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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 J. W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation on what it means to belong in the world. Home is...

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.

"Махабхарата" — памятник древнеиндийской литературы и одно из крупнейших произведений в истории литературы. "Махабхарата" — источник многих сюжетов и образов, получивших развитие в литературе народов Южной и Юго-Восточной Азии, ее влияние столь обширно, что отразилось и в классической европейской литературе и фольклоре. "Наль и Дамаянти" представляет собою одно из наиболее древних сказаний, входящих в состав "Махабхараты".

By the light of dawn, over steaming cups of tea, a daughter invokes the past and a mother opens her heart. Mumbai Mornings is centered mostly on conversations between Saya and her mother. As her mother’s stories about relatives long relegated to memory, unfold, it soon becomes clear to Saya that no life is ordinary.

The sheer volume of commentaries on the Mahabharata is awe-inspiring. So, what is it in the Mahabharata that gives it its timeless magic? Is it the mythical characters with which it is replete that makes the epic so enchanting? Or is it the great wealth of philosophical and metaphysical ideas in it that dazzles its audiences? Or could it be a combination of all these that makes it ever-fascinating to scholars and audiences around the world? And, most of all, what accounts for its incredible effect on the subconscious of millions of Indians through several generations?

The Great Nepali Novel is here! - PRAJWAL PARAJULY Magnificent ... If you have loved and wondered why, you will want to read this book. - JERRY PINTO Meena is fourteen years old when her parents marry her to Manmohan, a twenty-one-year-old Nepali boy she has never met. As is customary, she must...

Middle class, middle aged, multicultural mother of millennial sons, Sudha lives a ‘squeezed middle’ life in Wimbledon. As she navigates her career, family and returning to India as a NRI (Non-Resident Indian), she is prompted to investigate her own sense of home and place in the world. Evening Conversations is a warm-hearted monologue inspired by Sudha’s banter with her dual-heritage (Pakistani/East African Indian) millennial sons who have grown up in leafy Wimbledon while her life has spanned three continents. She invites her boys to ‘crack open a cold one’ and share their views on life.

Divertida y trepidante novelización de la vida de la primera actriz del cine de acción de la India: Mary Evans, más conocida en el ambiente artístico como Nadia. Narrada desde el punto de vista de su protagonista, que le cuenta su propia historia a un becario mientras viaja al festival de cine de Locarno, la novela está llena de anécdotas tan hilarantes como increíbles, y resulta un delicioso repaso por los inicios del S. XX en la India Británica.

Romance, humor, glamour y mucho cine se dan cita en la historia de una mujer inolvidable...

In this canto, we first meet Prahlad, a prince in the race of Asuras, fierce enemies of the gods. An exalted saint, he excites the ire of his demonic father Hiranyakshipu by his devotion to Krishna. The demon tries in every way possible to kill his son until at last, he is confronted by Krishna’s half-man, half-lion incarnation, Nrshinghadeva. After this is a conversation between the celestial sage Narada and King Yudhisthira, in which Narada describes in detail the ancient Vedic system of organizing society known as varnashrama dharma.

"Ihr Ameisen, kommt! Kommt alle, fresst! Im Palast ist ein Wagen voll Reisbrei umgestürzt, da könnt ihr euch gütlich tun! Kommt!" Wir erfahren in den Indischen Märchen: Auch für die kleinsten Ameisen ist gesorgt, genau wie für die Elefanten, für Groß und Klein, für Menschen und für Götter: das ­Leben ist ein verschlungener Reigen, Oben und Unten spiegeln und vertauschen sich tausendfältig. Alexander Gruber hat alle Märchen neu erzählt, bleibt dabei den alten Geschichten treu und holt sie doch herüber in die heutige Zeit.

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.

Apasionante biografía novelada de una de las artistas más emblemáticas del siglo XX en India: Amrita Sher-Gil. Hija de un aristócrata punjabí sikh, se enfrentó a través de su arte a las convenciones sociales de su época y destacó por la polémica que desataban sus cuadros. Se la considera la Frida Kahlo india, y no es para menos: una vida tan emocionante como su obra.

Presenting प्रकृति बचाओ [Save Nature] collection of stories by BookBox.

Presenting Save Nature collection of stories by BookBox....

इस संकलन में कुछ ऐतिहासिक दस्तावेज़, कुछ खामोशी के दस्तावेज़, और कुछ उनकी बात भी है जो इस काल में संघर्ष की एक लम्बी यात्रा पर चल दी हैं....

The Path of Light is a collection of short stories nothing if not a mirror to the phenomenal range of human behaviour. Taken from the Upanishads to the Jatakas to South Asian folklore, these simple but contemplative tales show how people are capable of both extreme cruelty and inordinate...

'Numair Choudhury is the Bangladeshi Bolano' AMITAVA KUMAR Numair Atif Choudhury's first and only novel, Babu Bangladesh!, published posthumously, was heralded as a sui generis masterpiece. In Taxi Wallah and Other Stories, we encounter more of Choudhury's limitless imagination and deep empathy...

WINNER OF THE JCB PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2020. 'A novel of epic dimensions ... easily among the most accomplished fictional works in Malayalam.'K. SATCHIDANANDAN Vavachan is a Pulayan who gets the opportunity to play a policeman with an immense moustache in a musical drama. The character appears...

In this exciting second part of Kalki R Krishnamurthy's historic magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan, our hero Vallavarayan Vandhiyathevan's adventures continue as he rides into marshy areas, meets a mysterious girl, and becomes the object of intense suspicion by the wily Pazhuvettarayars.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Sid Sagar. This definitive recording includes an introduction by John Brockington and Mary Brockington. Warrior-prince Rama is about to be crowned Young King, when he hears the devastating news that his father, King of Ayodhya, has...