9788188861170

NEW NEW NEW NEW Size : 140mm x 215mm • Pages : xi+179pp

• Year : 2014 • Binding : Paperback • ISBN : 9788188861170 • Price ` 350.00 only

Just One Life and other stories Manju Kak Manju Kak has a Ph.D. in the History of Art and has been a teacher. As a curator and researcher her work has been in the field of visual ethnography and culture, particularly of the Himalayas. Her short stories, articles, critical reviews have appeared in several anthologies, journals and newspapers since 1989. She has also been engaged in grass-root and other development issues with women’s organizations.

Just One Life

CONTENTS

and other stories Manju Kak Manju Kak delves into the lives of ordinary people, mostly from India, revealing the nuances of their existence with a mix of engaging humour and compassion. The cross-section are after the underprivileged and the dispossessed. From the depressive visionary Inquilaab is search of an incorruptible India, one that no longer exists, to a young boy in a boarding school dealing with his mother’s cancer, to the angry Mrs Lamba reminiscing about her youth in pre-Partition Lahore, these stories collectively span the cycle of life, from childhood to old age. Often enough an almost elegiac sadness hovers, as if the author is regretful of the times we now live in. Significantly, many of the protagonists are women – the mother-in-law daughter-in-law duo in ‘Twilight’ the lonely housewife in ‘By the River’, the spinster in ‘Split Second’ – who struggle to express their identity, a quest that has stamped feminist history this past century. Taken as a whole, the collection leaves a fragrance that lingers long after closing the pages of the book.

Foreword Nayantara Sahgal Introduction Just One Life A Pillar of Society A Valentine for Mrs. Lamba Amma Artist Woman By the River Damini Bhabhi Rita Split Second Five Women Professor Memsaab The Efficacy of Love Twilight Blessed Are My Sons Girgit Requiem for an Unsung Revolutionary The Prize Where Will You Be? When I Return The Man Next Door Shyam Bhai

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03/2014