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“dhumketu”

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  • The Shehnai Virtuoso

    and Other Stories

    by Dhumketu ...
    Translated by Jenny Bhatt ...
    When Dhumketu's first collection of short stories, Tankha, came out in 1926, it revolutionized the genre in India. Characterized by a fine sensitivity, deep humanism, perceptive observation, and an intimate knowledge of both rural and urban life, his fiction has provided entertainment and edification to generations of Gujarati readers and speakers.Ratno Dholi brings together the first substantial ... Read more

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  • Devdas and other Stories

    by Sarat Chandra Chatterjee ...
    The classic, heart-touching story of unrequited love of a man's fall from grace and his tragic end offers an insightful and compassionate portral of men and women in love. Devdas, written in early decades of the twentieth century, still captivates readers, and has been filmed several times - a testament to endurance and class. One of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee's finest novels, it reveals the best ... Read more

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  • Zen Koans: In Today's Language

    On the Spiritual Path, #3

    by David Tuffley ...
    Series Book 3 - On the Spiritual Path
    Koans are a useful sign-post on the path to enlightenment. They reveal abstract Truth that cannot be expressed logically through presenting the reader with a paradox that can only be solved by shifting one's perspective.The venerable Koans of the past, those that have been handed down through the generations are expressed in archaic language. If you cannot enter into that archaic language the koan ... Read more

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  • Samskara

    A Rite for a Dead Man

    by U.R. Ananthamurthy ...
    Translated by A. K. Ramanujan ...
    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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  • Varanasi

    by M.T.Vasudevan Nair ...
    Translated by N. Gopalakrishnan ...
    Women of character and strength, reveal his failings, one by one. And, Sudhakaran runs; from village to town, from town to city and city to city. The city now is Varanasi. This ancient city reminds him of all that it stands for—dharma, lust and death—and that there is no place where one can hide ones mistakes. Of all places one cannot hide in Varanasi, where memories hold the city together; and, ... Read more

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  • 14

    Stories That Inspired Satyajit Ray

    by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay ...
    An anthology of short stories that master film-maker Satyajit Ray adapted into films.A rich zamindar has a dream that his daughter-in-law is an incarnation of Kali; a clerk's life turns upside down when he stumbles upon a magical stone which can turn any base metal into gold; a housewife steps out of her lowermiddle-class household into the big city to work as a salesgirl,and is awestruck by its ... Read more

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  • Difficult Daughters

    A Novel

    by Manju Kapur ...
    Set against the tumult of the 1947 Partition, Manju Kapur's acclaimed first novel captures a life torn between family, desire, and loveThe one thing I had wanted was not to be like my mother.Virmati is the eldest of eleven children, born to a respectable family in Amritsar. Her world is shaken when she falls in love with a married man. Charismatic Harish is a respected professor and her family's ... Read more

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  • Rainbow Road

    by Sangharakshita ...
    At the age of sixteen Dennis Lingwood discovered that he was - and always had been - a Buddhist. This realization was to act as the motive force behind a life in which Lingwood, now better known as Sangharakshita, has played a major part in the introduction of Buddhism to the West. The Rainbow Road traces Sangharakshita's development from a childhood dominated by illness and books to homeless ... Read more

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  • The Boat-wreck

    by Rabindranath Tagore, Arunava Sinha ...
    'Tagore picks up the flotsam of a love story from the Ganga and narrates it like only he can. An eternal human story.'- GulzarAfter a boat-wreck overturns his life, Rameshchandra Chowdhury mistakes young Kamala for his newly wedded bride. They move away from Calcutta to start a domestic life together, even as Ramesh is unable to forget Hemnalini, whom he was always in love with, but could not ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Selected Short Stories

    by Rabindranath Tagore ...
    Translated by William Radice ...
    Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corrupt officialdom and dehumanizing poverty. Yet Tagore is first and foremost India's supreme Romantic poet, and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • A Street in Srinagar

    by Chandrakanta ...
    Translated by Manisha Chaudhry ...
    Srinagar, capital city of the famed ‘paradise on earth’, Kashmir. Ailan Gali, a deep, dark narrow lane that lies at its heart, where houses stand on a finger’s width of space and lean crookedly against each other, so deep, so narrow, so closely connected that even thieves do not dare enter. Yet people live and love here, they cling on to their old ways, they share stories and food, joys and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Lotus Lake Dragon Pool

    More Encounters in Yoga And Zen

    by Trevor leggett ...
    Collected by the author over many years, these stories from the Yoga and Zen traditions are the flint and steel that strike a spark that lights up the mind with insights that one should ponder daily to bring to light ever deeper meaning. They may be similar in intent to Zen Koans – but they are rather different in content. In many Zen Koans someone says or does something extraordinarily ... Read more

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