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  • The Punished

    Stories of Death-Row Prisoners in India

    by Jahnavi Misra, Project 39 A ...
    Based on work by Project 39AAn ex-bandit fights the silence of prison life with her notebook and pen.A family remembers the night their younger son was arrested for rape and murder.A woman finds out from her fellow prisoners that she's been given the death penalty.Between 2013 and 2016, Project 39A, a research and litigation centre based out of National Law University, Delhi, conducted interviews ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    The delightful, amusing, and deeply mysterious second novel to feature Vish Puri, a man after Hercule Poirot's heart, in a series that has already won diehard fans on three continents.The bizarre murder of an Indian scientist in public by the goddess Kali is no laughing matter. Yet Dr. Suresh Jha, best known for unmasking fraudulent swamis and godmen, dies in a fit of giggles at his morning yoga ... Read more

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  • What Happens When I Die?

    On the Spiritual Path, #4

    by David Tuffley ...
    Series Book 4 - On the Spiritual Path
    What happens when I die? is the question every human being asks, usually in private, sometimes in the middle of the night, and almost always without receiving a satisfying answer. In this compact and startlingly direct book, David Tuffley PhD turns to one of the oldest and most sophisticated accounts of dying ever compiled, the Bardo Thodol, better known in the West as the Tibetan Book of the Dead ... Read more

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  • The Good Girls

    An Ordinary Killing

    by Sonia Faleiro ...
    A shattering, utterly immersive work of investigative journalism, The Good Girls slips behind political maneuvering, caste systems and codes of honour in a village in northern India to tell the real story behind the tragic deaths of two teenage girls and an epidemic of violence against women.In the early dawn one day in 2014, a man discovered the dead bodies of 14-year-old Lalli Shakya and 16-year ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Return to Good Riddance

    A Cameo of Contemporary Patna

    by Sankarshan Thakur ...
    Patna is not a nice place to be. It is home to me and I cannot stop wanting to go back every once in a while, wanting to be a part of its life. I say this even so: Patna is not a nice place to be.In this masterful portrait of Patna, Sankarshan Thakur chronicles the way the city has changed-or not-under chief minister Nitish Kumar. Having grown up in Patna, the author gives an insider-outsider ... Read more

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  • Love Marriage

    A Novel

    by V. V. Ganeshananthan ...
    In this globe-scattered Sri Lankan family, we speak of only two kinds of marriage. The first is the Arranged Marriage. The second is the Love Marriage. In reality, there is a whole spectrum in between, but most of us spend years running away from the first toward the second. [p. 3]The daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants who left their collapsing country and married in America, Yalini finds herself ... Read more

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  • Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India

    A Tale of Women and Power in India

    by Amana Fontanella-Khan ...
    A triumphant portrait of a fiery sisterhood changing the lives of India's women.In Uttar Pradesh—known as the "badlands" of India—a woman’s life is not entirely her own. This is one explanation for how Sheelu, a seventeen-year-old girl, ended up in jail after fleeing her service in the home of a powerful local legislator. In a region plagued by corruption, an incident like this might have gone ... Read more

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  • Joothan

    An Untouchable's Life

    by Omprakash Valmiki, Arun Prabha Mukherjee ...
    Translated by Arun Prabha Mukherjee ...
    Omprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s. "Joothan" refers to scraps of food left on a plate, destined for the garbage or animals. India's untouchables have been forced to accept and eat joothan for centuries, and the word encapsulates the pain, humiliation, and poverty of a community forced to live at the bottom of India's ... Read more

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  • Crimes Against Women

    Three Tragedies and the Call for Reform in India

    by Wall Street Journal ...
    As 2012 came to a close, news of the gang rape of a young woman in India's capital generated headlines around the world. Her assault on a moving bus with a metal rod, and her death two weeks later from her injuries, focused attention on the dark side of the world's largest democracy: the struggle that faces many Indian women in a country where chauvinistic and misogynistic attitudes prevail.The ... Read more

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  • Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer

    by Sunil Gupta, Sunetra Choudhury ...
    Delhi High Court Bar Association, accomplishing much to improve India’s prison systems, from introducing Special Courts within the prisons to initiating video conferencing connections between jails and the court. He has also fought for gender equality within the prison system by ensuring that women are availed the same privileges of semi-open and open jail which are availed to men. His efforts ... Read more

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  • I LIE IN WAIT

    by VIVEK VIJAYAN ...
    A Celebrity Anchor is killed.An Investigative team is formed.But how to catch a killer who is always a step ahead?Set a trap and lie in wait… ... Read more

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  • Murder in the City

    Twelve Incredible Case Files of the Kolkata Police

    by Supratim Sarkar ...
    Translated by Swati Sengupta ...
    ‘A riveting book on real-life crimes and how the police solve them. We sleep in peace in a world made safer by these supermen and women in white.’—Sourav Ganguly, cricketerBrother kills brother using the plague bacteria as a murder weapon.A man is killed in his sleep and his body walled up in the house.A seemingly docile housewife masterminds a gruesome twin murder…The Kolkata Police is one of the ... Read more

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