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“saswati sengupta”

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  • Mutating Goddesses

    Bengal’s Laukika Hinduism and Gender Rights

    de Saswati Sengupta ...
    Mutating Goddesses traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities—Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi—from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism to argue for a historical evolution/devolution of divinities in tandem with sectarian interests and illumines in the process the knotted correlation of gender, caste and ... Leer más

    $76.49 USD

  • The Song Seekers

    de Saswati Sengupta ...
    As the monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata, four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen of Kailash—the old mansion of the Chattopadhyays where Uma comes to live after her marriage in the summer of 1962. Her husband’s silence about his mother and the childhood tragedy that beckons him from the shadowy landing of Kailash, the embroidered handkerchiefs in an old soap box in her father-in ... Leer más

    $7.19 USD

  • 'Bad' Women of Bombay Films

    Studies in Desire and Anxiety

    Edición de Saswati Sengupta, Shampa Roy, Sharmila Purkayastha ...
    This book presents a feminist mapping of the articulation and suppression of female desire in Hindi films, which comprise one of modern India’s most popular cultural narratives. It explores the lineament of evil and the corresponding closure of chastisement or domesticity that appear as necessary conditions for the representation of subversive female desire. The term ‘bad’ is used heuristically, ... Leer más

    $116.09 USD

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    After her epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle in 1963, Dervla Murphy immersed herself in the life of the sub-continent, working for six months in an orphanage for Tibetan children in Northern India. She fell in love with the 'Tiblets' - the cheerful, uncomplaining, independent and affectionate children of the new Tibet-in-exile - but she also managed to explore India's Tibetan frontier, ... Leer más

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  • Novice to Master

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    Traducido por Belenda Attaway Yamakawa ...
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  • Nine Lives

    In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

    de William Dalrymple ...
    From the author of The Last Mughal (“A compulsively readable masterpiece” —The New York Review of Books), an exquisite, mesmerizing book that illuminates the remarkable ways in which traditional forms of religious life in India have been transformed in the vortex of the region’s rapid change—a book that distills the author’s twenty-five years of travel in India, taking us deep into ways of life ... Leer más

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  • Siddhartha

    de Hermann Hesse, Sam Vaseghi ...
    Traducido por David Wyllie ...
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  • Ganesha

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    de Harry Krishna ...
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  • The Prisons We Broke

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    Writing on the lives of the Mahars of Maharashtra, Baby Kamble reclaims memory to locate the Mahar society before it was impacted by Babasaheb Ambedkar, and tells a consequent tale of redemption wrought by a fiery brand of social and self-awareness. The Prisons We Broke provides a graphic insight into the oppressive caste and patriarchal tenets of the Indian society, but nowhere does the writing ... Leer más

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  • A Journey In Ladakh

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  • Zen Koans: In Today's Language

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    There is a particular silence that follows a good koan. Not the silence of failing to understand, but the silence of a mind that has just met something it cannot out-argue. Ask a philosopher to define enlightenment and you will get paragraphs. Ask a Zen master and you might get a cup of tea poured until it overflows the saucer, or a single unanswerable question about the sound made by one hand. ... Leer más

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