THE PENGUIN BOOK OF INDIAN RAILWAY STORIES

THE PENGUIN BOOK OF INDIAN RAILWAY STORIES
Title THE PENGUIN BOOK OF INDIAN RAILWAY STORIES PDF eBook
Author Ruskin Bond
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 249
Release 2000-10-14
Genre Fiction
ISBN 8184754604

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The stories in this collection capture the essence of the Indian Railways - from the small-town station, at the time of the Raj, to the present day big-city station bursting at the seams. The teening and varied life of the Indian Railway station and its environs have fascinated writers from Jules Verne in the 1870s to more recently Satyajit Ray, R.K. Laxman and more modern writers. In this anthology, one of India's best-known writers makes a selection of greattest railway stories the subcontinent has produced. Julese Verne Rudyard Kipling Flora Annie Steel Hon. J.W. Best Jim Corbett Khushwant Singh Ruskin Bond Manoj Das Intizar Husain Satyajit Ray Bill Aitkin R.K. Laxman Victor Banerjee Manojit Mitra.

The Penguin Book of Classical Indian Love Stories and Lyrics

The Penguin Book of Classical Indian Love Stories and Lyrics
Title The Penguin Book of Classical Indian Love Stories and Lyrics PDF eBook
Author Ruskin Bond
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 280
Release 2000-10-14
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9351188140

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A compilation of love stories and poems from the classical literature and folklore of India Set in regions of great natural beauty where Kamadeva, the god of love, picks his victims with consummate ease, these stories and lyrics celebrate the myriad aspects of love. In addition to relatively well-known works like Kalidasa's Meghadutam and Prince Ilango Adigal's Shilappadikaram, the collection features lesser-known writers of ancient India like Damodaragupta (eighth century AD), whose 'Loves of Haralata and Dundarasena' is about a high-born man's doomed affair with a courtesan; Janna (twelfth century), whose Tale of the Glory-Bearer is extracted here for the story of a queen who betrays her handsome husband for a mahout, reputed to be the ugliest man in the kingdom; and the Sanskrit poets Amaru and Mayaru (seventh century), whose lyrics display an astonishing perspective on the tenderness, the fierce passion and the playful savagery of physical love. Also featured are charming stories of Hindu gods and goddesses in love, and nineteenth-century retellings of folk tales from different regions of the country like Kashmir, Punjab, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. Both passionate and sensuous in its content, this book is sure to appeal to the romantic in all of us.

The Penguin Book of Indian Ghost Stories

The Penguin Book of Indian Ghost Stories
Title The Penguin Book of Indian Ghost Stories PDF eBook
Author Ruskin Bond
Publisher Penguin Books India
Pages 204
Release 1993
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780140178326

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From Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling to Satyajit Ray and R. K. Narayan, this text is a collection of spine-chilling tales of the supernatural from India.

Indian Railways

Indian Railways
Title Indian Railways PDF eBook
Author Bibek Debroy
Publisher Random House India
Pages 216
Release 2017-02-10
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0143439723

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The fascinating story of the network that made modern India The railways brought modernity to India. Its vast network connected the far corners of the subcontinent, making travel, communication and commerce simpler than ever before. Even more importantly, the railways played a large part in the making of the nation: by connecting historically and geographically disparate regions and people, it forever changed the way Indians lived and thought, and eventually made a national identity possible. This engagingly written, anecdotally told history captures the immense power of a business behemoth as well as the romance of train travel; tracing the growth of the railways from the 1830s (when the first plans were made) to Independence, Bibek Debroy and his co-authors recount how the railway network was built in India and how it grew to become a lifeline that still weaves the nation together. This latest volume in The Story of Indian Business series will delight anyone interested in finding out more about the Indian Railways.

The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories

The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories
Title The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories PDF eBook
Author Stephen Alter
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 372
Release 2001-10-11
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9351183335

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Twenty classic short stories from master writers across the country This superb collection contains some of the best Indian short stories written in the last fifty years, both in English and in the regional languages. Some of these stories – ‘We Have Arrived in Amritsar’ by Bhisham Sahni, ‘Companions’ by Raja Rao, ‘The Sky and the Cat’ by U.R. Anantha Murthy, ‘A Devoted Son’ by Anita Desai – have been widely anthologized and are well known. Others, like Premendra Mitra’s ‘The Discovery of Telenapota’, Gangadhar Gadgil’s ‘The Dog that Ran in Circles’, Mowni’s ‘A Loss of Identity’, O.V. Vijayan’s ‘The Wart’ and Devanuru Mahadeva’s ‘Amasa’, are less familiar to readers but are nevertheless classics of the art of the short story. This new and revised edition includes three additional classics: R.K. Narayan’s ‘Another Community’, Avinash Dolas’s ‘The Victim’ and Ismat Chughtai’s ‘The Wedding Shroud’. The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories is a marvellous and entertaining introduction to the rich diversity of pleasures that the Indian short story–a form that has produced masters in over a dozen languages–can offer.

The Fictional World of Ruskin Bond

The Fictional World of Ruskin Bond
Title The Fictional World of Ruskin Bond PDF eBook
Author Amita Aggarwal
Publisher Sarup & Sons
Pages 200
Release 2005
Genre
ISBN 9788176255677

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Ruskin Bond, b. 1934, Indo-English litterateur.

Unhinging Hinglish

Unhinging Hinglish
Title Unhinging Hinglish PDF eBook
Author Nanette Hale
Publisher Museum Tusculanum Press
Pages 156
Release 2001
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9788772896724

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