Flood - J M G Le Clezio

Title: Fever
Author: J M G Le Clezio
ISBN: 9780141191409
Binding: Paperback
Date: 2008
Publisher: PenguinUK
Number of Pages: 300
Price: 325/-

Fever - J M G LeClezio

Title: Fever
Author: J M G LeClezio

Translator : Daphne Woodward

ISBN:9780141191423
Binding: Paperback
Date: 2008
Publisher: Penguin UK
Number of Pages: 224
Price: 325/-

Terra Amata - J M G Le Clezio

Title: Terra Amata
Author: J M G Le Clezio

Translator : Barbara Bray
ISBN: 9780141191416
Binding: Paperback
Date: 2008
Publisher: Penguin
Number of Pages: 224

Price: 325/-

History of sexuality: Volume 1 for 195 Rupees

Title:The History of Sexuality: Volume 1: Popular Penguins

Author:  Michel Foucault

ISBN13: 9780141037646
Binding: Paperback
Date:  1 September 2008
Publisher: Penguin Australia
Number of Pages:  180

Price:  195/-

Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledge is the first part of his influential trilogy of books on 
the history of sexuality. He argues that the recent explosion of discussion about sex in the West means that, far from being liberated, we are in the process of making a science of sexuality that is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure. This is a brilliant polemic from a groundbreaking radical intellectual.

The Insurrection of Little Selves

Title: The Insurrection of Little Selves: The Crisis of Secular Nationalism in India
Author: Aditya Nigam
ISBN: 9780195676068
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Number of Pages: 351
Price: Rs. 650

About the Book
The book explores the crisis that secular-nationalism went through with the emergence of what is loosely called identity politics . With the rise of new political assertions on the one hand and sectarian tendencies on the other, the fundamentally Hindu assumptions of Nehruvian secular-nationalism were revealed. Its search for a homogeneous national culture has led it to produce the dominant culture as the norm and marginalize the minority. It also looks at the opportunism of minority cultures and suggests this might be the result of nationalism, especially post-colonial. The book suggests that only by looking beyond the nation form in post-national directions can a modern political community be conceived of.

Author

Aditya Nigam, Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.

Photo-Biography of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar

Title: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
Contributors: Prakash Vishwasrao, Vijay Surwade, Vasant Abaji Dahake, Nitin Rindhe, Jayprakash Sawant, Ramesh Tukaram Shinde, Gayatri Pagdi, Shubha Chitre - Piplapure, Vijay Mohite
ISBN: 81-88284-99-8
Binding: Hardbound
Date: October 2007
Publisher: Lokvangmay Griha
Number of Pages: 288
Price: 2000/-

About The Book

The epochal life, mission and thoughts of Dr.Bhimrao Ramji alias Babasaheb Ambedkar left indelible imprints on the twentieth century India. His life was devoted to raising the down-trodden to human dignity, and to earn for them the right to live as human beings. He led people into movements and agitations, founded organisations and launched newspapers in a bid to wrest from the hostile, unbending and conservative upper classes, political, social, religious and financial rights for the Deprived Classes. His was a multifaceted personality. From an aggressive leader to the chief architect of the Constitution of Independent India, he functioned effortlessly at various levels. He was a journalist, scholar, researcher, commentator on theology, eminent economist, political diplomat, leader of the masses and a social reformer. His writings are rich and extensive. The bibliography provided in this volume is ample proof to his erudition. This photo-biography gives an insight into Dr.Ambedkar's life and his mission through photographs, documents, front pages of newspapers and covers of books, from Vijay Surwade's valuable unique collection. Behind this rich and comprehensive collection are years of obsessive search and hard work. The photographs are historically important because of their period and context. The chronology enumerates important events prior to and after Dr. Ambedkar's birth. 'Pravartan' by Vasant Abaji Dahake, in the first part of the book, introduces the reader to the ideology of Dr. Ambedkar. This is followed by 'Jatak' and 'Charit-kal.' In addition, there is a section devoted to the introduction of some of Dr. Ambedkar's close associates. It is believed that this endeavour will appeal to the reader and will prove useful to the student of the Ambedkarian movement. <http://bookonambedkar.com/about.htm>

Seduced by the Familiar

Title: Seduced by the Familiar : Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema
Author: M.K. Raghavendra
ISBN:9780195696547
Binding: Hardback
Date: August 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Number of Pages: 362
Price: Rs 695/-


Description
Seduced by the Familiar looks at contemporary social history from the perspective of popular Indian cinema. M.K. Raghavendra interprets a wide range of films––including Sant Tukaram (1936), Baazi (1951), Sangam (1964), Sholay (1975), Hum Aapke Hain Koun…! (1994), and the recent Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (2006)––in the context of events like colonial rule, Independence, the Indo–Chinese War, the political conduct of Indira Gandhi, and the economic liberalization initiated in the 1990s.



Locating his approach within the body of scholarship on the subject, Raghavendra creates the basis for a new reading of Indian popular cinema based on its narrative strategies. He examines Indian popular cinema’s ‘grammar’––its definition of space, time, and causality, as well as its ‘voice’, reliance on melodrama, ‘aggregate’ nature, and moral preoccupations. A large number of films are analysed chronologically in this context to provide a consistent (and often surprising) interpretation of film motifs.



A significant advance for film studies, Seduced by the Familiar makes a vital contribution to the reading of Indian popular culture. Lucid and persuasive, this book consciously avoids the jargon associated with the study of cinema today and is accessible not only to students and teachers of film and cultural studies, but also to lay readers.





About the Author


M.K. Raghavendra Freelance film critic and scholar living in Bangalore. He writes for a number of international and Indian film journals, and is one of the founder editors of Deep Focus. He has taught cinema in India and abroad and has also been on several film festival juries. Raghavendra was awarded the ‘Best Film Critic Award for 1996–Swarna Kamal’ by the President of India.





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