South Southeast Asian category: 181 books

Arundhati Roy, activist par excellance has ardent skill of sketching the picture of the time and environment. She presents post sixties India before us. Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things: A Critical Exploration of Realism & Romance reveals the reality barely and has been a part of Roy's...

The present volume is a comprehensive and indepth study of the major plays of the major dramatists of contemporary India. The papers present the study of the plays to establish that Indian English Drama is in search of new canonical idiom to establish the native identity of Indian English drama. Besides...

The book throws lights on some of the important Indian novelists writing in English in the last two decades. Novelists like Salman Rushdie, Kushwant Singh, Raj Kamal Jha, Pankaj Mishra, Chetan Bhagat and Aravind Adiga have shown extraordinary talent in handling of some modern thematic patterns and...

Sometimes we cannot say or discuss but we express our emotions and feelings through writings. Fears, anxieties, insecurities & innermost feelings are expressed through songs of despair. The innermost pang of loneliness finds its ways into sweet nothings of words. The heart at times gives vent...

This book is a systematic investigation to establish some core facts on one of the major contemporary theatrical talents, Mahesh Dattani's dramatic oeuvre. It fathoms the new currents of Indian ethos, such as traditions, customs, psyche, culture, "new domesticity", Hindu guilty conscience,...

During the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, Kashmir—a Muslim-majority area ruled by a Hindu maharaja—became a hotly disputed territory. Divided between India and Pakistan, the region has been the focus of international wars and the theater of political and military struggles for self-determination....

William Butler Yeats is regarded as the most important Irish poet and as one of the major poets of the twentieth century poetry in English. But readers and researchers often complain that the books on Yeats criticism tend to deal with a particular phase or a particular aspect of his poetic art and...

ABSTRACT The Buddha is credited with clearly and succinctly expounding the Buddhist path (mārga). Despite the eloquence and brevity of the Buddha’s exposition, the corpus of Buddhist scriptures explaining the path is prolix. It is generally thought that the moral precepts (śikṣāpadas),...

To those who associate Siddharthas enlightenment with magical happenings, Light of the Himalayas is an answer. The novel traces the gradual development of Siddhartha from an inquisitive child to a serious explorer on a trajectory of science and objectivity, until his discovery of the elixir of life,...

In most of his novels Rushdie is concerned with the problem of human identity in the postmodernist and postcolonial context characterized by hvbridity, displacement and multiculturalism. Rushdie believes that a human being does not exist in isolation; human consciousness is a conglomeration of his...

Dissenters and Mavericks reinvigorates the interdisciplinary study of literature, history, and politics through an approach to reading that allows the voices heard in writing a chance to talk back, to exert pressure on the presuppositions and preferences of a wide range of readers. Offering fresh...

Rabindranath Tagore is one of the greatest geniuses produced by India. He is a poet, dramatist, novelist, short-story writer, painter and musician, all rolled into one. His every work of art has a characteristic mark called 'Tagore'. He made the whole world feel the unique 'soul' of India. Life, love,...

Mirza Asadullah Khan (1797–1869), popularly, Ghalib, is the most influential poet of the Urdu language. He is noted for the ghazals he wrote during his lifetime, which have since been interpreted and sung by different people in myriad ways. Ghalib’s popularity has today extended beyond the Indian...

In Of Gardens and Graves Suvir Kaul examines the disruption of everyday life in Kashmir in the years following the region's pervasive militarization in 1990. Kaul's autobiographical and analytical essays, which were prompted by his yearly visits to Kashmir, are a combination of political analysis,...