The Legends of Pensam
| Author | : Mamang Dai |
| Publisher | : Penguin Books India |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Short stories, Indic (English) |
| ISBN | : 9780143062110 |
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The Inheritance of Words
| Author | : Mamang Dai, (ed.) |
| Publisher | : Zubaan |
| Total Pages | : 171 |
| Release | : 2021-05-10 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 8194760542 |
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A first of its kind, this book brings together the writings of women from Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India. Home to many different tribes and scores of languages and dialects, once known as a ‘frontier’ state, Arunachal Pradesh began to see major change after it opened up to tourism and once the Indian State introduced Hindi as its official language. In this volume, Mamang Dai, one of Arunachal’s best known writers, brings together new and established voices on subjects as varied as identity, home, belonging, language, Shamanism, folk culture, orality and more. Much of what has been handed down orally, through festivals, epic narratives, the performance of rituals by Shamans and rhapsodists, revered as guardians of collective and tribal memory, is captured here in the words of young poets and writers, as well as artists and illustrators, as they trace their heritage, listen to stories and render them in newer forms of expression.
The Black Hill
| Author | : Mamang Dai |
| Publisher | : Rupa Publications |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9789382277231 |
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Set in the mid-nineteenth century, the action takes place in the Northeast-the region that spreads from Assam to Arunachal today. The East India Company is seeking to make inroads into the region and the local people-in particular the Abor and Mishmee tribes fear their coming and are doing all they can to keep them out of their territories. The author takes a recorded historical event-the mysterious disappearance of a French priest, Father Nicolas Krick in the 1850s and the execution of Kajinsha from the Mishmee tribe for his murder and woven a gripping, densely imagined work of fiction around it. And, even as the novel tells the story of an impossible journey and an elopement, it explores the themes of the lure of unknown worlds, the love people have for each other and their land and the forces of history. Gimur, a girl from the Abor tribe, runs away with Kajinsha from the Mishmee tribe and they settle down on his land near the Tibetan border. Father Krick's attempts to reach Tibet to set up a Jesuit mission are foiled repeatedly by the local people not because of any personal animus towards the priests or their work but because they feel rightly that once the priests come, the British, with their guns and their garrisons will follow. The story revolves around events in Gimur's and Kajinsha's villages and is also seen from the point of view of Father Krick, a gentle, intelligent man, devout but no bigot, whose determination to reach Tibet no matter what the cost, impacts tragically on all those who encounter him.
Stupid Cupid
| Author | : Mamang Dai |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2009-12-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9352141768 |
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I had set up an agent. For want of a better name, let's call it love agency, to provide a decent meeting place where men and women, lovers and friends, colud rendezvous without too much sweat... People only want to be alone together. They need time to meet and talk. They want to find themselves through a moment of love.' Drawn to New Delhi from the hills of the North-East by hopes of adventure and the love of a married man, Anda opens a guest house for lovers and friends. In a small bungalow on a quiet lane, an unlikely assortment of couples and singles come together, for an afternoon, a day and sometimes for months. While in the big city death, like Cupid, stalks the streets and strikes at random. This second novel by the acclaimed author of The Legends of Pensam is a graceful, quirky and ultimately moving story about relationships, complete with all their complications and joy. 'Dai's prose is beautiful, flowing as easily as the waters of the Siang' The Telegraph
These Hills Called Home
| Author | : Temsula Ao |
| Publisher | : Zubaan |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9788189013714 |
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More Than Half A Century Of Bloodshed Has Marked The History Of The Naga People Who Live In The Troubled Northeastern Region Of India. Their Struggle For An Independent Nagaland And Their Continuing Search For Identity Provides The Backdrop For The Stories That Make Up This Unusual Collection. Describing How Ordinary People Cope With Violence, How They Negotiate Power And Force, How They Seek And Find Safe Spaces And Enjoyment In The Midst Of Terror, The Author Details A Way Of Life Under Threat From The Forces Of Modernization And War. No One The Young, The Old, The Ordinary Housewife, The Willing Partner, The Militant Who Takes To The Gun, And The Young Woman Who Sings Even As She Is Being Raped Is Untouched By The Violence. Theirs Are The Stories That Form The Subtext Of The Struggles That Lie At The Internal Faultlines Of The Indian Nation-State. These Are Stories That Speak Movingly Of Home, Country, Nation, Nationality, Identity, And Direct The Reader To The Urgency Of The Issues That Lie At Their Heart.
Disneywar
| Author | : James B. Stewart |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 750 |
| Release | : 2008-12-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1847396895 |
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When you wish upon a star', 'Whistle While You Work', 'The Happiest Place on Earth' - these are lyrics indelibly linked to Disney, one of the most admired and best-known companies in the world. So when Roy Disney, chairman of Disney animation, abruptly resigned in November 2003 and declared war on chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner, he sent shock waves throughout the world. DISNEYWAR is the dramatic inside story of what drove this iconic entertainment company to civil war, told by one of America's most acclaimed journalists. Drawing on unprecedented access to both Eisner and Roy Disney, current and former Disney executives and board members, as well as hundreds of pages of never-before-seen letters and memos, James B. Stewart gets to the bottom of mysteries that have enveloped Disney for years. In riveting detail, Stewart also lays bare the creative process that lies at the heart of Disney. Even as the executive suite has been engulfed in turmoil, Disney has worked - and sometimes clashed - with a glittering array of Hollywood players, many of who tell their stories here for the first time.
Paraja (Oip)
| Author | : Gopinath Mahanty |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 373 |
| Release | : 1993-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780195623918 |
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Written originally in Oriya in 1945 and translated here for the first time, Paraja is a classic of modern Indian fiction. It tells on an epic scale the story of a tribal patriarch and his family in the mountainous jungles of Orissa. The slow decline in the fortunes of this family - from the quiet prosperity of a subsistence livelihood towards bondage to the local moneylender - is both poignantly individualized as well as symbolic of the erosion of a whole way of life within peasant communities. The novel, furthermore, transcends what it documents because its characters are not merely primitive tribesmen ensnared by a predatory moneylender. Mohanty's protagonists are also quintessentially men and women waging heroic but futile war against a hostile universe. As the citation of the Jnanpith Award of 1974 put it - 'in Mohanty's hands the social is lifted to the level of the metaphysical.'
Crafting the Word
| Author | : Thingnam Anjulika Samom, (ed.) |
| Publisher | : Zubaan |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2019-12-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9385932977 |
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Manipur has a rich tradition of folk and oral narratives, as well as written texts dating from as early as in 8th Century AD. It was however only in the second half of the twentieth century that women began writing and publishing their works. Today, women’s writing forms a vibrant part of Manipuri literature, and their voices are amplified through their coming together as an all-woman literary group. Put together in discussions and workshops by Thingnam Anjulika Samom, Crafting the Word captures a region steeped in conservative patriarchy and at the centre of an armed conflict. It is also a place, however, where women’s activism has been at the forefront of peace-making and where their contributions in informal commerce and trade hold together the economy of daily life.
The Sky Queen
| Author | : Mamang Dai |
| Publisher | : Katha |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9788189020323 |
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A superb retelling of another age-old classic folk tale from Arunachal Pradesh. The story of Nyanyi Myete, the legendary celestial queen from the Kojum-Koja civilization, who came out of the Great Deluge to give us the message of harmony in the natural world.
Indian Genre Fiction
| Author | : Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2018-07-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0429850905 |
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This volume maps the breadth and domain of genre literature in India across seven languages (Tamil, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Marathi and English) and nine genres for the first time. Over the last few decades, detective/crime fiction and especially science fiction/fantasy have slowly made their way into university curricula and consideration by literary critics in India and the West. However, there has been no substantial study of genre fiction in the Indian languages, least of all from a comparative perspective. This volume, with contributions from leading national and international scholars, addresses this lacuna in critical scholarship and provides an overview of diverse genre fictions. Using methods from literary analysis, book history and Indian aesthetic theories, the volume throws light on the variety of contexts in which genre literature is read, activated and used, from political debates surrounding national and regional identities to caste and class conflicts. It shows that Indian genre fiction (including pulp fiction, comics and graphic novels) transmutes across languages, time periods, in translation and through publication processes. While the book focuses on contemporary postcolonial genre literature production, it also draws connections to individual, centuries-long literary traditions of genre literature in the Indian subcontinent. Further, it traces contested hierarchies within these languages as well as current trends in genre fiction criticism. Lucid and comprehensive, this book will be of great interest to academics, students, practitioners, literary critics and historians in the fields of postcolonialism, genre studies, global genre fiction, media and popular culture, South Asian literature, Indian literature, detective fiction, science fiction, romance, crime fiction, horror, mythology, graphic novels, comparative literature and South Asian studies. It will also appeal to the informed general reader.
