The Little Wave and Other Stories is a warm and imaginative book guiding children and their families in new ways to understand, process and cope with the concept of death. The stories are narrated by a grandmother to her granddaughter, as they deal with the death of a cherished member of their family.
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Cri(s)es is a collection of urgent poems that call attention to our strange and critical times. With a subtext of today’s cri(s)es both internal and external, it screams with concern and chaos, but also exults in the gifts of nature and squeals with wonder.
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Chapada: The Journey of Alphabets recounts the introduction of the written word and the impact it had on a small town called Isila, in present-day Karnataka, during the height of the Mauryan empire Ashoka’s rule (268 to 232 BCE). The author, via giving Chapada’s life a full story, uses sociolinguistics, archaeology and available research in linguistics to document the early history of writing in southern India.
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A landmark Urdu classic translated for the first time. Khalid Jawed is one of the most original and extraordinary writers in Urdu today. The Paradise of Food is an Urdu classic known for its radical, experimental form and savage and dark honesty.
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Indian food is an endless array of flavours and tastes that are perhaps best represented by the street food of India. This book is a journey into the mind-boggling variety of endless recipes that feed our nation.
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Sex and the Village is an ethnographic account of how kaands or scandals around unsanctioned romantic and sexual liaisons in rural Uttarakhand became fertile ground for heated debate among villagers of different genders, generations, and castes over what makes a village truly a village in contemporary India.
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What does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human and non-human animals.
അപ്പോൾ ഗ്രീക്ക്-ഹിന്ദു പുരാണങ്ങൾ തമ്മിൽ ബന്ധമുണ്ടോ? ഒരു സാധാരണ ഇന്തോ-യുറോപ്യൻ വേരുകളുമായി ഇതിന് എന്തെങ്കിലും സാമ്യമുണ്ടോ? അതോ മഹാനായ അലക്സാണ്ട റിന്റെ ആഗമനത്തെത്തുടർന്നുള്ള നൂറ്റാണ്ടുകളിൽ, ഗ്രീക്ക് ദൂതന്മാർ മഥുര, മഗധ രാജ്യങ്ങളിലേക്ക് യാത്ര ചെയ്തപ്പോൾ ഉണ്ടായ ആശയങ്ങളുടെ ഒരു കൈമാറ്റം ആയിരുന്നോ? ഈ പുസ്തകത്തിൽ, പുരാണഗവേഷകനായ ദേവ്ദത് പട്നായ്ക് പുരാതന ഗ്രീക്ക് കഥകളിലേക്ക് നമ്മുടെ ശ്രദ്ധ തിരിക്കുകയും കഥകളുടെ ഒരു പുതിയ ലോകം പര്യവേക്ഷണം ചെയ്യുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു. വിവർത്തനം: ബാലകൃഷ്ണൻ അഞ്ചത്ത്
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इस पुस्तक में देवदत्त पट्टनायक अपनी भारतीय दृष्टि से यूनानी पारम्परिक कथाओं को देखते हैं और पाठकों के सम्मुख दोनों सभ्यताओं और मिथकों की समानताओं को उद्घाटित करते हैं। देवदत्त पट्टनायक पौराणिक विषयों के जाने-माने विशेषज्ञ हैं।
Olympus: Yunani Mithakon ka Bharatiya Punarkathan (Hindi) by Devdutt Pattanaik Read More »