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  • Wanderers, Kings, Merchants

    The Story of India through Its Languages

    by Peggy Mohan ...
    One of India's most incredible and enviable cultural aspects is that every Indian is bilingual, if not multilingual. Delving into the fascinating early history of South Asia, this original book reveals how migration, both external and internal, has shaped all Indians from ancient times. Through a first-of-its-kind and incisive study of languages, such as the story of early Sanskrit, the rise of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Jahajin

    by Peggy Mohan ...
    From Calcutta to Trinidad they went, the girmitiyas, crossing two oceans to reach their new homes on the other side of the world. jahajin illuminates for us the extraordinary experience of that jouney, the train ride from faizabad to calcutta, the passage down the hooghly. the three-month voyage around the stormy cape and up the Atlantic to Trinnidad, where the weary migrants settled into life as ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Youngest Suspect

    by Peggy Mohan ...
    The communal pogrom that indelibly altered the course of Gujarat. Set in the tense post-riots years, The Youngest Suspect is the story of Adil and, yes, of Gujarat. Adil and seventeen other young men are arrested in Ahmedabad, and charged with terrorism. There are written confessions on record. Enter Deepa, linguist and subtle thrill-seeker. She is enlisted by Adil's lawyer, the fiery Ramya, to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Babel

    Around the World in Twenty Languages

    by Gaston Dorren ...
    " Babel is an endlessly interesting book, and you don't have to have any linguistic training to enjoy it . . . it's just so much fun to read." —NPREnglish is the world language, except that 80 percent of the world doesn't speak it. Linguist Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's people in their mother tongues, you'd need to know no fewer than twenty languages. In ... Read more

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  • Anil's Ghost

    With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late ... Read more

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  • The Association of Small Bombs

    A Novel

    by Karan Mahajan ...
    **National Book Award FinalistWinner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction AwardWinner of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation AwardWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf AwardWinner of the Bard Fiction PrizeOne of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of the YearOne of Granta’s Best Young American NovelistsA Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the ... Read more

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  • Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?

    Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life's Difficulties

    by Ajahn Brahm ...
    The 108 pieces in the international bestseller Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? offer thoughtful commentary on everything from love and commitment to fear and pain. Drawing from his own life experience, as well as traditional Buddhist folk tales, author Ajahn Brahm uses over thirty years of spiritual growth as a monk to spin delightful tales that can be enjoyed in silence or read aloud to ... Read more

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  • The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

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    by Arundhati Roy ...
    **New York Times Best SellerLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeNamed a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Amazon, Kirkus, The Washington Post, Newsday, and the Hudson GroupA dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things**The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Educational Heritage of Ancient India

    How an Ecosystem of Learning Was Laid to Waste

    by Sahana Singh ...
    Just a thousand years ago, India was dotted with universities across its length and breadth, where international students flocked to gain credentials in advanced education. This illustrated book describes how these multi-disciplinary centers of learning existed in several forms such as forest universities, brick-and-mortar universities and temple universities.It examines the funding for these ... Read more

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  • Jungle Tales - The author's thrilling account of his adventures on the trail of legendary Jim Corbett and the man-eaters he shot

    by JOEL LYALL ...
    The book presents an absorbing account of Jim Corbetts encounters with man-eaters and those brave people who helped Jim in his exploits, as recounted by hill folk. The book further highlights the authors own encounters, adventures and experiences in the jungles. ... Read more

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  • Maximum City

    Bombay Lost and Found

    by Suketu Mehta ...
    A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD