Indian Literature

Chanakya Niti or Cāṇakya Nīti (IAST) (चाणक्य नीति) is a compilation of Sanskrit (संस्कृत) verses, known as aphorisms by Chanakya (आचार्य चाणक्य: 375–283 BCE). He was a teacher, author, strategist, philosopher, economist, jurist and a royal advisor. He authored the ancient Indian political treatise, the Arthashāstra (अर्थशास्त्र). He is considered the pioneer in the field of political science and economics in India. Around 321 BCE, Chanakya assisted the first Mauryan emperor, Chandragupta, in his rise to ...

Major Connor MacKinnon despises his commander, Lord William Wentworth, beyond all other men. Ordered to rescue Wentworth's niece after the Shawnee take her captive, he expects Lady Sarah Woodville to be every bit as contemptible as her uncle. Instead, he finds a brave and beautiful lass in desperate peril. But the only way to free Sarah is for Connor to defeat the Shawnee warrior who kidnapped her - and claim her himself.

Rain in the Mountains brings together some of Ruskin Bond’s most beautiful works from his years spent in the foothills of the Himalayas in the town of Mussoorie. Through vivid images and lucid writing, Bond evokes the everyday sights and sounds, and captures the essence of mountain life. The musings on his natural habitat, in both prose and poetry, offer a view of that simple and affable world. Some of his writings featured in the book include: "Once Upon a Mountain Time", "Sounds I Like to Hear", "How Far Is the River" and "After the Monsoon".

Handsome anesthesiologist Neel is sure he can resist his family’s pleas that he marry a "good" Indian girl. With a girlfriend and a career back in San Francisco, the last thing Neel needs is an arranged marriage. But that’s precisely what he gets. His bride, Leila, a 30-year-old teacher, comes with her own complications. They struggle to reconcile their own desires with others’ expectations in this story of two people, two countries, and two ways of life that may be more compatible than they seem.

An old and insightful tale, Indian Tale About Four Deaf Men holds up surprisingly well in the modern context.

तितलियों के पीछे दौड़ते बचपन की ये कहानी, उजली रातों में मुठ्ठी भर जुगनू पकड़ने की कहानी है। पगडंडियों पर बाहें फैलाए उड़ने की और किसी पेड़ की फुनगी पर बैठ नदी के पार ढलते सूरज को निहारने की कहानी है। ये कहानी बगीचे में चिड़िया के एक-एक तिनके जुटाने और गिलहरी के अमरूद से आम तक फुदकने के बीच मिट्टी के खिलौने बनाने की है। ये उन दिनों की कहानी है जब दिल और दिमाग़ एक ही बात सोचा करते थे, एक ही बात कहा करते थे। बचपन के सतरंगी सपनों वाली ये तितलियों के पीछे भागने की कहानी है।.

The sixth book in the Charles Bloom Murder Mystery series… In 1961, two Navajo boys must bet each other’s lives - and risk their most prized possessions - to escape the wrath of the sadistic headmaster of a Gallup Indian boarding school. The white devil and his spawn will stop at nothing - not even murder - to acquire the objects of their desire. Fifty years later, a brush with death draws Rachael Yellowhorse and Charles Bloom back to the Navajo reservation, where they unwittingly stumble on a decades-old secret of child abuse and stolen heirlooms.

Three Brannock brothers came west. Now, only one of them survives, and Clint Brannock feels the weight of responsibility as a U.S. deputy marshal. Hunting down an outlaw in the Indian territories, Clint meets up with two of his nephews one destined to live or die by the gun, the other to live or die in his shadow. And in southern New Mexico, a beautiful sister-in-law, Elizabeth, presides over 100,000 rich acres and dabbles in a dangerous game.

Agla Prishth' allahabadi chaatra jeevan ki dastaan par, apne samay ki sarvadhik charchit kriti 'Shesh Agle Prishth Par' ke lokpriya lekhak K.D. Singh ki agaami kriti hai. Allahabad mein padh rahe, aur competition ki tayyari kar rahe chaatron ke sukh-dukh, utsaah-nairaashya, hatasha, kshobh, ke bawjood, jeevan

Meet Aniket. Twenty-seven, techie, Mr. Average. His best friend is Subbu, a nerd who breathes, thinks and lives code. Aniket cannot believe his luck when he starts dating Trish - a stunning, sexy model who is totally out of his league. But Trish has a list of things she wants him to work on, beginning with his potbelly and his geekiness.

Written by a former election campaign consultant for a major political party, How to Win an Indian Election takes listeners into the forbidden world of election war-rooms and gives them a glimpse of how strategy is formulated, what works with voters on the ground and what doesn't. Based on research, interviews and the author's own experiences, this book is invaluable for its insight into the inner workings of politics, political parties and what really makes for a winning election campaign.

Ankita Sharma has the world at her feet. She is young, good-looking and smart and has tonnes of friends and boys swooning over her. College life is what every youngster dreams of, and she also manages to get into a premier management school for her MBA. Six months later she is a patient in a mental health hospital. How did Ankita get here? What were the events that led to this? Will she ever get back her life again? Life has cruelly and coldly snatched that which meant the most to her, and she must now fight to get it all back.

'ચિત્રલેખા'માં ધારાવાહિક સ્વરૂપે પ્રકાશિત આ નવલકથા પુસ્તકસ્વરૂપે સન 2000માં પ્રકાશિત થઈ. તેને ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય પરિષદ અને ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય અકાદમી બન્ને દ્વારા 'વર્ષની શ્રેષ્ઠ નવલકથા' ઘોષિત કરવામાં આવી.

રાજેશ કાવાના અવાજમાં પન્નાલાલ પટેલ ની પુસ્તક પાછલે બારણે ની ઓડિયો બુક છે

સુરતમાં રહેતાં જૈનીત નામનાં છોકરાનાં હાથમાં એવી માહિતી આવે છે જે સુરતની સુરત બદલી શકવા સક્ષમ હોય છે...જૈનીત કેવી રીતે એ માહીતી દ્વારા દુશ્મનો સુધી પહોંચે છે એ વાત અહીં જણાવવામાં આવી છે.. અંતમાં કેવી રીતે સુરતની સુરત પલટાય છે એ જાણવા સાંભળતાં રહો...જૉકર — સ્ટૉરી એક લુઝરની...

The Dharmapada is one of the most revered and influential texts in Buddhism. It contains 423 verses that summarize the core teachings of the Buddha on ethics, meditation, and wisdom. The Dharmapada is not only a guide for living a virtuous life, but also a source of inspiration and insight for anyone who seeks to understand the nature of reality and the path to liberation. In this new edition, Dr. David Tuffley presents a fresh and accessible translation of the Dharmapada in plain 21st century English. The Dharmapada is a timeless treasure that can enrich your life and transform your mind. ...

After three weeks of vacation, Ash Mistry is ready to leave the heat and dust of India behind him. Then he discovers a gleaming gold arrowhead hidden in the sands - a weapon used to defeat evil King Ravana in legend. At least, Ash is pretty sure it's only a legend… But when Lord Alexander Savage comes after Ash, the legends are suddenly way too real. Savage commands an army of monstrous shape changers called rakshasas, who want only to seize the arrowhead and restore Ravana to power.

In The Big Fifty, another name for the famous Sharps rifle, reality of frontier life becomes brutally clear to 12-year-old Coady McIlvain. He falls in with a buffalo sharpshooter, and the two must survive the unforgiving terrain and hostile enemies.

Robert Benjamin Lewis (1802 - 1858) was an African American and Native American author, inventor, and entrepreneur. In the ethnological work Light and Truth, Lewis claims that Adam and Eve were people of color, as were the Egyptians and many great figures of the ancient world, including Julius Caesar and Plato. Denouncing notions of white superiority, he asserts that all humans have a common origin, and pointed to a shared cultural history between Africans and Native Americans.

The late Binodini Thakur had been very clear that she would never agree to sell her hissa in her Bauji's big old house on Hailey Road. And her daughter, Bonu, is determined to honor her mothers wishes. But what to do about her four pushy aunts who are insisting she sell?