The Killer Instinct Book Description
Timely and thought provoking book, which merits study by professional, by those entrusted with responsibility of formulating policy, and, for its topically and readability by the lay reader too.
Brahmi
The earliest known Indian script is Brahmi
Brāhmī is the modern name given to the oldest members of the Brahmic family of alphabets. The best known inscriptions in Brāhmī are the rock-cut edicts of Ashokain north-central India, dated to the 3rd century BCE. These are traditionally considered the earliest known examples of Brāhmī writing, though recent discoveries suggest that it may be somewhat older, dating back as far as the 6th century BCE (see Tamil-Brahmi).
ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী
Jhumpa Lahiri (Bengali: ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী; born on July 11, 1967) is an Indian American author. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the 2000Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna, which are both "good names," but goes by her pet name Jhumpa.
Short story collections
- Interpreter of Maladies (1999)
- Unaccustomed Earth (2008)
Novels
- The Namesake (2003)
Short stories
- "Nobody's Business" (12 March 2001, The New Yorker) ("The Best American Short Stories 2002")
- "Hell-Heaven" (24 May 2004, The New Yorker)
- "Once In A Lifetime" (1 May 2006, The New Yorker)
- "Year's End" (24 December 2007, The New Yorker)
Anita Mazumdar Desai
Anita Mazumdar Desai (born June 24, 1937) is an Indian novelist and Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker prize three times. Her daughter, the author Kiran Desai, won the 2006 Booker prize.
Selected works
- The Zigzag Way (2004)
- Diamond Dust and Other Stories (2000)
- Fasting, Feasting (1999)
- Journey to Ithaca (1995)
- Baumgartner's Bombay (1988)
- In Custody (1984)
- The Village By The Sea (1982)
- Clear Light of Day (1980)
- Games at Twilight (1978)
- Fire on the Mountain (1977)
- Cry, The Peacock (1963)
- The village by the sea (1982)
Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh (born 1956), is an Indian-Bengali author known for his work in the English language.
Ghosh's latest work of fiction is Sea of Poppies (2008) an epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars which encapsulates the colonial history of the East. His other novels are The Circle of Reason (1986), The Shadow Lines (1990), The Calcutta Chromosome (1995), The Glass Palace (2000) and The Hungry Tide (2004). The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award, India's most prestigious literary award.[2] TheCalcutta Chromosome won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for 1997.[3] Sea of Poppies was shortlisted for the 2008 Booker Prize[4]. Ghosh's fiction is characterised by strong themes that may be somewhat identified withpostcolonialism but could be labelled as historical novels. His topics are unique and personal; some of his appeal lies in his ability to weave "Indo-nostalgic" elements into more serious themes.
Ghosh has also written In an Antique Land (1992), Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma (1998), Countdown (1999), and The Imam and the Indian (2002, a large collection of essays on different themes such asfundamentalism, history of the novel, Egyptian culture, and literature). In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian government.
Works by Amartya Sen
- The Idea of Justice London: Allen Lane, July 2009.
- Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Issues of Our Time), New York, W. W. Norton, 2006.
- The Argumentative Indian, 2005.
- Rationality and Freedom, 2004.
- Inequality Reexamined, 2004.
- Development as Freedom, 1999.
- Freedom, Rationality, and Social Choice: The Arrow Lectures and Other essays, 2000.
- Reason Before Identity, 1999.
- Choice of Techniques, 1960.
- Collective Choice and Social Welfare, 1970, Holden-Day, 1984, Elsevier
- On Economic Inequality, 1973.
- Poverty and Famines: an Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, 1981.
- Hunger and Public Action, jointly edited with Jean Drèze, 1989
- India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity, with Jean Drèze, 1995.
- Commodities and Capabilities, 1999.
- Sen, Amartya, On Economic Inequality, New York, Norton, 1973. (Expanded edition with a substantial annexe by James E. Foster and A. Sen, 1997).
- Sen, Amartya, Poverty and Famines : An Essay on Entitlements and Deprivation, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1982.
- Sen, Amartya, Choice, Welfare and Measurement, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1982.
- Sen, Amartya, Food Economics and Entitlements, Helsinki, Wider Working Paper 1, 1986.
- Sen, Amartya, On Ethics and Economics, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1987.
- Drèze, Jean and Sen, Amartya, Hunger and Public Action. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1989.
- Sen, Amartya, "More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing". New York Review of Books, 1990. ([2])
- Sen, Amartya, Inequality Reexamined, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Nussbaum, Martha, and Sen, Amartya. The Quality of Life. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
- Sen, Amartya, Reason Before Identity (The Romanes Lecture for 1998), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-951389-9
- Sen, Amartya, Development as Freedom, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999. (Review by the Asia Times)
- Sen, Amartya, Rationality and Freedom, Harvard, Harvard Belknap Press, 2002.
- Sen, Amartya, The Argumentative Indian, London: Allen Lane, 2005. (Review by the Guardian, Review by the Washington Post)
- Sen, Amartya, An Aspect of Indian Agriculture, Economic Weekly, Vol. 14, 1962.
NIRALA
SURYA KANT TRIPATHI 'NIRALA' (21.2.1897 - 15.10.1961)
'Nirala', a 'Chhayawadi' Poet, was born in Madinipur district of West Bengal. Thereon he shifted to Lucknow and then to Village Gadhakola of District Unnao, to which his father originally belonged.
He was well versed in Hindi, Bangla, English & Sanskrit and was greatly inspired by Ram Krishna Paramhans, Swami Vivekanand & Ravindra Nath Tagore. His wrote strongly against social injustice & exploitation in the society. It will not be wrong to say that he was well ahead of his time in his work.
There is a Park(Nirala Uddyan), an Auditorium (Nirala Prekshagrah) and a Degree College (Mahapran Nirala Degree College) in the district after his name.
Publications
'Janmbhumi', 'Parimal', 'Geetika', 'Anamika' , 'Tulsidas', 'Kukurmutta', 'Adima', 'Bela', 'Nai Pattey', 'Archana',
'Aradhana', 'Geet Gunj', 'Sandya Kakli' ( All Poetry)
'Apsara', 'Alka', 'Prabhawati', 'Nirupama', 'Kulli Bhat', 'Billesur Bakriha', 'Choti ki Pakar', 'Kale Karname' (All Novels)
'Lily', 'Sakhi', 'Sukul ki Bibi', 'Devi', 'Chaturi Chamaar' (All Story books)
'Bangbhasha ka Uchcharan', 'Ravindra-Kavita-Kannan', 'Prabandh-Padya', 'Prabandh-Pratima', 'Chabuk', 'Chayan', 'Sangrah' (All Essays)
'Mahabharat' (Epic Katha)
'Anand Math', 'Vish-Vriksh', 'Krishna kant ka Vil', 'Kapal Kundala', 'Durgesh Nandini', 'Raj Singh', 'Raj Rani', 'Devi Chaudharani', 'Yuglanguliya', 'Chandrasekhar', 'Rajni', 'Sri Ramkrishna Vachnamrit','Bhatrat Main Vivekanand', 'Rajyog' (All Translations)
Animal's People
Animal's People is a novel by Indra Sinha. It was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and is the Winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers's Prize:Best Book From Europe & South Asia. Sinha's narrator is a 19-year-old orphan of Khaufpur, born a few days before the 1984 Bhopal disaster, whose spine has become so twisted that he must walk on all fours. Ever since he can remember, he has gone on all fours. Known to every-one simply as Animal, he rejects sympathy, spouts profanity and obsesses about sex. He lives with a crazy old French nun called Ma Franci, and his dog Jara. Also, he falls in love with a local musician's daughter, Nisha.
"I used to be human once. So I'm told. I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet just like a human being..."
The story was recorded in Hindi on a series of tapes by Animal himself and it has been translated to English as well. The author uses Animal's odd mixture of Hindi, French and Indianised English such as "kampani"(company),"jarnalis"(journalist) and "jamisbonding"(spying, like James Bond.
Books written by Nehru
Books written by Nehru
- Nehru's letters to his daughter Indira during successive periods of imprisonment in 1930-1934 were later compiled into a book called Glimpses of World History.
- His 1942-1945 incarceration produced The Discovery of India, a history of India with digressions.
- Subsequently, he wrote An Autobiography (ISBN 014303104X), which was aNew York Times best seller.
By Harivanshrai Bachchan आत्मकथा / रचनावली
- Autobiography / Rachanavali (आत्मकथा / रचनावली)
- Kya bhooloon kya yaad karoon (क्या भूलूं क्या याद करूं) (1969)
- Need ka nirmaan fir (नीड़ का निर्माण फिर) (1970)
- Basere se door (बसेरे से दूर) (1977)
- Dashdwaar se sopaan tak (दशद्वार से सोपान तक) (1965), In the Afternoon of Time [2]
- Bachchan rachanavali ke nau khand (बच्चन रचनावली के नौ खण्ड) (1983)
By Harivanshrai Bachchan
- Miscellaneous (विविध)
- Bachpan ke saath kshan bhar (बचपन के साथ क्षण भर) (1934)
- Khaiyyam ki madhushala (खय्याम की मधुशाला) (1938)
- Sopaan (सोपान) (1953)
- Mcbeth (1957)
- Jangeet (जनगीता) (1958)
- Othello (1959)
- Omar Khaiyyam ki rubaaiyan (उमर खय्याम की रुबाइयाँ) (1959)
- Kaviyon ke saumya sant: Pant (कवियों के सौम्य संत: पंत) (1960)
- Aaj ke lokpriya hindi kavi: Sumitranandan Pant (आज के लोकप्रिय हिन्दी कवि: सुमित्रानंदन पंत) (1960)
- Aadhunik kavi: 7 (आधुनिक कवि: ७) (1961)
- Nehru: Raajnaitik jeevanchitra (नेहरू: राजनैतिक जीवनचित्र) (1961)
- Naye puraane jharokhe (नये पुराने झरोखे) (1962)
- Abhinav sopaan (अभिनव सोपान) (1964)
- Chausath roosi kavitaayein (चौसठ रूसी कवितायें) (1964)
- W.B. Yeats and Occultism (1968)
- Markat dweep ka swar (मरकट द्वीप का स्वर) (1968)
- Naagar geet (नागर गीत) (1966)
- Bachpan ke lokpriya geet (बचपन के लोकप्रिय गीत) (1967)
- Hamlet (1969)
- Bhaasha apni bhaav paraaye (भाषा अपनी भाव पराये) (1970)
- Pant ke sau patra (पंत के सौ पत्र) (1970)
- Pravaas ki diary (प्रवास की डायरी) (1971)
- King Lear (1972)
- Tooti Chooti kadiyan (टूटी छूटी कड़ियां) (1973)
- Meri kavitaayi ki aadhi sadi (मेरी कविताई की आधी सदी) (1981)
- So-ham hans (सोहं हंस) (1981)
- Aathve dashak ki pratinidhi shreshth kavitaayein (आठवें दशक की प्रतिनिधी श्रेष्ठ कवितायें) (1982)
- Meri shreshth kavitaayein (मेरी श्रेष्ठ कवितायें) (1984)
- Jo beet gai so Bat gai
Harivansh Rai Bachchanji
Works by Harivansh Rai Bachchanji
List of works
|
Copyright
Copyright is a form of intellectual property that gives the author of an original work exclusive right for a certain time period in relation to that work, including its publication, distribution and adaptation, after which time the work is said to enter the public domain. Copyright applies to any expressible form of an idea or information that is substantive and discrete and fixed in a medium. Some jurisdictions also recognize "moral rights" of the creator of a work, such as the right to be credited for the work. Copyright is described under the umbrella term intellectual property along with patents and trademarks.
An example of the intent of copyright, as expressed in the United States Constitution, is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."[1]
Copyright has been internationally standardized, lasting between fifty to a hundred years from the author's death, or a shorter period for anonymous or corporate authorship. Some jurisdictions have required formalities to establish copyright, but most recognize copyright in any completed work, without formal registration. Generally, copyright is enforced as acivil matter, though some jurisdictions do apply criminal sanctions.
Arun Shourie
Arun Shourie writings have gained him a considerable following around the country, as well as several national and international honours. Among these are the Padma Bhushan, the Magsaysay Award, the Dadabhai Naoroji Award, the Astor Award, the K.S. Hegde Award and the International Editor of the Year Award and The Freedom to Publish Award.
- In his book Worshipping False Gods, Shourie criticized B.R. Ambedkar, the leader of Dalits for alleged complicity with the British and lust for power and wealth.
- In A Secular Agenda (1997, ISBN 81-900199-3-7), Shourie discusses various problems faced by India due to minority appeasement and pseudo-secularism practiced by the Indian politicians.[7] The book starts with a discourse on the definition of a nation. He cites examples of other nations in Europe to counter the arguments of people who do not consider India as one nation due to its different lanuguages and religions. He argues for a Common Civil Code in the book[7] and the abolition of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. He also discusses the problem related to infiltration from Bangladesh and the inability of the Indian government to solve it.
- Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998, ISBN 81-900199-8-8) discusses the NCERT controversy in Indian politics and attacks Marxist historiography. Arun Shourie asserts that Marxist historians have controlled and misused important institutions like the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), the National Council of Educational Research Training (NCERT) and a large part of academia and the media. He criticizes well-known historians like Romila Thapar and Irfan Habib. Shourie argues that Marxist historians have white-washed the records of rulers like Mahmud of Ghazni andAurangzeb. Shourie presents examples to further his argument of how many of these text books describe in great detail foreign personalities like Karl Marx or Stalin, while they often barely mention important figures of India or of the Indian states. Shourie writes that this is in contrast to Russian Marxist text books. The standard Soviet work "A History of India" (1973) is according to Shourie much more objective and truthful than the history books written by the Indian Marxists.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
