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| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Tara Mahesh Dattani, 2013-07-15 ‘A playwright of world stature’—Mario Relich, Wasafiri Tara and Chandan have always been close. They were, after all, born as conjoined twins. But a horrific revelation drives a wedge between the siblings, plunging Chandan into a cycle of guilt and blame from which he cannot escape. One of Mahesh Dattani's most popular works, Tara was also one of the first Indian plays in English to highlight the dangers of gender discrimination, and the insidious ways in which it operates in our society. ‘At last we have a playwright who gives sixty million English-speaking Indians an identity’—Alyque Padamsee ‘Powerful and disturbing’—The New York Times |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Tara Mahesh Dattani, 1995 |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Gender Discrimination and Parental Authority in Mahesh Dattani’s Play "Tara" Nivethaa Ramanujam, 2016-11-21 Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Literature - Asia, grade: Post Graduation, , course: MA English with Communication Studies, language: English, abstract: Mahesh Dattani is a contemporary Indian playwright and his play Tara revolves around the separation of conjoined twins. Gender discrimination is the reason for the separation and the exercise of the parental authority is also observed in the course of the play. The research focuses on how parental authority and gender discrimination lead to the death of the daughter Tara and deterioration of Patel’s family. The gender discrimination and parental authority account for the death of the innocent girl, Tara. The paper also looks into the aspect of society playing an invisible role in the separation of the twins. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Bravely Fought the Queen Mahesh Dattani, 2003 |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Form and Meaning in Mahesh Dattani's Plays Bijay Kumar Das, 2008 Mahesh Dattani, b. 1958, an Indian English playwright. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: BRIEF CANDLE Mahesh Dattani, 2010-10-30 Brief Candle: Three Plays brings together the most recent work of Sahitya Akademi award-winner Mahesh Dattani as he continues to explore subjects that need to be addressed but are relentlessly brushed under the carpet of middle-class morality—incest; gender bias and death. The title play is set in a hospital ward where terminally ill patients put up an energetic farce in memory of their friend who died of cancer. The blurring of lines between their romp and the events of their own lives leads to revelations that are both tragic and life-affirming. In the radio play The Girl Who Touched the Stars; Bhavna—now an astronaut ready to take off on a mission into outer space—reflects on her past in this moment of glory; only to confront the bitter truths she has tried to ignore all her life. The fragile fabric of familial relations is ripped apart in Thirty Days in September when memories of a traumatic past return to haunt a mother and her daughter. Playful and poignant; devastating and redemptive; these critically acclaimed plays lay bare the far-reaching consequences of the choices we make; confirming Dattani as one of India’s foremost dramatists. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Mahesh Dattani Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri, 2005 Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a total work of art combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and vilified in his own time, Wagner continues to provoke debate today regarding his political legacy as well as his music and aesthetic theories.Wagner and His Worldexamines his works in their intellectual and cultural contexts. Seven original essays investigate such topics as music drama in light of rituals of naming in the composer's works and the politics of genre; the role of leitmotif in Wagner's reception; the urge for extinction inTristan und Isoldeas psychology and symbol; Wagner as his own stage director; his conflicted relationship with pianist-composer Franz Liszt; the anti-French satireEine Kapitulationin the context of the Franco-Prussian War; and responses of Jewish writers and musicians to Wagner's anti-Semitism. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Karol Berger, Leon Botstein, Lydia Goehr, Kenneth Hamilton, Katherine Syer, and Christian Thorau. This book also includes translations of essays, reviews, and memoirs by champions and detractors of Wagner; glimpses into his domestic sphere in Tribschen and Bayreuth; and all of Wagner's program notes to his own works. Introductions and annotations are provided by the editor and David Breckbill, Mary A. Cicora, James Deaville, Annegret Fauser, Steven Huebner, David Trippett, and Nicholas Vazsonyi. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Indian English Drama: Themes and Techniques Dipak Giri, 2018-01-01 The book Indian English Drama: Themes & Techniques is a volume of research articles on contemporary Indian dramatists and their works starting from Rabindranath Tagore to nearly all present generation of dramatists like Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh Dattani, Badal Sirkar, Habib Tanvir, Utpal Dutt, Mahasweta Devi, Usha Ganguli, Manjula Padmanabhan, Mahesh Elkunchwar and Manoj Mitra. The book will be helpful in giving critical insight to understand the art and vision of contemporary Indian dramatists both from thematic and technical points of view. The introductory chapter of the book is very resourceful to understand the growth and development of Indian English drama. Authors have presented their critical viewpoints on almost every aspect of dramatic arts, themes and techniques pertaining to Indian playwrights and their works. The book will give many ground breaking concepts and ideas on Indian English drama and is useful for both researchers and learners. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Salt and Saffron Kamila Shamsie, 2013-06-04 Aliya may not have inherited her family's patrician looks, but she is as much a prey to the legends of her family that stretch back to the days of Timur Lang. Aristocratic and eccentric-the clan has plenty of stories to tell, and secrets to hide. Like salt and saffron, which both flavor food but in slightly different ways, it is the small, subtle differences that cause the most trouble in Aliya's family. The family problems and scandals caused by these minute differences echo the history of the sub-continent and the story of Partition. A superb storyteller, Kamila Shamsie writes with warmth and gusto. Through the many anecdotes about Pakistani family life, she hints at the larger tale of a divided nation. Spanning the subcontinent from the Muslim invasions to the Partition, this is a magical novel about the shapes stories can take- turning into myths, appearing in history books and entering into our lives. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: New Kid Jerry Craft, 2019 Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and not really fitting into either one. Can Jordan learn to navigate his new school culture while keeping his neighborhood friends and staying true to himself?--Provided by publisher. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Rajmohan's Wife and Sultana's Dream Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Rokeya Sakhawa Hossain, 2021-04-21 Rajmohan’s Wife and Sultana’s Dream (1864/1908) features the debut novel of Indian writer Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and a story by Bengali writer, feminist, and educator Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Rajmohan’s Wife, Chattopadhyay’s only work in English, launched his career as a leading Bengali intellectual and political figure. Written in English, Sultana’s Dream originated as a way of passing time for its young author while her husband was away on work. Initially published in The Indian Ladies Magazine, Sultana’s Dream helped establish Rokeya’s reputation as a leading figure in Bengali arts and culture. Rajmohan’s Wife is the story of Matangini, a beautiful woman married to a violent, jealous man. Unable to marry the man she loves—who happens to be her own sister’s husband—she settles for the villainous Rajmohan, an abusive man who rules his middle-class Bengali household with an iron fist. With the help of her friend Kanak, Matangini does her best to avoid her husband’s wrath, illuminating the importance of solidarity among women faced with oppression. Vindictive and cruel, Rajmohan secretly enacts a plan to rob Madhav, his brother-in-law, in order to obtain and invalidate a will. Sultana’s Dream is set in Ladyland is a feminist utopia ruled by women, a perfect civilization with no need for men, who remain secluded and without power. Free to develop their own society, women have invented flying cars, perfected farming to the point where no one must work, and harnessed the energy of the sun. With men under control, there is no longer fear, crime, or violence. Ultimately, Ladyland is a world made to mirror our own, a satirical exploration of the absolute power wielded by men over women, and a political critique of Bengali society at large. Sultana’s Dream is more than a science fiction story; it is an act of resistance made by a woman who would shape the lives of her people through advocacy, education, and activism for generations to come. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Rajmohan’s Wife and Sultana’s Dream is a classic of Bengali literature and utopian science fiction reimagined for modern readers. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: The Boyfriend R Raj Rao, 2010-10-25 One Saturday morning in late 1992, Yudi, a forty something gay journalist, picks up a nineteen-year-old Dalit boy in the Churchgate loo. After hurried sex, he gets rid of the boy, afraid that he may be a hustler. There is nothing to set this brief encounter apart from numerous others, and Yudi returns to his bachelor's flat and sex with strangers. Months pass. But when riots break out in Mumbai, Yudi finds himself worrying about the boy from Churchgate station. He is in love. Chance brings the two together again, and this time they spend a week as a married couple in Yudi's flat, take a holiday, and meet for beer every Friday, till the boy, Milind Mahadik, disappears (he has been hired by a modelling-cum-call-boy agency owned by the Bollywood star Ajay Kapur, a closet bisexual). Desolate, Yudi finds solace in the company of the middle-aged painter Gauri, a highly-strung woman madly in love with him, whose advances he has consistently rejected. When Milind resurfaces, it is only to marry a girl chosen by his parents, for he has had it with Yudi and his kind. Yudi is heartbroken. But all is not lost: in straitened circumstances after marriage, Milind pays his gentleman friend a visit and stays the night. Henceforth, mutual need - Yudi's for love and Milind's for money - will keep bringing them together. In the final analysis, as Yudi tells Gauri - now the mistress of an ageing businessman - everything works out, and 'life is beautiful'. In his first novel, R. Raj Rao brings us a tragi-comic love story from the jumbled up heart of Mumbai. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Dance Like a Man Mahesh Dattani, 2006 Jairaj Parekh and his wife Ratna, ageing Bharatanatyam dancers, are engaged in finding a substitute mridangam player to accompany their daughter Lata at her performance at a high-profile dance festival. Lata, in the meantime, nervously awaits the meeting between her parents and Viswas, the young man she wishes to marry. When the four meet, and in the conversations and discussions that follow, the fissures in the relationship between Jairaj and Ratna begin to explode into high-strung battles which lead back to their own youth and the tragedy that lies at the heart of their discord. The younger couple have their own issues to contend with: the obvious mismatch between the two sets of parents, the arguments over Lata's career as a dancer after marriage and, most unsettling of all, Lata's attempt to balance her parents' ambition with her own needs and desires. A brilliant study of human relationships and weaknesses framed by the age-old battle between tradition and youthful rebellion, Dance Like a Man has been hailed as one of the best works of the dramatic imagination in recent times. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Swerve Phillip Gwynne, 2009-08-31 One of the country's finest young cellists, 16 year-old Hugh Twycross has a very bright future. A future that has been mapped out by his parents, his teachers, by everybody, it seems, except Hugh Twycross. Hugh has a secret, though: he loves cars and he loves car racing. When his newly discovered grandfather, Poppy, asks him to go on a road trip to Uluru in his 1970 Holden HT Monaro, Hugh decides, for once in his life, to do the unexpected. As they embark on a journey into the vast and fierce landscape of the Australian interior, Hugh discovers that Poppy has a secret that will unravel both their lives and take them in a direction they never expected. Visit betweenthelines.com.au - the destination for Young Adult books. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Gender and Marginality in Mahesh Dattani's Drama: Text and Context Dipak Giri, 2019-01-01 Gender and marginality always appeals to Mahesh Dattani’s dramatic art. The fame of his dramas chiefly lies in his treatment of gender and marginality. His sole concern is to seek plea for the marginalized sections of people who are made victims on the basis of gender, race and religion and he hardly misses this aspect in his dramas. As a dramatist for the marginalized and the gender victims he always tries to win sympathy for them. His dramas tell the plights and sufferings of women, transgender and homosexuals along with people of other marginalized sections like minorities and AIDS victims. This anthology is a collaborative endeavour to make a reading of Dattani’s dramas in the present context and the authorial insight in this regard is deep and critical. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Shattered Eric Walters, 2012-10-30 Fifteen-year-old Ian must complete community volunteer service to pass social studies. Choosing to work at “The Club” sounds like fun, until he arrives at what turns out to be a soup kitchen for the homeless. It is here that he meets Sarge, the pipe-wielding homeless man who saved Ian from a near-mugging. His real name is Jacques, and he was a soldier in the Canadian Armed Forces. His last tour of duty was as a peacekeeper stationed in Rwanda, an African nation Ian knows little about. What he learns will change Ian’s view of the world—and may just help Jacques, too. With a Foreword by Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire (Ret’d), force commander for the United Nations Mission to Rwanda, Shattered is an unforgettable story, one that asks what one person can do to make a difference. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Seven Steps around the Fire Mahesh Dattani, 2013-07-15 ‘A playwright of world stature’—Mario Relich, Wasafiri Seven Steps Around the Fire is the first in a series of radio plays featuring the amateur sleuth Uma Rao, wife of Bangalore’s Superintendent of Police. When Kamla, a beautiful eunuch, is brutally murdered, Uma’s investigation takes her on an unexpected journey into the mysterious world of the hijra community, revealing hidden realities and shocking truths. ‘At last we have a playwright who gives sixty million English-speaking Indians an identity’—Alyque Padamsee ‘Powerful and disturbing’—The New York Times |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Harvest Manjula Padmanabhan, 2018-01-31 A futuristic satire on the trade in live organs from the Third World to the West. Om, a young man is driven by unemployment to sell his body parts for cash. Guards arrive to make his home into a germ-free zone. When his brother Jeetu returns unexpectedly, he is taken away as the donor. Om can’t accept this. Java, his wife, is left alone. Will she too be seduced into selling her body for use by the rich westerners? Harvest won first prize in the first Onassis Cultural Competition for Theatre and was premiered in Greek at the Teatro Texnis, Athens. It has also been performed by a youth theatre in the UK, broadcast by the BBC World Service and made into a feature film, directed by Govind Nihalani, titled Body, which was screened at the Regus London Film Festival. The play is also studied by many colleges and universities to explain how globalisation works. Manjula Padmanbhan Born in Delhi to a diplomat family in 1953, she went to boarding school in her teenage years. After college, her determination to make her own way in life led to works in publishing and media-related fields. She won the Greek Onassis Award for her play Harvest. An award-winning film Deham was made by Govind Nihalani based on the play. She has written one more powerful play, Lights Out! (1984), Hidden Fires is a series of monologues. The Artist's Model (1995) and Sextet are her other works.(1996). She has also authored a collection of short stories, called Kleptomania. Her most recent book, published in 2008, is Escape. Apart from writing newspaper columns she created comic strips. She created Suki, an Indian comic character, which was serialized as a strip in the Sunday Observer.Before 1997 (the year her play Harvest was staged) she was better known as a cartoonist and had a daily cartoon strip in The Pioneer newspaper. As playwright 1984 - Lights Out 2003. Harvest. London: Aurora Metro Press. As Author and Illustrator 2013. Three Virgins and Other Stories New Delhi, India: Zubaan Books. 2015. Island of Lost Girls. Hachette. 2011. I am different! Can you find me? Watertown, Mass: Charlesbridge Pub. 2008. Escape. Hachette. 2005. Unprincess! New Delhi: Puffin Books. 1986. A Visit to the City Market New Delhi: National Book Trust 2003. Mouse Attack As Illustrator Baig, Tara Ali, and Manjula Padmanabhan. 1979. Indrani and the enchanted jungle. New Delhi: Thomson Press (India) Ltd. Maithily Jagannathan and Manjula Padmanabhan. 1984. Droopy dragon. New Delhi: Thomson Press. Comic Strips 2005. Double talk. New Delhi: Penguin Books. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Killing the Water Mahmud Rahman, 2010 |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Collected Plays Mahesh Dattani, 2000 |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: The Vultures Vijay Tendulkar, 1974 |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Self Portrait in Green Marie NDiaye, 2021 Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Forgotten Journey Silvina Ocampo, 2019-10-22 The world is ready for her blend of insane Angela Carter with the originality of Clarice Lispector.—Mariana Enriquez, LitHub Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love. Both her debut story collection, Forgotten Journey, and her only novel, The Promise, are strikingly 20th-century texts, written in a high-modernist mode rarely found in contemporary fiction.—Lily Meyer, NPR Silvina Ocampo is one of our best writers. Her stories have no equal in our literature.––Jorge Luis Borges I don't know of another writer who better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don't show us.—Italo Calvino These two newly translated books could make her a rediscovery on par with Clarice Lispector. . . . there has never been another voice like hers.—John Freeman, Executive Editor, LitHub . . . it is for the precise and terrible beauty of her sentences that this book should be read.A masterpiece of midcentury modernist literature triumphantly translated into our times.—Publishers Weekly * Starred Review Ocampo is beyond great—she is necessary.—Hernan Diaz, author of In the Distance and Associate Director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University Like William Blake, Ocampo's first voice was that of a visual artist; in her writing she retains the will to unveil immaterial so that we might at least look at it if not touch it.—Helen Oyeyemi, author of Gingerbread Ocampo is a legend of Argentinian literature, and this collection of her short stories brings some of her most recondite and mysterious works to the English-speaking world. . . . This collection is an ideal introduction to a beguiling body of work.—Publishers Weekly This collection of 28 short stories, first published in 1937 and now in English translation for the first time, introduced readers to one of Argentina's most original and iconic authors. With this, her fiction debut, poet Silvina Ocampo initiated a personal, idiosyncratic exploration of the politics of memory, a theme to which she would return again and again over the course of her unconventional life and productive career. Praise for Forgotten Journey: Ocampo is one of those rare writers who seems to write fiction almost offhandedly, but to still somehow do more in four or five pages than most writers do in twenty. Before you know it, the seemingly mundane has bared its surreal teeth and has you cornered.—Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories The Southern Cone queen of the short-story, Ocampo displays all her mastery in Forgotten Journey. After finishing the book, you only want more.—Gabriela Alemán, author of Poso Wells Silvina Ocampo's fiction is wondrous, heart-piercing, and fiercely strange. Her fabulism is as charming as Borges’s. Her restless sense of invention foregrounds the brilliant feminist work of writers like Clarice Lispector and Samanta Schweblin. It’s thrilling to have work of this magnitude finally translated into English, head spinning and thrilling.—Alyson Hagy, author of Scribe |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Mahesh Dattani's Plays Angelie Multani, 2007 Mahesh Dattani, b. 1958, Indian English playwright. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Muffled Voices Lakshmi Subramanyam, 2002 Contributed articles. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Theatre of Roots Erin B. Mee, 2008 After Independence, in 1947, in their efforts to create an 'Indian' theatre that was different from the Westernized, colonial theatre, Indian theatre practitioners began returning to their 'roots' in classical dance, religious ritual, martial arts, popular entertainment and aesthetic theory. The Theatre of Roots - as this movement was known - was the first conscious effort at creating a body of work for urban audiences combining modern European theatre with traditional Indian performance while maintaining its distinction from both. By addressing the politics of aesthetics and by challenging the visual practices, performer/spectator relationships, dramaturgical structures and aesthetic goals of colonial performance, the movement offered a strategy for reassessing colonial ideology and culture and for articulating and defining a newly emerging 'India'. Theatre of Roots presents an in-depth analysis of this movement: its innovations, theories, goals, accomplishments, problems and legacies. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Tughlaq Girish Raghunath Karnad, 1972 |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: ENGLISH LITERATURE: A GLOBAL CANVAS OF VOICES, VIEWS AND VISIONS DR.R.KAVITHA, The literary journey is one of infinite depth, diversity, and discovery. English Literature: A Global Canvas of Voices, Views, and Visions seeks to illuminate the rich tapestry of perspectives and insights that English literature has woven over centuries, traversing geographies, cultures, and eras. This collection is an endeavor to explore the unifying and transformative power of literature, which transcends linguistic and cultural boundaries, enabling profound connections across the globe. English literature, in its evolution, has served as a mirror to humanity, reflecting the complexities of human experiences, aspirations, and emotions. From the lyrical cadences of the Romantic poets to the incisive social critiques of modern writers, it offers an expansive canvas where the personal and the universal converge. The voices within this domain resonate with universal truths and particular identities, enriching our understanding of the world and ourselves. This book brings together a kaleidoscope of ideas and interpretations, offering readers an opportunity to delve into the myriad ways literature shapes and is shaped by the society it inhabits. Whether it is the exploration of cultural hybridity in postcolonial writings, the ethical dilemmas presented in dystopian narratives, or the intimate musings of poetic imagination, each contribution in this volume underscores the vitality of English literature in engaging with the most pressing questions of our time. The title, A Global Canvas of Voices, Views, and Visions, underscores the pluralistic ethos of this collection. It celebrates the multiplicity of perspectives that define contemporary literary studies and acknowledges the dynamic interplay of tradition and innovation that sustains the relevance of English literature today. As editors and contributors, we have sought to foster a dialogue that is inclusive, critical, and forward-looking, aiming to inspire scholars, students, and readers to embark on their own literary journeys. Exploring the pages of this book offers an opportunity to inspire, resonate with individual thoughts, and cultivate a fresh appreciation for the boundless scope of English literature. This collection aspires to serve as a bridge, connecting diverse perspectives and encouraging meaningful dialogues within the global literary community |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Dart Alice Oswald, 2010-06-17 Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices, dreaming voices and marginal notes which act as markers along the way. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: The Trip Bijay Behera, 2022-06-13 Two friend Akash and Bijay went to Nagpur to meet their old friend Anand. They met after a long time and recalled their old college days. They had fun together and enjoy it a lot but it became a twist when Anand was leaving Nagpur forever and the railway platform was the witness of their love separation between Anand and his girlfriend Neha. Though the trip was memorable, it still has some sweet and bitter memories which no one wants to recall. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: The Sari Shop Rupa Bajwa, 2004 This paperback edition of Bajwa's ambitious and compelling debut (Manil Suri, author of The Death of Vishnu) about a young man from modern-day India looking for his destiny includes a reading group guide. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Theory of Literature Rene Wellek, Austin Warren, 2024-04-02 Theory of Literature was born from the collaboration of Ren Wellek, a Vienna-born student of Prague School linguistics, and Austin Warren, an independently minded old New Critic. Unlike many other textbooks of its era, however, this classic kowtows to no dogma and toes no party line. Wellek and Warren looked at literature as both a social product--influenced by politics, economics, etc.--as well as a self-contained system of formal structures. Incorporating examples from Aristotle to Coleridge, written in clear, uncondescending prose, Theory of Literature is a work which, especially in its suspicion of simplistic explanations and its distrust of received wisdom, remains extremely relevant to the study of literature today. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Bye-Bye Blackbird Anita Desai, Written in vivid narrative and chiselled prose, Bye-Bye Blackbird explores the lives of the outsiders seeking to forge a new identity in an alien society. Set against England's green and grisly landscape, enigmatic and attractive to some, depressing and nauseating to others, it is a story of everyday heroism against subtle oppression, crumbling traditions and homesickness. 'Characters grow with life, the scenes are delicately painted and the nuances of changing mood skilfully transmitted.' — Hindu 'More than a novel, it is a psychological study of the love-hate relationship the immigrants have towards their country of adoption.' — Indian Express |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Global Trends in Teaching English Language and Literature. Dr. J. M. Shobha, T.Anbu, 2023-12-08 With great pleasure and enthusiasm, I welcome you to this edition of the research articles on Global Trends in Teaching and Learning English Language and Literature. As we all understand, change is an unchanging reality, embracing change and staying updated with the latest trends in teaching and learning is crucial for continuous improvement and enhancement in the field of education. In these pages, you will find a collection of insightful articles and research findings from esteemed authors and experts in their respective fields. I hope that the content presented here enriches your knowledge and sparks new ideas. May the discussions and collaborations over the topic inspire us to elevate the standards of teaching and learning ensuring a brighter future for English language education. I extend my heartfelt gratitude to the authors for their valuable contributions. Together, we have crafted a volume that adds significant depth to our understanding of the evolving trends in language education. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Coolie Mulk Raj Anand, 1994 Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bombay and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for survival that illuminates, with raw immediacy, the grim fate of the masses in pre-Partition India. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: The Lifeguard Mary Morris, 1998-04-15 Combining her consummate craft as a storyteller with her gift for dramatic travel writing, Morris presents a powerful collection of ten short stories. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Contemporary Indian English Poetry Abhay K, 2015-11-25 Edited by Abhay K this book contains poems by Anju Makhija, Rizio Yohannan Raj,Manohar Shetty, Arundhathi Subramaniam, A.J. Thomas, Sampurna Chattarji, K.Srilata, Mani Rao, Sudeep Sen Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih and others. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: Contemporary Indian English Literature Cecile Sandten, Indrani Karmakar, Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz, 2024-02-12 Contemporary Indian English Literature focuses on the recent history of Indian literature in English since the publication of Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children (1981), a watershed moment for Indian writing in English in the global literary landscape. The chapters in this volume consider a wide range of poets, novelists, short fiction writers and dramatists who have notably contributed to the proliferation of Indian literature in English from the late 20th century to the present. The volume provides an introduction to current developments in Indian English literature and explains general ideas, as well as the specific features and styles of selected writers from this wide spectrum. It addresses students working in this field at university level, and includes thorough reading lists and study questions to encourage students to read, reflect on and write about Indian English literature critically. |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: All of Us in Our Own Lives Manjushree Thapa, 2018-09-11 A beautiful story of strangers who shape each other’s lives in fateful ways, All of Us in Our Own Lives delves deeply into the lives of women and men in Nepal and into the world of international aid. Ava Berriden, a Canadian lawyer, quits her corporate job in Toronto to move to Nepal, from where she was adopted as a baby. There she struggles to adapt to her new career in international aid and forge a connection with the country of her birth. Ava’s work brings her into contact with Indira Sharma, who has ambitions of becoming the first Nepali woman director of a NGO; Sapana Karki, a bright young teenager living a small village; and Gyanu, Sapana’s brother, who has returned home from Dubai to settle his sister’s future after their father’s death. Their journeys collide in unexpected ways. All of Us in Our Own Lives is a stunning, keenly observant novel about human interconnectedness, about privilege, and about the ethics of international aid (the earnestness and idealism and yet its cynical, moneyed nature). |
| tara by mahesh dattani themes: New Eye on Research Ramen Goswami, 2022-06-13 The book is for undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD research scholars who are pursuing their courses. They can find various modern topics related with English language and Literature; it helps them to enhance their knowledge and capabilities to think upon a research topic properly and accurately. It covers the topic like Dalitism, Feminism, gynocentricism, Black Art Movement and so on along with various Diasporic topics. |
Tara (Buddhism) - Wikipedia
Tara (Sanskrit: तारा, tārā; Standard Tibetan: སྒྲོལ་མ, dölma), Ārya Tārā (Noble Tara), also known as Jetsün Dölma (Tibetan: rje btsun sgrol ma, meaning: "Venerable Mother of …
Tara | Description & Facts | Britannica
Tara, a Buddhist savior-goddess with numerous forms, widely popular in Nepal, Tibet, and Mongolia.
Tara - Buddhism Guide
Tara or Arya Tara, also known as Jetsun Dolma, is a female Bodhisattva typically associated with Tibetan Buddhism. She is the “mother of liberation”, and represents the virtues of success in …
Tara – Goddess of Compassion and Savior of the Suffering
Jan 5, 2020 · Tara is most commonly regarded to be a goddess of compassion, and her two most common forms are the Green Tara and White Tara. Nevertheless, this bodhisattva also exists …
Tara Mother of the Buddhas special features Green Tara and her …
Celebrating Tara, mother of the Buddhas — compassionate action of all the Buddhas, Tara the Rescuer. In-depth features on Green Tara, White Tara, Chittamani Tara and Her 21 aspects.
Tara: A Powerful Feminine Force in the Buddhist Pantheon
Mar 20, 2019 · Tara is undoubtedly the most powerful female deity in the Buddhist pantheon. Her name means “star” in Sanskrit and she is believed to possess the ability to guide followers, like …
The History and Importance of Tara - Namchak Community
If you’ve studied Buddhism for a little while, you’ve probably heard of Tara. Green Tara and White Tara are some of the commonly discussed Taras, but there are many different forms of Tara. …
Tara - Prayers, Teachings and Practices - Kunzang Palyul Choling
In truth, she is the embodiment of our true nature, wisdom and compassion. Meditating on Tara helps us awaken to our innate Buddha nature and cultivate her virtuous qualities. Although …
Tara - New World Encyclopedia
Originally a Hindu goddess, Tārā was absorbed into the Buddhist pantheon during the sixth century C.E. and is represented in different forms in Buddhist iconography. Known as a …
Tara - Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia
Tara is a tantric meditation deity whose practice is used by practitioners of the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism to develop certain inner qualities and understand outer, inner and secret …
Tara (Buddhism) - Wikipedia
Tara (Sanskrit: तारा, tārā; Standard Tibetan: སྒྲོལ་མ, dölma), Ārya Tārā (Noble Tara), also known as Jetsün Dölma (Tibetan: rje btsun …
Tara | Description & Facts | Britannica
Tara, a Buddhist savior-goddess with numerous forms, widely popular in Nepal, Tibet, and Mongolia.
Tara - Buddhism Guide
Tara or Arya Tara, also known as Jetsun Dolma, is a female Bodhisattva typically associated with Tibetan Buddhism. She is …
Tara – Goddess of Compassion and Savior of the Suffering
Jan 5, 2020 · Tara is most commonly regarded to be a goddess of compassion, and her two most common forms are the Green Tara …
Tara Mother of the Buddhas special features Green Tara and her aspe…
Celebrating Tara, mother of the Buddhas — compassionate action of all the Buddhas, Tara the Rescuer. In-depth features on …
