Indian Literature

हा संघर्ष आहे दोन प्रगत शास्त्रातला ... दोन भिन्न मतप्रणालींचा .. दोन जीवनशैलीचा... दोन पिढ्यांचा... दोन नात्यांतील.... पितापुत्रांच्या ज्ञानातला.... हा संघहर्ष आहे जगण्याचा आणि जगवण्याचा , आणि ते मिटवण्यासाठी "निदान " हवं आहे.

सृजनचे वडील एक अपयशी सामान्य नाट्यकलावंत आहेत. सृजनची आई मात्र खमकी आहे. तिच्यावर ओढवलेल्या परिस्थितीने तिला नटी बनवले आहे. घर सावरणारी तीच आहे. परंतु सृजन बालपणापासूनच नाट्यक्षेत्रात मोठी कामगिरी बजावेल या आत्मविश्वासाने वावरत आहे.

முதல் உலகப்போரின் ஆரம்பத்தில் சென்னை மீது குண்டு போட்ட எம்டன் எனும் ஜெர்மானிய போர்க்கப்பல், அதிக கால அவகாசமிருந்தும் பத்தே நிமிடம் குண்டுகள் போட்டு ஏன் ஓடிவிட்டது என்பதையும் அந்தக் கப்பல் அந்தக் கால கட்டத்தில் சகல வல்லமையுள்ள பிரித்தானிய அரசாங்கத்தை எப்படியெல்லாம் ஆட்டி வைத்தது என்பதையும், அதே சமயத்தில் ஏதோ ஒரு வகையில் சோழமன்னன் ராஜராஜசோழனோடு இந்தக் கப்பல் எந்த விதத்தில் சம்பந்தப்படுகிறது என்பதையும் கடலிலும் நிலத்திலும் மாறி மாறி நடைபெறும் நிகழ்ச்சிகளையும் சுவாரசியமாக விவரிக்கிறது இந்தக் கதை.

Usually it takes Stringer a little while to rile folks in a new town. But no sooner does he step off the train in Tulsa, than some sidewinder is doing his best to turn Stringer into yesterday's news. The hot story in Tulsa is the oil boom. It seems you can't dig a grave without hitting black gold. And Stringer's there to write the story. But MacKail's never seen such a sorry assortment of low-down, hornswoggling bushwhackers. Because, as Stringer well knows, where there's money, there's outlaws and lawyers....

मावळा बोर्ड-गेममधील 'स्वराज्याच्या पाऊलखुणा' या माहितीपुस्तकेमधील 'साल्हेरगडावरील स्वारी' या विषयावरील ऐतिहासिक माहिती देणारा लेख. हा लेख ऐकता ऐकता तुम्ही मावळा गेम खेळू शकता.

कै.मंगला वेलणकर या प्राध्यापिका, लेखिका, कवयित्री होत्या. त्यांचे संस्कृत, मराठी भाषेवर प्रभुत्व होते. त्यांनी अनेक नाटकं तसंच कथा, लेख, कविता, दीर्घकाव्ये, संस्कृतमध्ये मंगलाष्टके इ. लिहिलं. त्यांनी इतिहासातील आठ अनुल्लेखित स्रियांवर लिहिलेली दीर्घकाव्यं फार महत्वाची आहेत, तीच तुम्हाला इथं ऐकायला मिळणार आहेत. काय आहे या दीर्घकाव्यात? कुंती, देवकी, रावणपत्नी मंदोदरी, दुर्योधनपत्नी लक्ष्मणा, समर्थ रामदासांची न झालेली पत्नी, संत तुकारामांची पत्नी आवडी, डाॅ.

Meet the residents of Gammage, New York, a town on the verge of declaring bankruptcy, when inspiration strikes. Why not go native, and open a casino? With Not Enough Indians, actor, writer, producer, and former Saturday Night Live cast member Harry Shearer joins the ranks of such comedian/authors as Steve Martin and Michael Palin with a brilliantly funny, whip-smart satire of greed, collusion, distrust, and betrayal in the halls of Washington and the casinos of Native America.

With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of how a handful of men and women, who believed in the idea of revolution, entered Bastar in Central India in 1980 and created a powerful movement that New Delhi now terms India's biggest internal security threat. It traces the circumstances due to which the Maoist movement entrenched itself in about 10 states of India, carrying out deadly attacks against the Indian establishment in the name of the poor and the marginalised.

The story involves a huge diamond, the moonstone, originally stolen from an Indian shrine. The gem is given to an English girl on her 18th birthday but disappears that same night. What follows is a spellbinding mystery that to this day has the power to draw the listener into its world of danger, suspense, and surprise.

A surgeon flees a scandal in the city and accepts a job at a village clinic. He buys antibiotics out of pocket, squashes roaches, and chafes at the interventions of the corrupt officer who oversees his work. But his outlook on life changes one night when a teacher, his pregnant wife, and their young son appear. Killed in a violent robbery, they tell the surgeon that they have been offered a second chance at living if the surgeon can mend their wounds before sunrise.

Three fun-loving Anglo-Asian sisters rule the roost since their mom died. They’ve got a reputation at school for being the coolest babes in town, and what they don’t need is an interfering Auntie-ji from India cramping their style. The girls decide the only way out of the problem is an arranged marriage - for their auntie.

In The Big Fifty, another name for the famous Sharps rifle, reality of frontier life becomes brutally clear to 12-year-old Coady McIlvain. He falls in with a buffalo sharpshooter, and the two must survive the unforgiving terrain and hostile enemies.

Set in the rugged frontier of the West, this unforgettable sequel to Janet Dailey's best selling novel The Proud and the Free begins when Lije Stuart, the handsome son of Temple and The Blade Stuart, returns to the Cherokee Nation after 4 years at Harvard. As the American Civil War rages across the country, the Stuarts, too, are torn apart by an old family feud.

Termed the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the southwestern Indians and the first protest novel of California, Ramona is the story of 3 cultures - Indian, Mexican, and Anglo - locked in combat. The upheaval and injustice are humanized through the romance of a beautiful half-Indian orphan who grow up as the ward of Señora Moreno in privileged surroundings, then falls in love with an Indian and joins him in a life of poverty and tragedy. The Ramona Pageant in Hemet, California, based on this romance, has played each year since 1923, reenacting the transition period between Mexican traditions and the new U.S. and state governments.

Marriage doesn’t just change your house and your roommate; it brings about a complete change. It is not simple accepting the new house, new family members and a new life partner. It takes a very big heart and lot of adjustments. Here are some chapters from the diary of a newlywed Indian woman and her journey, for a year, in her new house.

Elmer Kelton is hailed as the greatest Western author of all time by the Western Writers of America and has earned six Spur Awards during his impressive career. In Badger Boy, Kelton effortlessly sweeps listeners back to the post-Civil War Texas frontier, where ranger Rusty Shannon hopes to settle down as a respectable farmer. But trouble brews when Rusty captures Badger Boy, a white child raised by the Comanches who murdered his parents.

The American frontier in the 1700s produced some men of utter ruthlessness, and Jim Girty was one of the worst. Living among the Delaware Indians in the Ohio Valley, Girty and his brothers incited acts of savagery and war against the white settlers. One of Jim Girty's targets was the Village of Peace, a settlement of Christian Indians who had been converted by Moravian missionaries.

„Dacă Holden Caulfield ar fi fost un adolescent orb cu veleități literare, pasionat de Panciatantra și de Europa Liberă, în anul de grație 1971, al României Tezelor din iulie? Dacă lumea lui s-­ar fi văzut redusă la percepțiile tuturor simțurilor cu excepția celui al vederii, amplificând astfel nu doar acuitatea lor, cât și un puternic sentiment al revoltei?

పురాణాల్లోని నీతికథలు పరస్పర గౌరవంతో కలసిమెలసి జీవించటం నేర్పుతాయి.

In Calcutta’s notorious red-light district, Lalee aspires to a better life. Her unfailingly loyal client Tilu Shau has dreams too. A heady romantic and marginal novelist, Tilu is in love with the indifferent Lalee and wants to liberate her from her street life with marriage. But when a fellow sex worker and young mother is brutally murdered, the solicitous madam of the Blue Lotus invites Lalee to take the woman’s place “upstairs” as a high-end escort.