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“a sunnetha”

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  • Father May Be an Elephant, and Mother only a Small Basket, but…

    by Gogu Shyamala ...
    Translated by Diia Rajan, A. Sunnetha, N. Manohar Reddy, R. Srivatsan ...
    Dalit feminist stories of a south Indian village that dissolve the borders of realism, allegory and political fable. A young girl is sent away to school to save her from being declared the sexual property of the village’s upper-caste men. The village water tank laments to a passing child. A Brahmin boy is considered ‘polluted’ by the touch of a Dalit girl – the same action that saved his life. ... Read more

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  • On Love and Barley

    Haiku of Basho

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    Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the smallness of human life in comparison to the vastness ... Read more

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  • House of Snow

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  • Travels on my Elephant

    by Mark Shand ...
    With the help of a Maratha nobleman, Mark Shand bought an elephant named Tara and rode her over six hundred miles across India to the Sonepur Mela, the world's oldest elephant market. From Bhim, a drink-racked mahout, Shand learned to ride and care for her. From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned Indian ways. And with Tara, his new companion, he fell in love. Travels on My Elephant is the story ... Read more

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  • The Road to Happiness

    Words of Wisdom from the World's Happiest Nation

    by Gyonpo Tshering ...
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  • Kaalam

    by M T Vasudevan Nair(Author);Gita Krishnankutty(Translator) ...
    Set against the backdrop of a crumbling matrilineal tarawad system of the Nairs in Kerala with its petty rivalries and jealousies, its sambandhan system of contractual marriage, its conflicts and problems, and the changes in land legislation which sharply erode the feudal order, Kaalam is the story of sethumadhavan Nair who starts out as an ambitious and confident adolescentbut in his journey ... Read more

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  • Japanese Haiku: Cherry Blossoms

    Translated by Peter Beilenson ...
    by Basho, Buson ...
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    Step into a series of dazzling, funny, melancholy, and joyous moments with this collection of haiku masterworks. Beloved translator Peter Beilensons goals were twofold: to craft a book of haiku accessible to anyone, and to render his best guess at what the poets would have written in English. His translations preserve the sublime spirit of each verse, conjuring vivid visual and emotional ... Read more

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  • Kuttiedathi And Other Stories

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  • Himalaya

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  • Samskara

    A Rite for a Dead Man

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    Samskara is one of the acknowledged masterpieces of modern world literature, a book to set beside Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North. Taking its name from a Sanskrit word that means “rite of passage” but also “moment of recognition,” it begins when Naranappa, an inhabitant of a small south Indian town and a renegade Brahmin who has scandalously ... Read more

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