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  • Guru Nanak

    The Thinker and the Poet

    by Astri Ghosh ...
    ‘He who regards all men as equals is religious.’Insightful, compassionate and benevolent, Guru Nanak Dev was a scholar, teacher, mentor and guide. Both a man of God as well as of the people, he believed that religion was a means of bringing everyone together and upheld the equality of all human beings, whatever their caste, beliefs or gender.Unusually spiritual even as a child, Guru Nanak stood up ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Rats' Feast: A Tagore Omnibus

    by Rabindranath Tagore ...
    Translated by Astri Ghosh ...
    Series Book 2 - Bookmine
    A dry-fruit seller from Kabul with a heart of molten gold and a fist of iron. Escapades of naughty schoolboys travelling on a train with an unusual teacher. The decisive battle of skill and oratory between two poets in a king's court. The everydayjoys and sadness of a sick boy who sees the world through a half-open window of hope. A bemusing world of Cards/based on rules and class divides. Morning ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • Nine Lives

    In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

    by William Dalrymple ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE'Beautifully written, ridiculously erudite, warm and open-hearted' The Times'Compelling and poignant' Guardian'This is travel writing at its best' ObserverInternationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes us to the heart of an undiscovered India.A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasio... ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

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  • Poovan Banana and Other Stories

    by Vaikom Muhammed Basheer(Author);Translated from Malayalam by V.Abdulla ...
    This carefully selected collection of Vaikom Muhammad Basheers short stories are characterised by a variety in theme and tone. He has enshrined in them every kind of experience from the pangs of hunger and sex to the rapture of mystic vision. Its range includes stark realistic pictures of the material world as well as the realm of fantasy haunted by ghosts and spirits. Basheer has written on love ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • A Journey In Ladakh

    Encounters with Buddhism

    by Andrew Harvey ...
    Now considered a classic among readers interested in Tibetan Buddhism and pilgrimages of the spirit of all kinds, A Journey in Ladakh is Andrew Harvey's spiritual travelogue of his arduous journey to one of the most remote parts of the world--the highest, least populated region in India, cut off by snow for six months each year. Buddhists have meditated in the mountains of Ladakh since three ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Kuttiedathi And Other Stories

    by M T Vasudevan Nair ...
    Kuttiedathi and Other Stories is a careful collection of ten short stories. This collection brings together some of the most well known stories of M T Vasudevan Nair, fairly representative of his literary works. Written over a broad span of time from 1962 to 2000, the stories collected here reflect the built-in variety of his fictional concerns and the changing tones of his narration. M T ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Varanasi

    by M.T.Vasudevan Nair ...
    Translated by N. Gopalakrishnan ...
    Women of character and strength, reveal his failings, one by one. And, Sudhakaran runs; from village to town, from town to city and city to city. The city now is Varanasi. This ancient city reminds him of all that it stands for—dharma, lust and death—and that there is no place where one can hide ones mistakes. Of all places one cannot hide in Varanasi, where memories hold the city together; and, ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Sex,Scotch and Scholarship

    by Khushwant Singh ...
    In this anthology, which comprises some of Khushwant Singh's best writing, you can look forward to some talk of sex, a little of Scotch and much Scholarship. The collection attempts to mirror the author's concerns and passions-his love of nature, his anguish over the situation in Punjab, his interest in religions of the world and his scholarly research on the one into which he was born, Sikhism. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Novice: Why I Became A Buddhist Monk, Why I Quit, And What I Learned

    by Stephen Schettini ...
    In this unforgettable memior, a young man finds himself disillusioned by the conventional expectations of his parents, teachers, and culture. Desperate to articulate his deepest hopes and dreams, he discards his university education and abandons home, family, and possessions to journey through Europe, the Middle East, and Asia in search of a meaningful life. Narrowly escaping death by sickness and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gandhi: From Monu to Mahatma

    by Bolwar Mahamad Kunhi ...
    This is a story of the amazing evolution of a great visionary and freedom fighter of India, Mahatma Gandhi. The narration of the evolution of a great soul is simple, straight-forward, unembellished but never simplistic. It is written for children but when an adult reads it the child in him is alive again. The Mahatma also had kept the child Monu alive in himself until he died as a martyr. This is ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Power of Silence: The Riches That Lie Within

    The Riches That Lie Within

    by Graham Turner ...
    In the modern world, we are assaulted on all sides by noise; but silence can change your life and this book explains why and how.Silence is a mysterious and unfathomable realm, perhaps the most under-used of all resources, and one our modern culture has all but obliterated by turning up the volume control. Graham Turner explores the power that can be found in silence through interviewing monastics ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Special Illumination

    The Sufi Use of Humour

    by Idries Shah ...
    Special Illumination is a term used by the great poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi to stress the importance of humour in metaphysical experience.Of it, Idries Shah says, 'Rumi directly contradicts such numerous sour-faced religionists as, in all persuasions, find that humour disturbs the indoctrination which is all that they usually have to offer.' ... Read more

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