Download or read book Ghost in the Tamarind written by Subramanian Shankar and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who can you love? What do you owe to love and what to the world at large? Such are the questions that drive the story of Ramu, a Brahmin man, and Ponni, a woman of the Dalit “untouchable” caste. Set against the backdrop of twentieth-century South India, the novel takes readers from the 1890s village where Ramu’s grandmother grew up to the Emergency years of 1970s Madras. Against this sweeping canvas unfolds the drama of Ramu and Ponni’s forbidden love, inescapably intertwined with the great struggle against caste oppression. Caught up in the entanglements of love and politics, the couple risk everything to fight for a better society. Will they succeed? Steeped in history, this memorable inter-caste love story shows ordinary people moved to uncommon courage in their desire to make a difference in a ruthless world.
Download or read book TAMARIND EMPIRE written by Pulak Kumar Chakraborti and published by Booksclinic Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-03 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tamarind Empire is Sequel to Tamarind District ruled by Prime Minister Bobby Lewis. Development work of a vast wet land rendered many ghosts home less. They rushed to Tamarind District for shelter which could not be given due to paucity of space. Prime Minister tried with other ghost owners for sharing their space but they didn’t agree to co operate. Now the prime minister has no other way out but to declare a war and conquer vast areas. The story detailed how an exorcist and his assistants made a Brilliant plan and fought a war & annexed big ghost areas. This enabled Tamarind District to be an empire & the Bobby Lewis became emperor and gave good governance."
Download or read book Tamarind Triumph written by Pulak Kumar Chakraborti and published by Booksclinic Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tamarind Triumph is third sequel. Bobby Lewis has scaled the Sumit, from a ruler to Emperor. It is known to all that Tamarind tastes sour, it takes your tounge to palate and moves into the mouth for one to feel its delicacy – the typical sour taste. It is rich in many values. Emperor nestles a dream to be known as “Great Bobby” in the vast world of Ghosts, noble ghosts of various settlements up above the sky. Taste of Power and possession can not be satisfied, more and the more one would get, the need will increase. We will see what happens to his dream. "
Download or read book Ghosts Monsters and Demons of India written by Rakesh Khanna and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide to the folktales and real-life stories of the ghosts, monsters and demons of India, a culture famously rich in tradition and legends. Perfect for fans of Eli Roth's Urban Legends and Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities. "I was not prepared for how deeply this book captivated me ... Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India is exemplary of what a book can be, how it can operate. It’s a bridge across space, time, and language" —Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore An encyclopedia of evil entities and folkloric fiends from across India, from Ladakh to Kerala, Lakshadweep to Nagaland, Naraka to Tuchenkwaka, complete with 60 spooky illustrations. Inside this book you will find ... Killer robots built with stolen Roman engineering technology that once guarded the relics of the Buddha The ghost of a 21-year-old motorcyclist whose Enfield Bullet is venerated at a highway temple in Rajasthan A Himalayan drum-playing spirit-teacher whose wife is a fearsome Yeti Diabolical entities conjured into existence by the simultaneous deaths of seven tigers Triple-rooted night-flying Vedic necromancers Call-centre employees from beyond the grave The dreaded Ngalei Ahmaw of Maraland, whose victims’ heads detach themselves from their bodies at night and go wandering in search of blood ... AND MORE
Download or read book Tamarind and the Star of Ishta written by Jasbinder Bilan and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful story of loss and identity, home and family, Tamarind and the Star of Ishta weaves a family mystery together with adventure and wonder from Costa Award-winning author, Jasbinder Bilan. Tamarind has never met her Indian mother, Chinty, who died shortly after she was born. But when her father remarries, Tamarind is sent to India to stay with the family she has never met, in their atmospheric ancestral home—a huge mansion high in the Himalaya mountains. Her arrival in India brings culture shock, secrets, and unanswered questions: What is the tension between her father and the family, and why will no one talk about her mother? Instead of answers, she is greeted with ominous silence. Taking refuge in the lush gardens one moon-lit night, she follows a friendly monkey to find an abandoned hut and a glowing star ring, and meets Ishta, a mysterious mountain girl. Tamarind unravels the mysteries of the house alongside the search for her own identity.
Download or read book Waterness written by Na Muthuswamy and published by Katha. This book was released on 2003 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 10 unforgettable stories, Waterness captures the spalshing colours of life in Punjai, in the heart of Thanjavur district. Set against a broader perspective of modern urban life and the piercing pressures of alienation, these stories are about memories, and about memory.
Download or read book King Leopold s Ghost written by Adam Hochschild and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.
Download or read book The Ghost of Thailand written by Rick Mercer and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a tale about a girl who was born into an unexpected reality. We laugh at the unexplained and tend to mock what we don't understand. This girl was born into a world that didn't want her.. She found love with her Grandmother in the northeastern farms of Thailand. At the age of six she encountered a near death experience that forever changed her life. During the course of her first seventeen years she experienced coming back from the other side: She witnessed a public suicide, and an old man being publically beaten to drive out a spirit that people believed made him ill: She was visited by spirits that would give even the strongest person nightmares. The book is very entertaining when you see how this child copes with everyday life experiences as well as the supernatural experiences. At the age of thirteen she was able to catch a thief. At an older age she was able to deal with spirits that wanted nothing more than to do harm, I mean physical harm. This book is about a little girl with more inner strength than most of us can possibly comprehend. She tapped into her inner self and found the courage to accept and to rationalize their very existence. This book is about a little girl named by a nurse because no one was around to give her a name. Her name is Nongnooch Mercer.
Download or read book GIFT OF A NOBLE SPIRIT written by Pulak Kumar Chakraborti and published by Booksclinic Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-03 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As regards clarification for the book , it is the story of a land lord turned into ghost after his death. Habits good or bad do not leave the person and it is believed it accompanies the soul in other world, which is why the land lord possesses the qualities of a nobleman and aristocratic soul. Landlord engaged Satya Mukherjee, the small time writer , to get hold of the hidden treasure and hand over to his grand son. The spirit of landlord was a kind soul with arrogance of Landlords and aristocratic attitude decided that Satya to get one fourth of the treasure. He is no longer in this world , living somewhere as ghost and that’s why it is Ghost Story and on the top of everything a Noble Spirit."
Download or read book UPROOTED written by Robin Podder and published by Robin Podder. This book was released on 2023-06-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to be transported through time. Relive one man's journey through India's independence, World War II, and communal riots.. And as a young man, how he faces the political upheaval of Kolkata in the 1960s and 1970s. This compelling memoir is an inspiring tale of resilience, perseverance, and the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. With vivid descriptions and raw emotions, the author shares his life story that will move and inspire readers of all ages. This book is essential for understanding the effects of history on the human experience.. Don't miss out on this unforgettable journey. Add it to your reading list today!
Download or read book The Way That Lives in the Heart written by Jean Elizabeth DeBernardi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Way That Lives in the Heart is a richly detailed ethnographic analysis of the practice of Chinese religion in the modern, multicultural Southeast Asian city of Penang, Malaysia. The book conveys both an understanding of shared religious practices and orientations and a sense of how individual men and women imagine, represent, and transform popular religious practices within the time and space of their own lives. This work is original in three ways. First, the author investigates Penang Chinese religious practice as a total field of religious practice, suggesting ways in which the religious culture, including spirit-mediumship, has been transformed in the conjuncture with modernity. Second, the book emphasizes the way in which socially marginal spirit mediums use a religious anti-language and unique religious rituals to set themselves apart from mainstream society. Third, the study investigates Penang Chinese religion as the product of a specific history, rather than presenting an overgeneralized overview that claims to represent a single "Chinese religion."
Download or read book Pirate Vishnu written by Gigi Pandian and published by Gargoyle Girl Productions. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century-old treasure map of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast. Sacred riches from India. Two murders, one hundred years apart. And a love triangle… Historian Jaya Jones has her work cut out for her. 1906. Shortly before the Great San Francisco Earthquake, Pirate Vishnu strikes the San Francisco Bay. An ancestor of Jaya’s who came to the U.S. from India draws a treasure map… Present Day. Over a century later, the cryptic treasure map remains undeciphered. From San Francisco to the southern tip of India, Jaya pieces together her ancestor’s secrets, maneuvers a complicated love life she didn’t count on, and puts herself in the path of a killer to restore a revered treasure. - - - - - - - - - - - - - PIRATE VISHNU by Gigi Pandian A Henery Press Mystery. If you like one, you'll probably like them all.
Download or read book Katha Prize Stories written by Geeta Dharmarajan and published by Katha. This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sensitive And Evocative Craftsmanship Of The Katha Award Winning Translators Infuses Each Story With The Flavour Of The Original.
Download or read book Midnight Hour written by Abby L. Vandiver and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2022 ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE for Best Anthology From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest voices of color. Edited by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Abby L. Vandiver, this thrilling anthology will keep you on the edge of your seat. Welcome to Midnight Hour... Jennifer Chow: "Midnight Escapade" After years of silence, two women decide to meet up in a unique escape room but get trapped in a deadly game from which there may be no escape. Tracy Clark: "Lucky Thirteen" A gun. A last meal. And only one survivor. Sometimes the stars align--but only for the lucky one--as predator and prey come face-to-face one fateful New Year's Eve. H. C. Chan: "Murderers' Feast" Techpreneur John Manley left a trail of duped investors and damaged women in his wake. What happens when two hundred of his closest enemies gather for a five-day gourmet retreat? Christopher Chambers: "In the Matter of Mabel and Bobby Jefferson" It's almost midnight, it's snowing, and a bored call center worker catches a customer inquiry that smells of murder. Is he a knight rescuing the intended victim or someone else's pawn? Plus, stories by Richie Narvaez, Frankie Bailey, E. A. Aymar, Faye Snowden, Tina Kashian, and many more.
Download or read book Shamanism 2 volumes written by Mariko Namba Walter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and millennia.
Download or read book Something Was There written by Various and published by Virago. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest stunning collection of short stories, including the winning entry of the 2011 Asham Short Stories Award, which was set up 1995 to encourage and promote new writing. It is the only short story competition whose winners and runners-up are published alongside some of our best known women writers. Past collections have included specially commissioned stories by Carol Shields, Michele Roberts, Barbara Trapido, Patricia Duncker, Helen Simpson, Helen Dunmore, Deborah Moggach. Margaret Atwood and A.L. Kennedy. This year's theme is Ghosts and Gothic and will be judged by authors Sarah Waters and Polly Samson and Virago publisher Lennie Goodings.
Download or read book Yellow Kite and Other Stories written by Sulabha Devpurkar and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fascinating stories for children, a weird combination of fairy tales, folk tales and just some images from society of spirited children.
