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Whorls Within

By: Nandini Sen Mehra

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In which lifetime, in which bazaar did your hand let go of mine? Now I map the lines in the palms of strangers, to find a way back to yours.' "Nandani Sen Mehra's collection of poems is a hypnotic exploration of what lies within" - GULZAR This is Nandini Sen Mehra’s debut collection of poems. Striking yet subtle, the hundred poems in this collection traverse the terrain of life, love, suffering and existence. Nandini explores many textures of thought – from the ordinary to the sublime and from the mundane to the exhilarating – through a refreshing and perceptive gaze. The poems are a memorable journey through the heart, mind and spirit as they explore worlds within and without. In this collection are poems of love in its many shades, of nature, of people and places the poet has known as well as poems that seek to understand the paradoxical human condition through curious eyes, often turned inwards. With an easy readability and a beguiling simplicity of style, this collection of poetry holds appeal far beyond the confines of a narrow literary world and can serve as a trusted companion and friend to many, as they journey through the vicissitudes of their own lives. The inimitable Gulzar has written the Foreword for Whorls Within and has called the book ‘a hypnotic exploration of worlds within.’

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160

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Manjul Publishing

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9390085004

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9789390085002

The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India

By: Nandini Gooptu

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The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India

By: Nandini Gooptu

Nandini Gooptu's magisterial 2001 history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force.

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491

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Cambridge University Press

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0521443660

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9780521443661

Hindi Cinema

Repeating the Subject

By: Nandini Bhattacharya

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Hindi Cinema

Repeating the Subject

By: Nandini Bhattacharya

Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the cinema as motivated by an ongoing crisis of self-formation in modern India. The book looks at how cinema presents liminal and counter-modern identities emerging within repeated modern attempts to re-enact traumatic national events so as to redeem the past and restore a normative structure to happenings. Establishing structure and event as paradigmatic poles of a historical and anthropological spectrum for the individual in society, the book goes on to discuss cinematic portrayals of violence, gender embodiment, religion, economic transformations and new globalised Indianness as events and sites of liminality disrupting structural aspirations. After revealing the impossibility of accurate representation of incommensurable and liminal subjects within the historiography of the nation-state, the book highlights how Hindi cinema as an ongoing engagement with the nation-state as a site of eventfulness draws attention to the problematic nature of the thematic of nation. It is a useful study for academics of Film Studies and South Asian Culture.

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233

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Routledge

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1136189874

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9781136189876

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Whorls Within

Whorls Within

The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India

The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India

Hindi Cinema

Hindi Cinema

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