Kavitha muralidharan (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 176.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. A BLISTERING ACCOUNT OF A YOUNG MAN IN EXILE AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE SRI LANKAN CIVIL WAR Suspecting that he s getting involved with the liberation movement of the Tamil Tigers at the peak of Sri Lanka s civil war, Nishant s parents sell their land to pay for his illegal immigration across the world to the promised safe haven of Canada. Thus begins the ordeal of a young man, who is traded from one agent to another, smuggled across or sent back from many a border, encountering on the way numerous dispossessed refugees like himself from various parts of South Asia and Africa. While much has been written about the harrowing struggles of refugees in their country of birth or in the country of asylum, Where God Began employs wry humour tempered with compassion to explore the complex realities and implications of the journey itself. A blistering account of what it s like to lose one s home and history by one of Sri Lanka s.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Born of a shared belief in a more equal and compassionate world, There Is Nothing That Wouldn't Change brings together an extraordinary, intimate conversation between acclaimed writer Perumal Murugan and social activist Bezwada Wilson. Their friendship, forged during one of the most turbulent phases of Murugan's life, lends this unscripted exchange a rare and powerful honesty. At its heart, the book chronicles Wilson's decades-long struggle to eradicate manual scavenging and restore dignity to sanitation workers. Yet, the dialogue ventures far beyond activism. The conversation is raw and deeply personal, and traverses the complex terrains of caste, politics, conviction, doubt and the profound enduring bonds of friendship. This book refuses easy answers. It is an insightful, provocative and deeply humane book that compels readers to confront uncomfortable realities while imagining what a truly just society might look like.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. A MOVING PORTRAIT OF A SON S RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS MOTHER, THIS IS THE FIRST WORK OF NON-FICTION BY PERUMAL MURUGAN TO BE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH Perumal Murugan s tender yet truthful essays capture the life of a strong, independent and extraordinary woman: his mother. She raised her children with the income from just a few acres of land that she managed on her own, tending to the cattle and crops with maternal concern, all the while minding her unruly husband. Every obligation met, all accounts squared up, each meal cooked to satiate the tongue and heart Amma never rested, not even when bedridden with Parkinson s. She lived a farmer s life and died a farmer s death. Amma is a homage to a way of life and values simplicity, honesty and hard work lost to us today. Peppered with unsentimental nostalgia and delightful humour and vividly documenting village and farming life in the Kongu region, Amma tugs at generational memory. Murugan s non-fiction writing, his first to appear in English is as deeply affecting as his fiction.…