The Great Tamasha
The Great Tamasha

Author: James Astill

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1408192209

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On a Bangalore night in April 2008, cricket and India changed forever. It was the first night of the Indian Premier League – cricket, but not as we knew it. It involved big money, glitz, prancing girls and Bollywood stars. It was not so much sport as tamasha: a great entertainment. The Great Tamasha examines how a game and a country, both regarded as synonymous with infinite patience, managed to produce such an event. James Astill explains how India's economic surge and cricketing obsession made it the dominant power in world cricket, off the field if rarely on it. He tells how cricket has become the central focus of the world's second-biggest nation: the place where power and money and celebrity and corruption all meet, to the rapt attention of a billion eyeballs. Astill crosses the subcontinent and, over endless cups of tea, meets the people who make up modern India – from faded princes to back-street bookmakers, slum kids to squillionaires – and sees how cricket shapes their lives and that of their country. Finally, in London he meets Indian cricket's fallen star, Lalit Modi, whose driving energy helped build this new form of cricket before he was dismissed in disgrace: a story that says much about modern India. The Great Tamasha is a fascinating examination of the most important development in cricket today. A brilliant evocation of an endlessly beguiling country, it is also essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the workings of modern India.

Women And The Weight Loss Tamasha
Women And The Weight Loss Tamasha

Author: Rujuta Diwekar

Publisher: Westland

Published:

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9395073128

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About the Book AN EXPERT SHINES A LIGHT ON THE OFTEN CONFUSING AND CONTRADICTORY ADVICE OFFERED ON THE SUBJECT OF WEIGHT LOSS Women and the Weight Loss Tamasha is based on health and nutrition fundamentals and principles. This book by renowned nutritionist, Rujuta Diwekar, who helps women in losing weight, toning their bodies, bringing the glow on their faces and some sort of wisdom in their brains. The women have to concentrate on their weight issues right from their puberty, marriage, pregnancy to menopause. The body weight fluctuates with these hormonal changes in their bodies. The author gives details about all the changes that a woman goes through during these phases. Indian women have to consider many other factors—hormonal changes; in-laws, children, career, house help and what not! Also, a woman's overall well-being is directly related to her body weight. The author emphasises on the four pillars of health—Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep and Relationships—in the book. Special stress is laid on lifestyle disorders such as PCOD, hypothyroidism and diabetes. The author has rubbished common myths related to food, hormones and exercises. According to the author, theories that pregnancy, hypothyroidism and menopause are related to weight are not valid. A woman can maintain a healthy lifestyle throughout her life by following some simple health tips. This edition, unlike her first edition is diverse in many ways. The chapter related to lifestyle disorders has thrown light on the subjects of PCOD and hypothyroidism; that have become very common. The author has stretched herself beyond food, to cover exercise and sleep; which are crucial and important aspects of a person’s health.

The Wedding Tamasha
The Wedding Tamasha

Author: Sudha Nair

Publisher: Kalari Publishing

Published: 2024-03-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Winner of the 2017 Amazon KDP Pen to Publish contest A romantic tale about love, family, values and traditions. Twenty-eight-year-old Shweta Menon finds refuge from an abusive husband by working at a Mexican café in the US. She doesn't know how to tell her parents the truth about her marriage and return to India. But then her brother's wedding leaves her no choice. Entrepreneur Chef Niraj (Niru) Karthik is in charge of catering for his best friend's wedding. He isn't looking forward to meeting his childhood crush-the one that got away-but he finds himself drawn to her again. Shweta has only thought of Niru as her older brother's best friend, but now she's falling head over heels in love with him. As both try to come to terms with their true feelings, they realize that a lot more than friendship is at stake. And then, there's Shweta's family, mixed up in a dilemma: an overbearing father, an over-anxious mother, and three very disparate yet close siblings. Will Shweta get the love and acceptance she yearns for? Or will upholding the family honour be more important? ***Praise for THE WEDDING TAMASHA*** "The Wedding Tamasha is a fantastic roller-coaster drama of a quirky family. Enjoyable and well-written with wonderful and flawed characters who pull you into their world and keep you guessing until the very end." - Ruchi Singh, romance author "A promising debut, as colourful as the "wedding tamasha", filled with family drama, spicy dashes of suspense, and authentic characters." - Devika Fernando, romance author "The Wedding Tamasha has all the exuberant fun peppered with spicy doses of drama of a typical Indian wedding and this makes it an engrossing read till the very last page." - Sonia Rao, Writer, Editor, NaNoWriMo ML (India) THE WEDDING TAMASHA is a romance set within the modern Indian family with characters you'll fall in love with. Come along for a fun ride at the wedding celebrations, the preparation of the wedding feast or sadya, a peek into Indian traditional marriage customs and love for food.

Wounded Tiger
Wounded Tiger

Author: Peter Oborne

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-04-09

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 184983248X

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THE WISDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR and THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'The most complete, best researched, roses-and-thorns history of cricket in Pakistan' Independent 'As good as it's likely to get' Guardian The nation of Pakistan was born out of the trauma of Partition from India in 1947. Its cricket team evolved in the chaotic aftermath. Initially unrecognised, underfunded and weak, Pakistan's team grew to become a major force in world cricket. Since the early days of the Raj, cricket has been entwined with national identity and Pakistan's successes helped to define its status in the world. Defiant in defence, irresistible in attack, players such as A.H.Kardar, Fazal Mahmood, Wasim Akram and Imran Khan awed their contemporaries and inspired their successors. The story of Pakistan cricket is filled with triumph and tragedy. In recent years, it has been threatened by the same problems affecting Pakistan itself: fallout from the 'war on terror', sectarian violence, corruption, crises in health and education, and a shortage of effective leaders. For twenty years, Pakistan cricket has been stained by the scandalous behaviour of the players involved in match-fixing. After 2009, the fear of violence drove Pakistan's international cricket into exile. But Peter Oborne's narrative is also full of hope. For all its troubles, cricket gives all Pakistanis a chance to excel and express themselves, a sense of identity and a cause for pride in their country. Packed with first-hand recollections, and digging deep into political, social and cultural history, Wounded Tiger is a major study of sport and nationhood.

The Tender Coconut Tamasha
The Tender Coconut Tamasha

Author: Joe Chacko

Publisher: GasUndHeit Publishing

Published: 2021-01-21

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1838367306

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FINALIST, PAGE TURNER AWARDS 2020 ***** "Funny and fast-paced crime caper..." ***** "India's answer to Alexander McCall Smith's Mma Ramotswe" ***** "Couldn't put it down" ***** “The future of light crime fiction is Inspector Chatpati” Inspector Hari Chatpati is under pressure. It’s been barely four months since Chatpati helped foil a terrorist attack on the State Parliament. And now his dubious reward is to lead Bangalore’s very first Civil Nuisance Unit, a semi-autonomous police division tasked with tackling minor crime. The CNU is barely operational before it’s inundated with work. There’s a flasher in the park, accosting lone women commuters. Someone has urinated in the fountain at the Planetarium. A criminal syndicate of beggars occupies the pavements. And some vagrant has dumped a load of rubbish outside the house of a prominent politician. As if things weren’t bad enough, Chatpati’s nemesis, the vindictive Assistant Commissioner of Police, orders Chatpati to look into a case deemed too trivial for any other police division: an Austrian traveller hospitalised with food poisoning. What’s so unusual about a tourist suffering from dysentery, anyway? In India, where the potholes can kill you before the samosas can. Chatpati suspects the ACP is out to humiliate him, but the Inspector has no choice but to investigate. It’s not long before the CNU’s investigation sparks widespread rioting and disorder. Bangalore is riven, its markets in flames. The media starts braying for blood, preferably Chatpati’s. Hamstrung and humiliated, the Inspector’s future, and that of his untested team, is at stake. Will they triumph against the unseen forces arrayed against them? The Tender Coconut Tamasha is a fast-paced, often funny mystery for the 21st Century, set in a teeming Indian metropolis where tradition rubs up against modernity at every turn. The book is inspired by Alexander McCall Smith’s Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency and Vaseem Khan’s Inspector Chopra. If you’re looking for a cosy mystery with teeth (but without bite marks) or searching for a break from the conflicted detective chasing a twisted serial killer, this might be the book for you. Trigger warning: contains infrequent, mild profanity and non-explicit depictions of one consensual sexual act between adults (six lines, really, with the only anatomical term being “buttocks”).

When Crime Pays
When Crime Pays

Author: Milan Vaishnav

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2017-01-01

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0300216203

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The first thorough study of the co-existence of crime and democratic processes in Indian politics In India, the world's largest democracy, the symbiotic relationship between crime and politics raises complex questions. For instance, how can free and fair democratic processes exist alongside rampant criminality? Why do political parties recruit candidates with reputations for wrongdoing? Why are one-third of state and national legislators elected--and often re-elected--in spite of criminal charges pending against them? In this eye-opening study, political scientist Milan Vaishnav mines a rich array of sources, including fieldwork on political campaigns and interviews with candidates, party workers, and voters, large surveys, and an original database on politicians' backgrounds to offer the first comprehensive study of an issue that has implications for the study of democracy both within and beyond India's borders.

Great Soul
Great Soul

Author: Joseph Lelyveld

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-04-03

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0307389952

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A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, and rural poor. “A revelation. . . . Lelyveld has restored human depth to the Mahatma.”—Hari Kunzru, The New York Times Pulitzer Prize–winner Joseph Lelyveld shows in vivid, unmatched detail how Gandhi’s sense of mission, social values, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance were shaped on another subcontinent—during two decades in South Africa—and then tested by an India that quickly learned to revere him as a Mahatma, or “Great Soul,” while following him only a small part of the way to the social transformation he envisioned. The man himself emerges as one of history’s most remarkable self-creations, a prosperous lawyer who became an ascetic in a loincloth wholly dedicated to political and social action. Lelyveld leads us step-by-step through the heroic—and tragic—last months of this selfless leader’s long campaign when his nonviolent efforts culminated in the partition of India, the creation of Pakistan, and a bloodbath of ethnic cleansing that ended only with his own assassination. India and its politicians were ready to place Gandhi on a pedestal as “Father of the Nation” but were less inclined to embrace his teachings. Muslim support, crucial in his rise to leadership, soon waned, and the oppressed untouchables—for whom Gandhi spoke to Hindus as a whole—produced their own leaders. Here is a vital, brilliant reconsideration of Gandhi’s extraordinary struggles on two continents, of his fierce but, finally, unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy, which more than six decades after his death still ensures his place as India’s social conscience—and not just India’s.

Hear Me Now
Hear Me Now

Author: Titilola Dawudu

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-10-31

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1786824620

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A brand-new collection of original audition pieces written by and for actors of colour, commissioned by Tamasha Theatre Company and edited by Titilola Dawudu, with a foreword by Noma Dumezweni. Hear Me Now is a unique collection of over eighty original audition monologues, expressly created by a range of award-winning writers brought together by producer Titilola Dawudu and Tamasha Theatre Company. They're ideal for actors of colour searching for speeches for auditions or training, writers, teachers, and theatre-makers who are passionate about improving diversity. The book provides varied, nuanced stories that expand beyond the range of existing material available – from a cross-dressing Imam, to the first Black Prime Minister, the British Indian girl with dreams of becoming a country music star, or the young Black boy who loves baking as much as football – Hear Me Now is an essential tool for actors of colour to showcase their range, and seeks to inspire, empower, and create a legacy for generations to come.

Tamasha-e-Ishq
Tamasha-e-Ishq

Author: Nasir Malik

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04-19

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781973139027

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Tamasha-e-Ishq is an unique social and romantic Urdu novel. This story based novel consists on a Rashida, an active role of beautiful nurse who loved a patient admitted in hospital. The second basic character is Rauf, a famous business man of society, who disabled by TB and admitted in a hospital. This is very interesting novel.

A Fine Balance
A Fine Balance

Author: Rohinton Mistry

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Published: 2010-10-29

Total Pages: 834

ISBN-13: 1551991381

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A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a “State of Internal Emergency.” Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances – and their fates – become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen. Mistry’s prose is alive with enduring images and a cast of unforgettable characters. Written with compassion, humour, and insight, A Fine Balance is a vivid, richly textured, and powerful novel written by one of the most gifted writers of our time.