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“surinder deol”

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  • The Treasure

    A Modern Rendition of Ghalib's Lyrical Love Poetry

    by Surinder Deol ...
    Mirza Ghalib, Indias most loved poet, lived at a time of great political and cultural transformation when the established order, the mighty Mughal Empire, was falling apart around midnineteenth century and the new regime spearheaded by the East India Company was not yet fully in place. There are multiple lenses that can be used to look at Ghalibs work. At the surface, he is a romantic poet par ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Rajinder Singh Bedi

    Selected Short Stories

    by Gopi Chand Narang, Deol, Surinder Surinder Deol ...
    Rajinder Singh Bedi: Selected Short Stories curates some of the best work by the Urdu writer, whose contribution to Urdu fiction makes him a pivotal force within modern Indian literature. Born in Sialkot, Punjab, Rajinder Singh Bedi (1915-1984) lived many lives-as a student and postmaster in Lahore, a venerated screenwriter for popular Hindi films and a winner of both the Sahitya Akademi as well ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • India’s Freedom Struggle and the Urdu Poetry

    Awakening

    by Gopi Chand Narang ...
    Translated by Surinder Deol ...
    Poetry, mainly Urdu poetry, played a very significant role in India’s freedom struggle. This book explores the poetic contributions going back centuries of colonial rule, which became songs of freedom and captured both the poignancy and fervor of revolution, protest, and hope.Urdu became one of the essential languages in colonial India, used by both political leaders and many young revolutionaries ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Urdu Ghazal

    A Gift of India’s Composite Culture

    by Gopi Chand Narang ...
    Translated by Surinder Deol ...
    The Urdu Ghazal presents the unique flowering of the ghazal as a by-product of India’s composite culture. It explores a variety of influences on the ghazal, including Sufism, Bhakti movement, and infusion of Rekhta and Persian languages and culture. The book elucidates classical ghazal forms that blossomed from the seeds sown by Amir Khusrau in the fourteenth century to achieve great heights of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Hidden Garden

    Mir Taqi Mir

    by Gopi Chand Narang ...
    Translated by Surinder Deol ...
    Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810), known as the god of Urdu poesy (Khuda-e Sukhan), is widely admired for his poetic genius. The most prolific among all Urdu poets, he produced six divans. His deceptively simple poetry had an unusual mellowness and natural flow.Mir was the first poet to demonstrate the hidden beauty and genius of the Urdu language. From the raw Braj of Agra to the sophisticated Persian of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Sahir

    A Literary Portrait

    by Surinder Deol ...
    Sahir Ludhianvi (1921–1980), a remarkable film lyricist, was also an iconic literary poet. Surinder Deol paints a sensitive portrait that reveals an artist who was aware of the depth of his poetic message as well as of his ability to present it in words that captured the reader’s imagination. Sahir looked outward at the world to find beauty in nature for inspiration while at the same time raising ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Cambridge University professor Reynold Nicholson once remarked that the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi is the "greatest mystical poet of any age." In Rumi's vision, love is the very matrix of existence; love is what moves life. His poetry expresses the deepest and the most inclusive layers of love, and thus connects us to an immense source of joy, compassion, creativity, and mystery. This book is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Guide

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    by R. K. Narayan ...
    For the centennial of his birth, R. K. Narayan's most celebrated novelFormerly India's most corrupt tourist guide, Raju—just released from prison—seeks refuge in an abandoned temple. Mistaken for a holy man, he plays the part and succeeds so well that God himself intervenes to put Raju's newfound sanctity to the test. Narayan's most celebrated novel, The Guide won him the National Prize of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Playing Keyboard Made Easy

    Chords And Notations Of Top Bollywood Songs

    by Vanshika Verma Khare ...
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  • Dilip Kumar

    The Substance and the Shadow

    by Dilip Kumar ...
    An authentic, heartfelt and compelling narrative – straight from the horse’s mouth – that reveals for the first time numerous unknown aspects of the life and times of one of the greatest legends of all time who stands out as a symbol of secular India.Dilip Kumar (born as Yousuf Khan), who began as a diffident novice in Hindi cinema in the early 1940s, went on to attain the pinnacle of stardom ... Read more

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  • Tears of Blood

    Selected Verses of Ghalib

    by Sunil Uniyal ...
    Tears of Blood contains poetic renderings of selected Urdu verse of Mirza Muhammad Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797-1869). These sixty-two ghazals and ninety other shers in English translation, present to the reader the amazing richness and beauty of Ghalibs poetry. Acknowledged by many as the King of Urdu Ghazal, Ghalib belonged to a period when the Mughal Empire was crumbling and the British ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Ancient Tales of Wit, Wisdom and Humour - The best of Birbal, Mulla Nasruddin, Tenali Rama, Appaji Rao and Maryada Raman

    by S.P.SHARMA ...
    Tales of legendary courtiers and jesters have delighted people for centuries through their wit, wisdom and humour. This book covers five such legendary characters: Birbal, Mullah Nasruddin, Tenali Rama, Appaji Rao and Maryada Raman. ... Read more

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