition with the allure of ... With new introductions to the works that affirm the relevance of the themes of the plays, this collection showcases the playwright’s mastery of her art and reconfirms her standing among the leading dramatists of our time. Three Heroines Braver, Bolder And More Resolute Than Your Usual Swooning Princesses Of Traditional Fairytales Meet Urmila, Who Is So Ugly That She Makes People Swoon, Kavita, Who Can Take On Giants More Competently Than Any Prince, And ... There's detective work to be done! * A picture puzzle book from the multifaceted Manjula Padmanabhan after the award-winning I am Different and the wacky Same and Different * Quiet hints in the jottings of the travellers and helpful clues ... A highly original study of newspaper cartoons throughout India's history and culture, and their significance for the world today. Every year on Leila's birthday Shalini kneels by the wall with a little yellow spade and scoops dry earth to make a pit for two candles. Found insideThe papers collected in this volume deal with the explorations of Science Fiction, Fantasy and, more generally, the representation of otherness through the narrative construction of fantastic, imaginary, appalling or attractive places, ... Found insideThis is the story of Meiji – the only girl who has remained untouched and unmutilated in a country that has savaged its entire female population. Found insideIn This Unparalleled Collection Of Short Stories, The Harpercollins Book Of New Indian Fiction Presents An Absorbing View Of One Of The Most Fertile Literary Landscapes In The World. Found inside – Page 159Using an almost sanitised style of writing , PadTowards the end of it , she had manabhan creates her characters , found ... With the end of each story , the ture which didn't have the mechanics of Padmanabhan's mind are revealed further . In many ways the story reflects a vivid picture of India's social transition — a phase in which the older elements are not altogether dead, and the emergent ones not fully evolved. Found insideThat's the way it goes.' From cosmopolitan London to the chaos of war-ravaged Baghdad, this is the comic tale of three friends, torn between two worlds, and a wedding that goes horribly wrong. Found inside40 She too, like Manjula Padmanabhan, resists the practice of labeling a writer. Imagination in itself is the greatest attribute of a writer, which allows ... Found insideAuthor-artist Manjula Padmanabhan returns with ten stories: five new, five old, some dark, some funny, all edgy. One of Mahesh Dattani's most popular works, Tara was also one of the first Indian plays in English to highlight the dangers of gender discrimination, and the insidious ways in which it operates in our society. ‘At last we have a ... "Steeped in the tradition of the Indian epic, yet modern and vastly entertaining." —The Times (London) In her fiction debut, Alice Albinia weaves a multithreaded epic tale that encompasses divine saga and familial discord and introduces ... Award-winning playwright Manjula Padmanabhan, in her attempt to come to grips with the violence of these times, excels in this suite of short one-handers which leaves the viewer both shaken and thoughtful. A must-have collectible, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction offers fresh perspectives on our hyper-global, often alienating and always paranoid world, in which humanity and love may yet triumph. Found inside – Page 1This collection of sci-fi and fantasy writing, including six graphic stories, showcases twenty of the most exciting writers and artists from India and Australia, in an all-female, all-star line-up! Published by Zubaan. This book pierces that amnesia, elicits buried memories, and lays the foundations for a more evolved relationship between human beings on this subcontinent and their histories of gendered and communal violence.rdquo;-Kavita Punjabi ... But When You Reach Eighteen And Are Still The Size Of An Eight Year Old, It Is Not Much Fun, And Brit Has To Begin To Try And Grow In His Own Way& Trying To Grow Is A Many-Splendoured Work Built Around The Experiences Of A Physically ... Funny, audacious, and tender, An Upbeat Story makes writing under duress seem effortless. Mouse Attack As Illustrator Baig, Tara Ali, and Manjula Padmanabhan. 1979. Indrani and the enchanted jungle. New Delhi: Thomson Press (India) Ltd. Maithily Jagannathan and Manjula Padmanabhan. 1984. Droopy dragon. New Delhi: Thomson Press. An adventure story like no other, a tale of love and self-discovery in several unexpected layers, Escape is a novel that is as unsettling as it is unputdownable. His story results in The Book of Chocolate Saints: an epic novel of contemporary Indian life that probes the mysterious margins where art bleeds into the occult, and celebrates the artist's life itself as a final monument. Found insideBy turns funny and fierce, Getting There will touch anyone who has ever wanted to strip off their skin to waltz, however briefly, on the wild side. While the stories are self-contained, together they form a narrative whole that approaches this age-old idea from five unique perspectives. The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. Found insideFocuses on the works of Pam Gems, Michalene Wandor, Caryl Churchill, Megan Terry, and Ntozake Shange. Found insideWith new introductions to the works that affirm the relevance of the themes of the plays, this collection showcases the playwright’s mastery of her art and reconfirms her standing among the leading dramatists of our time. Found inside – Page 174Others like Manjula Padmanabhan and Mahesh Dattani write in English, ... Elkunchwar's personal interest in Chekhov's work is translated to his own style. Found insideHeady, heartbroken and heartfelt, Low is a blazing joyride through the darklands of grief towards obliteration - and, perhaps, epiphany. Includes contributions by Gita Mehta, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Satyajit Ray, Sara Suleri, and Bapsi Sidhwa As much about people as it is about places, the book is also a reflection of the nature of popular travel today, which is marked by the packaging of experiences, the formation of tourist economies and compulsive picture-taking. 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