Petals on the Ganga
Petals on the Ganga

Author: Ruskin Bond

Publisher:

Published: 2019-03-20

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9789353333973

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This collection by Ruskin Bond has stories that are mostly autobiographical, based on the theme of nature. In these heart-warming stories, Bond talks of the various elements of nature as if they are members of his family. He also endows the flora and fauna that he encounters with distinct personalities, and himself recedes into the background as a silent observer. From the mountains to the trees, from the birds that fly to his cottage, bringing a whiff of the faraway forests they come from, to the winding paths that lead to charming gardens, Petals on the Ganga will take you to nooks and corners, opening up scenes of myriad beauty.

The Great Indian Novel
The Great Indian Novel

Author: Shashi Tharoor

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 1628721596

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In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Nothing is sacred in this deliciously irreverent, witty, and deeply intelligent retelling of modern Indian history and the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata. Alternately outrageous and instructive, hilarious and moving, it is a dazzling tapestry of prose and verse that satirically, but also poignantly, chronicles the struggle for Indian freedom and independence.

Handbook on Tourism Planning
Handbook on Tourism Planning

Author: Philip F. Xie

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 1803923598

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Timely and accessible, this Handbook offers a thorough account of the growth, development, and changes in the field of tourism planning over recent decades. With contributions from an interdisciplinary and international range of top scholars, it examines critical issues and challenges facing contemporary tourism planning. Covering research at local, national, and global levels, chapters unpack and frame planning strategies in various destinations, expanding the definition of tourism planning to encompass a range of successful case studies.

Black African Literature in English, 1997-1999
Black African Literature in English, 1997-1999

Author: Bernth Lindfors

Publisher: James Currey Publishers

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780852555750

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This volume lists the work produced on anglophone black African literature between 1997 and 1999. This bibliographic work is a continuation of the highly acclaimed earlier volumes compiled by Bernth Lindfors. Containing about 10,000 entries, some of which are annotated to identify the authors discussed, it covers books, periodical articles, papers in edited collections and selective coverage of other relevant sources.

Smuggling as Subversion
Smuggling as Subversion

Author: Amar Farooqui

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780739108864

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Smuggling as Subversion is the first comprehensive account of the opium industry in western India during the colonial period, from its beginnings to the mid-19th century. This is an in-depth examination of the use of opium during colonial times, and at the same time the fascinating story of how Indian merchants developed a smuggling enterprise that subverted the East India Company's monopoly in the drug, setting in motion a chain of events that led to the first Opium War in China.

The Cowherd's Son
The Cowherd's Son

Author: Rajiv Mohabir

Publisher: Kundiman Prize

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781936797967

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Broadening the scope of his award-winning debut to consider the wider Indo-Caribbean community in migration across the Americas and Europe, Rajiv Mohabir uses his queer and mixed-caste identities as grace notes to charm alienation into silence. Mohabir's inheritance of myths, folk tales, and multilingual translations make a palimpsest of histories that bleed into one another. A descendant of indentureship survivors, the poet-narrator creates an allegorical chronicle of dislocations and relocations, linking India, Guyana, Trinidad, New York, Orlando, Toronto, and Honolulu, combining the amplitude of mythology with direct witness and sensual reckoning, all the while seeking joy in testimony. Praise for Rajiv Mohabir's previous book: "In his excellent debut, Mohabir exposes desire and inner turmoil through the measured incantations of a queer, Indian-American voice that refuses the burdens of a homophobic and racist world. He eloquently describes how the brown body survives, clinging vigilantly to longing, lust, and love: 'I mean to say / I am still -- this trembling breath of a comma, this coincidental object of your want.' . . . Mohabir illuminates his own wounds, and as the reader watches him dresses and stitches those wounds, 'A queer flutter knocks about your ribs.'" -- Publishers Weekly

Ma Ganga - Janhvi
Ma Ganga - Janhvi

Author: Munindra Misra

Publisher: Munindra Misra

Published: 2022-05-17

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13:

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Ma Ganga - Janhavi written in English rhyme, with the original text covedrs: Mythology, descent, description, primer, mantra, stuti, stotra, chalisa, matmayam, names and Arti