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Bombay Stories

Saadat Hasan Manto
Bombay Stories Book PDF

Author : Saadat Hasan Manto
Publisher : Random House
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448162369

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Bombay Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto Pdf

A rebellious yet human portrait of India's bustling Bombay, as told by one of the greatest Urdu writers of the last century: Saadat Hasan Manto. 'The undisputed master of the modern Indian short story' Salman Rushdie, Observer In the 1930s and 40s, Bombay was the cosmopolitan capital of the subcontinent - an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, bursting with both creative energy and helpless degradation. It was also muse to the celebrated short story writer of India and Pakistan, Saadat Hasan Manto. Manto's hard-edged, moving stories remain, a hundred years after his birth, startling and provocative. In searching out those forgotten by humanity - prostitutes, conmen and crooks - Manto wrote about what it means to be human.

Love And Longing In Bombay (R/E)

Chandra Vikram,Chandra,Vikram
Love And Longing In Bombay R E Book PDF

Author : Chandra Vikram,Chandra,Vikram
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Mumbai (India)
ISBN : 0143414178

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Love And Longing In Bombay (R/E) by Chandra Vikram,Chandra,Vikram Pdf

A collection of stories set in contemporary India. In Dharma, a soldier is forced to amputate his leg in order to save his life, Shakti is on two feuding society women, and Kama is on a detective who discovers political corruption at the highest level.

No Presents Please

Jayant Kaikini
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Author : Jayant Kaikini
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948226912

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No Presents Please by Jayant Kaikini Pdf

For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here are stories on the pathos and comedy of small–town migrants struggling to build a life in the big city, with the dream world of Bollywood never far away. Jayant Kaikini’s gaze takes in the people in the corners of Mumbai—a bus driver who, denied vacation time, steals the bus to travel home; a slum dweller who catches cats and sells them for pharmaceutical testing; a father at his wit’s end who takes his mischievous son to a reform institution. In this metropolis, those who seek find epiphanies in dark movie theaters, the jostle of local trains, and even in roadside keychains and lost thermos flasks. Here, in the shade of an unfinished overpass, a factory–worker and her boyfriend browse wedding invitations bearing wealthy couples’ affectations—”no presents please”—and look once more at what they own. Translated from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana, these resonant stories, recently awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, take us to photo framers, flower markets, and Irani cafes, revealing a city trading in fantasies while its strivers, eating once a day and sleeping ten to a room, hold secret ambitions close.

Maximum City

Suketu Mehta
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Author : Suketu Mehta
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307574312

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Maximum City by Suketu Mehta Pdf

A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks. As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.

Bombay Stories

Matt Reeck,Aftab Ahmad
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Author : Matt Reeck,Aftab Ahmad
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184003611

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Bombay Stories by Matt Reeck,Aftab Ahmad Pdf

Freshly arrived in 1930s Bombay, Manto saw the city like no one else, an ethnic melting pot that became ever more varied as migrant workers flooded in. It was to be Manto’s favourite city. His edgy, moving stories, often peopled with prostitutes and criminals, remain startling and provocative even a hundred years after his birth – in searching out those forgotten by humanity, Manto wrote about what it means to be human. At his centenary, Bombay Stories brings together Manto’s work from his years in that city for the first time. Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad’s contemporary, nuanced translation captures the idiom and the essence of Urdu’s most celebrated short-story writer’s work. Censored, banned, demonized and ostracized: Saadat Hasan Manto’s short stories were considered obscene and downright dangerous during his lifetime and for years after. They still haven’t lost their power to shock and enthrall.

Bombay Stories

Saadat Hasan Manto
Bombay Stories Book PDF

Author : Saadat Hasan Manto
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804170604

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Bombay Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto Pdf

A collection of classic, yet shockingly contemporary, short stories set in the vibrant world of mid-century Bombay, from one of India’s greatest writers. Arriving in 1930s Bombay, Saadat Hasan Manto discovered a city like no other. A metropolis for all, and an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, bursting with both creative energy and helpless despondency. A journalist, screenwriter, and editor, Manto is best known as a master of the short story, and Bombay was his lifelong muse. Vividly bringing to life the city’s seedy underbelly—the prostitutes, pimps, and gangsters that filled its streets—as well as the aspiring writers and actors who arrived looking for fame, here are all of Manto’s Bombay-based stories, together in English for the very first time. By turns humorous and fantastical, Manto’s tales are the provocative and unflinching lives of those forgotten by humanity.

A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry
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Author : Rohinton Mistry
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551991382

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A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Pdf

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.

Bombay Blues

Tanuja Desai Hidier
Bombay Blues Book PDF

Author : Tanuja Desai Hidier
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545633871

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Bombay Blues by Tanuja Desai Hidier Pdf

The long-anticipated sequel to Tanuja Desai Hidier's groundbreaking BORN CONFUSED! Dimple Lala thought that growing up would give her all the answers, but instead she has more questions than ever. Her boyfriend is distant, her classmates are predictable, and a blue mood has settled around the edges of everything she does.It's time for a change, and a change is just what Dimple is going to get - of scenery, of cultures, of mind. She thinks she's heading to Bombay for a family wedding - but really she is plunging into the unexpected, the unmapped, and the uncontrollable. The land of her parents and ancestors has a lot to reveal to her - for every choice we make can crescendo into a journey, every ending can turn into a beginning, and each person we meet can show us something new about ourselves. Tanuja Desai Hidier's BORN CONFUSED gave voice to a new multicultural generation. Now, Bombay Blues explores everything this generation faces today, with a heady mix of uncertainty and determination, despair and inspiration, haunting loss and revelatory love.

Meet Me in Bombay

Jenny Ashcroft
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Author : Jenny Ashcroft
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250270276

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Meet Me in Bombay by Jenny Ashcroft Pdf

All he needs is to find her. First, he must remember who she is. Jenny Ashcroft's "Meet Me in Bombay is a powerful, poignant and deeply emotional tale of love, mystery, loss and joy." –Kate Furnivall, New York Times bestselling author It's New Year's Eve in Bombay, 1913, and Madeline Bright, new to the sweltering heat of colonial India, is yearning for all she has left behind in England. Then, at the stroke of midnight, Maddy meets Luke Devereaux, and as the year changes so do both their lives. Bold and charismatic, Luke opens her eyes to the wonders of Bombay, while Maddy's beauty and vivacity captures his heart. Only her mother disapproves, preferring the devoted Guy Bowen as a match for her daughter. But while Maddy and Luke are falling in love, the world is falling apart. World War I is on the horizon, and Luke will be given no choice but to fight. They will be continents apart, separated by danger and devastating loss, but bound by Luke's promise that they will meet again in Bombay.

Bombay Wali and Other Stories

Veena Gokhale
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Author : Veena Gokhale
Publisher : First Fictions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1550716727

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Bombay Wali and Other Stories by Veena Gokhale Pdf

Twelve stories that provide startling glimpses of contemporary life in Bombay, and elsewhere. An innocuous jazz concert that awakens painful memories for a middle-aged caregiver, a wealthy business woman compelled by the desire to hurt her best friend, a lonely, old woman in a Tokyo apartment who seeks the touch of a baby's hand. Tales about friendship and repulsion, family ties and freedom; violence, public and private; ambition and uncertainty, alienation and acceptance, growing up and growing old.

Bombay Anna

Susan Morgan
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Author : Susan Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520933996

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Bombay Anna by Susan Morgan Pdf

If you thought you knew the story of Anna in The King and I, think again. As this riveting biography shows, the real life of Anna Leonowens was far more fascinating than the beloved story of the Victorian governess who went to work for the King of Siam. To write this definitive account, Susan Morgan traveled around the globe and discovered new information that has eluded researchers for years. Anna was born a poor, mixed-race army brat in India, and what followed is an extraordinary nineteenth-century story of savvy self-invention, wild adventure, and far-reaching influence. At a time when most women stayed at home, Anna Leonowens traveled all over the world, witnessed some of the most fascinating events of the Age of Empire, and became a well-known travel writer, journalist, teacher, and lecturer. She remains the one and only foreigner to have spent significant time inside the royal harem of Siam. She emigrated to the United States, crossed all of Russia on her own just before the revolution, and moved to Canada, where she publicly defended the rights of women and the working class. The book also gives an engrossing account of how and why Anna became an icon of American culture in The King and I and its many adaptations.

Bombay 3

Jitendra Dixit
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Author : Jitendra Dixit
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789390358779

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Bombay 3 by Jitendra Dixit Pdf

Mumbai is an ever-evolving city, bustling and brimming, never sleeping for a wink. But the past four decades brought upheavals of great magnitude that shaped the city as we know today. Marred by communal riots, gang wars and terrorism, the spirit of Mumbai has emerged indomitable every single time. Born and raised in the lanes of Bombay 3, this is the story of Jagan Kumar who dreams of being a television journalist and changing the world. But once he achieves this, he realises that television journalism has lost its path, now afflicted with sensationalism, corruption and bias. As a crime reporter, he comes across various unscrupulous means that law enforcement agencies adopt to combat organised crime syndicates. He is shocked to witness interdepartmental rivalry that often jeopardises public security. Disenchanted, in conflict with his conscience and confused about his calling, he is about to quit when something happens that changes the course of his life. Bombay 3 begins from the bylanes of old Bombay of the seventies and then takes you to Mosul in ISIS's Iraq of 2014 and finally to the streets of Bangkok where the underworld of Mumbai has spread its tentacles. A fast-paced thriller, it answers certain questions about life in Mumbai and raises a few new ones.

Born Confused

Tanuja Desai Hidier
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Author : Tanuja Desai Hidier
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545229944

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Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier Pdf

Tanuja Desai Hidier's fantastically acclaimed cross-cultural debut comes to PUSH!Dimple Lala doesn't know what to think. Her parents are from India, and she's spent her whole life resisting their traditions. Then suddenly she gets to high school and everything Indian is trendy. To make matters worse, her parents arrange for her to meet a "suitable boy." Of course it doesn't go well -- until Dimple goes to a club and finds him spinning a magical web . Suddenly the suitable boy is suitable because of his sheer unsuitability. Complications ensue. This is a funny, thoughtful story about finding your heart, finding your culture, and finding your place in America.Author BioTanuja Desai Hidier is the critically acclaimed author of the groundbreaking novels Bombay Blues and Born Confused, which was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and hailed by Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone as one of the best YA novels of all time. Born and raised in the USA, Tanuja is a writer/singer-songwriter now based in London. For more about Born Confused and Bombay Blues, as well as her "booktrack" albums of original songs to accompany them, please visit www.ThisIsTanuja.com.

Bombay Balchão

Jane Borges
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Author : Jane Borges
Publisher : Tranquebar
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Mumbai (India)
ISBN : 9389152089

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Bombay Balchão by Jane Borges Pdf

Bombay was the city everyone came to in the early decades of the nineteenth century: among them, the Goans and the Mangaloreans. Looking for safe harbour, livelihood, and a new place to call home. Communities congregated around churches and markets, sharing lord and land with the native East Indians. The young among them were nudged on to the path of marriage, procreation and godliness, though noble intentions were often ambushed by errant love and plain and simple lust. As in the story of Annette and Benji (and Joe) or Michael and Merlyn (and Ellena). Lovers and haters, friends and family, married men and determined singles, churchgoers and abstainers, Bombay Balchão is a tangled tale of ordinary lives - of a woman who loses her husband to a dockyard explosion and turns to bootlegging, a teen romance that drowns like a paper boat, a social misfit rescued by his addiction to crosswords, a wife who tries to exorcise the spirit of her dead mother-in-law from her husband, a rebellious young woman who spurns true love for the abandonment of dance. Ordinary, except when seen through their own eyes.

Ordinary People Extraordinary Stories

Karishma Mehta
Ordinary People Extraordinary Stories Book PDF

Author : Karishma Mehta
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9789390327270

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Ordinary People Extraordinary Stories by Karishma Mehta Pdf

Eight years ago, Karishma Mehta founded Humans of Bombay, inspired by the single idea- we all want to be heard. From the first shoot, where she traipsed Mumbai's iconic Marine Drive, asking strangers to speak with her, she's brought together a team of storytellers and a community of over 3.2 million people who believe in the power of humanity. This book, a collection of some of the best stories documented over the last 8 years, is Karishma's love letter to the people of India. Every story in this collection is unique, inspirational, and relatable, and offers a glimpse into a country with 1.3 billion beating hearts ... one tale at a time.