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  • Servants' Pasts: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century, South Asia

    Domestic servants have always been, and continue to be, ubiquitous in the households of middle and upper income rural and urban South Asia. They are also strikingly visible in art forms: paintings, sculptures, photographs, cinema, plays, stories, etc. Yet, they remain absent from scholarly research with very few recent exceptions.Domestic service was an important category of labour and social ... Leer más

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  • Lesser Lives: Stories of Domestic Servants in India

    ‘Exemplary’ Ravish Kumar'A wonderful selection’ Rana SafviFor generations, domestic servants in India have been subjected to neglect, apathy and cruelty. Though they are known nowadays as the domestic ‘help’, ‘aid’ or ‘staff’, often merely to meet the requirements of political correctness, their condition remains unchanged for the most part as the country’s privileged classes have failed to truly ... Leer más

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  • Novice to Master

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  • And Then

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  • Commentaries On Living 3

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  • Devdas and other Stories

    The classic, heart-touching story of unrequited love of a man's fall from grace and his tragic end offers an insightful and compassionate portral of men and women in love. Devdas, written in early decades of the twentieth century, still captivates readers, and has been filmed several times - a testament to endurance and class. One of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee's finest novels, it reveals the best ... Leer más

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  • Zen Koans: In Today's Language

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    There is a particular silence that follows a good koan. Not the silence of failing to understand, but the silence of a mind that has just met something it cannot out-argue. Ask a philosopher to define enlightenment and you will get paragraphs. Ask a Zen master and you might get a cup of tea poured until it overflows the saucer, or a single unanswerable question about the sound made by one hand. ... Leer más

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  • Calcutta

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  • The Cauliflower

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  • Sri Anandamayi Ma

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    Throughout history, women have walked the spiritual path despite thorns placed in their way by patriarchy, discrimination and unequal opportunities. This is the story of one such woman, Sri Anandamayi Ma, a dutiful housewife in early twentieth-century India who went on to become a beloved mystic and teacher. She did not rebel against social norms, or even her own femininity, but so powerful was ... Leer más

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