Indian Literature

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പ്രകൃതിയുമായുള്ള ഇടപെടലുകളിൽ മനുഷ്യർ പാലിക്കേണ്ട പരിധികളെ കുറിച്ച് ഓർമ്മപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന കഥകൾ.

Meet the residents of Gammage, New York, a town on the verge of declaring bankruptcy, when inspiration strikes. Why not go native, and open a casino? With Not Enough Indians, actor, writer, producer, and former Saturday Night Live cast member Harry Shearer joins the ranks of such comedian/authors as Steve Martin and Michael Palin with a brilliantly funny, whip-smart satire of greed, collusion, distrust, and betrayal in the halls of Washington and the casinos of Native America.

The author has spent his life in many parts of the state, with a wide variety of people. These stories talk about what people are curious about, what they search for, wherever they are.

Usually it takes Stringer a little while to rile folks in a new town. But no sooner does he step off the train in Tulsa, than some sidewinder is doing his best to turn Stringer into yesterday's news. The hot story in Tulsa is the oil boom. It seems you can't dig a grave without hitting black gold. And Stringer's there to write the story. But MacKail's never seen such a sorry assortment of low-down, hornswoggling bushwhackers. Because, as Stringer well knows, where there's money, there's outlaws and lawyers....

With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of how a handful of men and women, who believed in the idea of revolution, entered Bastar in Central India in 1980 and created a powerful movement that New Delhi now terms India's biggest internal security threat. It traces the circumstances due to which the Maoist movement entrenched itself in about 10 states of India, carrying out deadly attacks against the Indian establishment in the name of the poor and the marginalised.

The story involves a huge diamond, the moonstone, originally stolen from an Indian shrine. The gem is given to an English girl on her 18th birthday but disappears that same night. What follows is a spellbinding mystery that to this day has the power to draw the listener into its world of danger, suspense, and surprise.

A surgeon flees a scandal in the city and accepts a job at a village clinic. He buys antibiotics out of pocket, squashes roaches, and chafes at the interventions of the corrupt officer who oversees his work. But his outlook on life changes one night when a teacher, his pregnant wife, and their young son appear. Killed in a violent robbery, they tell the surgeon that they have been offered a second chance at living if the surgeon can mend their wounds before sunrise.

In 1942, when Mahatma Gandhi asks Indians to give one family member to the freedom movement, 10-year-old Anjali is devastated to think of her father risking his life for the freedom struggle. But it turns out he isn't the one joining. Anjali's mother is. And with this change comes many more adjustments designed to improve their country and use "ahimsa" - non-violent resistance - to stand up to the British government. First the family must trade in their fine foreign-made clothes for homespun cotton, so Anjali has to give up her prettiest belongings.

An enchanting collection of stories from the heartland of India Ruskin Bond’s simple characters, living amidst the lush forests of the Himalayan foothills, are remarkable for their quiet heroism, courage and grace, and age-old values of honesty and fidelity. Residents of nondescript villages...

A young hippie couple reach both enlightenment and social fame via their "material pragmatism", supported by both Western and Eastern religion - and with some help from an American Indian named "Little Bird".

In The Big Fifty, another name for the famous Sharps rifle, reality of frontier life becomes brutally clear to 12-year-old Coady McIlvain. He falls in with a buffalo sharpshooter, and the two must survive the unforgiving terrain and hostile enemies.

Set in the rugged frontier of the West, this unforgettable sequel to Janet Dailey's best selling novel The Proud and the Free begins when Lije Stuart, the handsome son of Temple and The Blade Stuart, returns to the Cherokee Nation after 4 years at Harvard. As the American Civil War rages across the country, the Stuarts, too, are torn apart by an old family feud.

Termed the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the southwestern Indians and the first protest novel of California, Ramona is the story of 3 cultures - Indian, Mexican, and Anglo - locked in combat. The upheaval and injustice are humanized through the romance of a beautiful half-Indian orphan who grow up as the ward of Señora Moreno in privileged surroundings, then falls in love with an Indian and joins him in a life of poverty and tragedy. The Ramona Pageant in Hemet, California, based on this romance, has played each year since 1923, reenacting the transition period between Mexican traditions and the new U.S. and state governments.

The American frontier in the 1700s produced some men of utter ruthlessness, and Jim Girty was one of the worst. Living among the Delaware Indians in the Ohio Valley, Girty and his brothers incited acts of savagery and war against the white settlers. One of Jim Girty's targets was the Village of Peace, a settlement of Christian Indians who had been converted by Moravian missionaries.

ഭാരതീയ കവികളിൽ ഉന്നതശീർഷനായി നിലകൊള്ളുന്നു മഹാകവി കാളിദാസൻ. കാളിദാസകൃതികളിൽ ഭാവനാപരമായ പൂർണ്ണതകൊണ്ടും ഉജ്ജ്വലമായ ലാവണ്യം കൊണ്ടും ഔന്നത്യമേറെയുള്ള ലഘുകാവ്യമാണ് മേഘസന്ദേശം. സന്ദേശകാവ്യപ്രസ്ഥാനമെന്ന കാവ്യശാഖയ്ക്ക് തുടക്കമിട്ട കൃതി എന്ന നിലയിലും ശ്രദ്ധേയമാണ് മേഘസന്ദേശം. അളകാപുരിയിൽ നിന്നും ബഹിഷ്കൃതനായി വിന്ധ്യാപർവ്വതത്തിൽ ജീവിക്കാൻ വിധിക്കപ്പെട്ട ഒരു യക്ഷനാണ് ഈ സന്ദേശകാവ്യത്തിലെ നായകൻ. പ്രിയജനവിരഹത്താൽ ദുഃഖിതനായിത്തീർന്ന യക്ഷൻ ആഷാഢമാസമേഘത്തിന്റെ കൈവശം കൊടുത്തയയ്ക്കുന്ന സന്ദേശവും പ്രണയിനിയുടെ അടുത്തെത്താനുള്ള മാർഗ്ഗനിർദ്ദേശവും മറ്റുമാണ് കാവ്യവിഷയം.

ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ್ ಅವರ ಈ ಹೊಸ ನಾಟಕವು ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಸಂಸ್ಥಾಪನೆಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಉಲ್ಲೇಖವನ್ನು ಹೊಂದಿದೆ, ಇದರಲ್ಲಿ 11 ನೇ ಶತಮಾನದ ರಾಜನನ್ನು ಒಬ್ಬ ವೃದ್ಧೆ ಬೇಯಿಸಿದ ಹುರುಳಿಕಾಳನ್ನು ಉಳಿಸಿದಳು. ಕೃತಜ್ಞರಾಗಿರುವ ರಾಜನು ಆ ಸ್ಥಳಕ್ಕೆ 'ಬೆಂದಕಾಳೂರು' ಎಂದು ಹೆಸರಿಸಲು ಬಯಸಿದನು, ಬೇಯಿಸಿದ ಬೀನ್ಸ್ ಸ್ಥಳ, ಇದು ಆತಿಥ್ಯವನ್ನು ಸಂಕೇತಿಸುತ್ತದೆ ಮತ್ತು ದಣಿದ ಪ್ರಯಾಣಿಕರನ್ನು ಸ್ವಾಗತಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಆದಾಗ್ಯೂ, ಕಾಲಾನಂತರದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಸ್ಥಳವು ಭಾರತದ 'ಸಿಲಿಕಾನ್ ವ್ಯಾಲಿ' ಆಗಿರುವ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಾಗಿ ಹೊರಹೊಮ್ಮಿದೆ. ನಾಟಕವು ಈ ನಿರಾಕಾರ ನಗರ ಮತ್ತು ಕಳೆದ ಎರಡು ದಶಕಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಅದರ ಅಪಾರ ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆಯನ್ನು ಅದರ ವಿಷಯವನ್ನಾಗಿಸಿದೆ.

ಗಿರೀಶ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ ಅವರು ಐತಿಹಾಸಿಕ-ಪೌರಾಣಿಕ ಕತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಆಧರಿಸಿ ನಾಟಕ ಬರೆಯುತ್ತಾರೆ ಎಂಬ ಆರೋಪ ಸರ್ವೇಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ. ಕಾರ್ನಾಡರ 'ಅಂಜುಮಲ್ಲಿಗೆ' ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಅಪವಾದದಂತಿದೆ. ಇದೊಂದು ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಕಥಾವಸ್ತು ಉಳ್ಳ ನಾಟಕ. ನಾಟಕೀಯ ಅಂಶಗಳು ಈ ಕೃತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇವೆ. ಆದರೆ, ರಂಗದ ಮೇಲೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ಈ ನಾಟಕ ಯಶಸ್ಸು ಕಾಣಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಓದು ನಾಟಕವಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಿಯವಾಗುತ್ತದೆಯಾದರೂ ಗಾಢವಾಗಿ ತಟ್ಟುವುದಿಲ್ಲ.

James "Orlando" Sherwood has resurrected the old Shadow Dance religion, having his followers dance for days at a time for the promise of an Indian paradise. And when lawyer Vicky Holden's estranged husband is found murdered, Father John O'Malley believes that Orlando has more to do with it than he lets on. But to get the proof, Father John and Vicky Holden will have to learn to dance to his music.

Someone has left three dead Shoshones on an historic battlefield, positioned to mimic the bodies of those Arapahos killed in the slaughter. Frankie Montana, attorney Vicky Holden's latest client, is a frequent guest of the reservation's holding cells, and after a recent heated encounter with the three dead men, is the number one suspect in their deaths. But despite his faults, Vicky doesn't believe he is capable of murder.