Hmmm,I'm not sure...It would be either "Shame " or "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" by Salman Rushdie.But "Shame" is about Pakistan,so probably not much related...I don't know...
Hmmm,I'm not sure...It would be either "Shame " or "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" by Salman Rushdie.But "Shame" is about Pakistan,so probably not much related...I don't know...
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
James Joyce
It is a fatal miscarriage, so ill to order affairs, as to pass for a fool in one company, when in another you might be treated as a philosopher. Jonathan Swift
Welcome to the Forum, Rtc143!Originally Posted by rtc143
To be able to nominate or vote in the polls, you need to have at least 50 posts. So, if you hurry up before the end of the month, your nomination can still be included.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Umrao Jaan Ada -- Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa
Its a novel in Urdu translated in English, about the life of a courtesan in the 19th century.
http://lotusreads.blogspot.com/2007/...mmad-hadi.html
I would like to re-read; it has some good Urdu verses
Can I nominate Kim by Kipling?? I dunno if that technically fits in....
All the authors mentioned here are known internationally...
Maybe someone could nominate -- Pinjar (The Skeleton) -- Amrita Pritam. She is a very well known author in India.
Here, is an overview of the story
About the author -- http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/200...rday/main1.htmHer most influential story -- at least in South Asian literature circles in the U.S. -- is Pinjar ("Skeleton"), a dark narrative of the cross-religious abductions of women that took place in the Partition. The protagonist, Pooro, is a Hindu woman who is abducted and forcibly married into a Muslim family. Importantly, in Pritam's novella Pooro doesn't simply become yet another female victim of religious violence. Though she remains scarred, Pooro (renamed Hamida) comes to accept her new identity, and prosper in a provisional, post-traumatic sort of way. She becomes an agent on behalf of other women whose lives are jeopardized, which is almost a happy ending.
Is it available in English on amazon, Madhuri? If so, could you please provide a link?Kipling is an English writer so, even though most of his works take part in India, he does not qualify.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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After a lengthy time of searching and musing,I conceive that Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri would befits.The link is literally hither http://www.amazon.com/Interpreter-Ma...ref=pd_sim_b_1
It is virtually prohibitive to buy this book for it is $11.16 and now is in stock.If you reject to buy,then you can search inside the book,which I relish.
I found this on Amazon -- http://www.amazon.com/Umrao-Jan-Tran...1651710&sr=1-1
It is written in Urdu, but has been translated in English by Khushwant Singh.
This book has short stories. Can we read short stories or does it have to be a full novel?
How about "The Loom of Time" - a selection of translated works by the poet/playwright Kalidasa, available from Penguin. (I nominate).
I guess that could be the best choice.
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
Nominations so far:
1. An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
2. Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
3. Q and A by Vikas Swarup
4. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
5. The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
6. The Guide by RK Narayan
7. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiriwould
8. The Loom of Time by Kalidasa
9.Umrao Jaan Ada by Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Some information on the books:
1. An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
2. Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
3. Q and A by Vikas Swarup
4. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
5. The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
6. The Guide by RK Narayan
7. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiriwould
8. The Loom of Time by Kalidasa
9.Umrao Jaan Ada by Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa
I have voted for The Gof of Small Things but won't mind reading Interpreter of Maladies either.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I voted for 'The God of Small Things' because the book impressed me very much and I'd love to reread it.
O schaurig ists übers Moor zu gehn,
wenn es wimmelt vom Heiderauche,
sich wie Phantome die Dünste drehn
und die Ranke häkelt am Strauche.
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797 - 1843) (see avatar) Der Knabe im Moor/The Lad in the Moor
come on Q and A!!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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I would go for Room On The Roof and its sequel Vagrants In The Valley by Ruskin Bond (worship at his altar). The book is an amazingly sensitive portrayal of friendship and Anglo Indians in post Independence India.
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