Daljit Nagra is een gevierde dichter wiens werk duikt in de ingewikkelde relaties tussen cultuur, identiteit en taal. Zijn poëzie kenmerkt zich door een duidelijke stem en scherp inzicht in het moderne leven, vaak met onverwachte wendingen en een diep begrip van de menselijke conditie. Nagra overbrugt meesterlijk schijnbaar uiteenlopende werelden, wat lezers een verfrissende en boeiende literaire ervaring biedt. Zijn stukken worden geprezen om hun intellectuele diepgang en emotionele resonantie.
In these vivid, real and sometimes surreal pieces, Daljit Nagra creates his own inimitable linguistic bhaji: where Shakespeare meets the Subcontinent in a range of forms from English sonnets to spectacular displays of 'bollyverse' or the tender love songs of the monsoon.
Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief.
This is the revised edition of AS Level Panjabi book. It is revised according to the current AS Level specification in Panjabi. Most topics in the current specification have been covered in this book. Students preparing for the AS Level examination in Panjabi will find this book useful.
Features GCSE Panjabi model papers that can be used as mock examinations, occasional tests or for teaching purposes by teachers. This book contains two Listening and two Reading model papers in both Foundation and Higher Tiers. It also contains two Speaking and two Writing model papers.
By drawing on scenes originating in versions such as those from Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, as well as the better-known Indian Ramayanas, and by incorporating elements of Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain and secular versions, Nagra creates a consciously multicultural Ramayana.
With compassion and charisma, Nagra explores the impact of the first wave of mass migration to our shores, the Arab Spring, the allure of extremism along with a series of personal poems about the pressures of growing up in a traditional community.
This East-meets-West hybrid work combines playful cavort with serious comment.