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Uma Ram and K. S. Ram

Dr Uma Ram served as Professor and Head, Department of English, Government Kakatiya Post-Graduate College, Jagdalpur (Bastar) in Chhattisgarh for more than three decades. She and her husband, K. S. Ram, write regularly for The Times of India and other journals. They have jointly translated several works from Hindi and Kannada to English. They are joint authors of Tribal Songs, Ballads and Oral Epics of Bastar, published in 2012. They live in Bengaluru.     Read More...


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Selected Poems: Harihar Vaishnav
Books by Uma Ram, K. S. Ram

This book brings forty poems of Harihar Vaishnav, translated into English by Uma Ram and K. S. Ram. The poems present poignant pictures of the tribes in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, struggling against a changed order which they resent, but are unable to resist. The original text in Hindi is printed alongside the English translation. 

Harihar Vaishnav was born in Bastar in 1955, and lived there all his life till his death in 2021. He is best known for h

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Are You A Monkey, Or Are You A Kitten?
Books by K.S.RAM & UMA RAM

The short essays in this book have a common string: spirituality, in a practical sense of the word. The range of topics is wide: Love is a Verb-less State of Being; The Price of Money; Not Nothing, I am No-thing; Life Lessons from Chess; Drink While you Pray, or Pray While You Drink?; Another Way to Eat a Mango; Hostile Love; To be a Somebody, Remain a Nobody; In Divine Mathematics, 0=1=∞; etc. Several essays are related to the spiritual outlook of indigenou

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DOHAVALI
Books by K.S. RAM

Kabir and Rahim occupy an important position among those who have shaped the popular culture in India. The fact that many of Kabir’s compositions form part of the Adi Granth, the Sacred Book of the Sikhs, is evidence to the extent of his appeal. Doha, meaning a two-lined rimed couplet, was a favourite format of Kabir and other poets. Their couplets have acquired the status of proverbs, quoted in the Hindi-belt a hundred times every day in c

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Bastar and Miscellaneous Poems
Books by K.S. Ram

Bastar is a series of poems on Bastar, a part of the ancient Dandakaranya (modern-day Chhattisgarh). It is home to some of the most primitive and wonderful forest-tribes in the world. For over a century now, the tribes are reeling on the one hand, under the ways of bossy petty officials, traders and, now, the Naxals and, on the other hand, the ‘schemes’ of the Government and the evangelists who presume that the good of th

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