The Narayanpur Incident
The Narayanpur Incident

Author: Shashi Deshpande

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2015-08-01

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 9351181251

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8 August 1942. As Gandiji and prominent leaders are put in jail, Babu and Manju suddenly find themselves a part of the larger protests--their schools close down and their father is put behind bars. Their daring brother Mohan goes underground and the rest of the family moves to Narayanpur, a sleepy little village seemingly untouched by the turbulence in the country. But Narayanpur is seething within and it all comes to a head when a group of children dare to confront the police.

From the Narayanpur Incident
From the Narayanpur Incident

Author: Shashi Deshpande

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2013-11-18

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9351185508

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A delectable offering of the best stories written by master storytellers, including Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Satyajit Ray, R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth, to name a few. Each story represents the richness and range of contemporary writing for children, and is beautifully illustrated to make this truly a collector's item.

Theft of an Idol
Theft of an Idol

Author: Paul R. Brass

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1997-02-06

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780691026503

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As collective violence erupts in many regions throughout the world, we often hear media reports that link the outbreaks to age-old ethnic or religious hostilities, thereby freeing the state from responsibility. Through five case studies of both rural and urban public violence, political scientist Paul Brass shows that government and the media often select and focus most on those that support existing relations of power in state and society.

That Long Silence
That Long Silence

Author: Shashi Deshpande

Publisher: Penguin Books India

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780140127232

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Jay'S Life Comes Apart At The Seams When Her Husband Is Asked To Leave His Job While Allegations Of Business Malpractice Against Him Are Investigated. Her Familiar Existence Disrupted, Her Husband'S Reputation In Question And Their Future As A Family In Jeopardy, Jaya, A Failed Writer, Is Haunted By Memories Of The Past. Differences With Her Husband, Frustrations In Their Seventeen-Year-Old Marriage, Disappointment In Her Two Teenage Children, The Claustrophia Of Her Childhood&Amp;Mdash;All Begin To Surface. In Her Small Suburban Bombay Flat, Jaya Grapples With These And Other Truths About Herself&Amp;Mdash;Among Them Her Failure At Writing And Her Fear Of Anger. Shashi Deshpande Gives Us An Exceptionally Accomplished Portrayal Of A Woman Trying To Erase A 'Long Silence' Begun In Childhood And Rooted In Herself And In The Constraints Of Her Life.

Dark Holds No Terrors
Dark Holds No Terrors

Author: Shashi Deshpande

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2000-10-14

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9351181618

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Why are you still alive-why didn't you die?' Years on, Sarita still remembers her mother's bitter words uttered when as a little girl she was unable to save her younger brother from drowning. Now, her mother is dead and Sarita returns to the family home, ostensibly to take care of her father, but in reality to escape the nightmarish brutality her husband inflicts on her every night. In the quiet of her old father's company Sarita reflects on the events of her life: her stultifying small town childhood, her domineering mother, her marriage to the charismatic young poet Mahohar.

3 Novels
3 Novels

Author: Shashi Deshpande

Publisher: Penguin Books India

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780143335115

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This title presents three thrilling adventures featuring the indomitable cousins Dinu, Minu, Polly and Ravi. When Ravi comes from Bombay to stay with his three cousins for the summer holidays, little does he realize this is the beginning of a series of exciting events that will test their intelligence and luck. In the first story a string of audacious robberies occur in their usually quiet town. Who is the thief? Is it the sinister Dhondu who seems to hate the children, or is he covering up for someone else? In The Hidden Treasure, the four cousins end up spending their Diwali holiday in Kaka's farm in a village. Village life is fun, especially with their broken-down ancestral mansion to explore. Gradually, the children realize there is something sinister afoot. Who has been digging away in the mansion in the dead of night? Did their ancestor really bury his life's savings in their sprawling ancestral home before joining the 1857 uprising, or is it just a legend? And, if the treasure's still there, will they get to it before the crooks do? In the last novel, it's Dinu, Minu and Polly's turn to visit Bombay and spend the summer with Ravi. bank robber. Soon after, a spate of robberies break out all over Bombay. Is it the same gang at work? Then their friend is kidnapped and the four children find themselves in the midst of a desperate chase...

In The Name Of Democracy
In The Name Of Democracy

Author: Bipan Chandra

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2017-04-17

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 9351188930

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‘When Jayaprakash Narayan, the leader of the JP movement in north India, pressed for the resignation of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, it prompted her to impose internal Emergency. In this fascinating account, Bipan Chandra traces the events that led up to this moment and makes some startling revelations. He finds that there was a real danger of the JP movement turning fascist, given the fuzzy ideology of Total Revolution, its confused leadership and dependence on the RSS for its organization. At the same time, despite the authoritarianism inherent in the Emergency, particularly with the rising power of Sanjay Gandhi and his Youth Congress brigade, Indira Gandhi did end it and call for elections. Finely argued, incisive and original, this book offers significant insight into those turbulent years and joins the ever-relevant debate on the acceptable limits of popular protest in a democracy.

The Binding Vine
The Binding Vine

Author: Shashi Deshpande

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 2002-09-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 155861785X

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“There can be no vaulting over time,” thinks Urmila, the narrator of Shashi Deshpande’s profound and soul-stirring novel. “We have to walk every step of the way, however difficult or painful it is; we can avoid nothing.” After the death of her baby, Urmila finds her own path difficult to endure. But through her grief, she is drawn into the lives of two very different women—one her long-dead mother-in-law, a thwarted writer, the other a young woman who lies unconscious in a hospital bed. And it is through these quiet, unexpected connections that Urmi begins her journey toward healing. The miracle of The Binding Vine, and of Shashi Deshpande's deeply compassionate vision, is that out of this web of loss and despair emerge strand of life and hope—a binding vine of love, concern, and connection that spreads across chasms of time, social class, and even death. In moving and exquisitely understated prose, Deshpande renders visible the extraordinary endurance and grace concealed in women's everyday lives.

The Night the Ghost Got in
The Night the Ghost Got in

Author: James Thurber

Publisher: Creative Company

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780871919601

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Denis De Beaulieu, a French soldier, is made a prisoner by the Sire of De Maletroit, who believes that the soldier has compromised the Maletroit family honor.

Broken People
Broken People

Author: Smita Narula

Publisher: Human Rights Watch

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781564322289

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Women and the Law.