Download or read book Aripan and Other Stories written by Stephen Alter and published by books catalog. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interwoven through the themes of love and loss, these stories heighten a sense of nostalgia for the past, for home, for people and places never seen again. They tell of characters struggling to find their roots in a world that offers no more than the next destination. Of loves that remain secret, that fail. Of desires that linger unfulfilled. These are contemporary stories; dealing with an age where the personal and the political have never been closer, where urban relationships are continually reinvented, where family bonds become more vital even in their diminishing importance. They are also funny stories; of friendships and the quirks of love, even a dismembered ghost and the power of small-town gossip. With delicate strokes and the intricate interweaving of an aripan, Aripan and Other Stories paints a picture of a world that will delight you and move you.
Download or read book Neglected Lives written by Stephen Alter and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lionel Arrives In Debrakot On Horseback, Escaping A Reckless Love Affair In Lucknow. Brigadier And Mrs Augden Take Him Into Their Home. The Picturesque Surroundings Help Lionel Find A Measure Of Peace, Though He Finds Himself Trapped Within An Isolated, Aging Anglo-Indian Community Who Struggle With Ghosts Of The British Raj. He Discovers Troubling Secrets Of Personal History, Questions That Arise From A Legacy Of Mixed Parentage, And Encounters Disturbing And Fascinating Characters Like Farleigh, An Eccentric Recluse Who Raises Leeches, And Salim, The Overweight Heir To A Decrepit Hotel& Stephen Alter S Debut Novel, Neglected Lives, Was First Published In 1978. It Remains An Elegiac Work Of Fiction That Leads Us Into A Part Of India That Is Seldom Visited. Told Through The Voices Of Different Characters, This Story Explores Themes Of Identity, Love And Youth, Weaving Together Moments Of Violence And Tenderness To Create A Resilient Fabric Of Human Experience. Neglected Lives Is A Short Novel Of Unusual And Exquisite Quality&Mr Alter Has A Rare Narrative Zest, A Surging Feeling For The Physical World, A Strongly Individual Grasp Of Character, And An Agreeable Bite Of Wit The New Yorker Paul Scott&Ruth Jhabvala&M.M. Kay&Stephen Alter Is By No Means Out Of Place In This Company Daily Telegraph (London) Books By Stephen Alter Renuka Neglected Lives Amritsar To Lahore: Crossing The Border Between India And Pakistan All The Way To Heaven: An American Boyhood In The Himalayas Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage To The Many Sources Of The Ganga Elephas Maximus: A Portrait Of The Indian Elephant Fantasies Of A Bollywood Love Thief: Inside The World Of Indian Moviemaking The Penguin Book Of Modern Indian Short Stories (Co-Edited) Neglected Lives Depicts A Hill Station And Its Residents On The Decline, Reminding One Of Paul Scott S Staying On Ruskin Bond
Download or read book Renuka written by Stephen Alter and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Friendship Between Renuka, A Bengali Poet, And Rachel, An American Missionary, Lies At The Heart Of This Novel. Two Women From Entirely Different Backgrounds, They Share A Bond That Overcomes The Barriers Of Nationality, Race And Religion. Both Are Exiled To A Hill Station, Which Is Populated With Provincial And Prudish Memsahibs, Who Adjust Their Recipes To Compensate For The Altitude And Substitute Ingredients From Home. While Rachel S Husband Works At A Psychiatric Hospital In The Plains, In Ranchi, She Looks After Their Sons Who Attend A Mission School In The Hills. While Editing A Cookbook, Rachel Begins To Realize The Contradictions Within Her Community. She Also Discovers The Seductive Voice Of Renuka S Poetry& Renuka, Stephen Alter S Fourth Novel, Builds To A Startling Climax, While Uncovering Hidden Truths About Love, Sexuality And Passion. In Renuka, Alter Has Drawn A Remarkable Portrait Of A Totally Credible Woman& He Captures Exactly The Love-Hate Attitudes Of Westerners Who Spend Time In The Subcontinent&A Rare Achievement To Use A Simple Framework So Effectively Sarah Curtis, Times Literary Supplement Renuka Is A Most Accomplished, Utterly Convincing Study Of Two Women Of Different Backgrounds And Contrasting Temperaments&The Book Rises To A Moving Climax, Followed By An Adagio Of Lingering Sadness Like The Aftermath Of A Disturbing Dream &By Far [Alter S] Best John Mellors Books By Stephen Alter Renuka Neglected Lives Amritsar To Lahore: Crossing The Border Between India And Pakistan All The Way To Heaven: An American Boyhood In The Himalayas Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage To The Many Sources Of The Ganga Elephas Maximus: A Portrait Of The Indian Elephant Fantasies Of A Bollywood Love Thief: Inside The World Of Indian Moviemaking The Penguin Book Of Modern Indian Short Stories (Co-Edited) Hill Stations Are Not As Sleepy And Tranquil As They Might Seem& You Will Discover Forbidden Love And Intrigue In The Most Unlikely Places. Kipling S Mrs Hawksbee And Her Simla Crowd Would Have Approved! Ruskin Bond
Download or read book Becoming a Mountain written by Stephen Alter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a "wondrous book" by Gretel Ehrlich, and winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literature—a journey of healing that becomes a pilgrimage for the soul. Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife, Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic existence was brutally interrupted when four armed intruders invaded their house and viciously attacked them, leaving them for dead. The violent assault and the trauma of almost dying left him questioning assumptions he had lived by since childhood. For the first time, he encountered the face of evil and the terror of the unknown. He felt like a foreigner in the land of his birth. This book is his account of a series of treks he took in the high Himalayas following his convalescence—to Bandar Punch (the monkey’s tail), Nanda Devi, the second highest mountain in India, and Mt. Kailash in Tibet. He set himself this goal to prove that he had healed mentally as well as physically and to re-knit his connection to his homeland. Undertaken out of sorrow, the treks become a moving soul journey, a way to rediscover mountains in his inner landscape. Weaving together observations of the natural world, Himalayan history, folklore and mythology, as well as encounters with other pilgrims along the way, Stephen Alter has given us a moving meditation on the solace of high places, and on the hidden meanings and enduring mystery of mountains.
Download or read book The Dalliance of Leopards written by Stephen Alter and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping international thriller that explores the geopolitical faultlines of South Asia. Colonel Imtiaz Afridi, India's legendary spymaster, has zeroed in on a new threat emanating from the borderlands over which he keeps watch from his surveillance center in the Himalayan foothills. An elusive warlord—faceless, nameless, and known only by his nom de guerre Guldaar, meaning "leopard" in Urdu—has built an illicit empire throughout the lands that Alexander the Great once conquered, based on extortion, money laundering, corruption, and murder. His reach extends across national boundaries, and with support from elements in the CIA and Pakistan's ISI, he plays tribal factions and sovereign nations off each other and threatens to destabilize the entire, nuclear-armed region. Seizing on Guldaar's one vulnerability, his ex-lover living with their son under CIA control in the United States, Afridi calls on agent Annapurna "Anna" Tagore to spring her loose and return her to India, where he needs her help to lay a trap. Meanwhile, when an American journalist reporting from Pakistan comes too close to the inner workings of Guldaar's empire, he is kidnapped by the Taliban and traded to the warlord as a hostage. As Afridi closes in, the American will become a critical bargaining chip in Guldaar's ruthless battle for survival. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book All the Way To Heaven written by Alter and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Loving Tribute To A Unique Upbringing When Stephen Alter Is Asked The Simple Question Where Are You From, Originally? He Hesitates. Although He Is In Almost Every Way An American-Granted With A Trace Of British Accent-He Has An Unexpected Reply: My Real Home Was In India, A Hill Station Called Mussoorie, Seven And A Half Thousand Feet Up The Himalayas. That Was Where I Was Born And Raised, In A Section Known As Landour... It Is A Landscape, And A Time, That Haunts Him Still: I Miss The Place Itself; The Mountains, The View Of The High Himalayas Beyond Mussoorie, Stretching All The Way To Heaven. The Son And Grandson Of Presbytarian Missionaries Living In India For More Than Half A Century, Every Day Alter Straddled The Profound Boundary Between Utterly Different Peoples, Cultures, Languages And Religions. He And His Brothers Spoke A Pidgin Dialect Of Hindustani And English As Young Boys, Fished In The Rivers Song, Ganga And The Jumna, And Later Hunted For Barking Deer And Ghoral In The Steep Foothills Of The Mountains Always Looming Behind Them. They Studied American History But Knew More About India'S Recent Independence From England. In All The Way To Heaven, Alter Writes Affectionately Of His Family, His Indian Friends And His Memories Exotic And Mundane.
Download or read book The Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Night Life of Trees written by Bhajju Shyam and published by Tara Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual ode to trees rendered by tribal artists from India, in a handsome handcrafted edition.
Download or read book Travel Writing in India written by Shobhana Bhattacharji and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly covers the period, 15th to 20th century; transcript of papers presented during the National Seminar on Travel Writing in India held in Panaji in 2002 in collaboration with the Goa Akademi, Panaji.
Download or read book Ganga Devi written by Jyotindra Jain and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the Mithila region of north Bihar there is an old tradition of painting the walls of the nuptial chamber. The paintings are an assemblage of symbolic images of the lotus plant, the bamboo grove, fishes, birds and snakes in union, and represent fertility and the proliferation of life. According to conventional ritual practice, the bride and the groom spend three nights in this chamber without cohabiting, and on the fourth, amidst the paintings, consummate the marriage." "Ganga Devi, both as a person and as an artist, was rooted in the tradition of Mithila painting. While the tradition was deeply ingrained in her and was a source of inspiration in her work, and of courage in her tormented personal life, she was one of the few Mithila artists to respond spontaneously and sensitively to the new possibilities offered by the availability of paper in the region." "The creative expression of rural and tribal artists has always been seen by most art historians as a product of ethnic collectivity whose authenticity lies in the remoteness of time and space. This study is the first of its kind, tracing the growth of a rural artist's work from her early paintings to her venturing out into narrative and autobiographical work, and the invention of a new pictorial vocabulary."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book A Stream at Dalton Pass and Other Stories written by Edilberto K. Tiempo and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hinduism and the Religious Arts written by Heather Elgood and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The roots between the Hindu religion and the wider culture are deep and uniquely complex. No study of either ancient or contemporary Indian culture can be undertaken without a clear understanding of Hindu visual arts and their sources in religious belief and practice. Defining what is meant by religion - no such term exists in Sanskrit - and what is understood by Hindu ideals of beauty, Heather Elgood provides the best synthesis and critical study of recent scholarship on the topic. In addition, this book offers critical background information for anyone interested in the social and anthropological roots of artistic creativity, as well as the rites, practices and beliefs of the hundreds of millions of Hindus in the world today.
Download or read book Barangay written by William Henry Scott and published by Ateneo University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barangay presents a sixteenth-century Philippine ethnography. Part One describes Visayan culture in eight chapters on physical appearance, food and farming, trades and commerce, religion, literature and entertainment, natural science, social organization, and warfare. Part Two surveys the rest of the archipelago from south to north.
Download or read book Colloquial Panjabi written by Mangat Rai Bhardwaj and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colloquial Panjabi: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Panjabi as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Panjabi in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Colloquial Panjabi is exceptional; each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points that are reinforced with a wide range of exercises for regular practice. A full answer key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues can be found at the back as well as useful vocabulary lists throughout. Key features include: A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills Jargon-free, succinct and clearly structured explanations of grammar An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in Panjabi-speaking areas. An overview of the sounds of Panjabi Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Panjabi is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Panjabi. Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills. A wealth of additional text material is also provided on the website. This supplementary material builds on the foundation provided in the Colloquial Panjabi course and will develop your language skills beyond the beginner level into intermediate study.
Download or read book The Origins of Yoga and Tantra written by Geoffrey Samuel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to Hinduism or Buddhism tell only part of the story of how they developed. This book is an interpretation of the history of Indic religions up to around 1200 CE, with particular focus on the development of yogic and tantric traditions. It assesses how much we really know about this period, and asks what sense we can make of the evolution of yogic and tantric practices, which were to become such central and important features of the Indic religious scene. Its originality lies in seeking to understand these traditions in terms of the total social and religious context of South Asian society during this period, including the religious practices of the general population with their close engagement with family, gender, economic life and other pragmatic concerns.
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Download or read book Cry Slaughter written by Edilberto K. Tiempo and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cry Slaughter!, first published in 1957 is a fictionalized account of guerrilla life in the central Philippines during the Second World War. Filipino author E. K. Tiempo (1913-1996), himself a member of the Filipino resistance to the Japanese occupation, paints a vivid picture of life under the Japanese, and the difficulties faced in deciding to surrender to the Japanese or take to the mountains and form a guerrilla force. As Tiempo states in the introduction to the book, “Cry Slaughter! was based on actual situations, including the central situation of the shooting of the four envoys by the minister in the story. Many incidents in the novel were taken from They Called Us Outlaws, a non-fiction work which I wrote for the Seventh Military District of the Philippine resistance forces, as part of my work as officer in charge of the historical section. Parts of They Called Us Outlaws, (the Japanese labeled the guerrillas outlaws in those days) were used in the trial of Japanese war criminals in Manila after the war. The original manuscript of Cry Slaughter! was taken out of the Philippines in a submarine in 1943 under cover of a Philippine blackout; perhaps it was the only manuscript to successfully leave the Philippines” during the War.
