Little Appu wants to play on the seesaw. But who will sit on theother side? A grasshopper? Or a mouse? Or . . .? A wonderfully simpleapproach to the concepts of light and heavy, up and down, aided by dynamic,lovable illustrations.

Ooper Neeche (Up Down) [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2006] Vinayak Varma

Vinayak Varma

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Baby Beboo Bear

Deepa Balsavar

Aana the elephant doesn't like his looks. But Chena the yam says he's beautiful. How? asks Aana.

Aana and Chena (English and Hindi Edition)

Sowmya Rajendran

The essays in this book cohere around several themes: the connections between local, metropolitan and colonial geographies as they bear on debates about epistemological uncertainty; the transitional and regional production of ideologies under the aegis of colonialism; ways of theorizing women's literacy, labour and agency, and consent to patriarchal arrangements and ideologies. They can be read as mapping a politics of 'the possible'. This presents itself in several registers: as a more sensitive feminist historiography; as a reinflection of culture that keeps alternatives open for integrative political praxis; as social possibilities for the secular in a situation that seems to deny it; as historical possibilities created by contradictions that did not have inevitable outcomes; as resistant elements produced through contradictions between multiple structures of oppression. This is a reprint of the 1999 edition.

Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial English

History

Sangari, Kumkum

Asia

The central argument in this collection of essays by Sudhir Chandra, written over a period of thirty-five years, is that contemporary social consciousness is marked by an underlying ambivalence that resists analysis in terms of neat binary categories. Exploring the interplay of contradictory impulses and the confluence of apparently irreconcilable forces in the making of social and political phenomena, the essays deal with a wide range of issues concerning our colonial past and the postcolonial present. They reflect the author's inclination to view social/political/historical movements and personalities in terms of an ever-varying mix of what we are taught to look upon, normatively or/and analytically, as opposites. Trained as a historian, the author deals with the early stirrings of the nationalist consciousness in nineteenth-century India to show that the same person or group of persons or movement often revealed both progressive and reactionary attitudes. This counters the received wisdom which views these as sets of oppositions - reformist versus revivalist, secular versus religious, nationalist versus communalist. The ambivalence, further, reveals itself equally in the texts of nineteenth-century writers and in cataclysmic events like Hindu-Muslim riots in the Gujarat of today. Two essays devoted to Govardhanram Tripathi, a rarely researched Gujarati litterateur, bring out the unresolved contradictions that underlay his own consciousness and that of his society. More than a century later, the post-1992 riots in Surat and the Hindutva terror unleashed in other parts of Gujarat in 2002 reveal the vulnerability of broader social forces. Gandhi's realization of the failure of swadeshi in the wake of the Noakhali riots, as indeed the dilemma posed by his attitude to religious conversion, further prove the point. Rather than being a unique rupture, he emerges as a fulfilment of intimations that the nineteenth century abounded in. Even if it could be seen as a universal human condition, the essays remind us, ambivalence is always specific, unfolding the dynamics of social forces. That is what human history is all about.

Continuing Dilemmas: Understanding Social Consciousness

Chandra, Sudhir

The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?

Business & Money

Joel Kovel

Economics

Fire and Other Images comprises a selection of prose pieces by Paritosh Sen, originally written and published in Bengali and rendered into English here, in an attempt to make them available to a wider audience. The pencil sketches that illustrate the narratives were done by the artist for this book. In these vignettes of his past Paritosh Sen evokes a world that we have lost, a memory of what has been and gone; yet the very act of evocation creates a powerful presence. His family was large enough for him, as a child, to lose himself in his own vision of the world: a vision that has remained with him and is recalled in moments of reflection. This vision comes through in the pieces that bring to life memories of his boyhood in Dhaka; of his relationship with his father which, though distant, is deeply imprinted in him; of the fire at his father's cremation; of the death of his mother which he poignantly juxtaposes with the anguish of a mother mongoose separated from her captured babies. Sen responds to the landscape, trees, plants, birds and people that surround him. For him the magnificent Arjuna tree, the 'tree in his village', for instance is like a high-rise building - with a hierarchy among the birds that nestle separately in the various branches of the tree, and between them on the snakes and iguanas in its roots. Paritosh Sen the artist comes through forcefully in the pieces where he recalls his meetings with Brancusi and Picasso. In his narration of his encounter with Picasso we are made aware of the initial awe that is gradually replaced by a recognition of the immense human qualities that go into the best creativity. The artist in Sen also surfaces in his stunning description of travelling across the waters at Abu Simbel at dawn. The creativity inspired by a recollection of a past world and of the attempt to comprehend the present, is preserved in both his paintings and writings. Both his painting and his writing are statements that endorse freedom as necessary to creativity and as central to the human experience.

Fire and Other Images

Arts & Photography

Sen, Paritosh

Individual Artists

Pliable Pupils and Sufficient Self-Directors: Narratives of Female Education by Five British Women Writers, 1778-1814

Literature & Fiction

Bagchi, Barnita

History & Criticism

A selection from ashok mitras famed calcutta diary in the economic and political weekly , these short essays chronicle the troubled times on the subcontinent from 1999 to 2003 ranging from politics to sports, commoners to corporations, poetry to processions, global to local -- the overriding sympathy of the author for the underdog and a contempt for the forces poisoning the society clearly come out in these essays

From the Ramparts

Mitra, Ashok

Islam and Mammon

Timur Kuran

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