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en_001	Let's sit comfortably easily. Spine erect, body relaxed. And let's close our eyes. And open our eyes wide. Open wide.	en-IN	calm	conversational	low	4	82	138.77	28.11	false
en_002	Look at all the scenery, all the things, whatever you see, and then close your eyes again. Again, open your eyes as wide as you can, like you're surprised. Wow. You know, when you have the wow feeling, wow, your eyes are fully open, your pupils dialect.	en-IN	neutral	conversational	medium	5	74	39.26	26.7	false
en_003	Objects so close and so far away. This moment we are going to retrieve our mind from the sense of sight to its own source.	en-IN	neutral	conversational	medium	5	74	138.63	18.64	false
en_004	Next few minutes you're not interested in seeing anything, retrieve your mind from the sense of sight and grateful for the sense of sight. You're grateful for your eyes.	en-IN	neutral	conversational	medium	5	74	138.96	24.57	false
en_005	and let go. Another deep breathing. And we'll say Om. Om.	en-IN	calm	conversational	low	3	82	33.79	27.96	false
en_006	Let's take attention to our nostrils.	en-IN	neutral	conversational	low	3	82	47.39	27.71	false
en_007	Your breath is brushing the walls of the nostrils while going in and coming out. Let's keep our attention in the nostrils. Through these nostrils, we have	en-IN	calm	conversational	medium	3	81	39.55	22.19	false
en_008	Come to know the dimension of fragrance and foul smell. We could identify things and enjoy the food and fragrance through these nostrils.	en-IN	neutral	lecture	low	6	81	37.05	23.73	false
en_009	We're grateful for this sense of smell, which makes you feel you are normal. This moment we are not interested in any fragrance. Let's take our mind.	en-IN	calm	conversational	low	3	81	45.93	28.34	false
en_010	Inward. Saying Om once again. Om.	en-IN	calm	formal	low	7	82	34.96	29.64	false
en_011	Tons and tons of food have gone through the small mouth. Every day, 2 to 3 kilos of food. And in 1 year, 1 ton of food has gone through your little mouth.	en-IN	neutral	narrative	low	3	81	140.4	26.82	false
en_012	Become aware of your tongue and all its pores. It's floating in the saliva.	en-IN	neutral	conversational	medium	4	81	137.85	25.78	false
en_013	Without this tongue, we would never know the taste of anything.	en-IN	neutral	conversational	low	6	81	137.22	18.29	false
en_014	You have tasted sweet, sour, salty, hot, cold, everything. This moment let us retrieve our mind from the sense of taste. We are not going interested to taste anything at this point.	en-IN	neutral	lecture	low	7	82	139.08	29.06	false
en_015	Om Be grateful for the sense of taste	en-IN	calm	conversational	low	3	80	34.73	29.05	false
en_016	Become aware of your whole skin, your palms.	en-IN	calm	formal	low	5	83	136.06	24.43	false
en_017	through the sense of touch. You have experienced sense of touch. Hot and cold and all different types of sensations.	en-IN	calm	narrative	low	5	82	135.02	24.86	false
en_018	Feel your whole body. Keep a big smile on your face.	en-IN	happy	emotional	medium	3	81	134.86	27.57	false
en_019	Let's say Om, take another deep breath in.	en-IN	calm	conversational	low	3	82	31.09	9.86	false
en_020	Whatever sensation you may be feeling now, just let it be. Let go and let it be. Now we come to the ears. Become aware of your ears.	en-IN	calm	conversational	low	3	83	45.59	28.41	false
en_021	and the eardrums. You have heard loud and soft musics, praise and insult through these ears. Good and bad things, all sorts of things you have heard. Knowledge and ignorance.	en-IN	neutral	narrative	medium	4	81	138.56	27.08	false
en_022	Another deep breath in. Om.	en-IN	calm	narrative	low	2	81	71.94	28.56	false
en_023	Let this big mind that is all around us, the universal mind, take over the small mind that is inside our body. Repose, relax, and let go.	en-IN	calm	lecture	low	5	83	138.21	26.38	false
en_024	So, I'm going to try and tell you what the price is.	en-IN	neutral	conversational	medium	5	82	119.01	21.33	false
en_025	Okay, so I'm going to try and try and bring it in.	en-IN	neutral	conversational	low	2	81	122.45	23.57	false
en_026	Okay, so I'm going to try and tell you the price of this.	en-IN	neutral	conversational	medium	5	80	36.5	29.13	false
en_027	Okay, so I'm going to try and see if I can find a better one.	en-IN	neutral	conversational	medium	2	78	117.74	28.46	false
en_028	Okay, so I'm going to try and do a little bit of a video today.	en-IN	neutral	conversational	medium	3	80	119.06	28.59	false
en_029	So, I'm going to try and do a little bit of a video today.	en-IN	neutral	conversational	medium	2	78	119.98	27.22	false
en_030	Okay, so this is the next one.	en-IN	neutral	conversational	low	3	82	116.18	29.09	false
en_031	Okay, so I'm going to try and connect this to the phone.	en-IN	neutral	conversational	medium	3	83	116.49	25.74	false
en_032	Then you may gently, very slowly open your eyes.	en-IN	calm	narrative	low	6	82	134.5	24.67	false
en_033	Was it good?	en-IN	neutral	conversational	medium	3	81	38.73	24.54	false
en_034	Hello and welcome to the Groovy Sleep Train. I am Monica and it feels very weird.	en-IN	surprised	conversational	medium	3	81	33.65	11.84	false
en_035	Amazing, really. So I'm very happy about that and feeling slightly anxious because of the change. It feels quite a change in routine and structure and you know, my voice is as	en-IN	happy	conversational	medium	4	76.4	25.59	18.24	false
en_036	not benefited from the change. So that to me shows that my body is not my body is also undergoing a change because of my routine. So physically and mentally it is quite a change in life. But it is a good change all in all once I start to get	en-IN	calm	conversational	medium	2	81	26.8	27.58	false
en_037	Someone's opinion about you does not have to become your reality. Every no and every rejections that came to my life had made me who I am. When you believe in a dream and when you can see it, visualize it, it can become reality. And the same organization which rejected me invited me to become the trainer there.	en-IN	calm	narrative	medium	3	81	36.12	28.58	false
en_038	My name is Sahala Parveen. I am the author of the book, The Beauty of Purpose in Life. When I was a little girl, I was as beautiful as any other little girl, but I never believed so. I had dyslexia. I used to hate books, words. I used to see M as N, N as W, but everyone used to think I was lazy to learn. I struggled th...	en-IN	sad	narrative	medium	3	82	136.96	28.84	false
en_039	But somehow managed as a below average student to an average student. When I was in 11th, one day I went to my library. Every day we have, every week we have library hour. And I got one book in my hand, the name which I couldn't read. The book was Alchemist. I started reading, somehow read the first page and I felt lik...	en-IN	happy	narrative	medium	3	81	138.5	27.74	false
en_040	I lived in an imagination world. That was the first book I issued from the library with a heart to read. I took it home. Next 3 days, I sat with it, though I couldn't understand so many words, but I completed the book. And I got the message that when you believe in a dream and when you can see it, visualize it, it can ...	en-IN	calm	narrative	medium	2	82	135.74	26.24	false
en_041	And that's when I just closed my eye, took a deep breath and started to speak from my heart. I somehow managed to complete the 45 minutes and I'm like this is the last session I'm going to ever take in my life. And when I was going out of the class, students started clapping and coming behind me and saying, yeah, you a...	en-IN	calm	narrative	medium	3	70	136.01	28.07	false
en_042	Wonderful, a feeling that I have never got in my life. They posted about my session in my FB profile. I didn't have a page then. And watching this, another friend of mine invited me to their college to do the session. And I constantly started doing the sessions. That's how my career began. There was a national level or...	en-IN	happy	narrative	high	3	82	49.93	27.01	false
en_043	And I attended their interview very confidently. At the end of the interview, the interviewer told me, your performance is good, Sahla, but no one is going to listen to a 23-year-old girl. You have to take sessions to people who are double your age and experience. And I was like, yeah, that's true. I'm too young to sta...	en-IN	sad	narrative	low	3	82	134.7	28.38	false
en_044	speech of Les Brown, there gets a quoting, you are never too young to start teaching or never too old to stop learning. And there starts my journey again. Every no and every rejections that came to my life had made me who I am. If I got the first job then I wouldn't have started my organization. But all of us what we d...	en-IN	calm	narrative	medium	5	82	138.23	29.08	false
en_045	Someone's opinion about you does not have to become your reality. When someone tells you you have to become that, this, that, this, why should we listen? Listen to your heart. Listen to yourself. It's okay to fail. And by then I started doing again sessions and there was a TV interview about me. They tagged me as the y...	en-IN	calm	conversational	medium	4	82	43.03	28.27	false
en_046	And the same organization which rejected me invited me to become the trainer there. And by then as I had made a profile, I partnered with them and started doing entrepreneurial programs in Cochin. By next year, I gave birth to my own organization, Give and Grow Global Foundation. Now in the whole journey, it's not goin...	en-IN	neutral	narrative	medium	4	82	42.17	27.75	false
en_047	Hello and welcome to Gravitas Plus. I'm Palki Sharma Upadhyay. They call it the city of peace, yet Jerusalem today and has been throughout history a city of conflict. It has been destroyed twice, fought over 16 times, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and traded hands on many more occasions. Jerusalem has divided p...	en-IN	neutral	news	medium	7	82	131.79	28.41	false
en_048	so complex. Let's break it down for you. I'll start with the history. Jerusalem is old, really old. 4440 years or perhaps longer. Over the centuries of its existence, three major religions have fought for its control: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Abrahamic religion, religions that view Abraham as a common fore...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	6	82	132.36	27.87	false
en_049	Jews and Christians trace their roots to Abraham's second son, Isaac. Muslims trace their roots to his elder son, Ishmael. Their belief and ancestry divides them, but Jerusalem has been that one unifying force. In Hebrew, it's called Yerushalaim, the spiritual homeland of the Jewish people. Temple Mount in Jerusalem is...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	7	83	131.53	24.23	false
en_050	The western wall within Temple Mount is said to be the last remnant of those temples. Today it is considered to be the holiest site in Judaism. When Jews pray, they face the western wall in Jerusalem, just like Muslims face the Kaaba in Mecca. Jerusalem is also holy for Muslims. In Arabic, it is known as Al-Quds, the h...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	low	8	83	132.17	28.06	false
en_051	the dome of the rock. This is where Muslims say Prophet Muhammad ascended to the heavens. And lastly in Christianity, Jerusalem is mentioned as Salem in the Bible, an ancient Hebrew name that was preserved in its current name, Jerusalem for Christians. This city is home to the church of the Holy Sepulchre. This is wher...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	7	82	132.29	28.68	false
en_052	a secret and important play, but who owns it? And this is where things get complicated. You see, Jerusalem belongs to everyone and no one. Every religion has marked this city, and almost every major empire has controlled it. But in the words of Winston Churchill, it is the Jews that made Jerusalem famous. How did they ...	en-IN	neutral	narrative	medium	6	82	133.79	28.84	false
en_053	to Palestine. A Greek name meant to break the Jewish connection to this land. All Jews were barred from setting foot in Jerusalem, but what about the Jews? Where did they go? After their exodus from Judea, they got scattered across the Roman Empire, which is present day Europe, but they were persecuted wherever they we...	en-IN	sad	narrative	low	5	81	135.32	28.71	false
en_054	poisoning the wells of Christians and slaughtering in the Rhine and Rhone region. Their persecution went on till the 19th century and this is when some Jews joined forces to protect their identity. They launched what is called Zionism, a religious, political and ideological movement which had two aims. One was to put a...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	7	82	135.15	28.04	false
en_055	as much a religion as it was a nationality, that the Jews deserved their own state, the same way the French deserved France or the Chinese deserved China. This movement is what brought Jews back to Israel. Today Zionism is Israel's national ideology. Towards the end of the 19th century, Zionism led to a massive Jewish ...	en-IN	neutral	narrative	medium	6	82	135.18	26.98	false
en_056	The United Nations approved a plan to divide British Palestine into two separate states, one for Jews called Israel and one for Arabs called Palestine. The city of Jerusalem was to become a special international zone since it housed the holy sites of both religions. This plan was a colossal failure. The British first f...	en-IN	neutral	news	low	7	82	134.2	28.3	false
en_057	India and Pakistan after partition. The Jews accepted the UN plan. On 14th May 1948, they proclaimed independence. They formed a new state. The Palestinians viewed this as theft. They accused Jews of stealing their land. What followed was decades of endless animosity between the Jews and the Arabs. In the last 70 years...	en-IN	neutral	narrative	low	7	82	134.75	28.12	false
en_058	as do or die battles, and with each conflict, it gained more control of Palestine. It helps to look at a map to understand this. This was Israel's map in 1947. It changed to this after the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, to this after the Six-Day War of 1967, and as of 2020, it looked like this, with East Jerusalem under Isr...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	6	82	133.95	28.86	false
en_059	And the Israel Palestine conflict has resurfaced. Jerusalem has once again become a city under siege. In Gaza, buildings are shaking, streets are crawling with troops, and flashbacks are flying overhead. It's been called the most intense hostility in years. The heaviest offensive since the 2014 Gaza war. What explains ...	en-IN	angry	news	medium	7	82	133.54	29.02	false
en_060	You must know about this history too. After Israel took control of this neighborhood in 1967, settler groups launched legal bids. They staked claim on Jewish properties, properties which they said had been lost in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Israel passed a law to back these claims to justify the takeovers, but only if ...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	low	8	82	134.48	27.95	false
en_061	unwarranted restrictions on them during Ramadan. Hamas, a Palestinian militant group and the de facto governing authority of the Gaza Strip, sensed an opportunity to push the Palestinian struggle back on center stage. It launched rocket attacks on Israel. Israel responded in kind, it's been more than a week, the violen...	en-IN	angry	news	medium	5	80	134.57	27.82	false
en_062	could not bury the differences. The Palestinians say if they drop the weapons, they will lose more land. The Israelis say if they drop the weapons, there will be no Israel. So Hamas shoots rockets and Israel bombs Gaza. As Jerusalem, the city of peace, struggles to live up to its name, its symbolism lost in its reality...	en-IN	neutral	conversational	medium	5	74	132.31	24.43	false
en_063	Good morning everyone. I'm happy to welcome you to the introductory session of this NPTEL course Indian Fiction in English. In today's session, I propose to give an outline of the course and also introduce a major text that we shall be discussing and also the framework within which	en-IN	happy	formal	medium	7	82	140.76	29.18	false
en_064	This course has been structured and also about how the course in general has been designed and conceived. As some of you might already be knowing, this is a 12 week course. It involves 30 hours of teaching. It's pitched at the post graduate level. The pedagogy, the teaching method includes lectures and also certain pre...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	7	83	129.94	28.68	false
en_065	And they will be prescribed readings for each week and sometimes for each session. And the only prerequisite for this course is that you must be familiar with the text discussed in each session throughout this course. This includes a familiarity with the novels prescribed for reading and also with the other critical ma...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	7	83	130.62	28.73	false
en_066	or brief reviews of the works that we are discussing. And at the outset, we also will have a series of lectures which will give you a background, an overview, a sense of the historical origins and the historical background of the emergence of this genre, Indian fiction in English. And I also expect you to be familiar w...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	7	82	131.64	28.94	false
en_067	discussing as a part of this course. Before I give an overview of the text that we shall be discussing as part of this course, I want you to pay attention to this term, Indian fiction in English. This descriptive term does have particular kinds of meanings and it does indicate certain kinds of text. First of all, let m...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	7	80	131.81	28.35	false
en_068	Indian fiction written in English. By this I mean written originally in English and we are not looking at the translations for this course. However, this does not mean that translations are not part of this. Indian writing in English has expanded in multiple ways in the contemporary to include translations in many othe...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	7	83	131.21	27.21	false
en_069	At the same time, we shall be engaging with certain debate which include many issues of translation about the ideas of language and how language played a significant role during the wake of the colonial modernity. And when we look at the genre which is fiction, we mostly include novels as part of this course. We also d...	en-IN	neutral	formal	medium	8	82	131.63	29.2	false
en_070	the novels primarily. And the reason for including novels mostly is that Indian fiction in English has been primarily characterized by the output in terms of the novels. And the visibility of Indian fiction in English in the international literary market, it has also been mostly due to the kind of long fiction, the kin...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	low	6	82	132.65	27.83	false
en_071	And finally coming to this term Indian. It's a very problematic category and it continues to be a problematic category even while we are dealing with this course Indian fiction in English. There are no fixed definitions which I can give by way of Indian. And mostly for this course we've we are going by the general unde...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	8	82	133.24	26.6	false
en_072	Indian, we also include a range of writers who are Indian and not Indian for some reason or the other. For example, we included Rashmi, who does not currently hold an Indian passport, and we also know the many controversies associated with his identity. We have Ruth Prawer Chhabwala, who was never an Indian as far as b...	en-IN	neutral	news	medium	6	80	132.78	28.9	false
en_073	to an Indian. And there is Raja Rao who is Indian by birth, Indian by ethnicity, but at the same time, during the most productive years of his literary output, he was not living in India, he was mostly living in abroad, and he continued to live and work in places outside India. So there are multiple ways in which the i...	en-IN	neutral	formal	medium	8	82	132.3	28.14	false
en_074	ambiguities and ambivalences while we are dealing with the idea of Indian in this course Indian fiction in English. I try to conceive and frame this course in a particular way. It is not just about a series of novels which are which have been put together in a particular way. It is also about a certain way in which a c...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	7	82	130.92	28.42	false
en_075	And to aid me in this purpose, I've used certain texts which I refer to as a framing text for this course. They could also be considered as a secondary material, some of the important secondary material as far as this course is concerned. And much of what is being dealt with in this course, and many of the arguments an...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	low	8	83	132.27	27.61	false
en_076	being referred to over here and in addition we should also be referring to a certain other text which will be discussed with you in due course. we look at Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's illustrated history of Indian literature in English which was published in 2003. This is by far the latest literary history as far as the h...	en-IN	neutral	formal	medium	8	82	132.05	29.05	false
en_077	title Indian fiction in English. It's a history that it shares with the larger overall Indian writing in English. And in turn, much of the current writings, whether it's literary history or critical writings, much of the current writings on Indian writing in English is also mostly and vastly about Indian fiction. So th...	en-IN	neutral	conversational	medium	5	74	132.16	28.83	false
en_078	academic frameworks, the publishing scenario, the target audience, etcetera. So it's in these contexts that we shall be approaching this course in fiction in English. And we shall be looking at Meenakshi Mukherjee's Realism and Reality, the novel and society in India, published in 1985. This incidentally is a text whic...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	low	8	81	132.91	29.1	false
en_079	So, the this work Realism in Reality by Meenakshi Mukherjee, it gives insightful understanding of the origin of novel in India and also gives a wider understanding of how important it is to look at this genre of fiction when we talk about the literary and cultural background, the literary and cultural output of the con...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	low	8	82	133.68	28.32	false
en_080	Priya narration published in 2009. It is a very useful work in helping us understand the connection between novel and the nation, especially in the context of Indian fiction written in English. And finally, of course, Srinivasa Iyengar seminal work in writing in English published in 1965 that continues to be a foundati...	en-IN	neutral	narrative	low	8	82	131.69	28.89	false
en_081	to get a historical sense of this genre, to get an understanding of the initial ways in which the genre was talked about, how it was critically framed, how it was historically positioned. You would begin to realize that we also move away from Iyengar's postulations. While Iyengar's work continues to be a foundational w...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	7	82	132.69	27.8	false
en_082	and important to move away from my ink arts so as to see the newer avenues so as to engage with the newer kind of newer kinds of texts which are being which are being brought to us. So this is not to say that this entire course is based on these four texts but these four texts in certain ways frame the overall idea of ...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	6	82	133.61	26.98	false
en_083	courses I mentioned, we shall be looking at certain other works which shall be discussed with you in your course. And as far as the primary text is concerned, we are looking at novels and short stories, the details of which will be discussed with you shortly. There are three major faces that we are looking at as far as...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	7	81	130.81	26.54	false
en_084	We begin by looking at the historical background, the origins, and also the early novels which were published, and some of them are not fit enough to be called as novels, so they are merely referred to as proto novels or early narratives. And what makes the discussion significant in this first phase is the impact of co...	en-IN	neutral	conversational	medium	5	74	133.24	28.52	false
en_085	phase, we move on to the novels of the 1930s and 1950s. And this is certainly a very important segment in this in our discussion. This is also these two decades, they also frame a major part of our discussion as far as this course is concerned. And also when we are talking about the major periods in the history of Indi...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	8	83	133.38	27.78	false
en_086	cated by many of the historians and critics. So the novels of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, they're also characterized by a very fervent Gandhian nationalism and also the ideas and ideals related to independence. We find that in the 1930s and 40s, we have the pre-independence period and also in the late 40s and early 50s, th...	en-IN	neutral	formal	medium	8	82	133.97	28.7	false
en_087	uh newer kinds of articulations of post-independent India. And in this in this phase which is across the pre-independence and the post-independence period we find the coming together of a nation. We find that the novel as a genre is aiding the process of nation building is aiding the process of a group of people becomi...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	7	83	134.05	28.23	false
en_088	And there are many other things that we shall be discussing as part of this, the particularly the influence of Gandhi and many ways in which nation begins to come together in the name of a single cause which is anti-colonial as well as pro-nationalist. And there is a brief phase of lull in the 1960s and 70s which we wo...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	9	82	132.86	27.98	false
en_089	In the coming sessions, we find that there are women writers who are emerging. There are also different kinds of Indian writings which are beginning to emerge. That's also the phase when the nation as a whole is undergoing a certain kind of fragmentation, a kind of disillusionment with the promises of modernity and wit...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	8	81	132.58	28.22	false
en_090	the post 1980s, which is primarily the post Rashtriya decade, and this decade, rather the decades after the 1980s, it has been described in multiple ways. Rashtriyas after Rashtriya of course, post colonial, given the particular kind of positioning that the nation has in the contemporary, and this phase is also describ...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	7	82	132	29.14	false
en_091	And incidentally, we also find more international recognition, visibility, and attention being given to this body of writing known as Indian fiction in English. And we also in that context discuss the many politics and the different kinds of discussions related to the publishing scene, the literary market, the politics...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	7	82	132.35	29.06	false
en_092	the set of novels that we shall be discussing as part of this course. Some of them are meant for detailed study and some of them will only be introduced to you by way of the presentations made by students. This list may look fairly long to you, but however it's a good idea to be at least partially familiar with most of...	en-IN	neutral	formal	medium	7	82	130.17	28.69	false
en_093	Bengali after this first work Rajmohan's wife, which has also been considered as a false start by him. And we do not devote much time to a close reading of Rajmohan's wife. We introduce the work to you and also try to situate it in the contemporary, particularly with reference to one of the important essays by Meenaksh...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	8	82	131.94	28.32	false
en_094	wife in the larger history of Indian fiction in English. We look at Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand, the novel published in 1935 and one of his most successful and well acclaimed novels. And as part of this course, we shall be looking at Untouchable and God of Small Things by Arun Thodi Roy in in in in almost in tandem b...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	6	80	132.68	27.81	false
en_095	not necessarily be going in this chronological fashion as this list shows. We talk about Kantapura by Raja Rao in 1938. That's a novel which has been positioned as the most important early novel in the history of Indian writing in English. It is also one of the first earlier novels to successfully talk about Gandhian n...	en-IN	neutral	conversational	medium	5	74	132.09	28.02	false
en_096	We discuss Waiting for the Mahatma by R. K. Narayanan. It's a novel published in 1955, again one of his very successful works. Here we also find a different kind of nationalism at work, a different kind of Gandhi being projected vis-a-vis Kantapura. And let me also remind you that as and when we are going through these...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	7	82	132.09	28.83	false
en_097	the relations which are being highlighted between these works. Because the beauty of this cause, the beauty of the discussion lies in being able to see the connections, the interconnections, the interculturality, and also how eventually we begin to find a certain pattern emerging out of these discussions. Coming back t...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	low	7	81	133.97	28.03	false
en_098	women writers in Indian writing in English. We talk about how Indian women novelists are possession and how the 1960s and 70s have generally been seen as a period of lull in the larger history. But nevertheless, we see a prolific output by a number of women novelists such as Anita Desai and incidentally Anita Desai was...	en-IN	neutral	lecture	medium	6	82	131.51	28.66	false
en_099	significant recognition within the, within the home economies as well. Arun Joshi's The Strange Case of Billy Biswas published in 1971 was a path breaking work and it is said that and it is often said that if the moment had not come in the early 1980s, perhaps Arun Joshi would have received better kind of attention. An...	en-IN	neutral	formal	medium	7	82	132.37	26.97	false
en_100	shadows the uh the the presence and the visibility of Arun Joshi in the contemporary is the availability or rather the unavailability of his work in international editions because he always continued to publish with just orient paperback. And that brings us to this very interesting novelist Ruth Prawer Chhabwala and an...	en-IN	neutral	conversational	medium	4	81	132.65	29.19	false