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Author: Amana Fontanella-Khan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 039306297X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIlluminates the thrilling possibilities of female grassroots activism in India through the story of Sampat Pal and her Pink Gang.
Author: Valerie Steele
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500022269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis beautifully illustrated volume explores the cultural history, especially in fashion, of the color pink from the 18th century to today.
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 039592720X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNavigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and a baffling new world, the characters in Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations.
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2015-05-11
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 110191209X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Pranab Chakraborty was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who had washed up on the shores of Central Square. Soon he was one of the family. From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, a staggeringly beautiful and precise story about a Bengali family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the impossibilities of love, and the unanticipated pleasures and complications of life in America. “Hell-Heaven” is Jhumpa Lahiri’s ode to the intimate secrets of closest kin, from the acclaimed collection Unaccustomed Earth. An eBook short.
Author: Anand Giridharadas
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2011-02-28
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1458763099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReversing his parents immigrant path, a young writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new. Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, Were all trying to go that way, pointing to the rear. You, youre going this way. Giridharadas was...
Author: Amana Fontanella-Khan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-08-05
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 0393240606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA triumphant portrait of a fiery sisterhood changing the lives of India's women. In Uttar Pradesh—known as the "badlands" of India—a woman’s life is not entirely her own. This is one explanation for how Sheelu, a seventeen-year-old girl, ended up in jail after fleeing her service in the home of a powerful local legislator. In a region plagued by corruption, an incident like this might have gone unnoticed—except that it captured the attention of Sampat Pal, leader of India’s infamous Gulabi (Pink) Gang. Poor and illiterate, married off around the age of twelve, pregnant with her first child at fifteen, and prohibited from attending school, Sampat Pal has risen to become the courageous commander and chief of a women’s brigade numbering in the tens of thousands. Uniformed in pink saris and carrying pink batons, they aim to intervene wherever other women are victims of abuse or injustice. Joined in her struggle by Babuji, a sensitive man whose intellectualism complements her innate sense of justice, and by a host of passionate field commanders, Sampat Pal has confronted policemen and gangsters, officiated love marriages, and empowered women to become financially independent. In a country where women’s rights struggle to keep up with rapid modernization, the story of Sampat Pal and her Pink Gang illuminates the thrilling possibilities of female grassroots activism.
Author: Alan Gledhill
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 309
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bharati Mukherjee
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0618646531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaken under the wing of an expat teacher for her ambition and talent, Anjali Bose hopes to escape unfavorable prospects and falls in with a crowd of young people in Bangalore, where she endeavors to confront her past and reinvent herself.
Author: Loretta Napoleoni
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2020-10-13
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0593087194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPurl and stitch: Empowering, healing, and reconnecting us to each other and ourselves In a fractured world plagued by anxiety and loneliness, knitting is coming to the rescue of people from all walks of life. Economist and lifelong knitter Loretta Napoleoni unveils the hidden power of the purl and stitch mantra: an essential tool for the survival of our species, a means for women to influence history, a soothing activity to calm us, and a powerful metaphor of life. This book is a voyage through our history following the yarn of social, economic and political changes - from ancient Egypt and Peru to modern Mongolia, from the spinning bees of the American Revolution to the knitting spies of World War II, and from the hippies' rejection of consumerism to yarnbombing protests against climate change. For the author it is also a personal journey of discovery and salvation, drawing on the wisdom her grandmother passed along as they knit together. Revealing recent discoveries in neuroscience, The Power of Knitting offers proof of the healing powers of knitting on our bodies and minds. Breaking through societal barriers, even nursing broken hearts, and helping to advance cutting-edge science, knitting is still a valuable instrument for navigating our daily lives. As a bonus, the book includes patterns for ten simple yet iconic projects that reflect the creative, empowering spirit of knitting, with complete instructions.
Author: Tiphanie Yanique
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2012-08-07
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1555970532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn enthralling debut collection from a singular Caribbean voice For a leper, many things are impossible, and many other things are easily done. Babalao Chuck said he could fly to the other side of the island and peek at the nuns bathing. And when a man with no hands claims that he can fly, you listen. The inhabitants of an island walk into the sea. A man passes a jail cell's window, shouldering a wooden cross. And in the international shop of coffins, a story repeats itself, pointing toward an inevitable tragedy. If the facts of these stories are sometimes fantastical, the situations they describe are complex and all too real. Lyrical, lush, and haunting, the prose shimmers in this nuanced debut, set mostly in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Part oral history, part postcolonial narrative, How to Escape from a Leper Colony is ultimately a loving portrait of a wholly unique place. Like Gabriel García Márquez, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Condé before her, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a book that is heartbreaking, hilarious, magical, and mesmerizing. An unforgettable collection.
