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V.N. Sekhri |
A Lament |
$21.99 $16.49 |
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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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Selina Sen |
A Mirror Greens in Spring |
$18.49 $13.87 |
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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... |
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Godfrey T. Vigne |
A Personal Narrative of a Visit to Ghuzni, Kabul, and Afghanistan |
$23.86 $17.90 |
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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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Greta Rana |
A Place Beneath the Pipal Tree |
$18.49 $13.87 |
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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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Diana Preston |
A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time: The Story of the Taj Mahal |
$43.49 $32.62 |
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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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Indira Chatterjee |
A Thematic Study of Tagore's Novels |
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| This book is confined strictly to an understanding of Tagore as a novel writer. A book on Tagore needs no publicity. Tagore, the First Nobel Laureate of India is undoubtedly a genius of our times, a veritable Encyclopaedia and the best representative of Indian creativity. There is no aspect of Indian life which does not find expressions in his writings. Tagore was man to whom nothing that was human could be alien. To us he was, indeed, the high priest of life and humanity. He saw life whole and... |
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Ferdinand Ossendowski |
Beasts, Men and Gods |
$14.49 $10.87 |
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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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Adam Clapham |
Beware Falling Coconuts: Perspectives of India |
$18.49 $13.87 |
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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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Raj Supe |
Big Bappa |
$5.49 $4.12 |
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| Big Bappa is an extremely exciting fictional novella in which the author writes in first person, describing himself as an aspiring writer whose Muse has betrayed him; he transports us into the quaint locale of 'Pen', to discover from its past, a real-life story with the hues of a myth.Vinayak Pandit, a complete rebel, an artist and mystic, sculpts Ganesha idols, depicting them in ways that are as unusual as they are radical. His unconventional methods in the pursuit of a unique philosophy give... |
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M.J. Akbar |
Blood Brothers |
$18.99 $14.24 |
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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,... |
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Mishi Saran |
Chasing the Monk's Shadow |
$31.49 $23.62 |
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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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Georgette Coty |
Christalis: A Saga of the Future |
$12.99 $9.74 |
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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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Suzanne Segal |
Collision with the Infinite |
$14.49 $10.87 |
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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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Sunyata |
Dancing with the Void |
$20.49 $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 had... |
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Ram Alexander |
Death Must Die |
$49.99 $37.49 |
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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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C. J. C. Davdison |
Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India (2 Volumes in Hardcover) |
$42.11 $31.58 |
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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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Paul Bauer |
Himalayan Campaign |
$10.99 $8.24 |
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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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Duff Hart-Davis |
Honorary Tiger |
$19.49 $14.62 |
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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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Sitaramdas Omkarnath |
Jai Jai Ram Krishna Hari |
$5.99 $4.49 |
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| It lifts your spirits and transports you to the ocean of divine bliss. The deftly wielded pen of the renowned saint-playwright, Sri Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath, brings souls from the earthly and the divine plane together. As you read, an inner revolution starts on its own. Here is a moving account of lives of Nivruttinath, Jnaneshwar, Naamdev, Jana, Gora Kumbhar and Chokhamela, all much-adored saints and prime movers of the Bhakti Movement in Maharashtra. Some are outcasts from the Brahminical... |
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Nilesh D Nathwani |
Kailash-Mansarovar: Diary of a Pilgrim |
$14.49 $10.87 |
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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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Gita Mehta |
Karma Cola |
$12.99 $9.74 |
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| A new edition of the brilliantly irreverent classic about the clash between Eastern and Western cultures. |
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A.N.D. Haksar |
Madhav and Kama- A Love Story from Ancient India |
$10.94 $8.21 |
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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... |
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Terry Newland |
Mind is a Myth |
$16.49 $12.37 |
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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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Lisa Alber |
Mysteries in the Mist |
$24.99 $18.74 |
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| About the Book:Mist has settled over Lisfenora village, bringing with it tales of a predatory faery called Grey Man. When a teenage boy dies in Danny’s arms, he finds himself pursuing his own grey man, a killer who becomes more elusive the closer Danny gets to the truth. A mysterious hermit jewelry maker, a mute woman on a quest to reconcile a past murder, and a dog turned hero join Merrit and Danny in the next installment of the County Clare mysteries.Reviews:“A worthy successor to... |
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Sanyay Grover |
Nine days to Nirvana |
$25.49 $19.12 |
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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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