Wake up, India! : essays for our times / Dr. Koshy A V & Dr. Bina Biswas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koshy, A. V., author.

Biswas, Bina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian literature--History and criticism.

Indian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (76 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : YS Books International, [2014]

Summary:

When a Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry with six or seven books to his credit and a writer whose translations of an Urdu poet have been nominated for a Nobel who also has six or seven books to her credit get together and bring out a compilation of their essays on India in a post-modern, minimalist, aporia-ridden effort what will the result be? A delectable potpourri, a Cortazarian hopscotch, a collage, a montage, a bricolage, an assemblage of fragments 'shored against ruins' that is poetic in pieces, literary at times, critical, theoretical and surface-centred at others and sketchy too at places, definitely. Will this book be banned, burned, be controversial(ized) or silenced and marginalized for questioning concepts like nation, caste and religions, while also questioning Gandhiji, criticizing

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

PART ONE

1. Some Thoughts on Reservation

2. Ideology-1

3. Ideology -2

4. Ideology-3

5. Poverty and Class-1

6. Poverty and Class-2

7. Population and Land-1

8. Population and Land-2

9. What Is On Offer - A Bridge Piece

10. Politics and the Populace-1

11. Politics and the Populace-2

12. Was Gandhi a Mahatma? The heads side of the coin

13. Was Gandhi a Mahatma? The tails side of the coin

14. Corruption, common sense and the common man-1

15. Corruption, the common man and common sense-2

16. Debt, the common man, black money and religious or "white" money 9

17. More Horrors and Grand Narratives

18. Return to Analysis

19. Inflation

20. The Specially Gifted and Shangri La

21. Shangri La - The Dream of an Autism Village in India

22. A Bridge to Part Two: Living Modernity

PART TWO

23. The Irom Lady by Dr Koshy A.V./ed. Bina Biswas

24. 'Freedom from Fear' Aung San Suu Kyi's story

25. The Maker of India - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

26. Is Arvind Kejriwal an Aam Aadmi?

27. Making India a Consumers' Mecca - Dreams vs Reality of FDI

28. The First War of Indian Independence 1857 -The Lesson To Be Learnt

29. Biodiversity - A New Challenge for the Youth?

30. E-Waste and the Question of Livelihood in the Third World

31. "Look at the Darkness, giving birth to the Sun" - Gujarat

32. Is Honesty a Far Cry in Today's World?

33. Tagore - The Poet Educator

34. The Desolate Indian Youth - A Story of Expunction

35. The Youth of India &amp

Their Future by Dr Bina Biswas &amp

Dr Koshy A.V

36. Addendum: On post-colonialisms by a non- post colonial.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 26, 2016).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

93-83793-69-4

OCLC:

1481709545