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A Matter Of Time (Deshpande Novel)
''A Matter of Time'' is a 1996 novel by Shashi Deshpande Shashi Deshpande (born 1938) is an Indian novelist. She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padma Shri Award in 1990 and 2009 respectively. Biography She was born in Dharwad, Karnataka, the second daughter of the Kannada dramati .... Unusually in Deshpande's fiction the focus is on the impact of the actions of a male character, Gopal, who leaves his family.''Muses India: Essays on English-Language Writers from Mahomet to Rushdie'' 1476603669 Chetan Deshmane - 2013 Shashi Deshpande's A Matter of Time exemplifies a recovery of feminist identity by foregrounding the disintegration of grihastha, or the household stage, in the orthodox Hindu system known as Varnashramadharma and its ... References 1996 novels 1996 Indian novels {{1990s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shashi Deshpande
Shashi Deshpande (born 1938) is an Indian novelist. She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padma Shri Award in 1990 and 2009 respectively. Biography She was born in Dharwad, Karnataka, the second daughter of the Kannada dramatist and writer Adya Rangacharya and Sharada Adya. She was educated in Bombay (now Mumbai) and Bangalore. Deshpande has degrees in Economics and Law. In Mumbai, she studied journalism at the Vidya Bhavan and worked for a few months as a journalist for the magazine 'Onlooker'. She published her first collection of short stories in 1978, and her first novel, 'The Dark Holds No Terror', in 1980. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel ''That Long Silence'' in 1990 and the Padma Shri award in 2009. Her novel ''Shadow Play'' was shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize in 2014. Deshpande has written four children’s books, a number of short stories, thirteen novels, and an essay collection entitled ''Writing from the Margin and Other E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Novels
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on board; Eight people die in a blizzard on Mount Everest; Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal to have been cloned from an adult somatic cell; The Port Arthur Massacre occurs on Tasmania, and leads to major changes in Australia's gun laws; Macarena, sung by Los del Río and remixed by The Bayside Boys, becomes a major dance craze and cultural phenomenon; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crash-ditches off of the Comoros Islands after the plane was hijacked; the 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, marking the Centennial (100th Anniversary) of the modern Olympic Games., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Centennial Olympic Park bombing rect 200 0 400 200 TWA FLight 800 rect 400 0 600 200 1996 Mount Everest disaster rect 0 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
