LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ajit chaudhuri

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  • Sheruvala
    Ajit Chaudhuri
    This novel intertwines several untold stories. One is that of India’s NGO sector, and the young women and men who left their comfort zones and went off into remote villages, worked with poor and vulnerable communities, and tried to make a difference; the story of the work they did, the choices they made, and the challenges they faced. Another is that of the Sodhas, refugees fro...
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    15,75 €

  • An Exploration of Unintended Consequences
    Ajit Chaudhuri
    This is a collection of five warm and sentimental novelettes that provide an unapologetic male gaze (despite the raconteur in three of them being women) upon the actions of ordinary people and the consequences of these actions, intended and unintended, upon their lives. In the process, it takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of India - from the eastern states of Bihar and Jhark...
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    11,18 €

  • A Walk Through the Wild Side
    Ajit Chaudhuri
    This is the story of the kidnapping of a Delhi-based management consultant by insurgents in the North East of India in the mid-1990s, told from the perspectives of the kidnappee, his wife in Delhi, and the commander of an insurgent group that has him in its captivity. It spans events from the 1960s onwards and takes the reader across India and its North East, with occasional fo...
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    16,80 €

  • Tales of Love, Lust and Longing
    Ajit Chaudhuri
    This selection of seven novelettes has one commonality - it depicts a man’s view of a man’s world. Otherwise, it is varied - the novelettes are set in rural (’Parita’) and urban (mostly Delhi) locations in India and abroad (’The Double Bore’ is set in Canada and also describes Afghanistan); they describe relationships with spouses and lovers (’The Thunderbolt’, ’The Obsession’)...
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    10,32 €

  • Pax Feminica
    Ajit Chaudhuri
    Imagine a society ruled by women, where women are the administrators, judges, and military commanders. Would it be free of want, injustice, and violence, as feminists would have us believe, or would it be much the same as any other society? This novel describes such a world, with its rules and norms and its philosophical underpinnings, from the viewpoint of patriarchal outsider...
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    14,55 €