Chandrabati S Ramayan

Author : Chandrabati
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788194721871

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Chandrabati’s Ramayan by Chandrabati Pdf

Chandrabati, the first woman poet in Bangla, lived in the sixteenth century in Mymensingh district in present day Bangladesh. She was also the first poet in the Bangla language to present a retelling of the Ram story from the point of view of Sita. Idolised as a model of marital obedience and chastity in Valmiki’s Ramayan, Chandrabati’s lyrical retelling of Sita’s story offers us a fresh perspective. Written in order to be sung before a non-courtly audience, mainly of womenfolk of rural Bengal, Chandrabati’s Ramayan adds new characters and situations to the story to provide new interpretations of already known events drawing richly on elements of existing genres. Its location in the tales of everyday life has ensured that Chandrabati’s Ramayan lives on in the hearts of village women of modern-day India.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Zubaan Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Epic poetry, Bengali
ISBN : 9385932942

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Chandrabati's Ramayan by Anonim Pdf

Chandrabati, the first woman poet in Bangla, lived in the sixteenth century in Mymensingh district in present day Bangladesh. She was also the first poet in the Bangla language to present a retelling of the Ram story from the point of view of Sita. Idolized as a model of marital obedience and chastity in Valmiki's Ramayan, Chandrabati's lyrical retelling of Sita's story offers us a fresh perspective. Written in order to be sung before a non-courtly audience, mainly of womenfolk of rural Bengal, Chandrabati's Ramayan adds new characters and situations to the story to provide new interpretations of already known events drawing richly on elements of existing genres. Its location in the tales of everyday life has ensured that Chandrabati's Ramayan lives on in the hearts of village women of modern-day India. Translated into English for the first time by renowned and recently deceased writer Nabaneeta Dev Sen, this edition brings a beloved religious tale to a new audience in the twenty-first century.

Author : Samhita Arni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 155498145X

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Sita's Ramayana by Samhita Arni Pdf

The Ramayana is an epic poem by the Hindu sage Valmiki, written in ancient Sanskrit sometime after 300 BC. It is an allegorical story that contains important Hindu teachings, and it has had great influence on Indian life and culture over the centuries. Children are often encouraged to emulate the virtues of the two main characters -- Rama and Sita. The Ramayana is frequently performed as theater or dance, and two Indian festivals -- Dussehra and Divali -- celebrate events in the story. This version of The Ramayana is told from the perspective of Sita, the queen. After she, her husband Rama and his brother are exiled from their kingdom, Sita is captured by the proud and arrogant king Ravana and imprisoned in a garden across the ocean. Ravana never stops trying to convince Sita to be his wife, but she steadfastly refuses his advances. Eventually Rama comes to her rescue with the help of the monkey Hanuman and his army. But Rama feels he can't trust Sita again. He forces Sita to undergo an ordeal by fire to prove herself to be true and pure. She is shocked and in grief and anger does so. She emerges unscathed and they return home to their kingdom as king and queen. However, suspicion haunts their relationship, and Sita once more finds herself in the forest, but this time she is pregnant. She has twins and continues to live in the forest with them. The story is exciting and dramatic, with many turns of plot. Magic animals, snakes, divine gods, demons, sorcerers and a vast cast of characters all play a part in the fierce battles fought to win Sita back. And in the process the story explores ideas of right vs. wrong, compassion, loyalty, trust, honor and the terrible price of war.

Author : Paula Richman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780253219534

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Ramayana Stories in Modern South India by Paula Richman Pdf

Fresh perspectives on the classic Indiana epic.

Author : Manini J Anandani
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789353051655

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Mandodari by Manini J Anandani Pdf

Borrowing from Sanghadasa's Jaina version of the Ramayana, Mandodari-one of the least known characters of the Hindu epic-is finally given a voice. Considered to be one of the most beautiful apsaras, she was married off to the mighty Ravana, the legendary king of Lanka. In her story, she speaks about her struggles after her marriage, her insecurities and her pious nature that challenged her husband's growing aspirations. She narrates the rise of Ravana's power and the blunders he made that ultimately caused the downfall of Lanka. Despite her husband's faults, Mandodari loved him and advised him to follow the path of righteousness. Ravana's defeat in a thirteen-day war turned him into a villain. But what if he were the real hero on his side of the war? What if his downfall was a result of scheming to push him out of power? This is Mandodari's story.

Author : Juan Ignacio Oliva-Cruz,Antonia Navarro-Tejero,Isabel Sánchez Berriel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527545922

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Revolving Around India(s) by Juan Ignacio Oliva-Cruz,Antonia Navarro-Tejero,Isabel Sánchez Berriel Pdf

This book highlights a variety of approaches to the study of contemporary India and offers a transnational, gender and social research perspective on the concepts of Indian tradition, the representation of the Indian diaspora and the emergent political activisms in India. The contributions suggest questions and answers about the various temporal and spatial loci inherent to India and its gender and ethnic differences. The volume analyses different cultural texts, and explores how they refer to equality and interculturality or promote discourses of fear and racism. The multiple viewpoints and analyses found in this volume will broaden and stimulate both upcoming outcomes and studies on the future of India.

Author : Śaratcandra Caṭṭopādhyāya
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Calcutta (India)
ISBN : 0143029266

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Devdas by Śaratcandra Caṭṭopādhyāya Pdf

One Of The Most Enduring Love Stories Of Our Times. First Published In Bengali In 1917, Saratchandra Chattopadhyay'S Tragic Tale Of Devdas Has Become Synonymous With A Passionate, Intense Love That Does Not Find Consummation. It Is The Story Of Devdas And Paro, Childhood Sweethearts Who Are Torn Apart When Devdas Is Sent Away To Calcutta By His Father, The Local Zamindar. When Devdas Returns To His Village, Now A Handsome Lad Of Nineteen, Paro Asks Him To Marry Her. But Devdas Is Unable To Stand Up To Parental Opposition To The Match And Rejects The Proposition. Stunned, Paro Agrees To Marry An Elderly Widower. Devdas Returns To Calcutta, But Every Waking Hour Of His Is Now Filled With Thoughts Of Paro And His Unfulfilled Love For Her. Desperate To Resolve The Situation Somehow, He Runs To Paro Who Is Now Married And Asks Her To Elope With Him, But She Refuses. Heartbroken, He Seeks Solace In Alcohol And In The Company Of The Courtesan Chandramukhi. Chandramukhi Falls In Love With Devdas, But Even When He Is With Her He Can Only Think Of Paro. It Is Now His Destiny To Hurtle On Relentlessly On The Path To Self-Destruction. Devdas S Tortured Life Ends When, Dying Of A Liver Ailment Brought On By Alcoholism, He Journeys To Paro S House To See Her One Last Time. Arriving In The Middle Of The Night, He Dies Unknown, Untended, On Her Doorstep. Paro Comes To Know Of His Death Only The Following Morning. Devdas Has Enthralled Readers And Filmgoing Audiences Alike For The Better Part Of A Century. This New Translation Brings The Classic Tale Of Star-Crossed Lovers Alive For A New Generation Of Readers. The Classic Novel Brought To Life In A New, Lucid, Extremely Readable Translation.

Author : A. K. Ramanujan,Stuart H. Blackburn,Alan Dundes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520203992

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A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India by A. K. Ramanujan,Stuart H. Blackburn,Alan Dundes Pdf

This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The result of over three decades' labor, this long-awaited collection makes available for the first time a wealth of folktales from a region that has not yet been adequately represented in world literature. Ramanujan's skill as a translator, his graceful writing style, and his profound love and understanding of the subject enrich the tales that he collected, translated, and interpreted. With a written literature recorded from about 800 A.D., Kannada is rich in mythology, devotional and secular poetry, and more recently novels and plays. Ramanujan, born in Mysore in 1929, had an intimate knowledge of the language. In the 1950s, when working as a college lecturer, he began collecting these tales from everyone he could--servants, aunts, schoolteachers, children, carpenters, tailors. In 1970 he began translating and interpreting the tales, a project that absorbed him for the next three decades. When Ramanujan died in 1993, the translations were complete and he had written notes for about half of the tales. With its unsentimental sympathies, its laughter, and its delightfully vivid sense of detail, the collection stands as a significant and moving monument to Ramanujan's memory as a scholar and writer.

Author : Arupa Patangia Kalita
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789383074419

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The Story of Felanee by Arupa Patangia Kalita Pdf

The Story of Felanee is based on real life events. It is a story of courage, of survival, of ethnic conflict and violence that tears people and communities apart in the most brutal, savage way. Set in Assam, which has seen two major agitations that have crippled the economy, this is a story that will shock the reader by its sheer passion, and its brutal honesty. The callousness and utter disregard for human life, the ugly play for power, for electoral gain, the sham and petty hypocrisies, the bloody horror of ethnic violence all lie exposed in this powerful novel written by one of Assam’s leading fiction writers. The story revolves around the experiences of one woman: Felanee. Her name means ‘thrown away’—so called because as her mother lay dying in the burning riot-torn village, Felanee was thrown into a swamp and left to die. But against all odds, Felanee—and thousands like her—survived. Like the reeds that grow in such profusion along the bank of Assam’s rivers, the rootless inhabitants of the refugee camps and makeshift shanties, whose stories form the core of Felanee, are swept along by the wind and thrown onto new hostile terrain but they cling on with tenacity to take root again and again. Published by Zubaan.

Author : Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781939810809

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Acrobat by Nabaneeta Dev Sen Pdf

A deeply humane new collection by a luminary of Bengali literature A radiant collection of poetry about womanhood, intimacy, and the body politic that together evokes the arc of an ordinary life. Nabaneeta Dev Sen's rhythmic lines explore the joys and agonies of first love, childbirth, and decay with a restless, tactile imagination, both picking apart and celebrating the rituals that make us human. When she warns, "know that blood can be easily drawn by lips," her words tune to the fierce and biting depths of language, to the "treachery that lingers on tongue tips." At once compassionate and unsparing, conversational and symphonic, these poems tell of a rope shivering beneath an acrobat's nimble feet or of a twisted, blood-soaked umbilical cord -- they pluck the invisible threads that bind us together.

Author : Sisir Kumar Das
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Bhakti in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015012949247

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The Mad Lover by Sisir Kumar Das Pdf

Author : Jan K. Brzezinski,Swami Veda Bharati
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9788120839892

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Yoga Tarangini by Jan K. Brzezinski,Swami Veda Bharati Pdf

Commentary on Goraksasataka of Gorakhanatha, classical verse work on Haṭha yoga; presenting the viewpoint of the Nātha sect in Hinduism.

Author : Binodinī Dāsī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Actors
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120995621

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My Story and My Life as an Actress by Binodinī Dāsī Pdf

Autobiographical account of a 19th century Bengali stage actress.

Author : Nabanītā Deba Sena
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Women in literature
ISBN : OCLC:53466473

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Alternative Interpretations of the Ramayana by Nabanītā Deba Sena Pdf

Author : Volga
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789352775026

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The Liberation of Sita by Volga Pdf

Valmiki's Ramayana is the story of Rama's exile and return to Ayodhya, of a triumphant king who will always do right by his subjects. In Volga's retelling, it is Sita who, after being abandoned by Purushottam Rama, embarks on an arduous journey towards self-realization. Along the way, she meets extraordinary women who have broken free from all that held them back: husbands, sons, and their notions of desire, beauty and chastity. The minor women characters of the epic as we know it -- Surpanakha, Renuka, Urmila and Ahalya -- steer Sita towards an unexpected resolution. Meanwhile, Rama too must reconsider and weigh his roles as the king of Ayodhya and as a man deeply in love with his wife. A powerful subversion of India's most popular tale of morality, choice and sacrifice, The Liberation of Sita opens up new spaces within the old discourse, enabling women to review their lives and experiences afresh. This is Volga at her feminist best.