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Ram Alexander |
Death Must Die |
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| Death Must Die gives an intimate first-hand account of a courageous woman's spiritual quest in close association with several of India's greatest modern saints. Ram Alexander, who was a close friend of Atmananda's and a fellow disciple of Anandamayi Ma, writes with insight about the guru-disciple relationship.Although written in a diary format, her story reads almost like a novel, beginning with her youthful involvement with Theosophy in the Vienna of the 1920s. In the 1940s she goes to Benares... |
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Suzanne Segal |
Collision with the Infinite |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| She thought she had gone mad, but she was enlightened and didn't know it! Some people spend years in caves trying to experience what suddenly happened to Suzanne Segal. This is the incredible story of a young woman who irrevocably lost all sense of personal self, or an "I". It is the story of her mind's desperate attempts to come to grips with -- or deny! -- her spiritual condition, a process which took eight years.-- Collision with the Infinite is an extraordinary work. One... |
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John E. Coleman |
The Quiet Mind |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| The Quiet Mind is a classic (and true) story of a spiritual odyssey. John Coleman, a CIA agent in Asia in the 1950's, is forced to resign when his cover is blown. He embarks on a vigorous pursuit of a different sort: a quest for spiritual truth. Coleman travels through India, Burma, Japan and Thailand and encounters such legendary teachers as Krishnamurti, Maharishi, D.T. Suzuki and Sayagyi U Ba Khin. His search for peace of mind and liberating insights comes to fruition in Yangon... |
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Sunyata |
Dancing with the Void |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| "In this life play I have not been in quest of Guru, God, Truth, Grace,
Salvation, nirvana, or power lust. I had no ambition to be different from what I
am. Blessedly, I had escaped headucation, and was free of any imposed knowledge.
I had no property. I did not marry. I did not belong to any cliques or creed. I
was not attracted to their magnetism. I felt all is within our Self. I had
nothing to assert or resent. Nor had I anything to boast about or regret. I was
fully contented. I... |
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Stephen Knapp |
Search For Destiny : A Spiritual Adventure in the Himalayas |
$25.49 $17.84 |
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| This is a highly mystical and spiritual adventure for
those who prefer their metaphysical insights, realizations, and learning to come
through light reading, stories, and descriptions of experiences. This story
relates a man's quest for Truth and shows his journey from a state of confusion
to one of the highest levels of enlightenment and self-empowerment. It is a book
that will take you to other worlds and unlimited realms.
Deep within the mystical and spiritual practices of
India... |
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Meera Uberoi |
The Mahabharata |
$25.49 $17.84 |
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| A modern retelling of an ancient tale of power, love, duty and revenge.To Indians, the Mahabharata is not merely a story of the power struggle between princes divided on the issue of inheritance. It is representative of human nature and of life itself, for woven into the elaborate narrative of a heroic tale are writings on ethics, law, philosophy, history, geography, statecraft and religion. Meera Uberoi has retold this epic tale of love and hatred, joy and sorrow, pride and endurance, with... |
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Nilesh D Nathwani |
Kailash-Mansarovar: Diary of a Pilgrim |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| This is a story of an unforgettable odyssey to the holy Mount Kailash and the sacred Lake Mansarovar describing mysteries connected with the land capturing the intangible air of faith and pilgrimage. For four major religions of the world, i.e. for Tibetan Buddhism, Jainism, Bompo (a religion prior to Buddhism in Tibet) and Hinduism, Mount Kailash is the spot of utmost reverence and importance. For the Buddhists, Kailash is the centre point of the universe. For the Jains, Kailash is the Mount... |
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Captan W. Hollings |
The Baital pachisi |
$5.49 $3.84 |
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| These immortal tales of chivalry and skullduggery, wisdom and foolishness, honesty and deceit, are about Baital, a mythical wraith like figure accrediated with supernatural powers, and King Vikramaditya whose wisdom is matched only by King Solomon of the Biblical fame. |
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Dom Moraes |
The Open Eyes |
$38.99 $27.29 |
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| In this entertaining and witty mix of history, diary and the ramifications of the modern age the story of the land of Karnataka is told through the eyes of many people. Following the paths gazed by these eyes, Mores's personal experiences bring out the feel and smell of the place, but more, the hope.
Dom begins in the dense woods roamed by wild tigers and panthers. He begins with a little native boy whose large eyes open and see his changing country with mild curiosity and at times... |
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Hermann Hesse |
Siddhartha |
$12.49 $8.74 |
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| Siddhartha is the iconic novel of the sixties beat author Herman Hesse. An absolute must read for both spiritual seekers and non-seekers.Siddhartha's life takes him on a journey toward enlightenment. A fire with youthful idealism, the Brahmin joins a group of ascetics, fasting and living without possessions. Meeting Gotama the Buddha, he comes to feel this is not the right path, though he also declines joining the Buddha's followers. He reenters the world, hoping to learn of his own nature, but... |
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Paul Bauer |
Himalayan Campaign |
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| The exciting tale of the first two German expeditions to Kangchenjunga brings vividly to life the conditions of life in the subcontinent at the time.
At this time, India was part of the British Empire, but this was not an obstacle for the German team. "Our personal relationship with the English presented no problems.. We felt at home... with the British.. made a strict rule never to discuss religion or politics.. one can understand whey I smiled to myself when the British Consul-General... |
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Smita Jhavar |
Stolen Sunshine |
$16.95 $11.87 |
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| Set in the pre-independence and post-independence scenarios and spanning three generations, "Stolen Sunshine" delves into the delicate interpersonal relationships in a typical, traditional Marwari family; and each girl's individual reaction to the same situation.
The book spreads into 13 chapters presenting a well-knitted plot. The treatment to the subject is superb and there is continuous flow of events.
About the Author:
Smita Jhavar is currently Director, Bhartiya... |
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Sanyay Grover |
Nine days to Nirvana |
$25.49 $17.84 |
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| Nine days to Nirvana is not a novel to provide escape. It is a book to stir your soul and arouse the imagination. It is not bland philosophy or spirituality, but the exudation of life. This story of 23-year-old Upasana's journey into the body, mind and soul of mankind begins from a cool head and ends in a warm heart after passing through labyrinths of mystery and suicide, adultery and heartbreak, tears and smiles. In between lie values of pettiness and peaks of grandeur, cats with... |
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Peter Matthiessen |
The Snow Leopard |
$28.00 $19.60 |
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| When Matthiessen went to Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and, possibly, to glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard, he undertook his five-week trek as winter snows were sweeping into the high passes. This is a radiant and deeply moving account of a "true pilgrimage, a journey of the heart."
In the autumn of 1973, the writer Peter Matthiessen set out in the company of zoologist George Schaller on a hike that would take them 250 miles into the heart of the Himalayan region of Dolpo,... |
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A.N.D. Haksar |
Madhav and Kama- A Love Story from Ancient India |
$10.94 $7.66 |
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| Madhav and Kama- A Love Story from Ancient India is the story of Mádhavánala and Kamákandalá. Madhav, a handsome and accomplished young man, is asked to leave his city of Pushpávati: his looks and singing so distract women that they neglect their work, and cityfolk are in uproar about it. Exiled, Madhav reaches the court of King Kama Sena, the ruler of Kámávati, where he meets the bewitching courtesan Kama. The two fall in love, but royal ire ensures that the lovers must part. A heartbroken... |
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Godfrey T. Vigne |
A Personal Narrative of a Visit to Ghuzni, Kabul, and Afghanistan |
$23.86 $16.70 |
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| In 1836 the author set out from India and crossed into Afghanistan, south of the Khyber Pass, and made his way to Ghunzi and thence to Kabul before returning to Peshawar. He describes in detail the places he visited, the inhabitants and their customs etc. Includes interviews with the amir Doost Mohammed and the Sikh ruler Runjit Singh. With hand coloured frontispiece, one folding map, 6 tinted lithographed plates and many illustrations in the text. Original embossed cloth, rubbed. The first was... |
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Robin Sharma |
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari |
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| The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is the story of Julian Mantle, a superstar lawyer whose out-of-balance lifestyle leads him to an almost fatal heart attack in a packed courtroom. His physical collapse brings on a spiritual crisis that forces him to confront the condition of his life and seek answers to life’s most important questions. Hoping to find happiness and fulfilment, he embarks upon an extraordinary odyssey to an ancient culture, where he discovers a powerful system to release the... |
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M.J. Akbar |
Blood Brothers |
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| Blood Brothers is M.J. Akbar’s amazing story of three generations of a Muslim family – based on his own – and how they deal with the fluctuating contours of Hindu-Muslim relations. Blood Brothers is a chronicle of its age, its canvas as enchanting as its narrative, a personal journey through change as tensions build, stretching the bonds of a lifetime to breaking point and demanding, in the end, the greatest sacrifice. Its last chapters, written in a bare-bones, unemotional style, are the... |
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Anand Mulloo |
Voices of the Indian Diaspora |
$21.99 $15.39 |
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| Written in an easy readable style and shorn of academic jargon, Voices of the Indian Diaspora is a contemporary effort at understanding overseas Indians. It is honest, compelling, thought provoking and substantial. |
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V.N. Sekhri |
A Lament |
$21.99 $15.39 |
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| All of us have heard stories of partition and have also read about it in history books. Here is a real life story of a man who had gone throught all those circumstances.
The book is an explict picture of all those who had to leave their hearth and home and adjust to the multifarious demands of the new land and situations. |
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Greta Rana |
A Place Beneath the Pipal Tree |
$18.49 $12.94 |
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| This novel was first published in German by Ehrenwirth verlag, Munich, and is distributed through Luebbe Books as 'Im Schatten des heiligen Baumes'.
It describes three generations of Sherpa women, the men in their lives, the times they lived in, and the dilemmas they faced.
While not over romanticising the past, when it was originally written it could almost have been prophetic in its misgivings about the future in an environment governed by status and taboo, in which women have to... |
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Selina Sen |
A Mirror Greens in Spring |
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| It is 1984, a year which marks the end of an era in New Delhi, a city simmering with ethnic strife during the anti-Sikh riots consequent to prime minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination.
This cataclysmic event as the backdrop to the story serves to emphasize a climate of change and depicts the difference between two very diverse refugee cultures in Delhi, created upon the partition of India when the largest migration in history took place. In fact, issues of identity and displacement are... |
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Terry Newland |
Mind is a Myth |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called "U.G. Krishnamurti".
This is the story of a man who had it all--looks,
wealth, culture, fame, travel, career--and gave it all up to find for himself
the answer to his burning question, "Is there actually anything like freedom,
enlightenment or liberation behind all the abstractions the religions have
thrown at us?" He never got an answer. The book introduces you to the unknown
truths of life. |
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Pyhllis Granoff |
The Clever Adulteress and Other Stories: A Treasury of Jain Literature |
$14.95 $10.47 |
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| The stories in this collection span almost one thousand years of story-telling in India. Most originate in North India and all were written by Jain monks for the edification and amusement of the faithful. The treasures of India's heritage of story-telling are known to us today mainly from these Jain stories which have been carefully preserved through the years. The Stories in The Clever Adulteress have been translated by a renowned group of scholars from India, North America and Europe. Each... |
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Ferd Mahler |
Under the Painted Eyes: A Story of Nepal |
$23.95 $16.77 |
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| The three novels of "Under The Painted Eyes" are set in the shadow of the
great Himalayan Mountains and against the background tapestry of Nepal's
fascinating history and rich culture. Fictional and historical characters live,
love, fight and worship under the watching eyes of the Adi Buddha, which are
painted on the torans of the Swayambhunath and the Bodnath and other ancient
temples. The novels tell of romance and love over the centuries and the
happiness and tragedy they bring.... |
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Duff Hart-Davis |
Honorary Tiger |
$19.49 $13.64 |
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| An affectionate biography of India's renowned 'tiger-man'.
Having devoted fifty years of his life to animal conservation and now popularly known as India's latter-day Jim Corbett and 'tiger-man', eighty-seven-year-old Billy Arjan Singh is by any standards an extraordinary man.
Hart-Davies' biography traces Billy's path to conservation from his game shooting as a boy on the family estate, to his life as a farmer in North Kheri, where he witnessed first-hand the devastation of wildlife at the... |
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Mishi Saran |
Chasing the Monk's Shadow |
$27.95 $19.57 |
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| In the seventh century AD, the Chinese
monk Xuanzang set off on an epic journey to India
to study Buddhist philosophy from the Indian masters. Traveling along the Silk Road,
braving brigands and blizzards, Xuanzang finally reached India, where his spiritual quest took
him to Buddhist holy places and monasteries throughout the subcontinent.
Fourteen hundred years later, Mishi Saran follows in Xuanzang's footsteps to
the fabled oasis cities of China and Central Asia, and the Buddhist... |
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R.P. Singh |
Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur Life and Legend |
$19.70 $13.79 |
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| "Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur: Life and Legend" is the story of how fate catapulted Kanwar Mor Mukut Singh of Isarda to the throne of Jaipur, a state that he ruled as Sawai Man Singh II for 27 years before its merger with independent India. From being a ruler to serving as India's ambassador in Spain, he lived through a period of Indian history marked with glory and upheavals. Flamboyant, debonair and elegant, he had two overriding passions-polo and his third wife, Maharani Gayatri Devi. His... |
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C. J. C. Davdison |
Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India (2 Volumes in Hardcover) |
$42.11 $29.48 |
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| Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India in two volumes chronicles the travels and adventures of the Late Bengal Lt.Colonel of Engineers, C.J.C. Davidson.
The book takes us on his adventure from Bareilly (in Rohilcund) to Hardwar and Nahun in the Himalayan Mountains. We join the adventurer on a tour in Bundelcund, a sporting excursion in the Kingdom of Oude, and a voyage down the Ganges. |
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Gita Mehta |
River Sutra |
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Christine Devin |
Shakuntala or The Ring of Remembrance |
$10.99 $7.69 |
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| This adaptation of the masterpiece by Kalidasa is told in simple language. It is a moving and poetic love story seen from the inner perspective of the protagonists themselves.
Notes on Kalidasa are provided, as well as a comparison with the Shakuntala of the Mahabharata. Important comments by Sri Aurobindo on Kalidasa have been reproduced. |
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Siofra O'Donovan |
Pema and the Yak |
$11.49 $8.04 |
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| Pema and the Yak is the fascinating story of a journey through the
Himalaya along the Indo-Tibetan border into the heart of Tibet in Exile.
Encounters with oracels, lamas, ex-political prisoners, Tibetan doctors, DJs,
nomads, guerilla fighters, painters, poets, missionaries and Himalayan
royalty paint a vibrant picture of Tibetans living in exile today.
About the Author:
Siofra O'Donovan was born in Dublin and educated at University College... |
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Ferdinand Ossendowski |
Beasts, Men and Gods |
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| A gripping tale of adventure, this tells the story of Dr Ossendowski's escape from the Bolsheviks in Russia to yet more troubles as he tries to pass through Tibet to India and the safety of the British Empire. But the Tibetan bandits were not about to let him cross their land, and it was only cunning and subterfuge that saved him from certain death at their hands., Forced to return to Mongolia, even then more travails awaited him, and his story continues through this wild country, where... |
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Georgette Coty |
Christalis: A Saga of the Future |
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| A spiritual novel told with vivid imagery to inspire, in young people in particular, a vision of a spiritualised life on earth.
Christalis is a boy of light who appears before a woman devoted to the care of homeless children. He offers her his help and shows her "the future of a more harmonious and enlightened existence for earth" and "reveals the vision of a united universe and forecasts the coming of a New Age."
The work is written out of the author's "sincere desire to offer the gift of... |
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Adam Clapham |
Beware Falling Coconuts: Perspectives of India |
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| A documentary maker can never be off duty in India because there are too many terrific stories waiting to be told. So says the author Adam Clapham, a BBC producer who has worked and played in India all his professional life. Along the way Adam has kept his eye open for the off-beat, the bizarre and the British angle. This book is a kaleidoscope of his experiences, stories from the political hard edge to the downright whimsical.
The 400-croe diamond that cost 400 rupees
Mark Tully, the... |
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Diana Preston |
A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time: The Story of the Taj Mahal |
$43.49 $30.44 |
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| Emperor Shah Jahan married Mumtaz Mahal in 1612 in an unusual love match. Jahan involved his wife on all matters of state, and she followed him on all his military campaigns in spite of being almost constantly pregnant. She bore him 14 children, but her sudden death in childbirth caused Jahan inconsolable grief. His only solace was in creating the perfect memorial to his lost love on the banks of the Jumna River at Agra.
The mausoleum, made from milk-white marble and studded with a fortune in... |
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Banerjee Divakaruni |
The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming |
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| Anand is ecstatic at his new-found responsibility as Keeper of the Conch in the The Silver Valley, and with his dear friend Nisha, and their beloved teacher Abhaydatta is back again venturing on a new adventurous journey into the world of mystery and fantasy, a world of royal beauty and splendour, and a world of suspense and action.
In this second novel of the Brotherhood trilogy, the master storyteller takes us from the pristine beauty of Himalayas to the world of an ancient kingdom... |
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Gunabhiram Barua |
Ramnabami - Natak: The Story of Ram and Nabami |
$18.49 $12.94 |
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| Gunabhiram Barua’s Ramnabami-Natak, written in 1857, revolves around the tragic story of a young widow, Nabami, and her lover, Ramchandra. The first modern Assamese play on a secular theme, it presents a bold redefinition of consensual marriage while strongly advocating widow remarriage.
Translated into English for the first time, Ramnabami-Natak mounts a severe critique on the moral guardians of society and makes interesting references to certain social mores and beliefs in... |
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Cat Bordhi |
Treasure Forest: Winner Of The Nautilus Award For Best Young Adult Fiction, 2004 |
$15.99 $11.19 |
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| "How can you retrieve a treasure from the bottom of a pond without disturbing the water?" This is the challenge left for Ben by his Grandma Daphne, who has just died in the mysterious forest near her home. The author, Cat Bordhi, narrates how Ben and his sister Sara convince their reluctant parents to move there, in spite of the fierce hermit who lives beyond the swamp.
Ben and Sara learn the deepest truths of the forest while their parents’ worst fears seem to be realized. A wheelchair-bound... |
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Gita Mehta |
Karma Cola |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| A new edition of the brilliantly irreverent classic about the clash between Eastern and Western cultures. |
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Firoz A Shaikh |
Partition A Human Tragedy: A Critical Study of Novels on Partition of Indian Subcontinent |
$48.49 $33.94 |
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| The book presents an exhaustive study of the Indian English novels written on the theme of the partition of the Indian subcontinent that took place in 1947. It throws light and analyses objectively the causes and effects of the fateful decision of the partition rendered millions homeless and forced them to migrate and an equal number to face horrible atrocities, arsons, abductions, rapes and unforeseen violence.
The selected authors are Indians and their selected novels are written and... |
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