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“masooma ali”

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  • Weaving Water

    An Autobiography

    by Ajeet Cour ...
    Translated by Masooma Ali, Meenu Minocha ...
    Heartwarming and candid, this is the story of one of our foremost literary voices, told in her own words—a life beset by tragedy which yet carries a message of courage, hope and happiness.Growing up in pre-Partition Lahore, Ajeet Cour spent a childhood wrapped in warm and enticing experiences, despite her disciplinarian father. From such a beginning, her life moves on to a first, true love that is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The House with Five Courtyards

    by Govind Mishra ...
    Translated by Masooma Ali ...
    ‘He was leaving behind the house which he no longer cared for but still felt in his blood. He’ll surely return but will the house then be as it is now? Will the people whose presence makes the house with five courtyards a veritable mohalla still be there?’ For a sprawling edifice with five courtyards, it was a flourishing house. The brothers who resided in the various quarters lived harmoniously ... Read more

    $2.80 USD

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    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

    by Manju Kapur ...
    Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love.' Difficult Daughters is intensely imagined, fluidly written, moving. Through our struggles with our parents, it flings us into their own momentous times, their youthful yearnings for love and ... Read more

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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

    $7.19 USD

  • 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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  • The Immortals

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    Two families in 1980s Bombay—one making ends meet in the old world of Indian classical music, the other thriving in a booming new world of corporate luxury—intersect in this lyrical novel of art and commerce, capturing a city (and country) in a state of change.Music is central to the work of Amit Chaudhuri, who is well-known as a musician and performer himself. In his brilliantly exploratory ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Relationship

    by Nayantara Sahgal ...
    In this exchange of letters dating from an extremely turbulent period of their lives, Nayantara Sahgal and E.N. Mangat Rai, two very public figures who had remained at the same time intensely private, broke their self-imposed silence for the first time.When Relationship was first published in 1994, it was received with varying degrees of shock and appreciation. This newly revised edition includes ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Novice to Master

    An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity

    by Soko Morinaga ...
    Translated by Belenda Attaway Yamakawa ...
    Everybody loves Novice to Master! As you'll see in the glowing endorsements and reviews included below, this modern spiritual classic has been embraced by readers of all types.In his singularly humorous and biitingly direct way, Zen abbot Soko Morinaga tells the story of his rigorous training at a Japanese Zen temple, his spiritual growth and his interactions with his students and others. Morinaga ... Read more

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  • Roots and Shadows

    by Shashi Deshpande ...
    In Indus ancestral home, that she had escaped from so many years ago, nothing seems to have altered. Yet all is different. Akka, the rich family tyrant, is dead and the family is on the threshold of great change. And the key to their future now lies in Indus hands. This novel provides a penetrative insight into the joint family revealing its strengths and weaknesses, its props and parasites. ... Read more

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  • The Guide

    A Novel

    by R. K. Narayan ...
    For the centennial of his birth, R. K. Narayan's most celebrated novelFormerly India's most corrupt tourist guide, Raju—just released from prison—seeks refuge in an abandoned temple. Mistaken for a holy man, he plays the part and succeeds so well that God himself intervenes to put Raju's newfound sanctity to the test. Narayan's most celebrated novel, The Guide won him the National Prize of the ... Read more

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  • Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master

    A Yogi's Autobiography

    by Sri M ...
    In this tell-all autobiography, Sri M writes about his fascinating journey as a young man from the southern coast of India to the mystical Himalayan Mountains. At the age of nineteen and a half, he felt an irresistible urge to go to the Himalayas in quest for his great Master. He finally met his Master at the Vyasa Cave, beyond the Badrinath shrine. After spending three and half years with his ... Read more

    $4.19 USD