Indian Literature

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American Indian Fairytales is a collection of Native American folklore retold for children and young adults. Margaret Compton (1852-1903) drew on authentic lore from a wide selection of regions. The tales include "The Story-Teller Himself", "Snowbird and the Water-Tiger", "The Coyote or Prairie Wolf", and "How Mad Buffalo Fought the Thunder-Bird".

நாகராஜன் மாலதியை கல்யாணம் செய்து கொள்ள வேண்டுமென்றால் இரண்டே மாதத்தில் பத்தாயிரம் ரூபாய் சம்பாதிக்க வேண்டும் என்று மாலதியின் சித்தப்பா கூறுகிறார். இரக்க குணம் கொண்ட பணக்காரர் சபேசனை ஏமாற்ற நாகராஜனே தியாகராஜனை கொன்றுவிட்டதாக பழி வருகிறது. இல்லாத நபரை கொண்டு வர நாகராஜன் திணற சபேசன் உதவியுடன் சிக்கல் அவிழ்கிறது. திரு. சோ எழுதி அவர் குழுவுடன் நடிக்காத வெளி நாடகக்குழு போட்ட ஒரே நாடகம் இது.

ரவியும் அரவிந்தும் சிறந்த நண்பர்கள். அரவிந்த் வேலை தேடும் வாலிபன். அவனுக்கு ரவி மூலம் வேலை கிடைக்கிறது. அரவிந்த வேலை கிடைத்த சந்தோஷத்தில் கோவிலுக்கு செல்கிறான். அங்கு அகல்யாவை சந்திக்கிறான், அவள்மீது காதல் வசப்படுகிறான் அதை வெளிப்படுத்தி கொள்ளாமல், இருக்கின்றான். முதல் சந்திப்பிலே இருவருக்கும் மோதல் ஏற்பட்டுவிடுகிறது. இவர்கள் இருவரையும் இணைக்க ரவி செய்யபோகும் நிகழ்வே ஜோடி பொருத்தம்...

Naomi Jackson never thought her life would come to this. She'd been abandoned by the father of her two children. Stranded during the last days of 1809 in a ramshackle stream-side home in rural Tennessee. But here she was. The Devil Bill Williams had vanished. Now it was up to her to care for her two innocent, beautiful children.

When Roma Nettles is saved from drowning by Gray Moon, a member of the Sioux tribe, she also finds her heart captured by this kind and handsome man. On her way to the town of Hill Song as a mail-order bride, she is devastated to learn that her husband-to-be, Harry Rinson, is a vile and vicious man. And as she learns more about John - as Gray Moon is known to the white man - she finds herself falling deeper in love with him.

James "Orlando" Sherwood has resurrected the old Shadow Dance religion, having his followers dance for days at a time for the promise of an Indian paradise. And when lawyer Vicky Holden's estranged husband is found murdered, Father John O'Malley believes that Orlando has more to do with it than he lets on. But to get the proof, Father John and Vicky Holden will have to learn to dance to his music.

If you're a Tagore fan, this is a feast!

In this exquisite collection of children’s folktales, Zitkála-Šá shares the legends that were handed down to her through generations of Yankton storytellers. These tales display the wide range of insights and observations that accrue to such stories through repeated iteration, but they also benefit from the sharp ear and finely tuned sensibility of Zitkála-Šá as a writer. Her characters seem to speak to us—often crying out to us—in the same tones that Zitkála-Šá must once have heard.

Luka-Jhanki, by Darpan Sah, is an anthology of anti-poems! The poet’s works are deeply philosophical and evocatively esoteric in nature, they arouse the listener’s most intense emotions. Darpan Sah’s poetry guides you only halfway to an ontological understanding of his poems. You will find yourself left alone at the right point of time to ponder the bigger questions of life all by yourself and to interpret each piece of his poetry in your own way.

Gautam Rajrishi - a name that has emerged as a refreshing change in modern poetry of Hindi literature. Who would have imagined that a serving colonel of Indian army would introduce us to a new style of Ghazals? And that is precisely what he does, with ease and panache...dismantling all the stereotyped images we have harbored in our minds. He picks up his words from our daily life, giving them a sublime bliss that we have never seen before in Ghazals.

பாகிஸ்தானிய தீவிரவாதி இந்திய ராணுவத்தில் இருக்கும் ஒரு இராணுவ அதிகாரியை தன் கட்டுப்பாட்டில் வைத்திருக்கிறான். அதனால் நேர்மையான இராணுவ அதிகாரி தருணின் வாழ்வில் நடந்த மாற்றம் என்ன?

In 1903, over 300 Indian children from across America lived at the Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School in a remote, isolated valley in Montana. Among the children were a handful of teenage girls, many who had only lived in tepees. They quickly learned to play basketball and resoundingly crushed all opponents, including men's and women's university teams. After the games, the girls recited Shelley and Longfellow, played mandolins and violins, sang, danced, and pantomimed.

Left destitute and alone with her mother after her father abandoned them, Erin Saddler is shocked when she learns her mother has arranged for her to be a mail order bride to a Mr. Rich McNettle. But they are out of money, and marriage is their last chance for a stable life. So Erin agrees to travel west to wed this man she's never met. But when a stagecoach accident and a brave man step in to her destiny, she begins to believe that God has other plans for her.

This young adult historical novel, tells the fictional account of young Mary Shirley, who just wants a normal life with friends her age and someday, suitors. She is brave, tenacious, and prone to be rash. The settlers along Indian Creek in Western Virginia are siding against King George, except Papa. He has declared loyalty and intends to remove the family to Kentucky territory. After discovering surveys with strange riddles, Mary witnesses her papa exchange documents between a patriot neighbor and a known loyalist. She believes Papa is a cowardly traitor, endangering the family.

Twelve-year-old Wind That Knocks Down Lodges loves his little sister, Cactus Flower, and the wildness of the desert canyonland the Apache call home. But in one night of misunderstanding and mistakes, Knocks Down and Cactus Flower’s innocent world is shaken as they find themselves locked in the nearby fort with the pale face soldiers and their mother’s lifeless body. With no one to lean on but each other, Knocks Down and Cactus Flower must make their way as children of The People in the pale face world - pale faces who have now become the enemy.

When Jessie, a woman traveling west to an already established mission, finds a wounded Native American man, despite much opposition, decides to nurse him back to health because she knows it's what God wants. Despite hatred amongst some members of the train for the young man, she triumphs and is able to get him back on his feet, even though another attack almost kills him again.

Didier is an elephant, but he isn't sure if he likes being an elephant all that much, with his big, awkward body and boring life of carrying and lifting things for his human owner, Mr. Rahol. He lives in Mumbai with his mother, who tells fantastic tales about living in the wild before humans captured her and turned her into a domestic animal. Neither she nor the rest of Mr. Rahol's herd of elephants, however understand why Didier would rather be some other kind of animal instead.

Priscilla putters along in her usual life of bridge and gossip and coffee shops and shopping at the local markets in the small Indian town where she lives, until one morning, the mysterious man known only as the Pharsee gives her a box. The thing is filthy, twitchy and just plain wrong...but no matter what Priscilla tries, or how many cleaning boys she fires, she simply cannot get rid of it.

The owner believes his Colorado ski villa is being built in accordance with sacred Navajo traditions. The contractor has to get the roof and walls closed in before autumn snows invade the house and ruin it. The building inspector has figured out who the crew really is and demands a bribe or he’ll stop work on the project. Jacek has met a woman who makes more sense than any of this and he wants to take her home with him, to the Tatra Mountains. The house, if it is ever finished, won’t protect anybody, not actually.