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“rajam krishnan”

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  • Echoes Along the Trail

    The Unquiet Life of Manalur Maniammal

    by Rajam Krishnan ...
    Translated by Suganthy Krishnamachari ...
    A COMPELLING RECONSTRUCTION OF A FORGOTTEN FREEDOM FIGHTER'S LIFEShe marched with Mahatma Gandhi, mobilized Dalit communities in Thanjavur, endured imprisonment during the 1949 ban on the Communist Party of India, and died largely forgotten. This is the story of Manalur Maniammal - a freedom fighter, grassroots organizer and one of the most fascinating unsung figures of India's independence ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • When The Kurinji Blooms

    by Rajam Krishnan ...
    Translated from the Tamil Kurinjithen, Rajam Krishnan’s lyrical and erudite novel is a family saga of three generations of Badagas in the Nilgiris. As the winds of social change and modernity invade their protected lives, the innocence and harmony is replaced by conflict and tragedy that precede a new beginning. ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

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    Siddhartha is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse which deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian boy called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. The book was written in German, in a simple, yet powerful and lyrical style. It was first published in 1922, after Hesse had spent some time in India in the 1910s.The story revolves around a young man who leaves his home and family on a quest ... Read more

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  • Malgudi Days

    by R. K. Narayan ...
    Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan's centennialIntroducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India "the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story." Composed of powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of people, and comprising stories written over almost forty years, Malgudi Days presents ... Read more

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  • India for Idiots

    by Dianne Sharma Winter ...
    India for first time visitors. A guide to the cultural quirks of India. ... Read more

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  • Across Many Mountains

    A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom

    by Yangzom Brauen ...
    "A moving reminder that the consequences of the Chinese invasion of Tibet continue down to this day. A lovely memoir of three generations of Tibetan women." —Oliver StoneKunsang thought she would never leave Tibet. One of the country's youngest Buddhist nuns, she grew up in a remote mountain village where, as a teenager, she entered the local nunnery. Though simple, Kunsang's life gave her all she ... Read more

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  • Kaalam

    by M T Vasudevan Nair(Author);Gita Krishnankutty(Translator) ...
    Set against the backdrop of a crumbling matrilineal tarawad system of the Nairs in Kerala with its petty rivalries and jealousies, its sambandhan system of contractual marriage, its conflicts and problems, and the changes in land legislation which sharply erode the feudal order, Kaalam is the story of sethumadhavan Nair who starts out as an ambitious and confident adolescentbut in his journey ... Read more

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  • On Love and Barley

    Haiku of Basho

    by Matsuo Basho ...
    Translated by Lucien Stryk ...
    Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the smallness of human life in comparison to the vastness ... Read more

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  • Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher

    Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith

    by R. K. Narayan ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
    R. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism.Swami and Friends introduces us to Narayan’s beloved fictional town of Malgudi, where ... Read more

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  • Ants Among Elephants

    An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

    by Sujatha Gidla ...
    A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2017A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2017" Ants Among Elephants is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir. It is quite possibly the most striking work of non-fiction set in India since Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, and heralds the arrival of a formidable new write... ... Read more

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  • Japanese Haiku: Cherry Blossoms

    Translated by Peter Beilenson ...
    by Basho, Buson ...
    Series Book 3 - Peter Pauper Press Classic Haiku
    Step into a series of dazzling, funny, melancholy, and joyous moments with this collection of haiku masterworks. Beloved translator Peter Beilensons goals were twofold: to craft a book of haiku accessible to anyone, and to render his best guess at what the poets would have written in English. His translations preserve the sublime spirit of each verse, conjuring vivid visual and emotional ... Read more

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  • From a Mountain In Tibet

    A Monk’s Journey

    by Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche ...
    Lama Yeshe didn't see a car until he was fifteen. But everything changed with the arrival of Chinese army vehicles in 1959. In the wake of the deadly Tibetan Uprising, he escaped to India through the Himalayas as one of only 13 survivors out of 300 refugees.Now in his seventies and a leading monk at the Samye Ling monastery in Scotland, Lama Yeshe casts a hopeful look back at his momentous life - ... Read more

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