Gyaan Adab & The Book Club, Pune presents Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Novel : Homegoing vividly portrays the African and African American experience in the aftermath of enslavement. It achieves this by tracing the descendants of two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, born into different villages in Ghana, for 8 generations. The sisters' […]
Join Zoom Meeting Zoom Meeting ID: No password required View Event on Facebook ABOUT THE PROGRAM The program will be conducted jointly by Nasima Merchant, Vijaya Tecksingani and Namita 'Prakash'. They will introduce the author Syed lmtiaz Ali Taj and his iconic character, Chacha Chakkan, and read aloud some humorous stories of Chacha Chakkan. ABOUT […]
A Promised Land by Barack Obama About The Book: A Promised Land, which runs into 768 pages, is the first volume of the Presidential Memoirs of Barack Hussein Obama II, the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Obama took to writing this book a month after his term ended and took […]
ABOUT THE NOVEL Gun Island is a beautifully realised novel which effortlessly spans space and time. It is the story of a world on the brink, of increasing displacement and unstoppable transition. But it is also a story of hope, of a man whose faith in the world and the future is restored by two […]
Gyaan Adab & The Book Club, Pune presents The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald About The Novel : The Emigrants is presented as a set of observations and recollections. The narrator recounts his involvement with four different characters, all of whom are emigrants. The text includes many black and white photographs and strays sharply from general formats of […]
Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Brontë ABOUT THE BOOK : Jane Eyre is considered one of the most famous romance novels of all time. It follows the experiences of its protagonist’s growth to adulthood and her love for the arrogant and brooding Mr. Rochester. The novel revolutionised prose fiction by being the first to focus on its […]
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga About the Novel: The story of Balram Halwai, born in Gaya in Bihar, is the story of the white tiger- an animal that arrives once in a generation. For it is that difficult to break out of the cast of your caste, the darkness of debt and the mental […]
Moustache by S.Hareesh About the Novel: Moustache is the story of Vavachan, a Dalit, who is given the part of a policeman in a musical drama that requires him to grow a huge moustache. Ordinarily, because his caste is forbidden facial hair, he would have been expected to shave it off once the musical is over. […]
Bazm - E - Shayeerat Seher hone tak GyaanAdab and Neerja Kreations presents. On the occasion of International Women's Day, we celebrate the creativity, intellectual talent and indomitable spirit of women - as seen through their verses. Our extravaganza of poetry, music and dance shines the spotlight on some hidden gems of Urdu ‘shaayari’ written […]
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart About the Novel: This debut novel won the 2020 Booker prize. When her philandering husband leaves, Agnes and her three children find themselves trapped in a mining town decimated by Thatcherism. As Agnes increasingly turns to alcohol for comfort, her children try their best to save her. Yet one […]
