Indian Literature

The late Binodini Thakur had been very clear that she would never agree to sell her hissa in her Bauji's big old house on Hailey Road. And her daughter, Bonu, is determined to honor her mothers wishes. But what to do about her four pushy aunts who are insisting she sell?

In this Indian folktale, a young turtle shares a shallow lake with unlikely friends—two geese. But when the lake starts drying up, the stubborn turtle must follow his winged friends’ advice, or he’ll be left out to dry.

ഇതിലെ നോവലെറ്റുകള്‍; ഒരു കഥയുടെ വിവിധ സാധ്യതകളിലേക്കാ ണിവ നീളുന്നതെന്ന് ഞാനറിയുന്നു. കാമം, മോഹം, ദുര, ലജ്ജാകരവും വന്യവുമായ നെട്ടോട്ടങ്ങള്‍, അവയ്ക്കുള്ളിലെ കാഴ്ചകള്‍. അതില്‍ തൊട്ടു നിന്ന് നമുക്കിടയിലെ പനിച്ചൂടിനെപ്പറ്റി വേവലാതിയോടെ ചില കാര്യങ്ങള്‍. ഒരേ സമ്പ്രദായങ്ങളും നിലനില്പിനുള്ള കാട്ടായങ്ങളുമാണ് ഇതിലെ മനുഷ്യര്‍ക്കെ ല്ലാം. അപ്പോള്‍ സാദൃശ്യം വരിക സ്വാഭാവികം.

When the younger players in India's cricket team find out that advertising executive Zoya Singh Solanki was born at the very moment India won the World Cup back in 1983, they are intrigued. When having breakfast with her is followed by victories on the field, they are impressed. And when not eating with her results in defeat, they decide she's a lucky charm. The nation goes a step further. Amazed at the ragtag team's sudden spurt of victories, it declares her a goddess.

Kisah tentang pendakian delapan anak muda—lima laki-laki dan tiga perempuan—ke Gunung Argopuro yang adalah gunung dengan trek pendakian terpanjang di Pulau Jawa. Petualangan mereka digambarkan sangat detail dari tempat ke tempat dalam rute pendakian tersebut.

സ്വന്തം മണ്ണില്‍ വേരുറപ്പിച്ചുനിന്ന് ദേശത്തേക്കും ലോകത്തേക്കും ശാഖകള്‍ പടര്‍ത്തുന്ന ഒരു വലിയ അനുഭവലോകമാണ്‌ രാജ് നായരുടെ 'കടലാസ്സുപക്കികള്‍' സഹൃദയര്‍ക്കു മുന്‍പില്‍ തുറന്നിടുന്നത്

കണ്ണാടി, പങ്കലാക്ഷിയുടെ ഡയറി, രണ്ടമ്മയും ഒരു മകനും, ദേവിന്റെ മൂന്ന് പ്രശസ്ത നോവലുകളുടെ സമാഹാരം. ജാതീയമായ ഉച്ചനീചത്വങ്ങളും വര്‍ഗ്ഗീയതയുടെ ഭീകരദൃശ്യങ്ങളും നിറഞ്ഞ 'കണ്ണാടി'. വീട്ടുവേലക്കാരിയായ പങ്കലാക്ഷിയുടെ ജീവിതാനുഭവങ്ങള്‍ ഡയറിത്താളുകളിലൂടെ സത്യസന്ധമായി ആവിഷ്‌കരിക്കുന്ന 'പങ്കലാക്ഷിയുടെ ഡയറി'.

മനുഷ്യമനസ്സിന്റെ അന്തർഭാവ ത്തെയും ആദിരൂപത്തെയും ആവാ ഹിക്കുന്ന ഏഴാം പക്കം, മനുഷ്യത്വം മരവിച്ചുപോയ സമൂഹത്തിൽ ജീവി ക്കാൻ വിധിക്കപ്പെട്ട ഒരു ചെറുക ക്കാരന്റെ കഥ പറയുന്ന കിരാതം, മനുഷ്യജീവിതത്തിന്റെ അർത്ഥ രാഹിത്യത്തെ ആവിഷ്കരിക്കുന്ന താളിയോല, മനുഷ്യന്റെ കടിഞ്ഞാ ണില്ലാത്ത ആസക്തിയുടെയും വികൃതമായ ദൗർബല്യങ്ങളുടെയും കഥയുന്ന ഞങ്ങൾ അടികൾ എന്നീ നാലു നോവെല്ലുകളുടെ സമാഹാരം.

Secret Staircase Construction just finished their first project with Tempest Raj officially a part of the team—a classic mystery novel-themed home interior. Their client is now ready to celebrate her new life without her cheating ex-husband, famous mystery author Corbin Colt. First up, a party, and Tempest and Grandpa Ash are invited to the exclusive mock séance to remove any trace of Corbin from the property—for good. It's all lighthearted fun until Corbin's dead body crashes the party.

As his adventures with Little Bear continue, Omri travels from the French and Indian wars to the present and then back to the Old West at the turn of the century.

While it lived, the tamarind tree stood at the crossroads of a small village in Southern India. For more than fifty years it was a benevolent observer, offering shade without discrimination. It bore witness to laughter and tears, to tragedy and simple pleasures, and to the history of the village itself as it transformed from the old ways of bullock-led carts to a bustling community of social, political, economic, and ecological change.

Discover the endless fascination of Indian culture with five tales, selected for you for their power of evocation, wisdom and humor. "The Alligator and the Jackal" is a tale of wit and cleverness, about which will defeat the other. "Singh Rajah and the Cunning Little Jackals" is another example of how cleverness can overcome even the most powerful. "The Farmer and the Money-Lender" shows the eternal struggle between class, and a way to trick the tricker; "Who Killed the Otter's Babies?" will bring you deep reflections about causality and responsibility; and Tit for Tat is a powerful lesson about the dangers of habits.

When the body of a white man is recovered from a shallow grave in one of the most troubled corners of the Wind River Reservation, Father John O'Malley knows that if the murderer isn't caught quickly, this tragedy will only be the beginning. The victim's widow is already out for revenge. And the one person Father John believes could lead him to the killer is a terrified 15-year-old girl running for her life.

First published in 1907, Old Indian Days is a collection of stories about the Sioux of the Upper Midwest. Charles A. Eastman writes about the traditional life of his people, their culture, customs, family relations, and struggle for survival in stories like The Love of Antelope, The Madness of Bald Eagle, and The Singing Spirit.

It doesn’t take long for ambitious freshman and aspiring engineer Jessie Ahuja to learn about two university legends. One is the haunted history of Davidson Tower, where more than fifty years ago, two ill-fated lovers disappeared in a devastating fire. The other is Ravi Kumar, a privileged billionaire nepo baby who’s aggravatingly charming and occupying more brain space than Jessie has room for. Things change when a campus prank locks them both in the old tower’s ghostly library.

A young hippie couple reach both enlightenment and social fame via their "material pragmatism", supported by both Western and Eastern religion - and with some help from an American Indian named "Little Bird".

The sixth book in the Charles Bloom Murder Mystery series… In 1961, two Navajo boys must bet each other’s lives - and risk their most prized possessions - to escape the wrath of the sadistic headmaster of a Gallup Indian boarding school. The white devil and his spawn will stop at nothing - not even murder - to acquire the objects of their desire. Fifty years later, a brush with death draws Rachael Yellowhorse and Charles Bloom back to the Navajo reservation, where they unwittingly stumble on a decades-old secret of child abuse and stolen heirlooms.

Victoria Trumbull, 92-year-old native of Martha's Vineyard, is savoring the sea air over Vineyard Sound with her granddaughter, Elizabeth, when she spots a person who seems in trouble near the top of a cliff. Elizabeth goes for help, but it's too late - the man dies before he can be rescued.

Ankita Sharma has the world at her feet. She is young, good-looking and smart and has tonnes of friends and boys swooning over her. College life is what every youngster dreams of, and she also manages to get into a premier management school for her MBA. Six months later she is a patient in a mental health hospital. How did Ankita get here? What were the events that led to this? Will she ever get back her life again? Life has cruelly and coldly snatched that which meant the most to her, and she must now fight to get it all back.

Richly textured, compassionate, and at times hilarious, Cowboys and East Indians traces a journey from India to Wyoming and back again, introducing us along the way to characters who seem not quite to fit the circumstances in which they find themselves, but who nevertheless search for belonging—through unexpected common ground with their human neighbors or the abiding, if isolating, openness of the vast landscape of the West.