A young Sri Lankan Chamath gets dragged below the invisible grid that exists in any big city, into a blue-grey twilight world of illegals. Hired as a male escort, a ‘professional’, a career at which he excels to his great surprise, he finds an unlikely means of making his way through the world. Then, two former clients—an older couple—decide to rescue him—with disastrous consequences.
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Ashok Ferrey writes about Sri Lanka and its people, wherever they roam. He writes of the Sri Lankan diaspora, who seem not to notice that their country has changed in their absence. He writes of the West’s effect on Sri Lankans, of its ‘turning them into caricatures, unmistakably genuine but not at all the real thing’.
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Set in a more innocent time—Sri Lanka’s civil war has only just begun—Serendipity is satire, thriller and comedy of manners all in one, told with Ferrey’s trademark wit.
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Absurd, sad, scathing and generous, but mostly wickedly funny, Colpetty People presents modern Sri Lankans as they navigate worlds between Ceylon and the West.
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Yoga Mythology retells the fascinating tales from Hindu, Buddhist and Jain lore that lie behind the yogic asanas the world knows so well. In the process of recounting the stories behind 64 key yoga asanas, Devdutt draws attention to an Indic worldview based on the concepts of eternity, rebirth, liberation and empathy that has nurtured yoga for thousands of years.
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Yoga Mythology retells the fascinating tales from Hindu, Buddhist and Jain lore that lie behind the yogic asanas the world knows so well. In the process of recounting the stories behind 64 key yoga asanas, Devdutt draws attention to an Indic worldview based on the concepts of eternity, rebirth, liberation and empathy that has nurtured yoga for thousands of years.
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योग पुराण में हिंदू, बौद्ध और जैन लोक साहित्य की उन आकर्षक कहानियों को फिर से बताया गया है जिनपर विश्वभर में परिचित योग आसन आधारित हैं। इस बीच वे अनंत काल, पुनर्जन्म, मुक्ति और सहानुभूति की उन अवधारणों पर आधारित भारतीय विश्वदृष्टि की ओर ध्यान आकर्षित करते हैं जिसने हज़ारों वर्षों से योग को पोषित किया है।
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Yoga Mythology retells the fascinating tales from Hindu, Buddhist and Jain lore that lie behind the yogic asanas the world knows so well. In the process of recounting the stories behind 64 key yoga asanas, Devdutt draws attention to an Indic worldview based on the concepts of eternity, rebirth, liberation and empathy that has nurtured yoga for thousands of years.
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This book seamlessly weaves the story from Krishna’s birth to his death, from his descent to the butter-smeared world of happy women to his ascent from the blood-soaked world of angry men.
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