Indian Literature

Lew's skill with firearms gets him a job as a hunter with a trader heading onto the prairies to barter with the Indians. There he meets young Chuck Morris, and together they take on a Cheyenne attack party. Finding shelter in a Sioux village, they absorb the native culture. Lew comes to know the great Sioux chieftains, becoming blood brothers with Sitting Wolf, while Chuck marries the beautiful maiden Zintcallasappa.

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.

ಗ್ರಸ್ತ ಎಂಬುದು ಕರಣಂ ಪವನ್ ಪ್ರಸಾದ್ ಬರೆದ ಸಮಕಾಲೀನ ಕಾದಂಬರಿ. ಈ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಯ ನಾಯಕನು ಹುಟ್ಟಿನಿಂದ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಮನುಷ್ಯ, ಅವನ ವರ್ತನೆಯಿಂದ ಒಬ್ಬ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ ಹಾಗೂ ವಿದ್ವಾಂಸ. ಅವನು ತನ್ನ ಜೀವನದ ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ, ವೈಜ್ಞಾನಿಕ, ತಾತ್ವಿಕ ಮತ್ತು ವೈಯಕ್ತಿಕ ಅಂಶಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಳುಗಿದ್ದಾನೆ. ಕಾದಂಬರಿಯು ನಾಯಕನ ಮೂಲಕ ಜೀವನದ ಅಂತಿಮ ಸತ್ಯವನ್ನು ಕಂಡುಹಿಡಿಯಲು ಒಲವು ತೋರುತ್ತದೆ. ಕಥೆಯ ನಡುವೆ ಜೋಡಿಸಿರುವ ಸನ್ನಿವೇಶಗಳು, ಜೀವನ ಮತ್ತು ಸಾವಿನ ಮೂಲ ಸಂಘರ್ಷವನ್ನು ನಿರೂಪಿಸಲು ಉತ್ತಮವಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಇದರಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಆರು ಲೇಖನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ''ಬಾಶಿಂಗ ಬಲ'' ''ತ್ರಯಸ್ಥ'' ಹಾಗೂ ''ಗಧೇ ಪಂಚವೀಶಿ'' ಇವು ಮೂರು ಕಥಾ ರೂಪಿ ಹರಟೆಗಳು. ''ಗಾಯಕವಾಡ ದಾದಾ'' ಹರಟೆ ರೂಪಿ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ ಚಿತ್ರಣ; ''ಶ್ರದ್ಧಾ'' ಒಂದು ಬಾಲ್ಯಕಾಲದ ಚಿತ್ರಣ. ''ಪುಸ್ತಕದ ಹುಳ'' ಒಂದು ಶುದ್ಧ ತಲೆಹರಟೆ ರೂಪಿ ಹರಟೆ…

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.

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 My Indian, Sylvester was hired by William Cormack in 1822 to guide him across Newfoundland in search of Beothuk encampments. In fact, he followed the advice of his Elders and guided Cormack away from the Beothuk. In this sequel, having parted ways with Cormack at St. George’s Bay, Sylvester decides to go out on his own, in search of the winter camp of the last of the remaining Beothuk.

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.

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".

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.

'ચિત્રલેખા'માં ધારાવાહિક સ્વરૂપે પ્રકાશિત આ નવલકથા પુસ્તકસ્વરૂપે સન 2000માં પ્રકાશિત થઈ. તેને ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય પરિષદ અને ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય અકાદમી બન્ને દ્વારા 'વર્ષની શ્રેષ્ઠ નવલકથા' ઘોષિત કરવામાં આવી.

'પુષ્પદાહ' એટલે પુષ્પને લાગતો દાહ. અમેરિકામાં વસતા ગુજરાતીઓના સમાજજીવનનો અંતરંગ પરિચય કરાવતી આ નવલકથા 'ડોક્યુ-નોવેલ' એટલે કે 'દસ્તાવેજી નવલકથા' છે. તેની વિશેષતા એ છે કે લેખકે આ નવલકથાનાં પાત્રોની વચ્ચે રહીને, તેમની મનોસ્થિતિનો અભ્યાસ કરતા રહીને આલેખન કર્યું છે. અમેરિકાનિવાસી મનોવિજ્ઞાનના શિક્ષક શાંતિભાઈના પુત્ર સંજયને પત્ની ચારુ થકી બે બાળકો જુલી અને રોબિન છે. ચારુએ સંજયનો ઉપયોગ અમેરિકા આવવાની સીડી તરીકે કરેલો છે. વલ્લભ ઠક્કર સાથે તેના સંબંધો છે. આ હકીકતની જાણ થતાં, સમજાવટની કોઈ અસર ન થતાં સંજય અને ચારુ છૂટાછેડા લે છે.

Marriage doesn’t just change your house and your roommate; it brings about a complete change. It is not simple accepting the new house, new family members and a new life partner. It takes a very big heart and lot of adjustments. Here are some chapters from the diary of a newlywed Indian woman and her journey, for a year, in her new house.

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.

Vavachan is a Pulayan who gets the opportunity to play a policeman with an immense moustache in a musical drama. The character appears in only two scenes and has no dialogue. However, Vavachan's performance, and his moustache, terrify the mostly upper-caste audience, reviving in them memories of characters of Dalit power, such as Ravanan. Afterwards, Vavachan, whose people were traditionally banned from growing facial hair, refuses to shave off his moustache. Endless tales invent and reinvent the legend of his magic moustache.

આ મયુર વ્યાસ ના અવાજ માં ધૂમકેતુ ની પુસ્તક મહાઅમાત્ય ચાણક્ય ની ઓડિયો બુક છે

यह उपन्यास असली खिलाड़ी उनके चर्चित उपन्यासों में से एक है. इसका हर पन्ना कुछ ऐसे राज़ खोलता है, जो कि उपन्यास के किरादारों में हमारी रूचि को और बढ़ाते हैं. ऑडियोबुक में रूप इस उपन्यास का आना उन सभी के लिए तोहफ़ा है जो उपन्यासों के लिए अपने दिल में ख़ास जगह रखते हैं.

Relics of a mysterious god, the Spice Gates connect the eight far-flung kingdoms, each separated by a distinct spice and only accessible by those born with a special mark. This is not a caste of distinction, though, but one of subjugation: Spice Carriers suffer the lashes of their masters, the weight of the spices they bear on their backs, and the jolting pain of the Gates themselves.

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.

In Alaska, people disappear every day. In Aleut detective Kate Shugak's Park, they've been disappearing a lot lately. Hikers head into the wilderness unprepared and get lost. Miners quit without notice at the busy Suulutaq Mine. Suicides leave farewell notes and vanish. Not only are Park rats disappearing at an alarming rate, but so is life in the Park as Kate knows it.