The comfort with which English is used with an Indian language as in Yeh dil Maange More or Hungry Kya reflects a sense of familiarity that has been made wit English. From this broader context of bilingualism in the first part of the book, Kothari moves on to the state of Gujarat.

Taking up the case of Gujarati, she demonstrates the micro issues involved in translations and politics of language. Kothari asks new questions in translation studies and makes the production, reception and marketability of English translation her chief concern.

Translating India brings a multidisciplinary perspective to literature and translation, authenticity and representation (less)

The comfort with which English is used with an Indian language as in "Yeh Dil Maange More" or "Hungry Kya" reflects a sense of familiarity that has been made with English. From this broader context of bilingualism in the first part of the book, Kothari moves on to the state of Gujarat.

Taking up the case of Gujarati, she demonstartes the micro issues involved in translations and politics of language. Kothari asks new questions in translation studies and makes the production, reception and marketability of English translation her chief concern.

Translating India brings amultidisciplinary perspective to literature and translation, authenticity and representation (less)

How did this popular form of urban communication evolve? Is this language the new and trendy idiom of a youthful population no longer competent in either English or Hindi? Or is it an Indianized version of a once-colonial language, claiming its legitimate place alongside India's many bhashas? Chutnefying English: The Phenomenon of Hinglish, the first book on the subject, takes a serious look at this widespread phenomenon of our times which has pervaded every aspect of our daily lives. It addresses the questions that many speakers of both languages ask time and again: should Hinglish be spurned as the bastard offspring of its two parent languages, or welcomed as the natural and legitimate result of their long- term cohabitation? Leading scholars from literature, cultural studies, translation, cinema and new media come together to offer a collection of essays that is refreshingly new in thought and content.

About the Author Rita Kothari heads the communications area at the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad, and is a columnist for Ahmedabad Mirror. Her publications include Translating India: The Cultural Politics of English and The Burden of Refuge: Sindh, Gujarat and Partition.

Rupert Snell is the director of the 'Hindi Urdu Flagship' intensive study programme at the University of Texas, Austin. His translations include In the Afternoon of Time, the autobiography of Harivansh Rai Bachchan, published by Penguin (less)

She delineates the contexts that made an atypical community like the Sindhis re-modify themselves to suit more textbook notions of Gujarati bourgeois society. In their desire to assimilate with India (especially Gujarat), the Sindhis gained much, but also suffered many losses.

Though Sindhis have risen from the ashes of Partition as a model immigrant community, the Sufi syncreticism that informed their former life has been tragically damaged and they have also suffered the loss of their language. In Gujarat, these losses are accompanied with a desire to become proper Hindus by adopting a more monolithic Hindu identity and by denying their Sindhiness.

Using intergenerational voices and combining history with personal narratives, Kotharis book examines the phenomena of psychological violence during and after Partition, and explores a different facet of Partition Studies. Going beyond Partition Studies, this book also makes an important contribution to the area of identity politics in contemporary India.

This multidisciplinary study is relevant to everyone interested in Indias past and present (less)

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Not used to the Urdu, the mosques and the new avatars of domination, they were bewildered by the new Islamic state of Pakistan. Sindh as a nation had simultaneously become elusive for both communities.

In Unbordered Memories we witness Sindhis from India and Pakistan making imaginative entries into each other’s worlds. Many stories in this volume testify to the Sindhi Muslims’ empathy for the world inhabited by the Hindus, and the Indian Sindhis’ solidarity with the turbulence experienced by Pakistani Sindhis.

These writings from both sides of the border fiercely critique the abuse of human dignity in the name of religion and national borders. They mock the absurdity of containing subcontinental identities within the confines of nations and of equating nations with religions.

And they continually generate a shared, unbordered space for all Sindhis— Hindus and Muslims. top (less)

You will discover exciting first-time writers and encounter familiar names writing in new genres. This fifth volume includes outstanding translations, travel writing, poetry, memoir, short stories and portraits both fictional and real.

First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing from India 5 confirms that there is no better time to be a writer. Or a reader.

Non-fiction Aditya Sinha Bishakha Datta Krupakar, Senani and S.R.

Ramakrishna Rita Kothari Samanth Subramanian Satnam and Vishav Bharti Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade Vamsee Juluri Fiction Aditya Sudarshan Batul Mukhtiar Cheryl-Ann Couto Chitralekha Basu Girish Khera K.R.

Meera and J. Devika Nirupama Dutt Radha Nair Sheela Indra and Abha Sah Swarnalatha Rangarajan top (less)

While doing so, it also gives a vivid account of various committees and commissions on education in the past (less)

In the fascinating final part of her story, Rita Joe writes movingly about old age, her lifelong spiritual quest and the promise of renewed hope and healing. Here is the enlightening story of an esteemed and eloquent Mi'kmaq woman whose message of "gentle persuasion" has enriched the life of a nation (less)

In this irresistibly readable memoir, she recounts the drama of her birth as the illegitimate daughter of a flighty blue blood who left her in an orphanage. The sickly baby was quickly rescued by relatives eager to adopt her but afraid she would not survive the long journey home.

Her determination to live, and shock everyone by doing it, has become a metaphor for her entire life. Though raised by these loving adoptive parents and a wacky host of other interfering kin, Rita Mae Brown learned early on to be tough and to speak her mind.

It was her refusal to be anything but herself that often brought her the most trouble. Here she tells of her tempestuous relationship with her adoptive mother, the mythic Juts of the novels Six of One and Bingo, who called her "the ill", for illegitimate, whenever she lost her temper, and who swore she'd introduce Rita Mae to the social graces, including the dreaded cotillion, even if it killed them both.

Here, too, Rita Mae reveals how her headstrong support of social causes almost cost her a hard-earned education and her outspokenness in the early days of the women's movement got her drummed out of NOW, and how the release of her first novel, the scandalous classic Rubyfruit Jungle, made her an overnight phenomenon - the most famous openly gay person in America - and took her from the heights of the New York Times bestseller list to the surreal playhouse that is Hollywood. Through it all, Rita Mae has drawn strength from her profound bond with animals, from her abiding affection for the South and its native tongue, and from the great passions of her life.

She writes with close-to-the-bone honesty about woman-woman love..

.including her love-at-first-sight relationship with a popular actor and her headline-making romance with tennis great Martina Navratilova.

With her trademark humor, she unflinchingly bares her own flaws, flouting public opinion yet displaying the unflappable good sense that shows through everything she writes (less)

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The book has four parts, the first part discusses electric circuit theory, the second part covers electric machines and the third part deals with electrical instrumentation and fourth part on Electrical Energy. Salient Features : All basic techniques of circuit analysis discussed; frequency response, two port networks and Fourier analysis included; concept of phasors introduced early to aid in circuit analysis; chapter on Laplace Transform retained - the most consistent, systematic and readily interpretable mathematical tool for solving integrodifferential equations involved in circuit analysis; circuits with dependent sources stressed; constructional features of all electric machines illustrated through cross-sectional views; new chapter on Measurement Techniques and Electric - Electronics Instrumentation; an additional chapter on Electrical Energy - introduces readers to the real-world picture of energy generation, transmission and energy resources (both conventional and renewable); sufficient number of solved examples (200) and 220 exercise problems (with answers) to reinforce the concepts.

Advance Praise An Excellent textbook, cut above the sub-standard books flooding the market (less)

State Esitmation. Power System Compensation including SVS and FACTS.

Load Forecasting. Voltage Stability New appendices on : MATLAB and SIMULINK demonstrating their use in problem solving.

Real time computer control of power systems. The book is very comprehensive, well organised, up-to-date and (above all) lucid and easy to follow for self-study.

It is amply illustrated with solved examples for every concept and techniques. .

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