Discovering Brides
Discovering Brides

Author: Anoop Chandola

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780595099009

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An Indian-American anthropologist, whose own dramatic marriage was arranged in his non-vegetarian polygamous priestly family background, struggles to find a vegetarian and sexy bride for his U.S.-born lawyer son. The long journeys from America to India move the bride search, through social-cultural ups and downs, with girls after girls, and their spicy episodes, stirring up the anthropologist抯 own bittersweet memoirs. A wife begs a man to spare her abusive husband抯 life; a bride at the altar refuses to marry due to greed; a woman drinks cow urine because a low-caste man saved her; a man urinates over a wild tiger; a girl disappears minutes before the parents want to introduce her to the visiting bride searchers; a bridegroom is beaten by his relatives hours before the marriage; policeman on orders to stop marchers beat, rape and shoot women; and deeper discoveries. Some are highly controversial as they involve big political, historical and international names and events. Then the search takes an abrupt turn. Overall, this provocatively entertaining novel offers intercultural education by interweaving religion and mythology, folklore and literature, historical accounts and personal philosophy of fair human contact. Anoop Chandola, born in India, presently a professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. His last two degrees are from the University of California (Berkeley) and of Chicago. He is the author of several scholarly books and articles.

100 Jewish Brides
100 Jewish Brides

Author: Barbara Vinick

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2024-02-06

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0253068371

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100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World features stories of Jewish brides from six continents, highlighting diverse customs and rituals related to weddings now and in the past. The stories, written by brides, their relatives, clergy, and other intimates, cover similarities and differences across the Jewish diaspora, from courtship and betrothal to pre-wedding customs, the wedding ceremony, and beyond. With stories from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, this collection of intimate personal testimonies will surprise and inspire. A Jewish wedding after conversion in Madagascar, a reunion of Holocaust survivors in Sweden, a shipboard romance initiated by a celebrity, these stories from 83 countries describe Jewish wedding traditions, some familiar and others eye-opening, in a multitude of cultures and settings, past and present. 100 Jewish Brides offers intimate glimpses into the worlds of brides and their families based on their own written accounts. It represents opportunities to learn how Jewish lives were and are currently lived around the world from memories of the distant past to recent times.

Bombay Brides
Bombay Brides

Author: Esther David

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2018-11-05

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9352779460

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When Juliet and Romiel get married and relocate to Israel, they rent out their Apartment 107 in Ahmedabad's Shalom India Housing Society to Jews. Each character who inhabits the house has a story to tell: about run-ins with the other residents, the diminishing community of Jews, cross-cultural conflicts, and the difficulty of choosing between India and Israel. Prophet Elijah, whom the Bene Israel Jews of western India believe in, plays an important role in their lives, appearing at critical or amusing moments and wreaking havoc with his mischief, but ensuring that ultimately peace prevails. Bombay Brides - as most Jewish men of Ahmedabad are married to women from Mumbai - is drawn from Jewish homes in Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Kochi, Kolkata and Alibaug. This is a story about home, heritage, rites, rituals, roots and what it means to be one of the last survivng members of a community in a vast multi-cultural country like India.

The Age of Shiva
The Age of Shiva

Author: Manil Suri

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2009-08-17

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1408806789

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India, 1955. As the scars of Partition are beginning to heal, seventeen-year-old Meera sits enraptured: in the spotlight is Dev, singing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first flush of erotic longing. But when Meera's reverie comes true, it does not lead to the fairy-tale marriage she imagined. Meera has no choice but to obey her in-laws, tolerate Dev's drunken night-time fumblings, even observe the most arduous of Hindu fasts for his longevity. A move to Bombay seems at first like a fresh start, but soon that dream turns to ashes. It is only when their son is born that things change and Meera is ready to unleash the passion she has suppressed for so long.

Catholics in Bombay
Catholics in Bombay

Author: Sebastian Irudaya Rajan

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13:

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From the Foreword (by Cardinal Simon Ignatius Pimenta): "An exercise in historical demography, Dr. Rajan's research studies the trends and patterns of three demographic characteristics -- birth, marriage, death -- of the Roman Catholic population in the Archdiocese of Bombay over the past hundred years. . . . This study is confined to the Catholic population in only four parishes -- Kurla, Chembur, Mankhurd, Marouli -- situated in the eastern suburbs of Greater Bombay. . . . [T]he four parish populations of Dr. Rajan's study are 'typical' of the parish populations in the rest of Greater Bombay and its suburbs." Extensive data (in both text and tables) on: births; marriages; deaths; Christian population in India (by age and sex, urban vs. rural, etc); gender ratios and distribution; baptism; mortality rates; intersections of age or gender with birth, baptism, marriage, death, etc; seasonal fluctuations in demographic data; etc etc.

Riot
Riot

Author: Shashi Tharoor

Publisher: Skyhorse

Published: 2011-12-03

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1628722509

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Who killed twenty-four-year-old Priscilla Hart? This highly motivated, idealistic American student had come to India to volunteer in women’s health programs, but had her work made a killer out of an enraged husband? Or was her death the result of a xenophobic attack? Had an indiscriminate love affair spun out of control? Had a disgruntled, deeply jealous colleague been pushed to the edge? Or was she simply the innocent victim of a riot that had exploded in that fateful year of 1989 between Hindus and Muslims? Experimenting masterfully with narrative form in this brilliant tour de force, internationally acclaimed novelist Shashi Tharoor chronicles the mystery of Priscilla Hart’s death through the often contradictory accounts of a dozen or more characters, all of whom relate their own versions of the events surrounding her killing. Like his two previous novels, Riot probes and reveals the richness of India, and is at once about love, hate, cultural collision, the ownership of history, religious fanaticism, and the impossibility of knowing the truth.

A Life to Remember
A Life to Remember

Author: Balawant Shankar Joshi

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2015-04-23

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1503549283

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A Life to Remember This amazingly detailed memoir spans three continents and nearly a century of the life of Balawant Joshi. In it he recalls a journey beginning in a small village in southern India and ending in the southern United States. The son of a poor but brilliant school teacher and linguist, Joshi relates his beginnings at school, moving through hard-fought successes to the completion of the highest levels of education at Cambridge. Throughout the journey and for all his life, a philosophy of peace, regard for his fellow man, and an attitude of determination regardless of the pitfalls of life shine through his modest writing. Joshi expands on his long career in experimenting with plants and Natural Products for synthesis and use in pharmaceuticals in India, Switzerland, and the United States. He writes of family, weddings, and celebrations in India, and travels to many countries. He recalls a small but dangerous role he played in the fight for independence of India from Great Britain. Retired many years ago and living in Georgia, he loses his beloved wife, finds productive activity in a Natural Products, learns painting, and finds new friends and companionship throughout his senior years. Joshi is a great example for all of a life well lived and a love for humanity and a mind still keen and full of stories at the age of ninety.

Christ and Families
Christ and Families

Author: J. N. Manokaran

Publisher: Centre for Contemporary Christianity

Published: 2011-12-30

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 9380548559

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Family is challenged today in multivarious ways. Manokaran addresses the various issues faced by families from a scriptural and Christian perspective. In simple style but in practical wisdom he compiles the content of this book which I am glad to commend to all Christian families to edify them.

No Birds of Passage
No Birds of Passage

Author: Michael O’Sullivan

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2023-09-19

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0674271904

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No Birds of Passage explores the remarkable business success of three Gujarati Muslim commercial castes: the Bohras, Khojas, and Memons. Often stereotyped as “Westernized” and as Hindus in all but name, these groups are better seen as having developed a distinctive Muslim capitalism, in which religious and commercial prerogatives are inseparable.