Author: M.T. Vasudevan Nair
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9357084061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
MT, as he is popularly known, is one of the most illustrious writers and film-makers from modern Kerala. His life’s work has won him the Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the National Film Award and the Padma Bhushan, among others. MT grew up in the village of Kudallur in Kerala and his writings constantly evoke the landscape of the years he spent there. Many of the characters in his stories are based on people who lived in this region and the stories themselves often retell incidents that happened there. The memoirs as well as the stories in this volume were chosen by MT himself. They pay homage to his childhood, his craft and most importantly, his Amma, whose restful presence they beautifully and poignantly capture.
Bear with Me, Amma
Author: M.T. Vasudevan Nair
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9357084061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
MT, as he is popularly known, is one of the most illustrious writers and film-makers from modern Kerala. His life’s work has won him the Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the National Film Award and the Padma Bhushan, among others. MT grew up in the village of Kudallur in Kerala and his writings constantly evoke the landscape of the years he spent there. Many of the characters in his stories are based on people who lived in this region and the stories themselves often retell incidents that happened there. The memoirs as well as the stories in this volume were chosen by MT himself. They pay homage to his childhood, his craft and most importantly, his Amma, whose restful presence they beautifully and poignantly capture.
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9357084061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
MT, as he is popularly known, is one of the most illustrious writers and film-makers from modern Kerala. His life’s work has won him the Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the National Film Award and the Padma Bhushan, among others. MT grew up in the village of Kudallur in Kerala and his writings constantly evoke the landscape of the years he spent there. Many of the characters in his stories are based on people who lived in this region and the stories themselves often retell incidents that happened there. The memoirs as well as the stories in this volume were chosen by MT himself. They pay homage to his childhood, his craft and most importantly, his Amma, whose restful presence they beautifully and poignantly capture.
Girls for Sale
Author: Gurujada Venkata Apparao
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253348994
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
A masterpiece of British Indian literature in a vibrant modern English translation
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253348994
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
A masterpiece of British Indian literature in a vibrant modern English translation
Brave Bitsy and the Bear
Author: Angela McAllister
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618639946
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A small toy rabbit and a large woodland bear come to each other's rescue during the winter.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618639946
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A small toy rabbit and a large woodland bear come to each other's rescue during the winter.
Talking Is Wasted Breath
Author: Rasana Atreya
Publisher: Scrub Tree Media
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In a world where family expectations outweigh personal desires, tradition isn't simply a guide—it's an ironclad rule. Madhav is a young man with an engineering job that pays rather well. He also has: · A mother who doesn’t understand why it is so wrong to demand dowry for her son. Especially when she paid out a generous dowry for her daughter. · A father who feels so obligated to his beautiful wife for consenting to marry him, he will not deny her. · A grandfather whose wacky schemes occupy his own time and Madhav’s. · A grandmother whose sharp tongue hides a kind heart. · A girl who has possession of his heart but not of the dowry his mother so desires. Traditionally, as the eldest son, Madhav must marry a woman who will perform his ancestors’ afterlife rituals—a responsibility he’s ready to shoulder. Yet, when it comes to selecting a bride, he'd rather deviate from tradition and choose his own partner—an idea his parents are not willing to accept. Set in rural India, where old traditions and new ideas often collide, Talking Is Wasted Breath is a compelling drama about the challenges of generational differences, societal pressures, and the power of love. In a world where family ties are both valued and limiting, the story follows one man’s search for happiness as he disrupts long-standing traditions. Engaging and insightful, this novel explores themes of change, hope, and the complexities of human relationships. ◆ This book was previously called 28 Years A Bachelor. ◆ Spellings used in this book are British/Indian. ◆ All books in this series may be read independently.
Publisher: Scrub Tree Media
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In a world where family expectations outweigh personal desires, tradition isn't simply a guide—it's an ironclad rule. Madhav is a young man with an engineering job that pays rather well. He also has: · A mother who doesn’t understand why it is so wrong to demand dowry for her son. Especially when she paid out a generous dowry for her daughter. · A father who feels so obligated to his beautiful wife for consenting to marry him, he will not deny her. · A grandfather whose wacky schemes occupy his own time and Madhav’s. · A grandmother whose sharp tongue hides a kind heart. · A girl who has possession of his heart but not of the dowry his mother so desires. Traditionally, as the eldest son, Madhav must marry a woman who will perform his ancestors’ afterlife rituals—a responsibility he’s ready to shoulder. Yet, when it comes to selecting a bride, he'd rather deviate from tradition and choose his own partner—an idea his parents are not willing to accept. Set in rural India, where old traditions and new ideas often collide, Talking Is Wasted Breath is a compelling drama about the challenges of generational differences, societal pressures, and the power of love. In a world where family ties are both valued and limiting, the story follows one man’s search for happiness as he disrupts long-standing traditions. Engaging and insightful, this novel explores themes of change, hope, and the complexities of human relationships. ◆ This book was previously called 28 Years A Bachelor. ◆ Spellings used in this book are British/Indian. ◆ All books in this series may be read independently.
Possessed by the Virgin
Author: Kristin C. Bloomer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190615109
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
In the early 1980s, in a rural village in South India, a Dalit woman miscarried. She hovered on the edge of death--until the Virgin Mary led her to a chapel and possessed her. For years, hundreds of ailing Catholics and Hindus came to this woman for healing, and Mary made them well. Two decades later, in the metropolis of Chennai, a boy named Alex lay in his hospital bed sick with fever when the Virgin Mary appeared to him and told him to walk. He did--and at home, he felt Mary enter his body. Soon, his older cousin Rosalind also showed signs of Marian possession. Mary told them that her name was "Jecintho." Within three years, another young woman in Chennai also became possessed by Jecintho and began exhibiting signs of stigmata: blood flowing from her hands and eyes. Possessed by the Virgin is an ethnographic account of Marian possession, healing, and exorcism among Catholics and Hindus in southeast India. Following the lives of three Tamil Roman Catholic women for more than a decade, Kristin C. Boomer attends to the women's own descriptions of their experience with Marian possession, as well as to those of the people who came to them for healing. Her book investigates how possession is possible and in what contexts such experiences can be read as authentic. Roman Catholic officials have responded in various ways: banning certain activities while promoting others. Their responses reflect the complicated relationship of the Roman Catholic Church with non-Christian religious practices on the Indian subcontinent, where "possession" (a term introduced by missionaries) involving deities and spirits has long been commonplace and where gods, goddesses and spirits have long inhabited people. This ground sets the stage for Bloomer to explore questions of agency, gender, subjectivity, and power, and the complex interconnection between the ethnographic "Self" and the "Other."
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190615109
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
In the early 1980s, in a rural village in South India, a Dalit woman miscarried. She hovered on the edge of death--until the Virgin Mary led her to a chapel and possessed her. For years, hundreds of ailing Catholics and Hindus came to this woman for healing, and Mary made them well. Two decades later, in the metropolis of Chennai, a boy named Alex lay in his hospital bed sick with fever when the Virgin Mary appeared to him and told him to walk. He did--and at home, he felt Mary enter his body. Soon, his older cousin Rosalind also showed signs of Marian possession. Mary told them that her name was "Jecintho." Within three years, another young woman in Chennai also became possessed by Jecintho and began exhibiting signs of stigmata: blood flowing from her hands and eyes. Possessed by the Virgin is an ethnographic account of Marian possession, healing, and exorcism among Catholics and Hindus in southeast India. Following the lives of three Tamil Roman Catholic women for more than a decade, Kristin C. Boomer attends to the women's own descriptions of their experience with Marian possession, as well as to those of the people who came to them for healing. Her book investigates how possession is possible and in what contexts such experiences can be read as authentic. Roman Catholic officials have responded in various ways: banning certain activities while promoting others. Their responses reflect the complicated relationship of the Roman Catholic Church with non-Christian religious practices on the Indian subcontinent, where "possession" (a term introduced by missionaries) involving deities and spirits has long been commonplace and where gods, goddesses and spirits have long inhabited people. This ground sets the stage for Bloomer to explore questions of agency, gender, subjectivity, and power, and the complex interconnection between the ethnographic "Self" and the "Other."
Southern Lyrics
Author: Robert Paine Hudson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Beautiful Creatures Complete Gift Set
Author: Kami Garcia
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 031670640X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Discover Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's epic bestselling Beautiful Creature series in this complete e-book collection that includes: Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness, Beautiful Chaos, Beautiful Redemption. There were no surprises in Gatlin County. At least, that's what I thought. Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong. Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. Mysterious, suspenseful, and romantic, Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness, Beautiful Chaos, and Beautiful Redemption introduce a secret world hidden in plain sight. A world where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen. Sometimes life-ending.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 031670640X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Discover Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's epic bestselling Beautiful Creature series in this complete e-book collection that includes: Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness, Beautiful Chaos, Beautiful Redemption. There were no surprises in Gatlin County. At least, that's what I thought. Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong. Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. Mysterious, suspenseful, and romantic, Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness, Beautiful Chaos, and Beautiful Redemption introduce a secret world hidden in plain sight. A world where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen. Sometimes life-ending.
Amminikutty
Author: D.J(Deepa jayaraj)
Publisher: D.J.PUBLICATION KODUNGALLUR
ISBN: 8192808033
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
This story is based on a real life incident and hence not painted with flowery words. The unfortunate heroine of the story, Amminikkutty, lost her right to lead a peaceful life due to the forceful interference of the supposed to be bigwigs and the so called society norms fixed by a male dominated society. Amminikkutty who had shouldered all sorts of hardships remain as a symbol of lost love and never ending sorrows. Praise for Amminikutty “Amminikutty is the contemporary reading of woman lives; A novel, which is a non decorative description of truthful experiences”-Kerala Sahithya Accademy, September 2013 issue “A novel which centres on its main character Amminikutty. The plot of this novel is the miserable life of its heroine, who always stood for the wellbeing of those in her life.” Mathrubhumi weekly special issue, October 2013. “The theme of this novel is the fretting and fuming of woman life which gets entangled in the labyrinth of family intricacies, even in this modern era.” Grihalekshmi magazine, March 2014 “The main character Amminikutty, who has suffered endless hardships all throughout her life, remains as the personification of sufferings”Kumkumam magazine, November 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Nl7WuOoPY http://www.amazon.in/AMMINIKUTTY-Amminikutty-D-J-ebook/dp/B00O4C52R6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421749497&sr=8-1&keywords=amminikutty
Publisher: D.J.PUBLICATION KODUNGALLUR
ISBN: 8192808033
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
This story is based on a real life incident and hence not painted with flowery words. The unfortunate heroine of the story, Amminikkutty, lost her right to lead a peaceful life due to the forceful interference of the supposed to be bigwigs and the so called society norms fixed by a male dominated society. Amminikkutty who had shouldered all sorts of hardships remain as a symbol of lost love and never ending sorrows. Praise for Amminikutty “Amminikutty is the contemporary reading of woman lives; A novel, which is a non decorative description of truthful experiences”-Kerala Sahithya Accademy, September 2013 issue “A novel which centres on its main character Amminikutty. The plot of this novel is the miserable life of its heroine, who always stood for the wellbeing of those in her life.” Mathrubhumi weekly special issue, October 2013. “The theme of this novel is the fretting and fuming of woman life which gets entangled in the labyrinth of family intricacies, even in this modern era.” Grihalekshmi magazine, March 2014 “The main character Amminikutty, who has suffered endless hardships all throughout her life, remains as the personification of sufferings”Kumkumam magazine, November 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Nl7WuOoPY http://www.amazon.in/AMMINIKUTTY-Amminikutty-D-J-ebook/dp/B00O4C52R6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421749497&sr=8-1&keywords=amminikutty
My Masters from the 4th Dimension
Author: Rejith Kumar. R
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
“My Masters from the 4th Dimension” is a heart-warming real-life journey of a self-proclaimed atheist awakened to a mystical world of spiritual masters and given a mission of uniting and leading ancient Kumari Kandam (Pleiadian) souls to fulfill their destiny of awakening and co-creating a new world of higher spiritual consciousness. The era of Lord Muruga and the Siddhas - ‘Muruga Yugam’ has begun for a massive energy shift to occur on earth triggering the onset of Pleiadian or Karthika energy to flow abundantly on earth. Awakened souls living in different parts of the world are now finding themselves drawn to the Pleiadian mission of Lord Muruga. Sounds extraordinary, right? How did this all begin? It begins with the story of a young man pursuing to be a cinematographer. Destiny, however, had other plans for him. His life changed unexpectedly with the sudden appearance of his spiritual guide Lord Muruga who leads him on a series of spiritual quests. It led to several mystical experiences in his otherwise day-to-day world. After almost two decades of spiritual travel, he looks back at the journey which transformed him into a global spiritual leader under the benevolent grace of Lord Muruga.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
“My Masters from the 4th Dimension” is a heart-warming real-life journey of a self-proclaimed atheist awakened to a mystical world of spiritual masters and given a mission of uniting and leading ancient Kumari Kandam (Pleiadian) souls to fulfill their destiny of awakening and co-creating a new world of higher spiritual consciousness. The era of Lord Muruga and the Siddhas - ‘Muruga Yugam’ has begun for a massive energy shift to occur on earth triggering the onset of Pleiadian or Karthika energy to flow abundantly on earth. Awakened souls living in different parts of the world are now finding themselves drawn to the Pleiadian mission of Lord Muruga. Sounds extraordinary, right? How did this all begin? It begins with the story of a young man pursuing to be a cinematographer. Destiny, however, had other plans for him. His life changed unexpectedly with the sudden appearance of his spiritual guide Lord Muruga who leads him on a series of spiritual quests. It led to several mystical experiences in his otherwise day-to-day world. After almost two decades of spiritual travel, he looks back at the journey which transformed him into a global spiritual leader under the benevolent grace of Lord Muruga.
Stalking God
Author: Anjali Kumar
Publisher: Seal Press
ISBN: 1580056628
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Anjali Kumar, a pragmatic lawyer for Google, was part of a rapidly growing population in America: highly spiritual but religiously uncommitted. But when her daughter was born, she became compelled to find God -- or at least some kind of enlightenment. Convinced that traditional religions were not a fit for her, and knowing that she couldn't simply Google an answer to "What is the meaning of life?", Kumar set out on a spiritual pilgrimage, looking for answers -- and nothing was off limits or too unorthodox. She headed to the mountains of Peru to learn from the shamans, attended the techie haunt of Burning Man, practiced transcendental meditation, convened with angels, and visited saints, goddesses, witches, and faith healers. She even hired a medium to convene with the dead. Kumar's lighthearted story offers a revealing look at the timeless and vexing issue of spirituality in an era when more and more people are walking away from formal religions. Narrated from the open-minded perspective of a spiritual seeker rather than a religious scholar, Kumar offers an honest account of some of the less than mainstream spiritual practices that are followed by millions of people in the world today as she searches for the answers to life's most universal questions: Why are we here? What happens when we die? Is there a God?
Publisher: Seal Press
ISBN: 1580056628
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Anjali Kumar, a pragmatic lawyer for Google, was part of a rapidly growing population in America: highly spiritual but religiously uncommitted. But when her daughter was born, she became compelled to find God -- or at least some kind of enlightenment. Convinced that traditional religions were not a fit for her, and knowing that she couldn't simply Google an answer to "What is the meaning of life?", Kumar set out on a spiritual pilgrimage, looking for answers -- and nothing was off limits or too unorthodox. She headed to the mountains of Peru to learn from the shamans, attended the techie haunt of Burning Man, practiced transcendental meditation, convened with angels, and visited saints, goddesses, witches, and faith healers. She even hired a medium to convene with the dead. Kumar's lighthearted story offers a revealing look at the timeless and vexing issue of spirituality in an era when more and more people are walking away from formal religions. Narrated from the open-minded perspective of a spiritual seeker rather than a religious scholar, Kumar offers an honest account of some of the less than mainstream spiritual practices that are followed by millions of people in the world today as she searches for the answers to life's most universal questions: Why are we here? What happens when we die? Is there a God?