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Author : Baṅkimchandra Chaṭṭopādhyāya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Indira and Other Stories written by Baṅkimchandra Chaṭṭopādhyāya and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Indira Ganesan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307960455
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book As Sweet as Honey written by Indira Ganesan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her latest novel, Indira Ganesan, a writer often likened to Arundhati Roy and Chitra Divakaruni, gives us an enchanting story of family life that is a dance of love and grief and rebirth set on a gorgeous island in the Indian Ocean. The island is filled with exotic flora and fauna and perfumed air. A large family compound is presided over by a benign, stalwart grandmother. There is a very tall South Asian heroine with the astonishing un-Indian name of Meterling, who has found love at last in the shape of a short, round, elegant Englishman who wears white suits. There are also numerous aunts, uncles, and young cousins—among them, Mina, grown now, and telling this story of a marriage ceremony that ends with a widowed bride who, in the midst of her grief, discovers she is pregnant. While enjoying their own games and growing pains, Mina and her young cousins follow every nuance of gossip, trying to puzzle out what is going on with their favorite aunt, particularly when the groom’s cousin arrives from England and begins to woo her. As Meterling—torn between Eastern and Western ideas of love and family, duty and loyalty—struggles to make a new life, we become as entranced with this family, its adventures and complications, as Mina is. And with her we celebrate a time and place where, although sometimes difficult, life was for the most part as sweet as honey. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from India Ganesan's Inheritance.
Author : Lafleur Barker
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 103915994X
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Download or read book My Truth written by Lafleur Barker and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when your world is a living hell? Do you accept the hand you’ve been dealt, or do you fight for a better life? At every turn, Lafleur Barker chose the latter option. This is her story. Lafleur was born in Saint Vincent in the Grenadines to destitute and overworked parents. After enduring a childhood of poverty and abuse, she took her destiny in her own hands and travelled to North America in the hopes of finding a better life. Unfortunately, hell followed her across the ocean. In Canada, Lafleur endured a series of living nightmares; violence, cruelty, and betrayal met her at every turn. Alone in a huge country, with no family, friends, or support, Lafleur had to learn how to survive on her own. She endured all the bumps and bruises, and she persevered until she reached a light at the end of the tunnel. Fundamentally, Lafleur’s story is about hope, resilience, and optimism. By trusting herself and the Lord, she survived the unimaginable. She is now blessed with a loving family and a well of hope for the future. Her story—her truth—is an inspiration for us all. Lafleur reminds us that with love and courage, anything is possible.
Author : Sreelata Menon
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351183297
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Indira Gandhi written by Sreelata Menon and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A loving daughter, a caring mother, an affectionate grandmother a confident globetrotter and finally prime minister, Indira slipped into each role with ease.’ The story of India's first woman prime minister is no ordinary story. It is the story of a girl for whom sacrifice and loss came early. For whom growing up meant seeing her father drift in and out of jail and a mother in and out of hospital. Wearing khadi and organizing her own band of troops. Combating loneliness and giving up the things she loved for a bigger cause. With the freedom struggle playing out in the background Indira Gandhi's life was inextricably linked to the politics and destiny of her country. In this compelling biography, Sreelata Menon vividly recreates the life and times of a young girl who goes on to become one of the most powerful and charismatic leaders of the world. Filled with little-known facts about Indira Gandhi’s life this book is a fascinating read that brings to light the different facets of her personality.
Author : Pupul Jayakar
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Indira Gandhi written by Pupul Jayakar and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1992 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Indira Gandhi was brutally assassinated in 1984, she had lived through India's tortured liberation from the British Empire, the bloody era of partition and the monumental difficulties associated with creating and sustaining the world's largest and most troubled democratic nation. This unique, intimate biography of one of the first women heads of state in modern history shows Indira growing from the shy daughter of the great Jawaharlal Nehru to the accomplished politician she eventually became. Very few people knew Indira beyond the facade, and there has been nothing written about her that illumines the conflicting aspects of her character: aloof but charming; lonely but ferocious in defense of her own - particularly her son Sanjay; sensitive and cultivated but capable of cold arrogance; devoted to her nation but blind to some of the cruelties she inflicted; a warm mother and grandmother but a calculating politician. A friend of Indira's for more than thirty years, Pupul Jayakar is uniquely qualified to assess and illuminate this complex woman in depth. Jayakar reveals Indira's thoughts and feelings, her loves and emotional entanglements, her blunders and her great courage. She is also able to situate the Nehru family in the context of modern Indian history in a way that is vivid to the Western reader. In Indira Gandhi, Pupul Jayakar gives us a penetrating but balanced account of one of the twentieth century's most remarkable women, a towering figure whose virtues and vices will be debated for a long time to come.
Author : Barbara A. Somervill
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780756518851
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Indira Gandhi written by Barbara A. Somervill and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the life of Indira Gandhi, who served as India's prime minister from 1966-1977 and from 1980-1984.
Author : Katherine Frank
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007372507
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi written by Katherine Frank and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive and first non-partisan biography of one of the most formidable political figures of the twentieth century (voted Woman of the Millennium in a BBC poll, 2000)
Author : Indira Ganesan
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804169241
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Inheritance written by Indira Ganesan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, fifteen-year-old Sonil has come to her adored grandmother's house on a small island off the coast of India to mend her shaky health. Secretly, however, she longs to find out why her mysteriously distant mother agreed to have her sent away as a child. She spends her time studying Italian with her absentminded uncle and talking about boys and clothes with her favorite cousin until she finds the perfect escape from her mother’s rejection--a passionate affair with a young American. But the affair will have a surprising outcome, forcing Sonil to forgive her mother and to look to herself for the answers she will need in the coming years.
Author : H Y Sharada Prasad
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184758774
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Indira Gandhi written by H Y Sharada Prasad and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India for over sixteen years, was a brave freedom fighter and a passionate patriot, deeply committed to the honour and integrity of India. She was also a devoted mother and grandmother, who was great fun to be with—she loved books, nature, art, sports and puzzles. Born into the illustrious Nehru family in Allahabad, Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was educated at Santiniketan, Geneva and Oxford, and was determined since childhood to serve the people of India. This biography, with a foreword by Rajiv Gandhi, and illustrated with rare photographs, portrays very simply but eloquently the life of the ‘Iron Lady of India’ from her birth on 19 November 1917 to her assassination on 31 October 1984.
Author : Tariq Ali
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857426383
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Assassination written by Tariq Ali and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who killed Mrs Gandhi? We know the name of the assassins, but did they act alone? In this fictional filmscript, Tariq Ali suggests that larger forces were at work, exploiting genuine Sikh grievances to settle their own score with a prime minister who, whatever her faults, was fiercely independent of Washington and safeguarded Indian sovereignty with a zeal inherited from her father. Provocative and suggestive, this script planned as the second of a series was never completed. The Assassination is published here for the first time and completes Ali's trilogy, with The Leopard and The Fox and A Banker For All Seasons.
Author : Intirā Pārttacārati
Publisher : books catalog
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Comrades of Jesus written by Intirā Pārttacārati and published by books catalog. This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternately narrated by the Professor in the first person as protagonist, and in the third person, as the author the novel, Comrades of Jesus is the story of Anna and Pyotr, a divorced Polish couple; of the burgeoning love between Naren, a young Indian diplomat, and Asha, who is of mixed parentage; an Indian intellectual settled in Warsaw; an artist who only paints butterflies. It is the story of India and Poland, set in the historical background of the social and political contradictions in these two countries.
Author : Upamanyu Chatterjee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789388874397
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (743 download)
Download or read book The Assassination of Indira Gandhi written by Upamanyu Chatterjee and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kirun Kapur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932418521
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Visiting Indira Gandhi's Palmist written by Kirun Kapur and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Southeast Asia Studies. VISITING INDIRA GANDHI'S PALMIST by Kirun Kapur is the winner of the 2013 Antivenom Poetry Award published by Elixir Press. "Kirun Kapur's debut volume VISITING INDIRA GANDHI'S PALMIST offers worlds of striking richness. From family lore marked by the 1947 partition of British India and the chaos that ensued, Kapur crafts a saga that is both personal and public. Her exploration of lives intersecting yet separated across time, culture, and continent reveals the many ways in which we carry, renounce, and rediscover the past. Kapur introduces us to an astonishing range of characters a father who 'speaks five languages, quotes Frost as easily as Ghalib' ('Meat and Marry'); a mother and onetime nun who foreswore her 'Benedictine coif' for love ('Family Portrait, USA'); Cain and Abel of the Bible; Prince Arjuna of the Gita. At the heart of this quest, however, is an inquisitive mind examining our creation stories personal, historical, and mythical. Through poems that are masterfully paced and densely layered, Kapur sets out to explore the tensions of our most basic human bonds: love and duty, violence and communion, family and nation." Ned Balbo, contest judge"
Author : Cynthia Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975922422
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Chasing Sylvia Beach written by Cynthia Morris and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In her quest to return home, Lily finds herself enmeshed in an undercover league of time-traveling bibliophiles. Charged with a daunting task, along the way Lily falls for a gallant young Frenchman, discusses the art of writing with Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, and runs afoul of a dashing Nazi agent. In order to escape unscathed, Lily must make choices that force her to reconcile her past"--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Gyan Prakash
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691186723
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Emergency Chronicles written by Gyan Prakash and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern India On the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country. In the twenty-one harrowing months that followed, her regime unleashed a brutal campaign of coercion and intimidation, arresting and torturing people by the tens of thousands, razing slums, and imposing compulsory sterilization on the poor. Emergency Chronicles provides the first comprehensive account of this understudied episode in India’s modern history. Gyan Prakash strips away the comfortable myth that the Emergency was an isolated event brought on solely by Gandhi’s desire to cling to power, arguing that it was as much the product of Indian democracy’s troubled relationship with popular politics. Drawing on archival records, private papers and letters, published sources, film and literary materials, and interviews with victims and perpetrators, Prakash traces the Emergency’s origins to the moment of India’s independence in 1947, revealing how the unfulfilled promise of democratic transformation upset the fine balance between state power and civil rights. He vividly depicts the unfolding of a political crisis that culminated in widespread popular unrest, which Gandhi sought to crush by paradoxically using the law to suspend lawful rights. Her failure to preserve the existing political order had lasting and unforeseen repercussions, opening the door for caste politics and Hindu nationalism. Placing the Emergency within the broader global history of democracy, this gripping book offers invaluable lessons for us today as the world once again confronts the dangers of rising authoritarianism and populist nationalism.
Author : Carol Dommermuth-Costa
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822549635
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Indira Gandhi written by Carol Dommermuth-Costa and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2001-01-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life of the first woman prime minister of India, from her childhood to her assassination.
Author : Rohinton Mistry
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551991381
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book A Fine Balance written by Rohinton Mistry and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a “State of Internal Emergency.” Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances – and their fates – become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen. Mistry’s prose is alive with enduring images and a cast of unforgettable characters. Written with compassion, humour, and insight, A Fine Balance is a vivid, richly textured, and powerful novel written by one of the most gifted writers of our time.
