Sarayu Srivatsa

When Kalika loses one of her twins at childbirth, a daughter she longed for, it is not the only loss in the family. The son that survives loses the love of his mother. Her son grows up needing to be the daughter his mother wants but struggles in a recently Independent India still haunted by its colonial past, its mystical religious rites and its birth into the world. Sarayu Srivatsa has created a family portrait suffused and coloured by the landscape of Southern India, where history, religion and gender collide in a family scarred by its past and struggling with the present.

If You Look for Me, I Am Not Here

About the Book : - Machilipatnam, a small town on the Coromandel coast in South India where the British first landed to trade in dyes, comes to life through a lively cast of characters - Ammamai, resigned to her widowhood, but a fighter; Saroja, the pseudo-intellectual who owns and runs the Victorian dyes factory; Kamala, the eunuch, who carries within her a painful past and Raman, the mosquito-scientist whose experiment with the malarial insect comes to be known as the Raman Technique. Then there is the ghost of Elizabeth Gibbs, the bored English woman who slept with her equally bored brother George and gave birth to a hermaphrodite. And Nayantara, who teaches Mallika all there is to know about love. But above all, this is Mallika and Siva s story a mother and son in a complex and deeply disturbing relationship. About the Author : - Sarayu Srivatsa trained as an architect and city planner at the Madras and Tokyo universities. She won the Picador-Outlook non-fiction writing award in 2002. She has co-authored two books with Dom Moraes, The Long Strider and Out of God s Oven, the latter nominated for the Kiriyama Prize.

The Last Pretence

Dom Moraes

On the social problems of India in last two decades; based on the author's travel experience.

Travels in a Fractured Land

Out of God's Oven

Profiles and Conversations

Where Some Things are Remembered

The Secret Life Of Streets Cities Are Remembered By Their Streets, Which Have A Personality All Their Own. Some Are Broad And Indolent, Others Brisk And Efficient And Some Resemble Courtesans, Painted And Bright By Evening, Drab And Gritty During The Day. Sarayu Ahuja Takes A Leisurely Stroll Through Streets In Cities As Different As Ahmedabad, Jaipur And Mumbai, Viewing Them Not In Terms Of Configuration And Design Alone But Also In The Context Of Their History And Their Sights, Smells, Sounds And People. In The Process She Shows The Evolution Of A City'S Individual Character. She Visits Bustling Jaisalmer, Suspended Like A Drop Of Water Over A Sea Of Sand; Chandigarh, Grand And Imperial; Benaras, Intimate And Feverish With Activity; The Lanes Of Siddpur, Secluded And Withdrawn From The Public Eye, And A Host Of Other Cities. The Outcome Is A Unique Study Of Indian Streets By A Professional Architect Which, Besides Being An Entertaining Travelogue, Shows Us Our Streets In A New And Revelatory Light.

Where the Streets Lead

Description and travel of India by the authors interweaving the travel impressions of Englishman, Thomas Coryate, ca. 1577-1617.

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