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August 2002Sushi in Bombay, Jetlag in L.A.
Unterwegs in einer Welt ohne Grenzen
by Iyer, Pico / Übersetzt von Freytag, Carl
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September 2006Zwischen den Welten
Geschichten aus dem modernen Indien
by Cornelia Zetzsche
Sie sind Hindus, Moslems, Parsen, Christen oder Juden, gehören zur höchsten Kaste der Brahmanen oder zu den Unberührbaren. Sie kommen aus allen Teilen Indiens, leben in Delhi, Kalkutta, Bombay, Bangalore, Mysore, Ahmedabad und anderswo, sind Pendler zwischen den Welten wie Vikram Chandra oder Expatriates wie Shashi Tharoor. Sie erzählen von Brahmanen und Muslimen, von Benares und Bombay, schildern das Leben in den Städten und auf dem Land, berichten von Emigranten und von Zurückgekehrten. Es geht um Hochzeits- und Beerdigungsrituale, um Straßen- und Büroszenen, Arbeitskämpfe und Religionskonflikte, um den Unabhängigkeitstag, die Teilung Indiens oder um ein Leben zwischen den Kulturen. Oft ist von der Einsamkeit im Milliardenland die Rede, und immer wieder steht die Familie als Spiegel der Gesellschaft im literarischen Fokus. Über 50 Autoren und Autorinnen, vielfach mit den höchsten Literaturpreisen Indiens ausgezeichnet, sind in diesem Band mit Erzählungen, Romanauszügen und Gedichten aus elf Landessprachen vertreten. K. Satchidanandan, Lyriker und Präsident der Sahitya-Literaturakademie, schrieb das Vorwort zu dieser Anthologie. Kurzporträts charakterisieren die Autoren und skizzieren den Kontext ihrer Arbeit im literarischen Leben und im indischen Alltag.
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September 2002Aufruhr
Eine Liebesgeschichte
by Shashi Tharoor, Anke Kreutzer
Shashi Tharoor wurde 1956 in London geboren, er studierte in Bombay, Kalkutta, Delhi Geschichte und in den USA Jura. Seit 1978 arbeitet er für die UNO. Von 1989 bis 1996 war er verantwortlich für friedenserhaltene Maßnahmen im ehemaligen Jugoslawien, von 1997 bis 1998 Assistent von Kofi Annan, der ihn Ende Mai 2002 zum Leiter der Abteilung (mit mehr als 700 Mitarbeitern) für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit ernannt hat. Shashi Tharoor ist Autor zahlreicher Artikel, Kurzgeschichten und politischer Kommentare. Für seine schriftstellerische Arbeit hat er mehrere Auszeichnungen erhalten, u.a. den "Commenwealth Writers Prize".
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April 2000Indien
Zwischen Mythos und Moderne. Aus dem Englischen von Max Looser
by Shashi Tharoor, Max Looser
Shashi Tharoor wurde 1956 in London geboren, er studierte in Bombay, Kalkutta, Delhi Geschichte und in den USA Jura. Seit 1978 arbeitet er für die UNO. Von 1989 bis 1996 war er verantwortlich für friedenserhaltene Maßnahmen im ehemaligen Jugoslawien, von 1997 bis 1998 Assistent von Kofi Annan, der ihn Ende Mai 2002 zum Leiter der Abteilung (mit mehr als 700 Mitarbeitern) für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit ernannt hat. Shashi Tharoor ist Autor zahlreicher Artikel, Kurzgeschichten und politischer Kommentare. Für seine schriftstellerische Arbeit hat er mehrere Auszeichnungen erhalten, u.a. den "Commenwealth Writers Prize".
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2026The dreadful name of Henry Hills
The lives and afterlives of a seventeenth-century printer
by Michael Durrant
1. Introducing the Career of Henry Hills, Printer - What is a printer? - Print output - Insignia - Roles - Partnerships - Cultural configurations of the early modern printer 2. 'Once upon a time': Biographical Encounters with Henry Hills - Henry Hills' Lives: From DNB to ODNB - Cultural biographies of printers - Hugh Dalton's Cave: Reading Henry Hills Part 2: Transformations 3. '[N]othing but the plain truth': The Prodigal Repackaged (1650-51, 1688, 1825) - Henry Hills: Particular Baptist printer / author - The Prodigal as shame management - Henry Hills and the tailor's wife: 'Pressing' at a biographical anecdote - The Prodigal Returned to his Father's House, by Henry Hills (1825): Reprinting a reprint 4. 'Licking himself whole again': Writing and Rewriting Henry Hills' Catholic Conversion (1685, 1686, 1733, 1826) - Henry Hills: Catholic Printer - A View (1685): From runaway apprentice to anti-Catholic book burner - Entering Book (1686): Roger Morrice and the Hills household - Revolution Politicks (1733): Print mediation and and public talk - Hills, last seen at Watten, near Sainte-Omer, 13 February 1689 Part 3: Afterlives 5. Henry Hills, Eikon Basilike, and his Posthumous Role in the Pamela Prayer Conspiracy - Taking the Pamela Prayer interpolation seriously: Eikon Basilike, authorship, and the work of conspiracy - '[T]he Roundhead printer!': Almack, Madan, and Hills' role in the publication of the Eikon - The 'leading witness': Writing and rewriting Hills in Milton scholarship - Finding Henry Hills in Dr Bernard's library 6. Pirates, Parents, and Print: Rewriting Henry Hills' Last Will and Testament - 'Suite Trouble': Contesting Hills' legacy - '[A]n expedient lineage': Henry Hills junior goes to Bombay - Working with what remains
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July 2007Sutra vom heiligen Fluß
Roman
by Gita Mehta, Margarete Längsfeld
Tief im Dschungel Indiens, am Fluß Narmada, steht eine Herberge. Ihr Verwalter hat sich aus dem brodelnden Leben Bombays dorthin zurückgezogen, um nachzudenken. Doch die Welt holt ihn bald wieder ein: Seine Herberge wird zur Zufluchtsstätte für Fremde, für Menschen, die vor einer Entscheidung stehen und am heiligen Fluß Trost und Hilfe suchen. Da ist der junge Mönch, der sich seinem reichen Elternhaus entzieht, die Kurtisane auf der Suche nach ihrer Tochter, der Verwalter einer Teeplantage, der sich bis zum Wahnsinn in eine seiner Pflückerinnen verliebt hat. Sie alle finden am Ufer des Flusses den Schlüssel zu ihrem Schicksal, und auch der Verwalter der Herberge muß erkennen, daß sein Rückzug in den Dschungel vor allem eines war: eine Hinwendung zum Leben.
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September 2006Bollywood
Roman
by Shashi Tharoor, Peter Knecht
Seine Laufbahn scheint klar vorgezeichnet zu sein. Doch der junge Ashok Banjara, Sohn des Ministers für Textilproduktion, entzieht sich dem Lebensplan, den seine Eltern für ihn entworfen haben. Anstatt nach dem Besuch der Elite-Universität wie sein Vater die politische Laufbahn einzuschlagen, versucht er, seinen Traum vom großen Leinwandstar zu verwirklichen. Und tatsächlich: Während sich eine solche Idee normalerweise schnell erledigt, eröffnet sich Ashok trotz seiner offenkundigen Talentlosigkeit eine Traumkarriere als Bollywood- Star. Ashok dreht einen Erfolgsfilm nach dem anderen, und immer spielt er den jungen, aufrechten Kämpfer für das Gute. Dem Kinopublikum, das zwischen Rolle und Person nicht unterscheidet, gilt er als moralische Instanz. Sein Privatleben sieht hingegen weniger glänzend aus. Seine Frau, die Schauspielerin Maya, die für die ganze Nation das Ideal der Reinheit und Unschuld verkörpert, leidet unter den zahllosen Affären Ashoks, dessen größte Sorge darin besteht, sein Schwarzgeld sicher auf einem Schweizer Nummernkonto zu verwahren. Aus einer Laune heraus steigt er in die Politik ein, kandidiert für einen Parlamentssitz. Doch als er in einen Parteispendenskandal verwickelt wird, ist sein positives Image dahin. Er taugt gerade noch für eine Rolle in einem religiösen Monumentalfilm, in dem es um die Zerstörung der Welt durch den göttlichen Willen geht. Bei den Dreharbeiten kommt es, wie im Film selbst, zu einer Brandkatastrophe, und plötzlich steht Ashok wieder im Rampenlicht. Vom Aufstieg und Fall eines Filmhelden mit großen Ambitionen und zweifelhafter Moral erzählt Shashi Tharoor in diesem tragikomischen Roman über das Showgeschäft: Alles ist inszeniert, Drehbuch und Wirklichkeit gehen nahtlos ineinander über. Eine groteske Maskerade von Verführung und Intrige zwischen Macht und Privilegien, Politik und Medien – die Mega-Filmindustrie Bombays (»Bollywood«) als Metapher für die moderne Gesellschaft.
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Sociology & anthropologyJanuary 2021Outcaste Bombay
by Juned Shaikh
This monograph presents a history of caste and class in the modern city through the experience of Dalits (members of the lowest caste) in twentieth-century Bombay. There, urban life did not dismantle caste, but instead made it robust and insulated it in the garb of modernity. Juned Shaikh demonstrates that the urban built environment and language are two sites for the habitation of caste in Bombay, as they are the spaces where it was concealed and eclipsed by class. The built environment is thus a quintessential marker, in which elements such as housing, tenements, slums, water supply, and drainage systems readily divulge the class of inhabitants. Shaikh explores the intersection and entanglement of caste and class by focusing on a cluster of groups that occupied subordinate positions in both these hierarchies: the Dalits. Their experience is relevant not only to South Asianists, but resonates with that of oppressed populations throughout the world.
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Still Bombay
by Mayur Tekchandaney
Walking the streets of Mumbai in the early hours of the morning, photographer Mayur Tekchandaney, a long time resident of the city, discovers an unexpectedly quiet beauty: the happy coincidences of colour and patterns, the lyricism of place names... and the energy of its citizens. Still Bombay is his visual and verbal tribute to a city that hovers forever between collapse and hope. Mayur Tekchandaney is a designer, artist and writer.
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January 2020Scenes of a Reclusive Writer & Reader of Mumbai
Essays
by Fiza Pathan
"I am a recluse and I love books more than I love people." - So begins Fiza Pathan, the self-proclaimed Reclusive Writer and Reader of Mumbai. In this charming collection of personal essays, Fiza recalls important phases of her life, along with the books she was reading at the time and where she read them. Revealed along the way are Fiza's personal struggles, from the father who didn't want a girl child to the years she believed she wanted to be a nun to the college friends who shamed her for gaining weight.Her greatest victories are found here as well, among them the publication of her first story, the request to autograph her most popular book by an author she admired, the start of her own publishing company, and the acquisition of her very own office-cum-writing hut. Within her stories, you'll meet Fiza's beloved Mama, editorial partner (and uncle) Blaise, many other uncles and aunts, the librarians of her youth, and plenty of book salesman. All the people who have helped Fiza along her path to books, books, and more books. You'll also take a taxi with Narayan, Fiza's "Man Friday," to visit her favorite haunts, from libraries to kiosks to boutiques to vendors who pile their offerings on the sides of the road, and you'll learn the plots of her favorite comics, religious writings, medical thrillers, horror stories, activist writings, and so much more.Fiza believes that every one of the books she has read has helped her become the person - and the writer - she was meant to become. Scenes of a Reclusive Writer & Reader of Mumbai is her life in books!
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September 2012World Film Locations: Mumbai
by San Miguel, Helio
Fascinating, incommensurable, and chaotic, Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is a megalopolis of dramatic diversity and heartbreaking extremes, where immense wealth is just steps away from the searing poverty of its huge slums. The home of Bollywood, Mumbai is also the epicenter of India’s film industry and its foremost film location. Through the lens of Mumbai’s manifold cinematic representations, World Film Locations: Mumbai explores the sheer complexity of this incomparable city.This volume comprises insightful essays and beautifully illustrated scene analyses by leading scholars and film critics who explore the ways filmmakers from India and abroad have represented Mumbai’s astonishing urban and human landscape. Their contributions show how movies have created in the imaginations of billions of spectators the vivid image of a city that constantly tempts people to escape their dreary existence and offers them a chance to fulfill their dreams. The first book to focus on cinematic representations of what is perhaps the world’s most-filmed city, World Film Locations: Mumbai will be necessary reading for scholars and film buffs alike.
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FictionJune 2022Still Lives
by Reshma Ruia
The glow of my cigarette picks out a dark shape lying on the ground. I bend down to take a closer look. It’s a dead sparrow. I wondered if I had become that bird, disoriented and lost.’ Young, handsome and contemptuous of his father’s traditional ways, PK Malik leaves Bombay to start a new life in America. Stopping in Manchester to visit an old friend, he thinks he sees a business opportunity, and decides to stay on. Now fifty-five, PK has fallen out of love with life. His business is struggling and his wife Geeta is lonely, pining for the India she’s left behind. One day PK crosses the path of Esther, the wife of his business competitor, and they launch into an affair conducted in shabby hotel rooms, with the fear of discovery forever hanging in the air. Still Lives is a tightly woven, haunting work that pulls apart the threads of a family and plays with notions of identity. Shortlisted for the SI Leeds Literary Prize
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Food & DrinkSeptember 2022Biting Biting
Snacking Gujarati-style
by Urvashi Roe
Biting Biting features recipes for fast, easy, 100% vegetarian and vegan snacks that can be knocked up at speed using leftovers and store-cupboard ingredients. Enter a world of Gujarati-style snacking, where nothing is wasted and every recipe can turn into a whole range of snacks. So a simple Potato Shaak (or curry) can be re-purposed as a samosa, or served up on toast with an egg, or stuffed into a parotha or flatbread. Even if you’ve nothing in the cupboard but a tin of baked beans, you can make Baked Bean Curry, or why not try revolutionising your lunch with Cumin-spiced Cheese on Toast or the Cheese & Chevro (or Bombay Mix) Sandwich? Discover more classic ‘bitings’ such as Reveya (Peanut Stuffed Aubergine) and Patta Ganthiya (gram flour crispbreads) alongside her uncle’s legendary BBQ Green Bananas, a full chapter of bhajiya (pakora) and some suggestions for delicious Sweet Biting. With fresh chutneys you can make in moments in a blender and advice on what to keep in your fridge to provide optimum ingredients for Biting, you will never be stuck for a snack again.
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FictionSeptember 2022The Secret of More
by Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
Winner of the 2023 Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award—Fiction Into the beating heart of Bombay, a city that spins cotton into gold, a young man, Tatya, arrives to make a living. Ambitious and hard-working, he begins to make a name for himself in the city’s famed textile market. Meanwhile, his new bride, Radha, navigates the joys and the challenges of raising a family in a city that is a curious and often bewildering mix of the traditional and the rapidly modernizing.Having tasted success in the world of textiles, Tatya chances upon an opportunity in an emerging industry—motion pictures— and is swept up in it despite his initial hesitation about this strange world of make-believe. His success seems unstoppable—the silent films he produces draw in the crowds and his new theatre is a marvel, but his friendship with and attraction to an actress, Kamal, threatens to shake his world and causes him to question his integrity.Set against the backdrop of bustling colonial Bombay, The Secret of More is a journey of relentless ambition, steadfast love, and grim betrayal, as Tatya strives to unlock the secret of more—of having more and being more. In a story that travels from the clatter of textile mills to the glamour of the silent film industry, from the crowded chawls of Girgaon to the luxury of sea-facing mansions, one man and his family learn that in the city of Bombay you can fly—but if you fall, it is a long way down.
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FictionThe Estate of H R F Keating
The Inspector Ghote Detective Series
by H R F Keating
With over 20 titles in this charming detective series, The Perfect Murder introduces Bombay CID’s most dogged, dutiful officer, and one of the greatest, most engaging creations in all detective fiction.
