Indian Literature

Twenty years ago, a childhood tragedy drove six friends apart. But when one of them is found dead in the historic, wooded ruins of the New England settlement known as Dogtown, old acquaintances find themselves drawn together. Now they must work together to solve the meaning behind a message written in blood, a series of attacks, and the mysterious quills that seem to tie them all together. But time is quickly running out.

While it lived, the tamarind tree stood at the crossroads of a small village in Southern India. For more than fifty years it was a benevolent observer, offering shade without discrimination. It bore witness to laughter and tears, to tragedy and simple pleasures, and to the history of the village itself as it transformed from the old ways of bullock-led carts to a bustling community of social, political, economic, and ecological change.

Five thousand years ago, there came to earth a magical being called Krishna, who brought about innumerable miracles for the good of mankind. Humanity despaired of its fate if the Blue God were to die but was reassured that he would return in a fresh avatar when needed in the eventual Dark Age - the Kaliyug. In modern times, a poor little rich boy grows up believing that he is that final avatar. Only, he is a serial killer.

Vinod Kumar Shukla's Blue Is Like Blue, translated from Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai, has been awarded The Inaugural Mathrubhumi Book of Year Award 2020. It is also the Winner of the Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize 2019. Blue is like blue is a short story collection by Vinod Kumar Shukla. Renowned for bringing the marvellous to the ordinary, Vinod Kumar Shukla has long been recognized as one of India's foremost writers, with a voice uniquely his own.

Laxmi never paid much attention to the tiny hairs above her lip. But one day while playing farm animals at recess, her friends point out that her whiskers would make her the perfect cat. She starts to notice body hair all over - on her arms, legs, and even between her eyebrows. With her parents' help, Laxmi learns that hair isn't just for heads, but that it grows everywhere, regardless of gender.

We think of love stories as those that end in happily-ever-after. But thousands of years ago, in ancient India, love was understood in a different way—as one of the four aims of life, as a means for spiritual growth, as a celebration of the play of the Divine. As something profound, beautiful, and sometimes elusive.

Ayasha is part Chippewa-Cree Indian and part White. Protected by her powerful father, the town of Waverly let her be. Now that he has passed, the town lets Ayasha know exactly how they feel about her. She has no family and no money. What can she do? In desperation, she answers an advert from an injured man looking for a bride. Farmer Joe Warner was injured in a plowing accident. His younger sister has been caring for him, but Joe knows that she is putting her own life on hold.

Rain in the Mountains brings together some of Ruskin Bond’s most beautiful works from his years spent in the foothills of the Himalayas in the town of Mussoorie. Through vivid images and lucid writing, Bond evokes the everyday sights and sounds, and captures the essence of mountain life. The musings on his natural habitat, in both prose and poetry, offer a view of that simple and affable world. Some of his writings featured in the book include: "Once Upon a Mountain Time", "Sounds I Like to Hear", "How Far Is the River" and "After the Monsoon".

With an arcing and emphatic beauty, Ghalib, the Indian Beloved by Khalid Hameed Shaida is a starry-eyed collection of 124 translated odes by Ghalib. Capturing the essence and pure song of one of the most loved romantic poets of India, Shaida's translation and interpretations also illustrate the deeply philosophical undertones of Ghalib's voice.

Ten-year-old Geetanjali doesn’t mind singing, but she knows she’ll never be as good as her mother, Aai, or grandmother, Aaji, famous classical singers from India whose celebrity has followed the family all the way to their small town of Deadwood, Michigan, where Geetanjali lives with her aai and her father, Baba.

Three fun-loving Anglo-Asian sisters rule the roost since their mom died. They’ve got a reputation at school for being the coolest babes in town, and what they don’t need is an interfering Auntie-ji from India cramping their style. The girls decide the only way out of the problem is an arranged marriage - for their auntie.

Here are popular fables of the Prairie Indians, retold for children. The tales include stories about how giants brought about the seasons, how the Great Spirit offered the gift of corn, and how a young maiden outsmarted that old trickster, Crow.

ചരിത്രപരവും സാമൂഹ്യവുമായ കാരണങ്ങൾകൊണ്ട് ദലിത് സമൂഹത്തിലെ ജനവിഭാഗങ്ങൾ അടിമമനോഭാവം പുലർത്തുന്നതായി ഡോ. അംബേദ്കർ ചൂണ്ടിക്കാണിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ആ മനോഘടനയിൽനിന്ന് അവർക്ക് എളുപ്പത്തിൽ മോചനം നേടാനാവില്ലെന്നും അദ്ദേഹം വിശദീകരിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ദലിത് സമൂഹത്തിലെ ഓരോ വ്യക്തിയും സ്വന്തം ആത്മാഭിമാനം വീണ്ടെടുത്തുകൊണ്ട് പൊതുസമൂഹത്തിനൊപ്പമെത്താൻ കഴിവുള്ളവരാകുന്നതിനെക്കുറിച്ചാണ് ഡോ. അംബേദ്കർ ചിന്തിക്കുകയും അന്വേഷിക്കുകയും ചെയ്തിട്ടുള്ളത്. കുഞ്ഞാമന്റെ കാര്യത്തിലും ഈ വിഷയം ഏറെ ഗൗരവമുള്ളതാണ്. ഈ മനോഘടനയുടെ സങ്കീർണതകൾ ദലിതരല്ലാത്തവർക്ക് മനസ്സിലാവണമെന്നുമില്ല. ആ അവസ്ഥയുടെ തീക്ഷ്ണത അനുഭവത്തിൽതന്നെയേ ഉറ്റക്കൊള്ളാനാവുകയുള്ളൂ.

Jwala, a girl with superpowers of fire, is left by her mother to a priest but she gets stolen from there and reaches into the hand of Micheal, a local goon. Jwala goes out to steal a statue of goddess Kaali to save the club of Micheal. At the temple Jwala faces the superpowers of Panch Kavach, then she realizes after meeting them that she is even a part of Panch Kavach. Jwala gets to know about her past and she is the most-powerful Panch Kavach whom everyone needs.

Eagles. Indians, Soldiers, and Cowboys is a work of historical fiction. During the Civil War, the state of Texas, and much of the Southwest Territories, struggled to protect their citizens from various hostile Indian Tribes. The war between the states created a power vacuum in 1861, when the US Army abandoned the state of Texas and moved its resources to the eastern front. The Confederacy, fighting an insane war to protect the institution of slavery, did not have the resources to address the Indian problem on a second front.

From the author of the best-selling Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight comes a health and diet book specifically for women. Rujuta's holistic approach to health, weight and diet has made her one of the most sought-after dieticians in the country. In Women and the Weight Loss Tamasha, Rujuta walks you through the different phases of life, from being a teenager to pregnancy to menopause.

തീരാത്ത കഥകളുടെ ചെപ്പാണ് റെഡ് ഇന്ത്യൻ ഗോത്ര സമൂഹം. കല്ലും മണ്ണും മരവും കിളികളും കാട്ടുപോത്തും നീർനായും മാനും അവർക്ക് കഥാപാത്രങ്ങളാണ്. ഭാവനയുടെ വിശാലപ്രപഞ്ചത്തിലേക്ക് അത് കുട്ടികളെ നയിക്കുന്നു.

Naomi Jackson never thought her life would come to this. She'd been abandoned by the father of her two children. Stranded during the last days of 1809 in a ramshackle stream-side home in rural Tennessee. But here she was. The Devil Bill Williams had vanished. Now it was up to her to care for her two innocent, beautiful children.

Connect the Dots is the story of 20 enterprising individuals without MBAs who started their own ventures. They were driven by the desire to prove themselves. To lead interesting, passionate, meaningful lives. Their stories say one thing loud and clear: you don't need a fancy degree or a rich daddy to dream big and make it happen. It's all in your head, your heart, your hands.

In 1822, William Epps Cormack sought the expertise of a guide who could lead him across Newfoundland in search of the last remaining Beothuk camps on the island. In his journals, Cormack refers to his guide only as “My Indian.” Now, almost two hundred years later, Mi’sel Joe and Sheila O’Neill reclaim the story of Sylvester Joe, the Mi’kmaw guide engaged by Cormack. In a remarkable feat of historical fiction, My Indian follows Sylvester Joe from his birth (in what is now known as Miawpukek First Nation) and early life in his community to his journey across the island with Cormack.