Indian Literature

After her parents moved her and her brother to America, Preeti Desai never meant to tear her family apart. All she did was fall in love with a white Christian carnivore instead of a conventional Indian boy. Years later, with her parents not speaking to her and her controversial relationship in tatters, all Preeti has left is her career at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. But when Preeti receives word of a terrible accident in the city where she was born, she returns to India, where she’ll have to face her estranged parents...and the complicated past they left behind.

Richly textured, compassionate, and at times hilarious, Cowboys and East Indians traces a journey from India to Wyoming and back again, introducing us along the way to characters who seem not quite to fit the circumstances in which they find themselves, but who nevertheless search for belonging—through unexpected common ground with their human neighbors or the abiding, if isolating, openness of the vast landscape of the West.

In My Indian, Sylvester was hired by William Cormack in 1822 to guide him across Newfoundland in search of Beothuk encampments. In fact, he followed the advice of his Elders and guided Cormack away from the Beothuk. In this sequel, having parted ways with Cormack at St. George’s Bay, Sylvester decides to go out on his own, in search of the winter camp of the last of the remaining Beothuk.

Relics of a mysterious god, the Spice Gates connect the eight far-flung kingdoms, each separated by a distinct spice and only accessible by those born with a special mark. This is not a caste of distinction, though, but one of subjugation: Spice Carriers suffer the lashes of their masters, the weight of the spices they bear on their backs, and the jolting pain of the Gates themselves.

Based on the remarkable true story of G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, and populated with such luminaries such as D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Indian Clerk takes this extraordinary slice of history and transforms it into an emotional and spellbinding story about the fragility of human connection and our need to find order in the world.

Charles Eastman, Ohiyesa, was born of the Sioux Nation, the Lakota tribe. Here as no where else is described the sacred and beautiful life of the American Indian before the appearance of the white man and afterwards.

One night, Elango has a dream that consumes him, driving him to give it shape. The potter is determined to create a terracotta horse whose beauty will be reason enough for its existence. Yet he cannot pin down from where it has galloped into his mind. The Mahabharata? The Trojan horse legend? His anonymous potter-ancestors? Once it’s finished, he does not know where his creation will belong. In a temple compound? Gracing a hotel lobby? Or should he gift it to Zohra, the woman he loves, yet despairs of ever marrying.

Another exciting adventure for this happy family comes about through their new friend Indy Roades, a former baseball player and a Yumatan Indian. He tells them about his pueblo in the mountains of New Mexico, and his tribe’s lost turquoise mine. When Mr. Hollister hears that a store there, called The Chapparal, which sells silver trinkets and Yumatan articles, is closing down, he considers buying the goods for his own shop, The Trading Post. He decides to go to New Mexico to examine the stock, and takes his family along with him.

The residents of Alaska’s largest national park are stunned by the death of one of their oldest members, 87-year-old Old Sam Dementieff...even private investigator Kate Shugak. Sam, a lifelong resident, dubbed the “father” of all of the Park rats - even though he had no children of his own - was especially close to Kate, his niece, but even she is surprised to discover that in his will he’s left her everything, including a letter instructing her simply to, “find my father".

Camping in the north woods, fishing, boating and hiking all suddenly become commonplace experiences to the members of the Sugar Creek Gang as they learn about the rites of Chippewa burial ceremonies from a real live Indian. But that is not all that happens as they visit the Indian cemetery.

गंभीर स्वरात शैलेश म्हणाला, काही गोष्टी तुझ्या लक्षात आल्या नाहीत त्या तुला सांगतो. सर्वात महत्चाची गोष्ट. तुझ्या जीवाला सध्या धोका आहे. एवढ्यात तुझ्याच बाबतीत दोन-तीनदा प्राणावरले प्रसंग यावेत हा मला काही योगायोग वाटत नाही." यू मीन. समवन ट्रायिंग टू किल मी?'

ഇതിലെ നോവലെറ്റുകള്‍; ഒരു കഥയുടെ വിവിധ സാധ്യതകളിലേക്കാ ണിവ നീളുന്നതെന്ന് ഞാനറിയുന്നു. കാമം, മോഹം, ദുര, ലജ്ജാകരവും വന്യവുമായ നെട്ടോട്ടങ്ങള്‍, അവയ്ക്കുള്ളിലെ കാഴ്ചകള്‍. അതില്‍ തൊട്ടു നിന്ന് നമുക്കിടയിലെ പനിച്ചൂടിനെപ്പറ്റി വേവലാതിയോടെ ചില കാര്യങ്ങള്‍. ഒരേ സമ്പ്രദായങ്ങളും നിലനില്പിനുള്ള കാട്ടായങ്ങളുമാണ് ഇതിലെ മനുഷ്യര്‍ക്കെ ല്ലാം. അപ്പോള്‍ സാദൃശ്യം വരിക സ്വാഭാവികം.

Le Kâmasûtra est un livre indien écrit entre le IVe siècle et le VIIe siècle de notre ère, attribué à Vâtsyâyana.

കഥ ചില സാഹിത്യകാരന്മാർ പറയുന്നു, വായനക്കാരെ വിനോദിപ്പിക്കുവാൻ വേണ്ടിയാണ് അവർ എഴുതുന്നെതന്ന്. വിനോദിപ്പിക്കുന്ന ജോലി എനിക്കുള്ളതല്ല. അതു 'ബഫൂൺ' മാർക്കുള്ളതാണ്. അവർ ആ ജോലി നിർവ്വഹിച്ചുകൊള്ളട്ടെ. മറ്റു ചില സാഹിത്യകാരന്മാർ പറയുന്നു, തത്ത്വസംഹിതകൾ പ്രചരിപ്പിക്കുവാൻവേണ്ടിയാണ് അവർ എഴുതുന്നെതന്ന്. ഞാൻ ഒരു തത്ത്വസംഹിതയുടെയും പ്രചാരകനല്ല. നിത്യപച്ചയായ ജീവിതവൃക്ഷത്തിൽ ഓരോ കാലഘട്ടത്തിൽ ഉണ്ടാകുന്ന കായ്കളാണ് തത്ത്വശാസ്ത്രങ്ങളെന്നും അവയെല്ലാം പഴുത്തു കൊഴിഞ്ഞുപോകുമെന്നും ഞാൻ വിശ്വസിക്കുന്നു.

It’s a New Jersey summer in 1967, and thirteen-year-old Ravi Ramanathan has the makings of a tennis prodigy. His surgeon father encourages his ambition, while his mother dreams of their only child following his father’s path. Surrounded by his parents’ love, Ravi chafes a bit at their daily routines and little traditions. Then one unexpected day, everything changes. Realizing how much he took for granted, Ravi must grow up overnight and find a new role in the life of his family.

Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in the fiery crash of his Piper Super Cub. Someone sabotaged his engine, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive, including his betrayed wife, his bullied children, and Liam’s wife, bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard. With few places to turn, Liam asks his former mentor Niniltna post commander Sergeant Jim Chopin, for help, and Jim quickly brings Kate onto the case. Working undercover as - of all things - a waitress at Bill’s Bar and Grill, Kate learns over beer and burgers that Grant’s business had expanded meteorically over the last two years.

"This is the story of Mary Prince", who was sold into slavery at the age of 12 for £38 sterling. It is the first account of the life of a black woman ever to be published in the United Kingdom, and it was published at a time when slavery was still legal in the British Colonies. "The history of Mary Prince" is firsthand testimony of the brutalities of enslavement. Its tone is direct and authentic, which makes this vivid story go straight to the heart.

സ്വന്തം മണ്ണില്‍ വേരുറപ്പിച്ചുനിന്ന് ദേശത്തേക്കും ലോകത്തേക്കും ശാഖകള്‍ പടര്‍ത്തുന്ന ഒരു വലിയ അനുഭവലോകമാണ്‌ രാജ് നായരുടെ 'കടലാസ്സുപക്കികള്‍' സഹൃദയര്‍ക്കു മുന്‍പില്‍ തുറന്നിടുന്നത്

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.

From Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling to Satyajit Ray and R. K. Narayan, this text is a collection of spine-chilling tales of the supernatural from India.