Download or read book Penguin Book of Indian Journeys written by Saad Ashraf and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wonderful Synecdoche For India: Heterogeneous, Contrary, Suddenly Seductive' - Hindustan Time `The Penguin Book Of Indian Journeys Is Not Exactly A Collection Of Essays On Trips To Places Familiar And Unknown. It Is So Much More, That It Would Be A Crime To Describe Its Contents As Travel Pieces . . . It Examines The Petty And The Large-Hearted, The Honest And The Hypocritical, The Smug, The Defeated And The Insecure . . . In The Final Analysis, Indian Journeys Is Like A Parcel Gift-Wrapped In Multiple Layers, Each One Presenting The Reader With A Wonderful Surprise That Raises His Expectations Of The Next'- Sunday Statesman `A Treat ... With More Than 35 Pieces, The Book Gives A Wide-Angle View Of Contemporary India' - Indian Express `An Exhilarating Account Of India, Complete In Its Mosaic Of Contending Architecture, Climate, People, Politics, Emotions, Ambitions And Shibboleths'- Hindustan Times `[India] Sets The Literary Imagination On Fire. The Brilliant And Absorbing Pieces In This Collection Are Moulded In The Heat Of That Dazzling Flame . . . An Essential Read For All Wanderers And Intrepid Travellers'- First City `Memorable Pieces Dominate: Jan Morris'S Exuberant Essay On Darjeeling, Bruce Chatwin'S Ironic Take On Mrs Gandhi, And Sarayu Ahuja'S Delightful Portrait Of A Madras Mami . . . You Can Scarcely Wait Till The Bookshop Opens So You Can Read The Rest Of Their Books' - Hindu

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Download or read book THE PENGUIN BOOK OF INDIAN RAILWAY STORIES written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this collection capture the essence of the Indian Railways - from the small-town station, at the time of the Raj, to the present day big-city station bursting at the seams. The teening and varied life of the Indian Railway station and its environs have fascinated writers from Jules Verne in the 1870s to more recently Satyajit Ray, R.K. Laxman and more modern writers. In this anthology, one of India's best-known writers makes a selection of greattest railway stories the subcontinent has produced. Julese Verne Rudyard Kipling Flora Annie Steel Hon. J.W. Best Jim Corbett Khushwant Singh Ruskin Bond Manoj Das Intizar Husain Satyajit Ray Bill Aitkin R.K. Laxman Victor Banerjee Manojit Mitra.

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Indian Journeys written by Dom Moraes and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2001 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India Continues To Fascinate Travellers Who Are, In The Words Of Dom Moraes, The Editor Of This Anthology, Startled, Annoyed And Attracted By Its Colossal, Inexplicable Diversities . In This Book, Travel Writers Indian And Foreign, As Well As Compulsive Wanderers Without A Home Engage With The Comforts And The Chaos, The Convictions And The Contradictions Of Modern, Independent India. Beginning With A Brilliantly Insightful Introduction By Dom Moraes, This Anthology Provides An Absorbing, Lively And Always Insightful Portrait Of Life In Contemporary India. The Penguin Book Of Indian Journeys Brings Together Pieces By Some Of The Best Contemporary The Contributors Include: Paul Theroux R.K. Narayan Salman Rushdie Bruce Chatwin Abraham Verghese Andrew Harvey Jonah Blank Bill Aitken Mark Shand P. Sainath Khushwant Singh Stephen Alter Jan Morris Vikram Seth Mark Tully James Cameron Amit Chaudhuri Anita Nair Vijay Nambisan M.J. Akbar Seeme Qasim Royina Grewal Dom Moraes Allen Ginsberg V.S. Naipaul William Dalrymple Ruskin Bond Jerry Pinto Joe Roberts Charlie Pye-Smith Anees Jung Sarayu Ahuja Dawood Ali Mccallum Alexander Frater Namita Gokhale

Download or read book India s Unending Journey written by Mark Tully and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Mark Tully is one of the world's leading writers and broadcasters on India, and the presenter of the much loved radio programme 'Something Understood'. In this fascinating and timely work, he reveals the profound impact India has had on his life and beliefs, and what we can all learn from this rapidly changing nation. Through interviews and anecdotes, he embarks on a journey that takes in the many faces of India, from the untouchables of Uttar Pradesh to the skyscrapers of Gurgaon, from the religious riots of Ayodhya to the calm of a university campus. He explores how successfully India reconciles opposites, marries the sensual with the sacred, finds harmony in discord, and treats certainty with suspicion.

Download or read book The Shooting Star written by Shivya Nath and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shivya Nath quit her corporate job at age twenty-three to travel the world. She gave up her home and the need for a permanent address, sold most of her possessions and embarked on a nomadic journey that has taken her everywhere from remote Himalayan villages to the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador. Along the way, she lived with an indigenous Mayan community in Guatemala, hiked alone in the Ecuadorian Andes, got mugged in Costa Rica, swam across the border from Costa Rica to Panama, slept under a meteor shower in the cracked salt desert of Gujarat and learnt to conquer her deepest fears. With its vivid descriptions, cinematic landscapes, moving encounters and uplifting adventures, The Shooting Star is a travel memoir that maps not just the world but the human spirit.

Download or read book The Penguin Food Guide to India written by Charmaine O' Brien and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-ever comprehensive guide to regional food across India takes you on a mouth-watering journey through the homes, streets and restaurants of each state, exploring exotic and everyday fare in equal measure. Be it the lime-laced Moplah biryani, the Goan Galinha cafreal, the bhang ka raita of Uttarakhand, or the Singpho people’s Wu san tikye, India’s rich palette of flavours is sure to drum up an insatiable appetite in you. Laden with historical information, cultural insights and personalized recommendations, The Penguin Food Guide to India is your ideal companion to the delightful world of Indian cuisine.

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Indian Ghost Stories written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1993 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling to Satyajit Ray and R. K. Narayan, this text is a collection of spine-chilling tales of the supernatural from India.

Download or read book The Penguin Book Of Indian Poets written by Jeet Thayil and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 1247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeet Thayil has compiled the definitive anthology of Indian poetry in English. This monumental undertaking, two decades in the making, brings together writers from across the world, a wealth of voices--in dialogue, in soliloquy, in rhetoric, and in play--to present an expansive, encompassing idea of what makes an 'Indian' poet. Included are lost, uncollected, or out of print poems by major poets, essays that place entire bodies of work into their precise cultural contexts, and a collection of classic black and white portraits by Madhu Kapparath. These images, taken over a period of thirty years, form an archive of breathtaking historical scope. They offer the viewer unparalleled intimacy and access to the lives of some of India's greatest poets.

Download or read book The Penguin Guide to Vaastu written by Sashikala Ananth and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1999 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Penguin Guide To Vaastu Is A Meticulously Researched Book That Seeks To Place The Ancient Indian Art Of Vaastu In Its Proper Perspective As A Highly Evolved Science. Supplemented With Beautiful Illustrations, This Authoritative Volume Combines Ancient Wisdom With The Needs Of A Modern And Transitional Society

Download or read book Unveiling India written by Anees Jung and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The women in this book are not extraordinary or famous, and yet their stories and testimonies, narrated here by one of India's best-known women journalists, provide a passionate, often deeply touching, revelation of what it means to be a woman in India today. The women tell of marriage and widowhood, unfair work practices, sexual servitude, the problems of bearing and rearing children in poverty, religion, discrimination, other forms of exploitation ... Yet they also talk of fulfilling relationships, the joys of marriage and children, the exhilaration of breaking free from the bonds of tradition, ritual, caste, religion ... Interwoven with all this is the story of one woman's journey--of how Anees Jung, the author, brought up in purdah, succeeded in shaking off the restricting influences of her traditional upbringing to become a highly successful, independent career woman, still a comparatively rare phenomenon in India. As such, the book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the women of India-the silent majority that is now beginning to make itself heard.

Download or read book Journeys written by A. K. Ramanujan and published by HH, Penguin. This book was released on 2019 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.K. Ramanujan (1929-1993), one of India's finest poets, translators, folklorists, essayists and scholars of the twentieth century, is a stalwart in India's literary history. His translations of ancient Tamil and medieval Kannada poetry, as well as of UR Ananthamurthy's novel Samskara, are considered as classics in Indian literature. A pioneering modernist poet, during his lifetime he produced four poetry collections in English, and he had also intended to publish the journals he had kept throughout the decades. After his premature death 25 years ago, his journals, diaries, papers and other documents-spanning fifty years from 1944 to 1993-were given by his family to the Special Collections Research Center at the Regenstein Library of the University of Chicago in June 1994. These unpublished writings, meticulously preserved and catalogued at the University of Chicago, were waiting for someone to unveil them to a wider readership. Edited by Krishna Ramanujan and Guillermo Rodríguez, Journeys offers access to Ramanujan's personal diaries and journals, providing a window into his creative process. It will include literary entries from his travels, his thoughts on writing, poetry drafts, and dreams. His diaries and journals served as fertile ground where he planted the seeds for much of his published work.

Download or read book Colonial American Travel Narratives written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four journeys by early Americans Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, and Dr. Alexander Hamilton recount the vivid physical and psychological challenges of colonial life. Essential primary texts in the study of early American cultural life, they are now conveniently collected in a single volume. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Classical Indian Love Stories and Lyrics written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of love stories and poems from the classical literature and folklore of India Set in regions of great natural beauty where Kamadeva, the god of love, picks his victims with consummate ease, these stories and lyrics celebrate the myriad aspects of love. In addition to relatively well-known works like Kalidasa's Meghadutam and Prince Ilango Adigal's Shilappadikaram, the collection features lesser-known writers of ancient India like Damodaragupta (eighth century AD), whose 'Loves of Haralata and Dundarasena' is about a high-born man's doomed affair with a courtesan; Janna (twelfth century), whose Tale of the Glory-Bearer is extracted here for the story of a queen who betrays her handsome husband for a mahout, reputed to be the ugliest man in the kingdom; and the Sanskrit poets Amaru and Mayaru (seventh century), whose lyrics display an astonishing perspective on the tenderness, the fierce passion and the playful savagery of physical love. Also featured are charming stories of Hindu gods and goddesses in love, and nineteenth-century retellings of folk tales from different regions of the country like Kashmir, Punjab, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. Both passionate and sensuous in its content, this book is sure to appeal to the romantic in all of us.

Download or read book Empire of the Soul written by Paul William Roberts and published by Raincoast Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Longest Journey written by E. M. Forster and published by East West Studio. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Longest Journey is a bildungsroman by E. M. Forster, first published in 1907. It is the second of Forster's six published novels, following Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) and preceding A Room with a View (1908) and Howards End (1910). It has a reputation for being the least known of Forster's novels, but was also the author's personal favourite and one of his most autobiographical. It is the only one of Forster's novels not to have received a film or television adaptation.

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing written by Carl Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, comic sketches and lyrical reveries; travel writing is now a crucial focus for discussion across many subjects within the humanities and social sciences. An ideal starting point for beginners, but also offering new perspectives for those familiar with the field, The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing examines: Key debates within the field, including postcolonial studies, gender, sexuality and visual culture Historical and cultural contexts, tracing the evolution of travel writing across time and over cultures Different styles, modes and themes of travel writing, from pilgrimage to tourism Imagined geographies, and the relationship between travel writing and the social, ideological and occasionally fictional constructs through which we view the different regions of the world. Covering all of the major topics and debates, this is an essential overview of the field, which will also encourage new and exciting directions for study. Contributors: Simon Bainbridge, Anthony Bale, Shobhana Bhattacharji, Dúnlaith Bird, Elizabeth A. Bohls, Wendy Bracewell, Kylie Cardell, Daniel Carey, Janice Cavell, Simon Cooke, Matthew Day, Kate Douglas, Justin D. Edwards, David Farley, Charles Forsdick, Corinne Fowler, Laura E. Franey, Rune Graulund, Justine Greenwood, James M. Hargett, Jennifer Hayward, Eva Johanna Holmberg, Graham Huggan, William Hutton, Robin Jarvis, Tabish Khair, Zoë Kinsley, Barbara Korte, Julia Kuehn, Scott Laderman, Claire Lindsay, Churnjeet Mahn, Nabil Matar, Steve Mentz, Laura Nenzi, Aedín Ní Loingsigh, Manfred Pfister, Susan L. Roberson, Paul Smethurst, Carl Thompson, C.W. Thompson, Margaret Topping, Richard White, Gregory Woods.