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Arranged Marriage
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

ISBN 0385483503 (0-385-48350-3)
Softcover, Anchor Books

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Although Chitra Divakaruni's poetry has won praise and awards for many years, it is her "luminous, exquisitely crafted prose" (Ms.) that is quickly making her one of the brightest rising stars in the changing face of American literature. Arranged Marriage, her first collection of stories, spent five weeks on the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller list and garnered critical acclaim that would have been extraordinary for even a more established author.For the young girls and women brought to life in these stories, the possibility of change, of starting anew, is both as terrifying and filled with promise as the ocean that separates them from their homes in India. From the story of a young bride whose fairy-tale vision of California is shattered when her husband is murdered and she must face the future on her own, to a proud middle-aged divorced woman determined to succeed in San Francisco, Divakaruni's award-winning poetry fuses here with prose for the first time to create eleven devastating portraits of women on the verge of an unforgettable transformation. [via]
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- Arranged Marriage : Stories: ISBN 0385475586 (0-385-47558-6)
  Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
- Arranged Marriage: ISBN 0385483503 (0-385-48350-3)
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Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth
by Mohandas K. Gandhi

ISBN 0486245934 (0-486-24593-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Gandhi's nonviolent struggles in South Africa and India had already brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation, and controversy that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. Although accepting of his status as a great innovator in the struggle against racism, violence, and, just then, colonialism, Gandhi feared that enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding. He says that he was after truth rooted in devotion to God and attributed the turning points, successes, and challenges in his life to the will of God. His attempts to get closer to this divine power led him to seek purity through simple living, dietary practices (he called himself a fruitarian), celibacy, and ahimsa, a life without violence. It is in this sense that he calls his book The Story of My Experiments with Truth, offering it also as a reference for those who would follow in his footsteps. A reader expecting a complete accounting of his actions, however, will be sorely disappointed.
Although Gandhi presents his episodes chronologically, he happily leaves wide gaps, such as the entire satyagraha struggle in South Africa, for which he refers the reader to another of his books. And writing for his contemporaries, he takes it for granted that the reader is familiar with the major events of his life and of the political milieu of early 20th-century India. For the objective story, try Yogesh Chadha's Gandhi: A Life. For the inner world of a man held as a criminal by the British, a hero by Muslims, and a holy man by Hindus, look no further than these experiments. --Brian Bruya [via]
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An Autobiography: Or the Story of My Experiments With Truth
by M.K. Gandhi, Mahadev Desai

ISBN 0934676682 (0-934676-68-2)
Softcover, Greenleaf Books

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in India in 1869. He was educated in London. In 1915 he returned to British-controlled India, bringing to a country in the throes of independence his commitment to non-violent change. Written in the 1920s, this autobiography tells of his struggles and his inspirations; a statement of an extraordinary life. [via]
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Beastly Tales from Here and There
by Vikram Seth, Ravi Shankar

ISBN 0060171154 (0-06-017115-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

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An attractively packaged gift book offers ten charming, elegant fables in verse from India, China, Greece, Ukraine, and the fantastic Land of Gup. By the author of A Suitable Boy. [via]
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- Beastly Tales from Here and There: ISBN 0670846570 (0-670-84657-0)
  Hardcover, Viking
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Black Elk Speaks
by John G. Neihardt

ISBN 1567311113 (1-56731-111-3)
Hardcover, Fine Communications

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The most famous Native American book ever written, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (18631950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish their way of life. Black Elk and other Lakotas fought back, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee.
Beautifully told through the celebrated poet and writer John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a life story. Black Elks profound and arresting religious visions of the unity of humanity and the world around him have transformed his account into a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as a collaborative autobiography, a history of a Native American nation, or an enduring spiritual testament for all humankind, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This special edition features all three prefaces to Black Elk Speaks that John G. Neihardt wrote at different points in his life, a map of Black Elks world, a reset text with Lakota words reproduced using the latest orthographic standards, and color paintings by Lakota artist Standing Bear that have not been widely available for decades.
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The Bombay Cafe
by Neela Paniz

ISBN 0898159350 (0-89815-935-0)
Softcover, Ten Speed Press

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Brick Lane
by Monica Ali

ISBN 0743243315 (0-7432-4331-5)
Softcover, Scribner

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With its gritty Tower Hamlets setting, this sharply observed contemporary novel about the life of an Asian immigrant girl deals cogently with issues of love, cultural difference and the human spirit. The pre-publicity hype about Brick Lane was precisely the kind to set alarm bells ringing (we've heard it so often before), but, for once, the excitement is fully justified: Monica Ali's debut novel demonstrates that there is a new voice in modern fiction to be reckoned with.
Nazneen is a teenager forced into an arranged marriage with a man considerably older than her--a man whose expectations of life are so low that misery seems to stretch ahead for her. Fearfully leaving the sultry oppression of her Bangladeshi village, Nazneen finds herself cloistered in a small flat in a high-rise block in the East End of London. Because she speaks no English, she is obliged to depend totally on her husband. But it becomes apparent that, of the two, she is the real survivor: more able to deal with the ways of the world, and a better judge of the vagaries of human behaviour. She makes friends with another Asian girl, Razia, who is the conduit to her understanding of the unsettling ways of her new homeland.
This is a novel of genuine insight, with the kind of characterisation that reminds the reader at every turn just what the novel form is capable of. Every character (Nazneen, her disappointed husband and her resourceful friend Razia) is drawn with the complexity that can really only be found in the novel these days. In some ways, the reader is given the same all-encompassing experience as in a Dickens novel: humour and tragedy rub shoulders in a narrative that inexorably grips the reader. Whether or not Monica Ali can follow up this achievement is a question for the future; it's enough to say right now that Brick Lane is an essential read for anyone interested in current British fiction. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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- Brick Lane: ISBN 0743243307 (0-7432-4330-7)
  Hardcover, Scribner
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Clear Light of Day
by Anita Desai

ISBN 0618074511 (0-618-07451-1)
Softcover, Mariner Books

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Clear Light of Day is an examination of contemporary India and a family history in which two sisters, Bim and Tara, learn that, although there will always be family scars, the ability to forgive and forget is a powerful ally against life's sorrows. Twenty years ago when Tara married, she left Old Delhi and a home full of sickness and death, while Bim continued to live in the family home taking care of their autistic brother, Baba. Now Tara has returned, her first visit in 10 years, for their niece's wedding. Bim refuses to attend; she can't visit their brother Raja who, like Tara, left her many years ago. Instead Bim dwells bitterly on her feelings of abandonment and the impact on her of her country's recent history: the violent conflict between Hindus and Muslims, the death of Gandhi and the ensuing struggle for political power and the malaria epidemic that killed so many. In Bim's presence, Tara once again feels "herself shrink into that small miserable wretch of 20 years ago, both admiring and resenting her tall striding sister", while "Bim was calmly unaware of any of her sister's agonies, past or present". With language that describes both the harshness and beauty of family and the land, Anita Desai takes the reader with Tara and Bim on their struggle to confront and heal old wounds. --Alex Freeman, Amazon.com [via]
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The Complete Kama Sutra: The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text
by Alain Danielou

ISBN 0892815256 (0-89281-525-6)
Softcover, Inner Traditions

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The galaxy of pleasures in Alain Daniélou's translation of the Kama Sutra takes you back to an India where sexuality was an integral part of life and an avenue to spiritual bliss. As Devadatta Shastri says in his commentary: "At the moment when the peak of bliss is attained, the internal and external world vanish. The man and woman cease to be separate entities and lose themselves in the beatitudes of being." Daniélou's elegant rendering includes not only the entire sutra, much of which is excluded in other versions, but two essential commentaries as well. More than just a pillow book, the Kama Sutra is a guide to the labyrinth of sexual etiquette, from how to bathe before meeting a lover to how lovers should entertain each other after making love. Admittedly, the text is dated and culture bound in places; it can be chauvinistic, bizarre, and even violent. The commentators are careful to point out, however, that the work is an overview of all sexual practices, some of which are not recommended. Take from this encyclopedia of amour what you will and let it keep you moving down the path of spiritual practice. --Brian Bruya [via]
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The Complete Kama Sutra: The 1st Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text
by Vatsyayana, Alain Danielou

ISBN 0892814926 (0-89281-492-6)
Hardcover, Inner Traditions

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The galaxy of pleasures in Alain Daniélou's translation of the Kama Sutra takes you back to an India where sexuality was an integral part of life and an avenue to spiritual bliss. As Devadatta Shastri says in his commentary: "At the moment when the peak of bliss is attained, the internal and external world vanish. The man and woman cease to be separate entities and lose themselves in the beatitudes of being." Daniélou's elegant rendering includes not only the entire sutra, much of which is excluded in other versions, but two essential commentaries as well. More than just a pillow book, the Kama Sutra is a guide to the labyrinth of sexual etiquette, from how to bathe before meeting a lover to how lovers should entertain each other after making love. Admittedly, the text is dated and culture bound in places; it can be chauvinistic, bizarre, and even violent. The commentators are careful to point out, however, that the work is an overview of all sexual practices, some of which are not recommended. Take from this encyclopedia of amour what you will and let it keep you moving down the path of spiritual practice. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Dakshin: Vegetarian Cuisine from South India An Earthly Delight Cookbook
by Chandra Padmanabhan

ISBN 0207184771 (0-207-18477-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

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The Dhammapada
by Anne Bancroft, Thomas Byrom

ISBN 1852309210 (1-85230-921-0)
Hardcover, Thorsons Element

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Fasting, Feasting
by Anita Desai

ISBN 0618065822 (0-618-06582-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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Anita Desai has long proved herself one of the most accomplished and admired chroniclers of middle-class India. Her 1999 novel, Fasting, Feasting, is the tale of plain and lumpish Uma and the cherished, late-born Arun, daughter and son of strict and conventional parents. So united are her parents in Uma's mind that she conflates their names. "MamaPapa themselves rarely spoke of a time when they were not one. The few anecdotes they related separately acquired great significance because of their rarity, their singularity." Throughout, Desai perfectly matches form and content: details are few, the focus narrow, emotions and needs given no place. Uma, as daughter and female, expects nothing; Arun, as son and male, is lost under the weight of expectation. Now in her 40s, Uma is at home. Attempts at arranged marriages having ended in humiliation and disaster, and she is at MamaPapa's beck and call, with only her collection of bracelets and old Christmas cards for consolation.
Uma flounces off, her grey hair frazzled, her myopic eyes glaring behind her spectacles, muttering under her breath. The parents, momentarily agitated upon their swing by the sudden invasion of ideas--sweets, parcel, letter, sweets--settle back to their slow, rhythmic swinging. They look out upon the shimmering heat of the afternoon as if the tray with tea, with sweets, with fritters, will materialise and come swimming out of it--to their rescue. With increasing impatience, they swing and swing.
Arun, in college in Massachusetts, is none too happily spending the summer with the Pattons in the suburbs: their refrigerator and freezer is packed with meat that no one eats, and Mrs. Patton is desperate to be a vegetarian, like Arun. But what he most wants is to be ignored, invisible. "Her words make Arun wince. Will she never learn to leave well alone? She does not seem to have his mother's well-developed instincts for survival through evasion. After a bit of pushing about slices of tomatoes and leaves of lettuce--in his time in America he has developed a hearty abhorrence for the raw foods everyone here thinks the natural diet of a vegetarian--he dares to glance at Mr. Patton."
Desai's counterpointing of India and America is a little forced, but her focus on the daily round, whether in the Ganges or in New England, finely delineates the unspoken dramas in both cultures. And her characters, capable of their own small rebellions, give Fasting, Feasting its sharp bite. --Ruth Petrie [via]
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- Fasting, Feasting: ISBN 0701168943 (0-7011-6894-3)
  Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
- Fasting, Feasting: ISBN 0618065822 (0-618-06582-2)
  Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
The Financial Expert
by R.K. Narayan

ISBN 0226568415 (0-226-56841-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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- The Financial Expert: ISBN 0226568407 (0-226-56840-7)
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The Food of India
by Priya Wickramasinghe, Carol Selva Rajah, Jason Lowe, Alan Bensen

ISBN 1552853705 (1-55285-370-5)
Hardcover, Firefly Books Ltd

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This is the latest addition to our richly photographed series on the gastronomic delights of countries around the world. In India, even a short jaunt from one town to another yields different cooking styles, with even more radical and enticing variations between regions. From the Hindu- and Jain-influenced vegetarianism of the South to the exotic, Arabic-influenced Moghul cuisine in the North, this book allows you to explore the culinary wonders of this fascinating country. Curries, breads, succulent meat dishes, complex spice mixes, and sweets-it's all here, with brilliant color photographs to provide inspiration. Clear, step-by-step instructions help you master ancient preparation and cooking techniques for consistently delicious results. [via]
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Gandhi's Autobiography
by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

ISBN 0818302232 (0-8183-0223-2)
Hardcover, Public Affairs Pr

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Gitanjali: Offerings Of Song And Art
by W. B. Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore

ISBN 1420926306 (1-4209-2630-6)
Softcover, Digireads.Com

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Hobson Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary
by A. C. Burnell, H. Yule

ISBN 185326363X (1-85326-363-X)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd

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Bungalow, pyjamas, tiffin, rickshaw, veranda, curry, cheroot, chintz, calico, gingham, mango, junk and catamaran are all words which have crept into the English language from the days of Britain's colonial rule of the Indian sub-continent and the Malaysian Peninsular. Hobson-Jobson (derived from the Islamic cry at the celebration of Muhurram 'Ya Hasan, ya Hosain' is shorthand for the assimilation of foreign words to the sound pattern of the adopting language. This dictionary, compiled in the late-19th century, is an invaluable source which has never been superseded. It is an essential book for all who are interested in English etymology and the development of the language. [via]
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Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive
by Henry Yule, A. C. Burnell, William Crooke

ISBN 1870836111 (1-870836-11-1)
Hardcover, Linguasia

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rep. classic work. important reference on Indian culture, western perceptions. [via]
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  Hardcover, South Asia Books
- Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive: ISBN 1870836111 (1-870836-11-1)
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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
by Kiran Desai

ISBN 0385493703 (0-385-49370-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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  Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991
by Salman Rushdie

ISBN 0140140360 (0-14-014036-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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A record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey. The 75 essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover a range of subjects - the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. [via]
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The Indian Grocery Store Demystified
by Linda Bladholm

ISBN 1580631436 (1-58063-143-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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So you want to make a curry. There's a small Indian grocery store on the way home from work, so you figure you'll pop in and grab a few items--but when you get there you're overwhelmed by the pouches of aromatic spices and the jars of pickles and chutneys. Where to begin?
With The Indian Grocery Store Demystified, of course. Author Linda Bladholm walks you through a typical Indian grocery store, aisle by aisle, shelf by shelf. Start with the rice aisle and learn the differences between basmati, gobindavog, red patni, and several others. Learn which rice goes best with what type of recipe, how to prepare it, and what it should taste like. Then head down the flour aisle (here's where you learn how to bake several variations of naan and the popular pappadum), to the spices and seasonings. "Without spices," says Bladholm, "one cannot even imagine Indian food." Be sure to stock up on the cardamom, cumin, coriander, black pepper, tamarind, and turmeric. Mosey down to the herbs, then on to fruits and vegetables where you'll be introduced to the sakriya, a small vine-grown yam, and the sweet-and-sour woodapple, indigenous to the Indian jungle. There's also a chapter on ayurveda, the balancing of mind, body, spirit, and environment, and which foods can help you achieve this balance.
Though a few recipes are included in the back, this is not a cookbook, but rather a preparing-to-cook book. Bladholm thoroughly covers a vast amount of information and makes you feel like you could stroll into your local Indian grocery and make smart, informed purchases. And if you're still a little timid, The Indian Grocery Store Demystified is small enough to stick in your bag to reference while you're there. --Dana Van Nest [via]
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Indian Vegetarian Cooking at Your House
by Sunetra Humbad, Amy Schafer Boger

ISBN 1570670048 (1-57067-004-8)
Softcover, Book Pub Co

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The Inscrutable Americans
by Anurag Mathur

ISBN 1577310241 (1-57731-024-1)
Softcover, New World Library

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Ka
by Roberto Calasso

ISBN 8845912566 (88-459-1256-6)
Hardcover, Adelphi

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Kama Sutra
by Vatsyayana, Wendy Doniger, Sudhir Kakar

ISBN 0192839829 (0-19-283982-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Height: .37
Length: 5.75
Diameter: 4.50
Keep this classic by your bedside as a handy reference whenever you're looking for a new sex position to spice up your normal routine. Fully illustrated, this detailed guide will become your lovemaking manual whether you've practiced Kama Sutra before or have had experience with the tradition. This pillow book makes a wonderfully intimate gift between lovers who want to explore sex together. [via]
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The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyana
by Called Mallanaga Vatsyayana

ISBN 014019360X (0-14-019360-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The 1964 publication of Sir Richard Burton's translation marked the first wide appearance in English of the Kama Sutra and was celebrated as a literary event of highest importance. As vital to an understanding of ancient Indian civilization as the works of Plato and Aristotle are to the West, the Kama Sutra has endured for 1,700 years as an indisputable classic of world literature.
Written with frankness and unassuming candor, the Kama Sutra remains one of the most readable and enjoyable of all the classics of antiquity. A work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, scientific inquiry, and sexology, the Kama Sutra's importance is so great that it has at the same time both affected Indian civilization and remained an indispensable key to understanding it.
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
by Vatsyayana, Richard F. Burton

ISBN 1420925849 (1-4209-2584-9)
Softcover, Digireads.Com

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Written by Vatsyayana sometime between the 1st and 6th centuries A.D., "Kama Sutra" is literally translated as "Aphorisms on Love." Intended as a manual for not only love and intimacy but also a treatise on the politics and customs of relationships between men and women. The "Kama Sutra", while sought after for its instruction on sexual positions, is much more than just a guide for lovemaking. Presented here is the classic translation of Sir Richard Burton. [via]
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: The Classic Burton Translation
by Richard F. Burton, Vatsyayana

ISBN 0486452379 (0-486-45237-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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A classic of world literature for 1,700 years, this is the most explicit and fascinating book ever written for lovers. Its methods of cultivating sensual pleasure, sexual desire, and loving union offer a wellspring of erotic knowledge and inspiration. It also serves as a window into Indian culture and mysticism.
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Kama Sutra: The Arts of Love
by Zek Halu, Misha Halu, Jane Graham-Maw

ISBN 0722532377 (0-7225-3237-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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The Kama Sutra is the most famous book on the art and skills of sex and love ever written. [via]
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The Kama Sutra: The Hindu Art of Love
by Moti Chandra, S. C. Upadhyaya

ISBN 1842930656 (1-84293-065-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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This is the only truly authentic translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra from the ancient Sanskrit. [via]
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Kama Sutra: The Rules of Love and Erotic Practice
by Vatsyayana, Manuela Dunn-Mascetti, Manuela Dunn Mascetti

ISBN 060960726X (0-609-60726-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Including never-before-published art drawn from the classical Indian text on the rules of love and erotic practice, this Kama Sutra box contains an exotic talisman in the form of a statuette of two lovers from the tantric Khajuraho temple in India, a talisman that will enhance lovers' passion and effectiveness simply through touch and the observance of the rituals and sutras found in the beautifully illustrated book. Filled with teachings on the art of making love, the text spans the spectrum of erotic practice, from the foundation of love to the best matches between partners, techniques of kissing, different sexual positions, reversal of roles, and how to approach the eternal dilemma of infidelity. Illustrated with exquisite miniatures of Indian art, this box is a wonderful gift for lovers that reflects the ancient and elegant tradition of passionate sexuality. [via]
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Kamasutra
by Wendy Doniger, Sudhir Kakar

ISBN 0762416084 (0-7624-1608-4)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub

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Kamasutra of Vatsyayana
by Richard F. Burton, Called Mallanaga Vatsyayana

ISBN 0375759247 (0-375-75924-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Sir Richard F. Burtons translation of The Kama Sutra remains one of the best English interpretations of this early Indian treatise on politics, social customs, love, and intimacy. Its crisp style set a new standard for Sanskrit translation.

The Kama Sutra stands uniquely as a work of psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, and sexology. It has been a celebrated classic of Indian literature for 1,700 years and a window for the West into the culture and mysticism of the East.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic reprints the authoritative text of Sir Richard F. Burtons 1883 translation. [via]
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Kim
by Rudyard Kipling

ISBN 1404368361 (1-4043-6836-1)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com

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1901. Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Kim is his picaresque novel of India and is considered to be a masterpiece. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Kim
by Maire Fhlathuin, Marie Ni Fhlathuin

ISBN 1551115212 (1-55111-521-2)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

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One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"
In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Mahabharata
by William Buck, Shirley Triest, B. A. Van Nooten

ISBN 0520227042 (0-520-22704-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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Long accessible only to scholars, Western readers can at last experience the story of the sweeping, shifting conflict between two great ruling families for India's most precious lands. [via]
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by William Buck

ISBN 0520043936 (0-520-04393-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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One Night at the Call Center
by Chetan Bhagat

ISBN 0345498321 (0-345-49832-1)
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Press 1 for technical support.
Press 2 for broken hearts.
Press 3 if your life has totally crashed. . . .

Six friends work nights at a call center in India, providing technical support for a major U.S. appliance corporation. Skilled in patienceand accent managementthey help American consumers keep their lives running. Yet behind the headsets, everybodys heart is on the line.

Shyam (Sam to his callers) has lost his self-confidence after being dumped by the girl who just so happens to be sitting next to him. Priyankas domineering mother has arranged for her daughters upscale marriage to an Indian man in Seattle. Esha longs to be a model but discovers its a horizontal romp to the runway. Lost, dissatisfied Vroom has high ideals, but compromises them by talking on the phone to idiots each night. Traditional Radhika has just found out that her husband is sleeping with his secretary. And Military Uncle (nobody knows his real name) sits alone working the online chat.

They all try to make it through their shiftsand maintain their sanityunder the eagle eye of a boss whose ego rivals his incompetence. But tonight is no ordinary night. Tonight is Thanksgiving in America: Appliances are going haywire, and the phones are ringing off their hooks. Then one call, from one very special caller, changes everything.

Chetan Bhagats delicious romantic comedy takes us inside the world of the international call center, where cultural cross-wires come together with perfect pathos, hilarity, and spice. [via]
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Pather Panchali
by Bibhutibhushana Bandyopadhyaya, Thomas Welbourne Clark, Tarapada Mukhopadhyaya

ISBN 8172233337 (81-7223-333-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers India

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The Recognition of Sakuntala
by Kalidasa, Rabindranath Tagore, Arthur W. Ryder

ISBN 048643169X (0-486-43169-X)
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Written by the greatest of the ancient Indian playwrights, this 5th-century work of Sanskrit drama offers a classic introduction to Indian theater and aesthetics. A king encounters a lovely maiden by chance, and the course of their passionate love sweeps the audience from a forest hermitage to a dazzling palace to ethereal celestial realms.
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The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts
by W. J. Johnson, Kalidasa

ISBN 019283911X (0-19-283911-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The Rig Veda
by Thomas Wyatt, Wendy Oflaherty, Wendy Doniger

ISBN 0140444025 (0-14-044402-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Rig Veda
by Wendy Doniger

ISBN 0140449892 (0-14-044989-2)
Softcover, Penguin Classics

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The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, The Rig Veda (c. 1200900 bc) is a collection of more than 1,000 individual Sanskrit hymns. A work of intricate beauty, it provides unique insight into early Indian mythology and culture. Fraught with paradox, the hymns are meant to puzzle, to surprise, to trouble the mind, writes translator Wendy Doniger, who has selected 108 hymns for this volume. Chosen for their eloquence and wisdom, they focus on the enduring themes of creation, sacrifice, death, women, and the gods. Donigers The Rig Veda provides a fascinating introduction to a timeless masterpiece of Hindu ritual and spirituality.

Wendy Doniger's translation conveys all the vitality and force of the original

Includes an introduction, appendices, updated bibliography, detailed index, and comprehensive notes on each hymn
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Rig Veda Sanhita: A Collection of Ancient Hindu Hymns
by Anonymous

ISBN 1417972947 (1-4179-7294-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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A Separate Reality: Further Conversations With Don Juan
by Carlos Castaneda

ISBN 0671732498 (0-671-73249-8)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr

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In this book, Castaneda resumes his apprenticeship, determined to go deeper still into don Juan's world, to learn to see beyond the surface realities of life. He continues his dialogue with don Juan, intuitive, wise, demanding, and fierce in his struggle to see and know beyond the vision of ordinary men; and himself, a man of courage and intelligence who submits himself to don Juan's teaching, to enter into another world as a participant rather than an observer. A Separate Reality is a work that is at once the discovery of a hitherto unrecorded body of wisdom and knowledge and the story of a remarkable and shattering personal experience. [via]
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Shadow Lines
by Amitav Ghosh

ISBN 8175300434 (81-7530-043-4)
Softcover, South Asia Books

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A major novel on recent Indian political history, covers partition and violence in Bengal. Reflects post-colonial concerns with historical memory, symbolism, and cultural transition. Excellent reviews in the West and South Asia. [via]
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Siddharta
by Hermann Hesse

ISBN 9872074828 (987-20748-2-8)
Softcover, LA Marca Editura

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Spanish Edition SIDDHARTA by Herman Hesse 2002 Softcover 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches 94 pages Arenal publishers [via]
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Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse

ISBN 1404331972 (1-4043-3197-2)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young falcon, together with his friend Govinda, son of a Brahman. The sun tanned his light shoulders by the banks of the river when bathing, performing the sacred ablutions, the sacred offerings. In the mango grove, shade poured into his black eyes, when playing as a boy, when his mother sang, when the sacred offerings were made, when his father, the scholar, taught him, when the wise men talked. For a long time, Siddhartha had been partaking in the discussions of the wise men, practising debate with Govinda, practising with Govinda the art of reflection, the service of meditation. He already knew how to speak the Om silently, the word of words, to speak it silently into himself while inhaling, to speak it silently out of himself while exhaling, with all the concentration of his soul, the forehead surrounded by the glow of the clear-thinking spirit. He already knew to feel Atman in the depths of his being, indestructible, one with the universe. [via]
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Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
by Salman Rushdie

ISBN 0679783490 (0-679-78349-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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To cross a frontier is to be transformed....The frontier is a wake-up call. At the frontier, we cant avoid the truth; the comforting layers of the quotidian, which insulate us against the worlds harsher realities, are stripped away and, wide-eyed in the harsh fluorescent light of the frontiers windowless halls, we see things as they are.

In Salman Rushdies latest collection of nonfiction, he crosses over the frontier and sees and tells things as they are, inviting readers to step across this line with him.

The essays, speeches, and opinion pieces assembled in Step Across This Line, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. The collection chronicles Rushdies intellectual odyssey and is also an especially personal look into the writers psyche. With the same fierce intelligence, uncanny social commentary, and very strong opinions that distinguish his fiction, Rushdie writes about his fascination with The Wizard of Oz, his obsession with soccer, and the state of the novel, among many other topics. Most notably, delving into his unique personal experience fighting the Iranian fatwa, he addresses the subject of militant Islam in a series of challenging and deeply felt responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The book ends with the eponymous Step Across This Line, a lecture Rushdie delivered at Yale in the spring of 2002, which has never been published before and is sure to prompt discussion.

Rushdies first collection of nonfiction, Imaginary Homelands, offered a unique vision of politics, literature, and culture for the 1980s. Step Across This Line does the same and more for the last decade of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. [via]
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Such a Long Journey
by Rohinton Mistry

ISBN 0679738711 (0-679-73871-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill; his promising son defies his fathers ambitions for him. He is the one reasonable voice amidst the ongoing dramas of his neighbours. One day, he receives a letter from an old friend, asking him to help in what at first seems like an heroic mission. But he soon finds himself unwittingly drawn into a dangerous network of deception. Compassionate, and rich in details of character and place, this unforgettable novel charts the journey of a moral heart in a turbulent world of change. [via]
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The Twentieth Wife
by Indu Sundaresan

ISBN 0743428188 (0-7434-2818-8)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr

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In The Twentieth Wife, first-time novelist Indu Sundaresan introduces readers to life inside a bejeweled, dazzling birdcage--the world of the Mughal Court's zenana, or imperial harem. Her heroine exercises power in the only way available to a woman in 17th-century India: from behind the veil. At the age of 8, Mehrunissa (the name means "Sun of Women") has already settled on her life's goal. After just one glimpse of his face, she wants to marry the Crown Prince Salim. And marry him she does, albeit some 26 years later, after overcoming the opposition of her family, an ill-starred early marriage, numerous miscarriages, and the scheming of other wives.
The story's gothic trappings have a basis in fact. As Sundaresan writes in her afterword, the historical Mehrunissa exercised far more power than was usually allotted to an empress, issuing coins in her own name, giving orders, trading, owning property, and patronizing the arts. (Curiously, the book ends just as Mehrunissa is ascending to the throne as empress, dwelling on her years of powerlessness and struggle rather than those of her enormous political influence.) Although the empress was fabled in her time, we know next to nothing about the woman herself. Unfortunately, Sundaresan does little to flesh out this intriguing figure. Despite the vivid historical detail, the reader remains more aware of the author's presence--and her own contemporary take on women's issues--than of her characters' inner lives. --Mary Park [via]
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The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

ISBN 0385497288 (0-385-49728-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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From acclaimed and beloved author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni comes a new collection of moving stories about family, culture, and the seduction of memory. With the rich prose and keen insight that made Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart national bestsellers, these tales of journeys and returns, of error, of loss and recovery, all resound with her unique understanding of the human spirit."Don't we all have to pay, no matter what we choose?" a young woman asks in "The Love of a Good Man," one of the unforgettable stories in Chitra Divakaruni's beautifully crafted exploration of the tensions between new lives and old. In tales set in India and the United States, she illuminates the transformations of personal landscapes, real and imagined, brought about by the choices men and women make at every stage of their lives."The Love of a Good Man" tells of an Indian woman happily settled in the United States who must confront the past when her long-estranged father begs to meet his only grandson. In the acclaimed "Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter," a widow, inadvertently eavesdropping, discovers that her cherished, old-fashioned ways are an embarrassment to her daughter-in-law. A young American woman joins a pilgrimage of women in Kashmir and, in the land of her ancestors, comes to view herself and her family in a new light in "The Lives of Strangers." Two women, uprooted from their native land by violence and deception, find unexpected comfort and hope in each other in "The Blooming Season for Cacti." And in the title story, a young woman turns to her painting and the wisdom of her grandmother for the strength to accept her fiance's past when it arrives on her doorstep.Whether writing about the adjustments of immigrants to a foreign land or the accommodations families make to the disruptive differences between generations, Divakaruni poignantly portrays the eternal struggle to find a balance between the pull of home and the allure of change. [via]
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