Indian Literature

In 1885, while The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was becoming one of the best-selling American classics of modern times, Mark Twain began this sequel in which Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Jim head west on the trail of two white girls kidnapped by Sioux warriors. Fifteen thousand words into the work, Twain stopped in the middle of a sentence, never to go back. The unfinished story sat on dusty shelves for more than a hundred years until author Lee Nelson decided to finish it.

कै.मंगला वेलणकर या प्राध्यापिका, लेखिका, कवयित्री होत्या. त्यांचे संस्कृत, मराठी भाषेवर प्रभुत्व होते. त्यांनी अनेक नाटकं तसंच कथा, लेख, कविता, दीर्घकाव्ये, संस्कृतमध्ये मंगलाष्टके इ. लिहिलं. त्यांनी इतिहासातील आठ अनुल्लेखित स्रियांवर लिहिलेली दीर्घकाव्यं फार महत्वाची आहेत, तीच तुम्हाला इथं ऐकायला मिळणार आहेत. काय आहे या दीर्घकाव्यात? कुंती, देवकी, रावणपत्नी मंदोदरी, दुर्योधनपत्नी लक्ष्मणा, समर्थ रामदासांची न झालेली पत्नी, संत तुकारामांची पत्नी आवडी, डाॅ.

பழந்தீவுகளையெல்லாம் வென்று தெற்குமா கடல் முழுதும் தன் ஆட்சியை செலுத்தும் பாண்டியப் பேரரசை நிறுவ விரும்பும், கபாடபுரத்தை ஸ்தாபித்த பெரிய பாண்டியர் வெண்தேர்ச்செழியரின் அரசியல் ஆசையும் புலவர் சிகண்டியாசிரியரால் பண்படுத்தப் பெற்ற இசையுள்ளமும் மென்மையும் படைத்த சாரகுமாரனின் இனிய கனவுகளும் ஒன்றோடொன்று மோத நடுவில் மாட்டிக்கொள்ளும் சாரகுமாரனின் காதல் என்னவாகும்?

The Civil War: Caught up in the drama and intrigue of a nation torn apart - The Indian Nation - Chief Ross's spy, Jessie Longbow, and Ross's beautiful and intelligent niece, Raven Ross, a reporter for the Tahlequah Voice, try to maintain a romance that they believe is bigger and stronger than the turmoil of war. This means love amid wartime in the Trans-Mississsippi theater of war which history has long ignored. This novel does for the Native Americans of the Five Civilized Tribes what Glory did for Black Union soldiers.

What do Indian shoes look like, anyway? Like beautiful beaded moccasins... or hightops with bright orange shoelaces? Ray Halfmoon prefers hightops, but he gladly trades them for a nice pair of moccasins for his grampa. After all, it's Grampa Halfmoon who's always there to help Ray get in and out of scrapes—like the time they teamed up to pet sit for the whole block during a holiday blizzard!

India, 1947. In un villaggio rurale del Bengala vivono tre sorelle, figlie di uno stimato medico. Priya, intelligente e idealista, è decisa a seguire le orme del padre, nonostante la società la disapprovi. Deepa, la bella, è determinata a fare un matrimonio che porti alla sua famiglia felicità e prestigio. Jamini, devota e acuta, con passioni più profonde di quello che rivela, è una talentuosa artista del kantha, un tipo di ricamo tradizionale. La loro è una casa di amore e sicurezza, un rifugio dagli eventi violenti che stanno prendendo forma nella nazione.

Julia Townset is a very unhappy newly married bride who comes to America with her military husband. She has been given the task of teaching a Seneca Indian guide, Ki, to write and read and they build a relationship that will last a lifetime. Ki overhears a plan by Julia's husband to kill her because he has only married Julia for her money, but he wants Julia for himself. As the story progresses, Julia learns what it means to become American.

Arizona, December 1943. After surviving perilous six-month journeys to 1889 and 1918, the Carsons, five siblings from the present day, seek a respite in their home state. While Adam and Greg settle down with their Progressive Era brides, Natalie and Caitlin start romances with wartime aviators, and Cody befriends a Japanese family in an internment camp.

William “Bill” Stewart left Missouri to seek his fortune. Along the way, he worked as a cow puncher, range detective, town marshal, sheriff, and US marshal. In each job, he is forced into conflicts with the Indians. Finally his skills as an Indian fighter caught the attention of the US Army, and he was given a commission. He soon discovered that his greatest challenge was in following orders while retaining his humanity.

रवीन्द्रनाथ टैगोर का यह उपन्यास बीसवीं सदी के प्रारम्भिक वर्षों के बंगाल पर केन्द्रित है और उस समय के समाज, राजनीति और धर्म की वास्तविक तस्वीर प्रस्तुत करता है।.

1928. In British-ruled India, headstrong Sita longs to choose her own path, but her only destiny is a good marriage. After a chance meeting with a Crown Prince leads to a match, her family’s status seems secured and she moves into the palace, where peacocks fill the gardens and tapestries adorn the walls. But royal life is far from simple, and her failure to provide an heir makes her position fragile. Soon Sita is on the brink of losing everything, and the only way to save herself could mean betraying her oldest friend …

An unlikely love story of a Cree maiden from Canada's James Bay and a descendant of the first settlers of Northern Canada who came from the Orkneys of Scotland to work for the Hudson Bay Company 300 years ago. A bittersweet tale of love, redemption, wisdom, racist attitudes, and marginalization of Canada's First Nations women spanning 300 years into the present days of missing and murdered aboriginal women.

Handsome anesthesiologist Neel is sure he can resist his family’s pleas that he marry a "good" Indian girl. With a girlfriend and a career back in San Francisco, the last thing Neel needs is an arranged marriage. But that’s precisely what he gets. His bride, Leila, a 30-year-old teacher, comes with her own complications. They struggle to reconcile their own desires with others’ expectations in this story of two people, two countries, and two ways of life that may be more compatible than they seem.

Racism can linger in the strangest of places. Sometimes, even within yourself. For Clara Lacroix, the past was the place she chose to dwell. That's where her memories of Boone, and the life they shared, resided. But for Joe Black Hawk, the past was a painful mix of a fading heritage he didn't want to lose, and a string of mistakes he'd just as soon forget.

Das Panchatantra gilt als das wichtigste literarische Werk Indiens. Das Buch besteht aus fünf Teilen, die allesamt wiederum aus inein- ander verwobenen, moralischen Fabeln und Gleichnissen bestehen. Die Übersetzung von Dr. Ludwig Fritze ist an vielen Stellen Basis dieser Neufassung, insbesondere in Form der gereimten Zeilen. Die alten Schriften in Pali und Sanskrit waren allesamt in Doppel- versen gefasst, was einerseits das Rezitieren vereinfachte, anderer- seits blieben sie dadurch besser in Erinnerung.

Jwala, a girl with superpowers of fire, is left by her mother to a priest but she gets stolen from there and reaches into the hand of Micheal, a local goon. Jwala goes out to steal a statue of goddess Kaali to save the club of Micheal. At the temple Jwala faces the superpowers of Panch Kavach, then she realizes after meeting them that she is even a part of Panch Kavach. Jwala gets to know about her past and she is the most-powerful Panch Kavach whom everyone needs.

Before Black Elk Speaks, before his epic poem "A Cycle of the West", John G. Neihardt wrote many short stories that found favor with readers and critics. Among his best were the 17 collected in Indian Tales and Others in 1926. "The Singer of the Ache", considered Neihardt's highest achievement in short fiction, portrays young Moon-Walker's quest for supernatural powers achieved at a price.

Fed up with big city life as a copper in a Southern California town, Officer Mike Taylor hands in his notice and moves to rural South Dakota to be a County Sheriff's Deputy. As a blonde haired, blue eyed Caucasian practicing Native American spirituality from a young age, he just never quite fit in. Hoping for a fresh start, Mike soon learns that changing location doesn't change others' perception of you.

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.

ज्ञानपीठ पारितोषकाने सन्मानित प्रख्यात लेखक भालचंद्र नेमाडे यांची वास्तववादी कादंबरी. 'कोसला'पासून सुरु झालेल्या त्यांच्या प्रतिभेचा अविष्कार 'झूल' मध्ये आणखी प्रखर होतो. हे चौथे चांगदेव चतुष्टय. विद्यार्थी-प्राध्यापकांच्या, महाविद्यालयाच्या जगातील चांगदेव हा शुद्ध जीवन जगण्याची इच्छा बाळगून असेलला संवेदनशील तरुण.