Makhija devashish (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 24.

Zustand: New. pp. 24.

Zustand: New. pp. 248.

Zustand: New. pp. 40.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. every now and then, the lush Green of the hills is hacked by wastelands of bleeding red Earth and limbless tree stumps. Over these, a signboard 'India aluminum inc.'With a big eyekeeps an eerie, humming, omnipotent watch. And it is with riveting cinematic metaphors like this that devashish Makhija transitions his film oonga into a powerful novel that sits deep in the clash between adivasi, Naxalite, the CRPF and a rapacious mining company. The story moves between lyrical innocence and militant justice, fear and brutal oppressionnuanced, sensitive, ramping up the Tempo till all explodes. But at the heart of the churn is the little dongria kondh boy, oonga. Desperate to see a performance of sitaharan, he goes on an epic journey to the big cityto return as the Blue adivasi prince of the forest, Rama himself! And, rama-like, he must now take on the gun-wielding demons who have swooped on his village after abducting its passionately idealistic but pragmatic teacher, hemla Didi.The book hurtles breathlessly forward to expose the dystopia development' and conflict of ideologies, complicated by the fault lines of languageshowing how peaceful people become victims of violence and are forced into battles they don't want to fight. .…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. A special film tie-in edition of the book, Forgetting, featuring the stories 'Mine' and 'Ambush', adapted for the screen as Joram, now a multiple-award-winning motion picture starring Manoj Bajpayee and produced by Zee Studios, Devashish Makhija, and Anupama Bose. Time is arguably our biggest enemy. And memory, perhaps, our greatest curse. Which makes forgetting the hardest thing to do. Identical-twin rickshaw drivers are wrongly suspected of terrorism in paranoid Bombay; a Calcutta merchant envies each saree he sells for the intimacy it'll share with the woman who buys it; an illicit love affair is conducted over nine potent text messages; a lonely astronaut sings out loud, hoping his voice will find an ear somewhere; adivasis, jawans, Naxalites, policemen and journalists in Orissa are caught in a web of violence unleashed on them by both their own histories and that of a nation helplessly repeating it.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.