A Abbas: 9 books
by K A Abbas
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In 1973, a film shattered box office records all over India. It introduced two young stars who became instant heart-throbs, and ushered in a new genre of Hindi films, the teeny-bopper romance. It also bailed out the legendary RK Films after the disaster that was Raj Kapoor's magnum opus, Mera Naam...
by Suresh Kohli, K. A. Abbas
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
In this collection, Abbas brings forth through his stories his rich background in journalism and film-making. The stories here embrace varied themes and contexts, with protagonists from cities and villages. Abbas manages to capture the dilemmas of all his characters, be it a has been Nawab, a nurse...
by Suresh Kohli, K. A. Abbas
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
The strength of [his] short stories ... lies in the fact that [he] grasped the weaknesses of his characters and their strengths' - Mulk Raj Anand 'A man of literature, a journalist of distinction, a film-maker who created a genre of his own' - Gulzar - An Evening in Calcutta is a collection of celebrated...
by K A Abbas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The novelized version of the cult film, Mera Naam Joker It was by all accounts one of the biggest gambles in Hindi cinema of the time: five years in the making, with a running time of over four hours and two intervals, including two of the best-known circus troupes of India and the Soviet Union. Add...
Liberalism and Human Suffering
Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
A materialist critique of the politics, poetics and economics of suffering in liberalism that argues for attention to the labour of suffering of the victim in many well-meaning but flawed politics of redress, and imagines forms of representation, solidarity and justice that better honour the history and materiality of this labour.
The Postcolonial Contemporary
Political Imaginaries for the Global Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Contributors come from a number of disciplines: literature, anthropology, geography, sociology, and history.
Wiley IFRS
Practical Implementation Guide and Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
— Explanations of IFRS® and IFRIC interpretations
— Practical insights into implementation issues
— Worked-out illustrations and examples
— Case studies with solutions
— Multiple-choice questions with answers
— Extracts from published financial statements
A...
Muslim Spaces of Hope
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Debates about contemporary Islam and Muslims in the West have taken some negative turns in the depressing atmosphere of the war on terror and its aftermath. This book argues that we have been too preoccupied with problems, not enough with solutions. The increased mobilisation and scrutiny of Muslim...
Muslim Integration
Pluralism and Multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Muslim Integration: Pluralism and Multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia, contributors from a range of backgrounds investigate the state of Muslim integration in New Zealand and Australia. The growing presence of a Muslim minority has invited these two Pacific settler states to closely consider...