Tejaswini Niranjana: 3 books
Mobilizing India
Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
Descendants of indentured laborers brought from India to the Caribbean between 1845 and 1917 comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad’s population today. While many Indo-Trinidadians identify themselves as Indian, what “Indian” signifies—about nationalism, gender, culture, caste, race,...
by Jayant Kaikini, Tejaswini Niranjana
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Jayant Kaikini's compassionate gaze takes in the people in the corners of the city, the young woman yearning for love, the certified virgin who must be married off again, the older woman and her medicines; Tejaswini Niranjana's translations bring the rhythms of Kannada into English with admirable...
by Jayant Kaikini, Tejaswini Niranjana
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories is not about what Mumbai is, but what it enables. Here is a city where two young people decide to elope and then start nursing dreams of different futures, where film posters start talking to each other, where epiphanies are found in keychains and thermos-flasks....