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  • Off the Beaten Track

    by Saeeda Bano ...
    Translated by Shahana Raza ...
    Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, known then and still as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, she walked out of a suffocating marriage, witnessed the violence of Partition, lost her son for a night in a refugee camp, ate toast with Nehru and fell in love with a married man who would, in the course of their twenty-five ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    by Farida Sultana with Shila Nair ...
    PURPLE DANDELION is the true story of Farida Sultana, an extraordinary Muslim woman. Her arranged marriage to a doctor at the age of 18 took her to worn-torn Iran with her husband and young daughter, then to the UK and finally to New Zealand. Being a survivor of violence and abuse, Farida emerged as a strong advocate against all forms of violence and cultural and religious oppression against women ... Read more

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  • The Persistence of Memory

    by Urvashi Butalia ...
    Some journeys exist in the mind. Bir Bahadur Singh is haunted by the longing to return. Forced to leave his village in Pakistan during Partition in traumaticcircumstances, he makes the journey back, fifty-four years later, to pick up the connections from that long past time. In that wrenching journey, he meets his old friend who now lives in his childhood home and exchanges banter with him and ... Read more

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  • Dilip Kumar

    The Substance and the Shadow

    by Dilip Kumar ...
    An authentic, heartfelt and compelling narrative – straight from the horse’s mouth – that reveals for the first time numerous unknown aspects of the life and times of one of the greatest legends of all time who stands out as a symbol of secular India.Dilip Kumar (born as Yousuf Khan), who began as a diffident novice in Hindi cinema in the early 1940s, went on to attain the pinnacle of stardom ... Read more

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  • The Footprints of Partition

    Narratives of Four Generations of Pakistanis and Indians

    by Anam Zakaria ...
    The Journey of Partition itself -- after Partition.The Partition of British India and the subsequent creation of two antagonist countries is a phenomenon that we are still trying to comprehend. Millions displaced, thousands slaughtered, families divided and redefined, as home became alien land and the unknown became home. So much has been said about it but there is still no writer, storyteller or ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Broken Note

    by Rosie Teghtegh ...
    In a society where an intangible barrier exists between people of different religions, two brave girls bridge the gap and become friends in spite of their ethnic and social differences, one a quiet girl from the bourgeoisie of the society while the other a fun loving girl with no inhibitions. Together they have adventures, explore love and romance and laugh in the face of trouble, while studying ... Read more

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  • Lahore

    by Pran Nevile ...
    Lahore, first published in 1993, is Pran Nevile’s tribute to the land of his birth. Grounded in memory and redolent with nostalgia, Nevile’s reminiscences transport the reader into the heart of Lahore as it was in the 1930s and 40s—a city bustling with activity where people coexisted harmoniously, unfettered by considerations of religion, region or caste. From the riotous seasonal festivities of ... Read more

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  • Troubled Pilgrimage

    Passage to Pakistan

    by Balwant Bhaneja ...
    Born in Lahore in present-day Pakistan, Balwant Bhaneja grew up in the exiled Sindhi Hindu community of Delhi, before emigrating to Canada. Troubled Pilgrimage is his account of a journey to his ancestral Sindh in Pakistan. Struggling against the preconceptions nurtured in post-1947 India, and his own recent fears of the country he’s about to visit, Bhaneja finds in Sindh the familiar and the ... Read more

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  • The Lost world of Hindustani music

    by Kumar Prasad Mukherji ...
    ‘Kudrat teri rang-birangee! Oh many-splendoured Creation!’ So went the bhajan Ustad Abdul Karim Khan sang before the saint Tajuddin Baba. The holy man, entranced by the song, clapped his hands and danced. Kumar Prasad Mukherji’s elegy to a vanishing age of musical giants comprises many such shared experiences between performer and audience, between recital and applause. It is his salute to a world ... Read more

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  • Heart of a Sufi

    Fazal Inayat-Khan - A Prism of Reflections

    by Rahima Milburn, Ashen Venema, Zohra Sharp ...
    Heart of a Sufi provides contemporary Sufi teaching practices evoked by Fazal Inayat-Khan (1942-1990). This volume shows the impact of Fazal's passion for truth on his friends and associates who offer a pointer to the achievement of self-realisation. At the age of 26, Fazal Inayat-Khan became the head of the Sufi Movement founded by his grandfather, Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan who introduced ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Kaifi and I

    A Memoir

    by Shaukat Kaifi ...
    Translated by Nasreen Rehman ...
    From the heart of a well-known family of Hyderabad to life in a single room with the barest of necessities, Shaukat Kaifi's memoir of her life with the renowned poet Kaifi Azmi speaks of love and commitment. A marriage of over a half a century, a life steeped in poetry and progressive politics, continuing involvement with the Indian People's Theatre Association, the Progressive Writers Association ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Sabir Ki Kahani Sabir Ki Zubani

    Sabir’S Story Told by Sabir

    by Mohammad Sabir Mirza ...
    The book tells the social and cultural values, likes and dislikes, and preferences of the people of different regions in different parts of the world, particularly of fifteen countries where the author worked as an engineer on irrigation projects. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD