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Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices

Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices

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In Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie is constantly interrogating national, individual, and novelistic beginnings, as Gaura Shankar Narayan's essay in this volume discloses, and the novel contains numerous false beginnings as well: at the ...
Gendering Walter Scott: Sex, Violence and Romantic Period ...

Gendering Walter Scott: Sex, Violence and Romantic Period ...

C.M. Jackson-Houlston

... conspicuous by their absence. Other major studies are tangentially rele - vant but concentrate on poetry, such as Jacqueline Labbe's The Romantic Paradox: Love, Violence and the Uses of Romance (2000) and Gaura Shankar Narayan's  ...
Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism

Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism

Gaura Shankar Narayan

See also Margaret Homans, "Keats Reading Women, Women Reading Keats" in Studies in Romanticism 29 (Fall, 1990): 341-370. My findings here are clearly at odds with the conclusions of Margaret Homans, who says that Keats writes for an  ...
R. K. Narayan

R. K. Narayan

John Thieme

As well as offering fresh insights into the influences that went into the making of Narayan's fiction, this is the most wide-ranging and authoritative guide to his novels to have appeared to date.
Women in the Novels of R.K. Narayan

Women in the Novels of R.K. Narayan

Neeraj Kumar

The Present Work, In 6 Chapters Seeks To Assess And Bring Into Focus Narayan`S Concept Of And Altitude Towards Women In All Her Aspects.
Madras, Chennai and the Self: Conversations with the City

Madras, Chennai and the Self: Conversations with the City

Tulsi Badrinath

12. Wired. and. Wireless. 'I saw the true effectof bloggingduring the tsunami.' Kiruba Shankar ... Totryand understand the impactof this embraceof technology, I approached Kiruba Shankar, one of the earliest bloggers in the city. Atatime inthe  ...
Creating the School You Want: Learning @ Tomorrow's Edge

Creating the School You Want: Learning @ Tomorrow's Edge

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As quoted in Shankar Vedantam, “Tracing the Synapses of Spirituality,” Washington Post, June 17, 2001. 6. See Willis Harman, Global Mind Change ( Indianapolis: Knowledge Systems, 1988). 7. As quoted in Shankar Vedantam, “A New ...
Surviving the Teenage Hormone Takeover

Surviving the Teenage Hormone Takeover

Nisha Jackson

CHAPTER 1 1. Shankar Vedantam, “Children's Use of Antidepressants Soars,” Washington Post, April 19, 2004. http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/04/04/19a.php. 2. Shankar Vedantam, “Psychiatric Drugs' Use Drops for Children: Suicide Warnings ...
Thinking Creatively in Turbulent Times

Thinking Creatively in Turbulent Times

Howard F. Didsbury, Jr.

Shankar Vedantam, "A New Thinking Emerges About Consciousness," Washington Post, May 20, 2002. 6. Halal, "Beyond Knowledge," Op. Cit. 7. Jeffrey Benner, "Consciousness Based on Wireless?" Wired News, May 21, 2002. 8. Shankar ...
The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect ...

The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect ...

Shankar Vedantam

In The Hidden Brain: how our unconscious minds elect presidents, control markets, wage wars, and save our lives, author and science journalist Shankar Vedantam describes unique cases of everyday unconscious decision making while applying ...
#CROWDSOURCING Tweet Book01: 140 Bite-Sized Ideas to ...

#CROWDSOURCING Tweet Book01: 140 Bite-Sized Ideas to ...

Kiruba Shankar

140 Bite-Sized Ideas to Leverage the Wisdom of the Crowd Kiruba Shankar, Mitchell Levy. “#CROWDSOURCING tweet Book01 harnesses the power of social media to provide a holistic definition of crowdsourcing—and it's a lighthearted read ...
The Myth of the Holy Cow

The Myth of the Holy Cow

Dwijendra Narayan Jha

A book the government of India demands be ritually burned.
A linguistic analysis of the R̥gveda-padapāṭha

A linguistic analysis of the R̥gveda-padapāṭha

Vashishtha Narayan Jha

Interpretative study of the Vedic Sanskrit grammar.
Dimensions of contemporary Sanskrit research

Dimensions of contemporary Sanskrit research

Vashishtha Narayan Jha

Festschrift in honor of V.N. Jha, b. 1946, Indologist; comprises contributed papers on various aspects of Vedic literature and philosophy.
The R̥g-Veda: hymns of the R̥g-Veda

The R̥g-Veda: hymns of the R̥g-Veda

Vashishtha Narayan Jha

Translation based on the commentary of Sāyaṇacārya.
Critical Essays on R.K. Narayan's The Guide: With an ...

Critical Essays on R.K. Narayan's The Guide: With an ...

Krishna Sen

The essays in this book have been divided into two sections. The first section examines one of Narayn's major works, The Guide.
Indian Writings in English

Indian Writings in English

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The Neglected and the Tormented in The Dark Room 98 —Dr. K. V. Surendran 10. R.K. Narayan's The Man-eater of Malgudi : 112 Problematising the Nation — Syed Mujeebuddin 11. Rural India in Transition : A Study of 127 Kamala ...
Early India: A Concise History

Early India: A Concise History

Dwijendra Narayan Jha

The Book Presents A Lucid Survey Of Major Developments In The Ancient And Early Medieval Periods Of Indain History.
The Music of India

The Music of India

Reginald Massey

Ravi Shankar, In His Foreword, Recommends This Book To All Who Wish To Be Introduced To India S Music, Her Culture And Her Peoples. This Is A Work Of Scholarship; Lively, At Times Even Witty And Never Dull
Advances in Agronomy

Advances in Agronomy

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In: Chary, G.R., Srinivasarao, Ch., Srinivas, K., Maruthi Shankar, G.R., Nagarjuna Kumar, R., Venkateswarlu, B. (Eds.), Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Climate Resilient Agriculture. Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, ...

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