AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India. with an Introduction by Bill and Melinda Gates

VIKRAM SETH

Sunil Gangopadhyay

KIRAN DESAI

AMIT CHAUDHURI

Aman Sethi

Jaspreet Singh

Nikita, Lalwani

Siddhartha, Deb

Salman, Rushdie

Nalini Jones

Vintage Books USA

<p>The sequel to the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Those Days, First Light is a magnificent novel set at the turn of the twentieth century in a Bengal where the old and young India are jostling for space. Prominent among its many characters are Rabindranath Tagore or Robi, the young, dreamy poet, torn between his art and the love for his beautiful, ethereal sister-in-law, Kadambari Devi, and the handsome, dynamic Naren Datta, later to become Swami Vivekananda, who abandons his Brahmo Samaj leanings and surrenders himself completely to his Guru, Sri Ramakrishna. The story also touches upon the lives of the men and women rising to the call of nationalism; the doctors and scientists determined to pull their land out of the morass of superstition and blind beliefs, and the growing theatre movement of Bengal, with its brilliant actors and actresses who leave behind the squalor of their lives every night to deliver lines breathtaking in their beauty. Through all this runs the story of Bharat and Bhumisuta - one an illegitimate prince, the other a slave who rises to become the finest actress of her age - who cling to their self-respect and love in a society which has little time for people like them. Grand in its scale and crackling with the energy of its prose, First Light is a rich and comprehensive portrait of Bengal, from its sleepy, slow-changing villages to the bustling city of Calcutta where the genteel and the grotesque live together. Equally, it is a chronicle of a whole nation waking up to a new, modern sensibility.</p>

First Light

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

India Penguin

<p>He lay flat against the bed of wet earth and fallen leaves and stared at the sky. He felt euphoric, lying totally naked inside the forest. Baring the body had achieved baring of the soul. Set in the turbulent 1960s Days and Nights in the Forest (Aranyer Dinratri) was the second novel that a young Sunil Gangopadhyay wrote. Largely autobiographical, it is the story of a whimsical, impromptu journey that four city youths Ashim, Sanjoy, Shekhar and Robi take into the forests of Palamau. The four friends blithely imagine that their escapade into the wilderness will distance them from civilization and take them closer to pristine nature. In reality, the solitude and austere majesty of the forest force them to look deeply into themselves and confront their all-too-human follies and civilized foibles in new, unexpected and frightening ways. As they hear the ominous sound of one tree after another being felled, encounter mercenary traders bent on milking the forest for all it is worth, and see the simmering unrest flickering in the eyes of the tribal inhabitants, they are compelled to look well beyond their own time to a plundered and violated world where the forest can never be a pastoral utopia a world that is, inexorably and inescapably, our own. They return to Calcutta ineffably changed sadder, older, more introspective.</p>

Days and Nights in the Forest

Penguin books.India

A translation of the Bengali novel Yubok Yubotira, first published in 1967, The Youth is remarkable for its realistic portrayal of the lives of a group of young men and women and their strife to find the meaning of their existence. In his foreword to the second edition, the author writes that this was a kind of a journal of the lives and times of his friends and by extension, the youth around him. The confusions and inner turmoil of the characters, captured in vivid detail, are powerfully evocative of a crucial phase of life. The reader will not find it difficult to identify with the men and women who people its pages.

The Youth [Jul 01, 2003] Gangopadhyay, Sunil and Chatterjee, Sanchayita

Rupa Publications India

Chhati Upanyas (Bengali Edition)

Dey's Publishing

Sei Somoy (Bengali Edition)

Indiana

Kakababu Samagra - Vol. 2 (Bengali Edition)

Ananda Publishers Private Limited

Eighteenth-century Bengal. In the midst of feudal and oppressive times, a poetphilosopher is born who brings religions together and binds people through his songs. As time passes, his songs become part of folklore but the actual man remains shrouded in mystery, perhaps out of a habitual self-effacement that was part of Lalan Fakirs philosophy of life. Lalan does not subscribe to any conventional religious thoughts and abjures all religious rituals, believing instead in the humanistic doctrine of the centrality and validity of Man. His unconventional attitude earns him the ire of both orthodox Hindus and Muslims but attracts a large following among the poorer sections of society. In a brilliant fictional biography of this mystic poet about whom very little written history exists, novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay recreates the life and times of Lalan Fakir in simple yet touching prose.

The Fakir

Literary

HarperCollins India

Eka Ebong Kayekian (Bengali Edition)

Ananda Publishers

Krittibas Ponchas Bachar Nirbachita Sankalan Vol.1 (Bengali Edition)

Ananda Publishing

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