Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 954.92
EAN: 9780253341211
ISBN: 0253341213
Label: Indiana University Press
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: January 01, 1993
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Sales Rank: 1698363
Studio: Indiana University Press

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
"Bangladesh: Reflections on the Water" is a personal and penetrating overview of the land and its people. James J. Novak examines the economy, the importance of seasonal fluctuations in the lifestyle and psychology of the people, geography, history, music, art, poetry, ways of thinking, and political life. He also offers a novel interpretation of the Bangladesh independence movement, the only full-fledged expression of nationalism to appear in the country's modern history. This nationalism, expressed in poetry, prose, and song, is used to illustrate the interaction between religion and secular thought, language and culture, cultural expression, poetry, and art and its transformation into political thought. The contents include: Preface; The Scene; The Seasons; Pride and Poverty; Aspects of the Bangladeshi Mind; I am the Cyclone, I am Destruction; Further Tales of Murder and Politics; Bangladesh and The United States; Will Bangladesh Survive? Investing and Visiting; Bibliographical Essay; and Index.




Rating: - Novak writes how a Bangali feels about Bangla desh
As a Bangladeshi-American, I am disturbed at the number of publications potraying her as destitude, poor and disaster prone. Novak tries to disprove this 'theory of Bangla desh' and shows Bangladesh in the reality, like any Bangladeshi would. Reading the book at times felt like a Bangladeshi has written it. Novak's description of water, seasons and women of Bangladesh are true to the bone and I wish more people in the American media would have read this book before writing their presentations on ... Read More

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Rating: - Novak describes Bangla Desh as a Bengali would:
I was shocked to find out that someone from a western country could comprehend how a Bengali feels about Bangla desh. Me as a Bangla deshi always knew Bangladesh like the way Novak describes her. And quite the opposite of how the US media potrays Bangladesh! I thank Novak for writing such a wonderful book. I hope more books like this are written rather than media's obsessive relience on negative stereotyping of Bangladesh. PS: This book was published in 1993 and I think a next edition has become ... Read More

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Rating: - Best book I have read on Bangladesh
This is absolutely the best book to read about BanglaDesh. I loved the way Novak describes the seasons and connection to the Bangladeshi people. I have visited Bangladesh a few months back and I am glad I read this book before. But I do wish there was a newer edition as this version was written a few years back.

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Rating: - a beautiful potrayal of Bangla desh
Those who know about Bangadesh other than from media's perspective, see it as a nation full of promises and contradiction. A land so beautiful and bountiful yet so much devastation from nature and man-made. Novak keenly provides the details of how colonial rule devastated an otherwise wealthy nation into destitude and poverty. He also draws wonderful contradiction between US history and that of Bangladesh. A truly wonderful read.

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Rating: - Lamentable
There seems to be increasing interest in South Asia. In light of the revolutionary study of South Asia in the last 20 years, most books written about South Asia are now inappropriate. Most of the coverage has been on India and Pakistan with little available for Bangladesh. This has made a vacuum all to readily filled by travellers who wish to give us a single compendium on the whole of Bangaldesh. The scale of activity surrounding India & Pakistan has separated the men from the boys, the ... Read More

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