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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in Bengali of short fiction and novels, and a deeply political social activist who has been working in marginalized communities for decades.Old Womentells the touching, poignant tales of two timeworn women. In 'Statue', we meet Dulali, a widow since childhood, who is now an old woman preoccupied only with day-to-day survival. When the government decides to erect in her village a statue of Dindayal-a man who had fought in India's struggle for independence from British rule and who also was in love with Dulali long ago-a tragic, forbidden love comes back to haunt her. And in 'The Fairy Tale of Mohanpur', a combination of poverty, societal indifference, and government apathy leads Andi to lose her eyesight, even as she persists in her faith in a fairy-tale solution. Focuses on the trauma of a mother who awakens one morning to the shattering news that her son is lying dead in the morgue and her struggle to understand his decision to be a Naxalite. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. One of India's foremost artists of the twentieth-century, Somnath Hore had a long and storied career that overlapped the boundaries between art and activism. My Concept of Art is a quasi-autobiographical essay that leads the reader through different phases of Hore's life: from his early adventures in drawing to his involvement in India's struggle for freedom from British rule, from his time with the Communist Party of India to his formal induction to the world of art. The book, translated by Somnath Zutshi, outlines developments in Hore's artistic thinking, both in terms of his art and his passionate convictions about how the world should be. My Concept of Art places Hore's life in the social and the political context of the world around him and lays the groundwork for understanding his lifelong artistic experiments. It provides powerful insight into one man's notions of art and politics and the relationship between them-musings that are both intrinsically Indian while also universal. Offers a quasi-autobiographical essay that leads the reader through different phases of author's life: from his early adventures in drawing to his involvement in India's struggle for freedom from British rule, from his time with the Communist Party of India to his formal induction to the world of art. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.