My Kind of GirlA modern day Bengali Decameron, My Kind of Girl is a sensitive and vibrant novella containing four disarming accounts of unrequited love. In a railway station one bleak December night, four strangers from different walks of life a contractor, a government bureaucrat, a writer, and a doctor face an overnight delay. The sight of a young loving couple prompts them to reflect on and share with each other their own experiences of the vagaries of the human

What Penaluna didn’t realize was that the Western philosophical canon taught in American universities

the entire concept of their humanity was derived from the interests of colonial capitalism — in service of which they had to be degraded and made to feel subservient

A standard-bearer of his generation in Chile

the garden is not just a neutral place and intended solely for personal pastime

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Based on the foregoing aims and goals of the study

These thinkers remade political philosophy in ways that influenced not only their own trajectory but also that of their critics

trade provides the integrating framework for local and regional histories that cover more than 300 years

Over one hundred poets are represented in this bilingual edition

A master of the short story form

Thapar counters such attempts at misrepresentation by citing several historical instances of the nuanced interface and intermingling of cultures

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