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The Portable North American Indian Reader (Viking Portable Library)

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Throughout the book I was constantly thinking, Amartya, homeboy, stop talking about what you're going to talk about and just get to it. Sen himself is quite the argumentative Indian and sometimes the book reads as if you walked in on a one man debate competition in which Sen, the convincing devil's advocate, faces off with Sen, the impassioned and patient defender of peace and tolerance. This book, like the city in which it’s set, is humming with the lives and loves and losses of ordinary, fascinating, terrible, wonderful people. Living in harmony since centuries the current upheaval challenges the acceptance of other communities in India. Further giving West a chance to discriminate against the developing countries on the basis of their dominant religion. Whereas the developed countries are not known by their religion but through their work, culture and ethics. This dire change in perception leads to deception as the majority religion is given much more priority than the minorities, which in recent times seem to become the reality of today's India especially after the CAA/NRC legislation. This book sets out to defend the secular, plural and liberal imperative against sectarian (mostly Hindutva) arguments based in history and specious reasoning.

The essays do not have a cohesive thread throughout. I understand that Sen put them all together in one book, but if he had edited them to reduce redundancy, that would have made it easier to read. As the genre of Indian YA continues to develop, it is bound to see a lot of trial and error. This is something that Lubaina Bandukwala, commissioning editor at Nova, Scholastic’s young adult imprint, agrees on. She says, ‘Our styles are uncompromising now, we aren’t afraid to explore darker stuff in YA novels. YA readers are few and discerning, and you cannot mess it up. But what’s encouraging is this – a few years ago, you could only name a few authors who wrote promising, edgy YA lit. Now, we have Kanika Dhillon, Sampurna Chatterjee, Jerry Pinto jumping on to this. And writers are not hesitant to write anything.’

The verdict: Indian novels

Her previous novels in English, also published by Tilted Axis — Abandon and Panty— both share the same vigorous distrust for, and aggression against, patriarchal standards, and cultural norms and expectations, which we see here in The Yogini: a novel in which the woman protagonist challenges the rules set out by fate itself. I started this book with great hopes. Dr. Amartya Sen was about to say something about our tradition, and what he wanted to say seemed to concur exactly with what I have understood, namely: Indian culture is a varied one, and cannot be limited to the single dimension that the right wingers are currently trying to limit it to. We have an argumentative tradition, where all facets of an issue are given equal importance, and arguments (both for and against) are given commensurate weightage. Fine! All agreed! Let's forge ahead.

Neary, Clara. (2017). “Truth is like a vast tree”: Metaphor use in Gandhi’s autobiographical narration. Metaphor and the Social World, 7(1), 103 –121. Gandhi, M. K. (1970). Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (Vol. 39). The Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. Ahmedabad: Navajivan. To add to it, this group is for just about any gentle, non-argumentative soul who is interested in anything Indian. Make sure you bring along a good sense of humor ;) and a broad mind. This is a democratic group,that wants to discuss books, make friends and basically just have fun. Moderators are here just to do some dirty jobs, so feel free to suggest any ideas you might have to improve this group. To begin with, the title: When I first heard the name ‘The Argumentative Indian’, I was thinking that this book will deal with the Indian history, not just about the positives of it but also about the not-so-positive ones that defied any reason as well. But this book is not a coherent one, if you are keen on learning the history of India, its culture and identity, as the subtitle misleads you to be. The title of this book should have been ‘Demystifying Indian History : Writings against the Hindu Fundamentalists and Hindu Nationalists’ for that is all this book ever tries to do, from the beginning to the end. All that the author ever tries to do is to prove that India is not as great as it is thought to be (by Hindu Nationalists) and it is not as worse as it was portrayed to be (by Western racists – like James Mill and Winston Churchill). Bannet, E. T. (1993). The Scene of Translation: After Jakobson, Benjamin, de Man, and Derrida. Textual Interrelations. Special issue of New Literary History, 24(3), 577–595.The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture, and Identityis a collection of essays that explains India in its totality. Through the information in the essays, Amartya Sen expounds on India’s heritage from the ancient past and connects it to a modern perspective. Whichever literary framework you prefer, it must be said that Professor Sen is not an effortless writer. Cautious yes (footnotes, endnotes, and asterisks are abundant), but often at the expense of clarity. Dr. Sen concludes with discussions on reasoning, secularism, the multi-calendrical systems in India, and most importantly, the Indian identity. I think the popular misconceptions of secularism and its need in a modern India are very well handled in this part. There is a good final discussion on how India needs to shape its social and economic policies in the new era of globalization.

Desai, M. ([1927] 2018). Translator’s Preface to the First Edition. In M. K. Gandhi (Ed.), An Autobiography, or The Story of My Experiments with Truth (p. 39, Trans. M. Desai and Introduced and annotated by T. Suhrud). Yale University Press. Writing and speaking it meant that one is still under the colonial rule. Nonetheless, English was perceived as a unifying common language in India where thousands of dialects were spoken across the country. There is a lot more to Indian History than just this. It so happens that I have read Jawaharlal Nehru’s “The Discovery of India” which is also a book on Indian culture, History and Identity. My view is that Nehru’s knowledge of Indian history was much more broader and his thoughts and views on India and the passion he had for his motherland are brought out much better in his book.Tobin, L. M. (1949). A Struggle for Sainthood: Review of Gandhi’s Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by M. K. Gandhi. Phylon, 10(1), 76–78. For Indians /non Indians/Earthlings/Aliens, who have a zeal to read and are passionate about books" says the Creator of this group :) No Presents Pleaseis set in Mumbai; every person in every story has made this city a part of them; it has raised them, and they are a part of it. They keep its lights on. It’s through them that we get to understand the city from so many different angles.

Readers can expect a chronological effort that explains the geography, anthropology, and history of the Indian Ocean in The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History.The book mentions how it became a crucial part of trade and World War II. Gandhi, M. K. ([1946] 2007). Foreword. In The Gospel of Selfless Action or The Gita According to Gandhi (pp. i–vi., M. Desai, Trans.). Navajivan.

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Your skin had the warmth of the sun, it was blinding how beautiful you were, gods thought he wouldn’t fall for anyone and now they pitied him Harcave, S. (1948). Gandhi’s ‘Confession.’ Review of Gandhi’s Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, by Mohandas K. Gandhi. The Antioch Review, 8(4), 507–509.

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