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Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Contents Translators introduction 1 Midnapore Central Jail 2 Beharampur Prison 3 Presidency Jail in Calcutta Conclusion of memoirsFrom the Introduction This is a book written almost entirely from the memory of a political prisoner the book is a historical document about various forms of social and sexual abuse that women face within patriarchical society First of all there is the socio-economic repression why so many of the inmates were in prison Jaya describes her life in three prisons for a course of about three years In each prison we meet interesting people both authorities and wardens Jaya is a great story teller and she shows how even among the authorities not everyone is brutal or repressive It is an amazing document about the complexities of human life 112 pp.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Blossoms in the Graveyard is the story of Mehr, a young girl from a village in what is at that time, East Pakistan. It is the story of her journey from dependence to self-reliance, both emotionally and physically. Parallel to her story, is the narrative of a land that is struggling to assert its identity, and moving towards a hard-won Independence in a crucible of blood and tears. Mehr is the symbol of the land. Her suffering, her distress, her tortured anguish, is an emblem of its agony, in particular of the women of the country, as it is being birthed. Set at a crucial time in the history of the struggle, when the land is on the cusp of becoming Bangladesh, the novel is in the voice of Robin Babu. As an Assamese, he, like so many others living in this part of India that lay adjacent to the theatre of war, is deeply affected by horrors taking place at his very doorstep. Jnanpith Awardee Birendra Kumar Bhattacharyya has told the story with a fine understanding of all the issues involved, in a non-partisan way. Though fiction, it deals with events and issues of recent history. Each of the characters is delineated with empathy, and a thorough understanding of what he or she stands for, without them being typecast in any way. The author's unswerving humanism imbues the whole work with a luminous compassion that is often very moving. The echoes from that time reverberate across the entire subcontinent even today, making this a work of contemporary significance.

Soft cover. Zustand: As New.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 140 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.34 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 140 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.34 inches. In Stock.

Saoli Mitra?s theatre work is conducive to dissent Pacham Vaidik her theatre company has presented Eugene Ionesco?s Rhinoceros her own Bitata Bitangsha A Web Spread Wide and her recent adaptation of Poshukhamar George Orwell?s Animal Farm Mitra has used theatre as a medium of focusing on the ugly face of state-sponsored terror When the ruling Left government in West Bengal went on an industrialization overdrive immediately after winning their seventh successive five-year term-having systematically destroyed the state?s industry in their first decade-Mitra travelled across the state to find out more about the victims of displacement She met the dispossessed farmers of Singur the family of the teenage activist Tapasi Malik who was gang-raped and burnt alive for her involvement in the protest against forcible land acquisition; the maimed protestors of Nandigram who refused to part with their land and with the tea garden workers in north Bengal who must give up their livelihoods to make way for realtors  She gives voice to her outrage shared by a growing number of uneasy citizens must be analyzed and sharedThe articles translated for the first time combine research with on-the-field activism trying to make sense of each situation in terms of the lessons drawn from the writer?s years of involvement in meaningful theatre Unlike a purely academic treatise or a journalistic account Saoli Mitra?s account is charged by both emotion and righteous rage and is an appeal to humanity 300 pp.