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Author : Salma Monani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Waiting for the Monsoons and Other Stories written by Salma Monani and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Threes Anna
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 9780887842573
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Waiting for the Monsoon written by Threes Anna and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2012 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India, 1995. Charlotte Bridgwater lives with her father and just one loyal servant in an old, dilapidated villa in the little town of Rampur. Madan, a talented local tailor who cannot speak, rents a room in Charlotte's house and sews beautiful garments for the local ladies. Charlotte and Madan soon discover that they can communicate without using words. And as the extreme heat before the impending monsoon paralyzes the town, we learn about both of their lives.
Author : Uma Krishnaswami
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466896701
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Monsoon written by Uma Krishnaswami and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An expressive story about seasons, extremes, and waiting." - Kirkus Reviews Children play, birds call, and grownups go about their business during the hot days of summer in northern India. But in the bustle of street and marketplace, everyone is watching, waiting for those magical clouds to bring their gift of rain to the land. Through the observations of one young girl, the scents and sounds, the dazzling colors and the breathless anticipation of a parched cityscape are vividly evoked during the final days before the welcome arrival of the monsoon.
Author : Michelene Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Waiting for the Rain and Other Stories written by Michelene Adams and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen M. Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Waiting for Monsoons written by Kathleen M. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Stuart Finch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Mornings of the Monsoon and Other Stories written by Alexander Stuart Finch and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrea Doukas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Waiting for Monsoon written by Andrea Doukas and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rimli Bhattacharya
Publisher : Bigfoot Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book That Day It Rained And Other Stories written by Rimli Bhattacharya and published by Bigfoot Publications. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call it a collection of stories or a compilation of human emotions, this is the second solo book of Ms Rimli Bhattacharya. The author calls herself a bohemian and travels around the globe in a caravan which is driven by rape, lust, lies, forbidden love, mental illness, homicide and death. This book had been crafted sitting in that caravan lost in myriad textures and flavours, with those mental demons screaming her to stop. She did not listen. The book which unleashes the dark domain of human mind makes it a compelling read.
Author : Susan Visvanathan
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 935194025X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Nelycinda and Other Stories written by Susan Visvanathan and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fourteen stories, Nelycinda & other stories, presents a woman's perspective of society thriving on trade and business. Lyrical and poignant, these stories take us to a world infested with the aroma of spices. The world was always opaque and something about the nearness of the sea made it more so. Susa began her day with the smallness of things, sea sand, which appeared as dull as the day, and the colours in the translucent shells, each catching the first light of the morning. How curious that the sand and salt and the ambitions of the sea creatures could create these colours. She walked to the seaside, wishing that the fisher people were about, but they had dived for pearls earlier than was usual that morning because of the impending storm. A great silence filled the ocean that brought to her the occasional screech of birds wheeling, and the whorls of the sea shells which produced their own sounds. Prison was a place which enclosed one and brought the world much closer by what one could imagine. It was where silence was the only companion, where the routines of the day allowed one to build a small world based entirely on ones thoughts. It was the shelter of the moment to work with the grandeur of the unseen. Imprisoned by the minutes, and allowed to fly when the tasks were completed. She looked at the beach, for the inlets were full of birds and moss and climbing purple flowers, and that was where she would go. To the river that, in its sureness of the life of the people, would bring her conversations and the calm of everyday tasks.
Author : Vijaya Lakshmi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pomegranate Dreams & Other Stories written by Vijaya Lakshmi and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and educated in India and the States, Vijay Lakshmi, a critic and social commentator, writes of the psychological conflicts and moral dilemmas of the Indian women settling in western societies. Her fiction, lyrical and intense, portrays the alienation and the pathos of the life lived in a contemporary metropolis, whether American, European, or Indian. Her awards include a Senior Fulbright Fellowship at Yale University, and Editor's Prize from Orbis (U.K.) for her story Touchline. Two of her other stories Mannequin and Distances have been translated into French and Chinese.
Author : Shoma Narayanan
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373178441
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (731 download)
Download or read book Monsoon Wedding Fever written by Shoma Narayanan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riya is shocked to find the man who broke her heart, Dhruv, has returned to India for her roommate's wedding and a possible arranged marriage.
Author : Sunil Amrith
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465097731
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Unruly Waters written by Sunil Amrith and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its waters Asia's history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas -- and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers who have sought to control them. Looking out from India, he shows how dreams and fears of water shaped visions of political independence and economic development, provoked efforts to reshape nature through dams and pumps, and unleashed powerful tensions within and between nations. Today, Asian nations are racing to construct hundreds of dams in the Himalayas, with dire environmental impacts; hundreds of millions crowd into coastal cities threatened by cyclones and storm surges. In an age of climate change, Unruly Waters is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Asia's past and its future.
Author : Shyam Selvadurai
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 1551997207
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Swimming in the Monsoon Sea written by Shyam Selvadurai and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amrith comes to terms with his sexuality in this sweeping coming-of-age story set against the stormy backdrop of monsoon season in 1980s Sri Lanka. For fans of Call Me By Your Name. Shyam Selvadurai’s brilliant novels, Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens, have garnered him international acclaim. In his first young adult novel, he explores first love with clarity, humor and compassion. The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life “before,” when his doting mother was still alive. Amrith’s holiday plans seem unpromising: he wants to appear in his school’s production of Othello and he is learning to type at Uncle Lucky’s tropical fish business. Then, like an unexpected monsoon, his cousin arrives from Canada and Amrith’s ordered life is storm-tossed. He finds himself falling in love with the Canadian boy. Othello, with its powerful theme of disastrous jealousy, is the backdrop to the drama in which Amrith finds himself immersed.
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108476422
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together, for the first time, Kipling's uncollected short stories, many unknown in the West, and some previously unpublished.
Author : Ranjit Kulkarni
Publisher : Athena Creations
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book People We Know and Other Stories written by Ranjit Kulkarni and published by Athena Creations. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve stories about people we know, characters we have seen but often not noticed. Human beings in our everyday lives with their own motivations, their own stories. In this book, you will find stories about these: A young boy Aryan who comes uninvited to my house. What is it that he wants to say? A house maid for whom all days are the same gets tempted by The Open Drawer. A security guard who children playfully call Helmet Uncle has a long-lost story to hide under his helmet. A small-time private detective who thinks he is Ready for the Big Stage. The sensitive man doing my laundry who my son named Iron Man. A tyre puncture man, An auto driver, a food delivery man.... and more. Whether you are a casual reader or a serious lover of short stories, you will find stories of intrigue, empathy, and surprise in this quick read collection. Give it a try!
Author : Misfit
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1482818981
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Beats of Loneliness & Other Stories written by Misfit and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book brings to light the sentiment of loneliness in its varied manifestations.The quiet existence of the aged, the solitary hours spent by the homemakers, the idle moments of an officegoer during vacations, all find an echo in these stories. Reclusive life led by people belonging to the disadvantaged sections of the society as also those pursuing their goals with single-minded devotion is portrayed very effectively. The thoughts,emotions,fears,obsessions,anxieties and eccentricities accompanying people left on the remote shores of mankind forms the subject matter of the work. Role of nature as an indifferent observer, as a healer as well as a friend is intertwined into the very fabric of each story.
Author : Sebastian R. Prange
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108342698
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Monsoon Islam written by Sebastian R. Prange and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice developed among Muslim trading communities of the Indian Ocean. Sebastian R. Prange argues that this 'Monsoon Islam' was shaped by merchants not sultans, forged by commercial imperatives rather than in battle, and defined by the reality of Muslims living within non-Muslim societies. Focusing on India's Malabar Coast, the much-fabled 'land of pepper', Prange provides a case study of how Monsoon Islam developed in response to concrete economic, socio-religious, and political challenges. Because communities of Muslim merchants across the Indian Ocean were part of shared commercial, scholarly, and political networks, developments on the Malabar Coast illustrate a broader, trans-oceanic history of the evolution of Islam across monsoon Asia. This history is told through four spaces that are examined in their physical manifestations as well as symbolic meanings: the Port, the Mosque, the Palace, and the Sea.
