While in Western myth, patriarchy is traditional and feminism is progressive, in Indian myth patriarchy and feminism have always co-existed, in eternal tension. Liberation (mukti) is not a new idea. It has always been there. You have heard the tales of patriarchy. These book tells you the other tales, they don’t tell you.
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Sometime in 2020, just before the pandemic gains the attention of governments all over the world, a middle-aged woman wakes up in a hospital with no idea of who she is. The nurses tell her that the amnesia is the result of a head injury, and will pass, but she is disturbed when she finds herself in the custody of a succession of law enforcement agencies. These agencies wish to interrogate her about crimes they say she has committed, but she remembers none. She realises the irony of her position: that practically everyone questioning her knows more about her than she herself!
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The book is a precursor to landmark events which shaped the timeline of Indian mobile telephony: The entry of a new telecom minister, who doled out licenses only to have them canceled later in what came to be known as the 2G Scam.
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A weaver realizes that the only way to overcome the mountains that surround him all around is to weave a carpet that will fly. Thus starts his quest. A quest that must pass through the maze of Myth, Legend, Folklore and Tradition while all along the weaver must stay away from the clutches of the imperial forces who are after him. Along the quest the Weaver catches up with Heemal, the intriguing daughter of a dyer who may either prove to be the weaver’s greatest guide or his greatest mistake.
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A Face on a Face highlights the Vaidya Collection, one of the largest, privately held collections of South Asian masks in India. Based on a careful selection of a hundred of the most important masks, this book offers a serious, readable account of their use in ritual and entertainment.
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A delightful memoir by the first Bhutanese woman to be published in English and an important historical record of the modernisation of Bhutan.
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In this strikingly vivid portrayal of Kayaloram, a fictional backwater village in Kerala in early ’70s and ’80s, Tales from Qabristan takes us into the lonely heart of the child we have all once been, stringing together fleeting, poignant memories, layers of pain, bursts of laughter and a handful of tears. Tales from Qabristan begins and ends on the same day—the day it rains in bright afternoon sunshine when 23-year-old Farook brings his father’s body to the qabristan behind the mosque in his childhood village.
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A Calamitous Afternoon tells us how a few scattered incidents come to a culmination in one calamitous afternoon when a cyclone ravages a southern India city.
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A collection of love poems about the varied scapes of a romance, intricately woven with language and music.
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