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Soft cover. Zustand: New. Survivors of Chaurasi is a deeply moving collection of poems that gives voice to the untold suffering and strength of Sikh families affected by the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Dr. Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry's verses paint haunting yet hopeful portraits of widows, orphaned children and the quiet resilience of those left behind.…

Zustand: New. pp. 244.

Zustand: New. In English. Ahmed, Asifa Fiyaz (illustrator).

Zustand: New. In English.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. On 31 October 1984, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards. Over the next three days thousands of Sikh men, women and children were humiliated, beaten, raped, burnt alive and lynched by organized mobs across northern India, down till Karnataka. Thirty-five years later, only a handful of the perpetrators have been convicted. While thousands of survivors still live in ghettos, struggling with poverty, post-traumatic stress disorder and a deep sense of injustice. Black November contains interviews, affidavits, short stories, plays and poetry recounting the horrific violence, betrayals and the denial of justice. It features interviews conducted by Nandita Haksar and Uma Chakravarti in the immediate aftermath of the riots; more recent interviews by the editor Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry, in the Tilak Vihar Widows' Colony; original affidavits from the Nanavati Commission, including one by Khushwant Singh; chilling autobiographical accounts, reportage and reminiscences by Jarnail Singh, Dhiren Bhagat and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; as well as moving short stories, plays and poetry by Gursharan Singh, Gurcharan Rampuri, Harish Narang, N.S. Madhavan, Rachel Bari, Bishnu Mohapatra, Harnidh Kaur, Parvinder Mehta, Manroop Dhingra, and others. At a time when caste and religious minorities in India are being systematically targeted yet again, this powerful anthology brings to light, with empathy and unflinching honesty, the fear and alienation of a whole community torn apart by state-abetted violence, and worn down by the subsequent slog for justice. It instructs us to listen to the dispossessed, persecuted and brutalized, and compels us to seek justice and healing for the survivors. (jacket).…

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 266 pages. 9.02x6.30x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On the 35th anniversary of the anti-Sikh carnage of 1984, this unprecedented collection brings together the voices of survivors, writers, poets and activists to record the systematic violence, rape and trauma inflicted on a community, and its enduring after-effects.On 31 October 1984, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards, thousands of Sikh men, women and children were humiliated, beaten, burnt alive and lynched in unimaginable ways by organized, angry mobs across north and central India.This collection of interviews, affidavits, short stories, plays and poetry recounts the horrific violence, betrayals and the ensuing injustice suffered by the survivors, who have lived with their trauma for over three and a half decades. At a time when caste and religious minorities in India are being systematically targeted and isolated yet again, this book brings to light, with empathy and unflinching honesty the blood-curdling fear and alienation of a whole community torn apart by state-abetted violence, and worn down by the subsequent slog for justice.Black November contains interviews conducted by Nandita Haksar and Uma Chakravarti in the immediate aftermath of the riots, more recent interviews by the editor Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry in the Tilak Vihar Widows' Colony, chilling accounts by Jarnail Singh, Manmohan Singh, Dhiren Bhagat, as well as moving short stories, plays and poetry by Harish Narang, N.S. Madhavan, Rachel Bari, Bishnu Mohapatra, Harnidh Kaur, Parvinder Mehta, Manroop Dhingra, among others.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: I. Critical Essays: 1. Reading Bapsi Sidhwa: Revisiting a Traumatic Moment in Historical Time/Sridhar Rajeswaran. 2. Dravidian Feminism and the Case of South India/Krishna K. Manavalli. 3. Remembering Violence and Trauma: A Study of Nandita Das's Firaaq/Nishat Haider. 4. Behaya: Female Sex Stories from Bangladesh/Kathryn Hummel. 5. The Politics of Rhetoric: Remembering and Re-narrating 'Bodily Resistances' in Rabijita Gogoi's Plays/Namrata Pathak. 6. Shattered Lives, Shattered Dreams: A Study of Arupa Patangia Kalita's Arunima's Motherland and The Cursed Fields of Golden Rice/Hemraj Bansal. 7. Aporetic Portrayal of Kashmir and its Women in Manisha Sobhrajani's The Land I Dream of: The Story of Kashmir's Women/Khemraj Sharma. 8. Ethnic Discrimination, Political Violence and Hybrid Identity: The Complex Literary World of Jean Arasnayagam's Poetry/Zakia Firdaus. 9. Writing Women's Experiences of Pakistani Survivors: An Interview of Anam Zakaria/Ammara Ahmad. 10. An Emerging Light from Darkness: Interview with Kalpana Gagdekar/Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry.II. Poetry: 1. The Song of Liberty/Nandini Sahu. 2. Hand in Hand/Nandini Sahu. 3. Bridge in Making/Nandini Sahu. 4. Many Lands, Many Homes/Nandini Sahu. II-1. The Mob My Impressions/Anjali Mandala. III-1. The Denial/Rachel Bari. III-2. Cruel Muse/Rachel Bari. III-3. Riots/Rachel Bari. III-4. Words/Rachel Bari. III-5. Ears and Toes/Rachel Bari. III-6. Temptress/Rachel Bari. IV-1. Calling across Horizons/Shikha Rai. IV-2. A Woman's Sin/Shikha Rai. V-1. Gateway to Heaven Number 27/Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry. V-2. To My Mother/Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry. V-3. The Sukanya Series of Poems/Ishmeet Kaur Chaudhry. VI-1. In a Corner/Shelly Bhoil. VI-2. Matrimony/Shelly Bhoil. VI-3. The Denial of Words/Shelly Bhoil. VI-4. Letter to Fellow Women/Shelly Bhoil. VII-1. The Riot/Charanjeet Kaur. VII-2. The Doormat/Charanjeet Kaur. VII-3. She/Charanjeet Kaur. VII-4. Mirror Image/Charanjeet Kaur. VIII-1. om-'b'-anhood?/Tejoswita Saikia. III. Short Stories: 1. Woman/Urmi Rahman. 2. The Beautiful Ratio/Shweta Rao Garg. 3. Death before Life/Indira Nityanandam. 4. Mayhem or Mania Indira Nityanandam. 5. A Day after the Storm/Ishmeet Kaur. 6. The Victims/Parvathi Aithal. 7. Ilaa: The Legend of Paithan/Kiran S.N. 8. If I Have to Tell You a Story/Tejoswita Saikia. 9. Levels of Predation/Anandi Lakshminathan. 10. Obscenity/Rachel Bari. The problematic of reading women in the context of violence is very complicated. Studying violence or theorising violence might be an impossibility, but at the same time, studying violence through the question of woman and her body, woman minus her body and the discourse of woman as a singular entity, just as a human being is possible. It cannot be denied that woman is often refused her status of being looked at as simple as a human being minus all other identities or social conditions. One tends to wonder about what methodologies could justify the woman question with respect to violence. Is there a methodology at all? One even wishes that a complication of concepts such as liberation, emancipation or empowerment vis-à-vis a woman be addressed on a linear scale. We call these keywords as concepts as they are far removed from practical reality. Is a woman ever liberated or emancipated or even empowered? Does the discourse of domesticity or body not touch the so-called empowered woman? Is she ever received as a singular entity of just being a human'? The need is to examine a woman's life on a wider scale by employing inclusive framework, to bring normality into focus by refuting the stereotypes of womanhood. This becomes more problematic when it is read on an extended concern with violence. The discourse is reduced to body alone. How do we attempt to read the woman, in this context, beyond its dimensions of body? This book is an attempt to read womanhood as humanhood. The articulation, self or otherwise, is through the context of violence. The experiences are those of the subje.…