Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: books catalog
ISBN: 9788129107947
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Another collectible from the master anthologiser, Ruskin Bond, this volume is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat. Recounted by brave, heroic, lovable people who survived to tell their tale, these racy stories deal with lives lived on the edge, snatched from the jaws of irrevocable harm - and death. Of people who fought against all odds, venturing into the world for the love of excitement and adventure. Interwoven with wit and humour, these stories help to remind us that life is meant to be drunk to the lees and enjoyed to the last drop.
The Rupa Book of Thrills and Spills
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: books catalog
ISBN: 9788129107947
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Another collectible from the master anthologiser, Ruskin Bond, this volume is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat. Recounted by brave, heroic, lovable people who survived to tell their tale, these racy stories deal with lives lived on the edge, snatched from the jaws of irrevocable harm - and death. Of people who fought against all odds, venturing into the world for the love of excitement and adventure. Interwoven with wit and humour, these stories help to remind us that life is meant to be drunk to the lees and enjoyed to the last drop.
Publisher: books catalog
ISBN: 9788129107947
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Another collectible from the master anthologiser, Ruskin Bond, this volume is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat. Recounted by brave, heroic, lovable people who survived to tell their tale, these racy stories deal with lives lived on the edge, snatched from the jaws of irrevocable harm - and death. Of people who fought against all odds, venturing into the world for the love of excitement and adventure. Interwoven with wit and humour, these stories help to remind us that life is meant to be drunk to the lees and enjoyed to the last drop.
Thrilling Tales
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: books catalog
ISBN: 9788129109705
Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The test of a good story, Ruskin Bond says, is when a writer is able to teach a your reader's attention from page one, perfectly paragraph one, and hold it to the end. Each one of the stories that he has included in this collection pass this test, and with flying colours. Spine-tingling unputdownable tales, this collection takes you from a woman's struggle against the elements in the cold, snow-swept Prairies, to the thick of a jungle where a man bored with hunting animals decides, instead to hunt a fellow human. Filled with conflict, suspense and adventure, Thrilling Tales: A Selection of Hair-Raising Adventures is a page-turner from beginning to end.
Publisher: books catalog
ISBN: 9788129109705
Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The test of a good story, Ruskin Bond says, is when a writer is able to teach a your reader's attention from page one, perfectly paragraph one, and hold it to the end. Each one of the stories that he has included in this collection pass this test, and with flying colours. Spine-tingling unputdownable tales, this collection takes you from a woman's struggle against the elements in the cold, snow-swept Prairies, to the thick of a jungle where a man bored with hunting animals decides, instead to hunt a fellow human. Filled with conflict, suspense and adventure, Thrilling Tales: A Selection of Hair-Raising Adventures is a page-turner from beginning to end.
The Rupa Book Of True Tales Of Mystery And Adventure
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788129102416
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788129102416
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Indian Review of Books
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Five Novellas by Women Writers
Author: Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195697025
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Bringing together the work of five highly accomplished contemporary Indian women writers - Mrinal Pande, Saniya, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Vaidehi, and B. M. Zuhara - this collection of novellas from five Indian languages revolves around the lives of women from various walks of life. With the novellas translated in English for the first time, the book includes a critical introduction by Uma Chakravarti." "This book will be of value not only to general readers interested in Indian writing in translation, but also to students of modern Indian literature, gender studies, comparative literature, and cultural studies." --Book Jacket.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195697025
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Bringing together the work of five highly accomplished contemporary Indian women writers - Mrinal Pande, Saniya, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Vaidehi, and B. M. Zuhara - this collection of novellas from five Indian languages revolves around the lives of women from various walks of life. With the novellas translated in English for the first time, the book includes a critical introduction by Uma Chakravarti." "This book will be of value not only to general readers interested in Indian writing in translation, but also to students of modern Indian literature, gender studies, comparative literature, and cultural studies." --Book Jacket.
Rock Music in Performance
Author: D. Pattie
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230593305
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In this new study, David Pattie examines the apparent contradiction between authenticity and theatricality in the live performance of rock music, and looks at the way in which various performers have dealt with this paradox from rock music's early development in the 1960s up to the present day.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230593305
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In this new study, David Pattie examines the apparent contradiction between authenticity and theatricality in the live performance of rock music, and looks at the way in which various performers have dealt with this paradox from rock music's early development in the 1960s up to the present day.
Mind
Author: Swami Sivananda
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788170520061
Category : Hindu philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788170520061
Category : Hindu philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Rupa Book of Heartwarming Stories
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Psycho-Social Analysis of the Indian Mindset
Author: Jai B.P. Sinha
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 8132218043
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This volume situates Indians in the contemporary world and profiles the major facets of their thought and behaviour; then goes back to trace their roots to ancient thought to see how the past predisposes and the present guides Indians in their everyday life. The volume begins with a conceptual framework showing how the Indian worldview has encompassed and enveloped a variety of ideas and influences from divergent sources. As a result, Indians are both collectivists and individualists, hierarchically oriented while respecting merit and quality, religious as well as secular and sexually indulgent, spiritual as well as materialists, excessively dependent but remarkably entrepreneurial, non-violent in principle but violent in practice and comfortable in shifting between analytical, synthetic as well as intuitive approaches to reality. Such a coexistence of opposites often causes inaction, hesitation and perfunctory action, but also equips Indians to be innovative by continuously aligning their thought and behaviour to the demands of a milieu. The milieu has an inner layer consisting of desh (place), kaal (time) and paatra (person), which are embedded in the larger societal contexts of castes and classes, poverty, corruption, fragmenting politics, conflicts and violence and unfolding global opportunities and challenges. Cultural heritage permeates in all these. Indians function in this tiered, multifactorial, dynamic space. This volume draws evidence from ancient texts and the latest national and international research, many of which were conducted by the author and his associates. It does not, however, hesitate to indulge in anecdotal evidence, cases and speculative ideas in order to complete the picture. The author takes an in-depth view of the Indian mindset without getting the reader lost in either the intricacies of ancient philosophical abyss or the trivialities of present-day non-events.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 8132218043
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This volume situates Indians in the contemporary world and profiles the major facets of their thought and behaviour; then goes back to trace their roots to ancient thought to see how the past predisposes and the present guides Indians in their everyday life. The volume begins with a conceptual framework showing how the Indian worldview has encompassed and enveloped a variety of ideas and influences from divergent sources. As a result, Indians are both collectivists and individualists, hierarchically oriented while respecting merit and quality, religious as well as secular and sexually indulgent, spiritual as well as materialists, excessively dependent but remarkably entrepreneurial, non-violent in principle but violent in practice and comfortable in shifting between analytical, synthetic as well as intuitive approaches to reality. Such a coexistence of opposites often causes inaction, hesitation and perfunctory action, but also equips Indians to be innovative by continuously aligning their thought and behaviour to the demands of a milieu. The milieu has an inner layer consisting of desh (place), kaal (time) and paatra (person), which are embedded in the larger societal contexts of castes and classes, poverty, corruption, fragmenting politics, conflicts and violence and unfolding global opportunities and challenges. Cultural heritage permeates in all these. Indians function in this tiered, multifactorial, dynamic space. This volume draws evidence from ancient texts and the latest national and international research, many of which were conducted by the author and his associates. It does not, however, hesitate to indulge in anecdotal evidence, cases and speculative ideas in order to complete the picture. The author takes an in-depth view of the Indian mindset without getting the reader lost in either the intricacies of ancient philosophical abyss or the trivialities of present-day non-events.
Holy Cow
Author: Sarah Macdonald
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767918142
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India—and for love—she screamed, “Never!” and gave the country, and him, the finger. But eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. When the love of Sarah’s life is posted to India, she quits her dream job to move to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi. For Sarah this seems like the ultimate sacrifice for love, and it almost kills her, literally. Just settled, she falls dangerously ill with double pneumonia, an experience that compels her to face some serious questions about her own fragile mortality and inner spiritual void. “I must find peace in the only place possible in India,” she concludes. “Within.” Thus begins her journey of discovery through India in search of the meaning of life and death. Holy Cow is Macdonald’s often hilarious chronicle of her adventures in a land of chaos and contradiction, of encounters with Hinduism, Islam and Jainism, Sufis, Sikhs, Parsis and Christians and a kaleidoscope of yogis, swamis and Bollywood stars. From spiritual retreats and crumbling nirvanas to war zones and New Delhi nightclubs, it is a journey that only a woman on a mission to save her soul, her love life—and her sanity—can survive.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767918142
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India—and for love—she screamed, “Never!” and gave the country, and him, the finger. But eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. When the love of Sarah’s life is posted to India, she quits her dream job to move to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi. For Sarah this seems like the ultimate sacrifice for love, and it almost kills her, literally. Just settled, she falls dangerously ill with double pneumonia, an experience that compels her to face some serious questions about her own fragile mortality and inner spiritual void. “I must find peace in the only place possible in India,” she concludes. “Within.” Thus begins her journey of discovery through India in search of the meaning of life and death. Holy Cow is Macdonald’s often hilarious chronicle of her adventures in a land of chaos and contradiction, of encounters with Hinduism, Islam and Jainism, Sufis, Sikhs, Parsis and Christians and a kaleidoscope of yogis, swamis and Bollywood stars. From spiritual retreats and crumbling nirvanas to war zones and New Delhi nightclubs, it is a journey that only a woman on a mission to save her soul, her love life—and her sanity—can survive.