Indian Literature

Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with a spiritual journey of self-discovery during the time of the Gautam Buddha. Throughtout the story, Hesse conveys a profound message for everyone who seeks meaning in their lives. The setting is India, but the concerns of Siddhartha are about the connection between mind, body, and spirit as universal. He goes through many changes during the course of the book, and each new life experience brings a new awakening, and brings him closer to the truth.

This young adult historical novel, tells the fictional account of young Mary Shirley, who just wants a normal life with friends her age and someday, suitors. She is brave, tenacious, and prone to be rash. The settlers along Indian Creek in Western Virginia are siding against King George, except Papa. He has declared loyalty and intends to remove the family to Kentucky territory. After discovering surveys with strange riddles, Mary witnesses her papa exchange documents between a patriot neighbor and a known loyalist. She believes Papa is a cowardly traitor, endangering the family.

ചൂതാട്ടക്കാരന്‍ എന്ന നോവലിന്റെ രചനയില്‍ ഏര്‍പ്പെട്ടിരുന്ന ദസ്തയേവ്‌സ്‌കിയുടെ അരികില്‍ അന്ന എന്ന യുവതിയെത്തുന്നതും തന്നെക്കാള്‍ വളരെ ചെറുപ്പമായ അന്നയോടു ദസ്തയേവ്‌സ്‌കിക്കു തീവ്രപ്രണയം തോന്നുന്നതും ഒടുവില്‍ ഇരുവരും ജീവിത പങ്കാളികളാകുന്നതും അതിനിടയിലുള്ള അന്തര്‍മുഖനായ ദസ്തയേവ്‌സ്‌കിയുടെ ആത്മസംഘര്‍ഷങ്ങളും ആശങ്കകളുമാണ് ഈ നോവലിന്റെ ഇതിവൃത്തം. അഴിഞ്ഞാട്ടക്കാരനും അരാജകവാദിയുമായി പല എഴുത്തുകാരും വിശേഷിപ്പിച്ചിട്ടുള്ള ദസ്തയേവ്‌സ്‌കിയെ ഹൃദയത്തിനുമേല്‍ ദൈവത്തിന്റെ കൈയൊപ്പുള്ള ആള്‍ ആയിട്ടാണ് പെരുമ്പടവം ഈ നോവലിലൂടെ അവതരിപ്പിക്കുന്നത്.

Nikhil is a passive landowner. His houseguest is Sandip, a headstrong anti-imperialist. Between them is Nikhil’s wife, Bimala, dutiful to her conventional husband yet drawn to the fiery independence and bold flirtations of the charismatic Sandip. As Bimala questions her role as a woman and the possibilities for her life outside marriage, the three undergo an emotional struggle that will change their lives forever—just as their country undergoes a radical upheaval of its own.

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।.

1928. In British-ruled India, headstrong Sita longs to choose her own path, but her only destiny is a good marriage. After a chance meeting with a Crown Prince leads to a match, her family’s status seems secured and she moves into the palace, where peacocks fill the gardens and tapestries adorn the walls. But royal life is far from simple, and her failure to provide an heir makes her position fragile. Soon Sita is on the brink of losing everything, and the only way to save herself could mean betraying her oldest friend …

There was a king who was a fair and wise ruler who had three daughters. He was fair in most things, but he could not stand ever to admit that he might be wrong. He felt he should make all the big decisions for his daughters. He called them together and asked if each of them agreed that he would make all the important decisions for them since he was so wise and their father. The two oldest daughters agreed, and the king embraced them and told them he would always take care of them.

Joseph Jacobs was an Australian folklorist who documented fairy tales from around the world. This charming collection of traditional Indian stories includes some of the oldest stories in the world and features wicked queens, the snake prince, an ivory city, cranes and tigers, terrifying demons, kings and palaces, fairy princesses, and a whole host of talking animals - including a tortoise!

संग्रह की हर कहानी हिंदी साहित्य में वर्तमान लेखन की बँधी हुई परिपाटी तोड़कर अपना रास्ता बनाना चाहती है और यह आपके साथ से ही संभव है।.

Hyderabad, India. 1798. Beatrice Sinclair, a grieving young widow facing financial destitution, has travelled from Hampshire to Hyderabad to visit her brother, an employee of the British East India Company. There, she is astonished to discover that he has married a beautiful Indian girl and lives with his wife's extended family in a dilapidated palace, the Jahanara Mahal - famed for the theft of a fabled diamond many years ago. As an outsider in an unfamiliar world, Bee faces many challenges - not least of all building a new and meaningful life after the heartbreak she has endured.

"This is the story of Mary Prince", who was sold into slavery at the age of 12 for £38 sterling. It is the first account of the life of a black woman ever to be published in the United Kingdom, and it was published at a time when slavery was still legal in the British Colonies. "The history of Mary Prince" is firsthand testimony of the brutalities of enslavement. Its tone is direct and authentic, which makes this vivid story go straight to the heart.

Star-Touched Stories by Roshani Chokshi combines three lush and adventurous stories in the Star-Touched World. Death and Night - He was Lord of Death, cursed never to love. She was Night incarnate, destined to stay alone. After a meeting, they wonder if, perhaps, they could be meant for more. Poison and Gold - Now that her wish for a choice has come true, Aasha struggles to control her powers. Rose and Sword - There is a tale whispered in the dark of the Empire of Bharat-Jain. A tale of a bride who loses her bridegroom on the eve of her wedding.

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

The novel begins in the decade of 1990s. The world had changed overnight. The wall of Berlin had vanished, and the great and mighty Soviet Union was vanishing. But in India, the report of the Mandal Commission was creating new frontiers. Meanwhile Advani started his rathyatra.

The story involves a huge diamond, the moonstone, originally stolen from an Indian shrine. The gem is given to an English girl on her 18th birthday but disappears that same night. What follows is a spellbinding mystery that to this day has the power to draw the listener into its world of danger, suspense, and surprise.

In 11 sharp, surprising stories, Neel Patel gives voice to our deeply held stereotypes and then slowly undermines them. His characters, almost all of who are first-generation Indian Americans, subvert our expectations that they will sit quietly by. We meet two brothers caught in an elaborate web of envy and loathing; a young gay man who becomes involved with an older man whose secret he could never guess; three women who throw off the pleasant agreeability society asks of them; and, in the final pair of linked stories, a young couple struggling against the force of community gossip.

This book is a critical assessment of five years of the brand of economics Prime Minister Narendra Modi has championed, often referred to as "Modinomics". Brought into power with the biggest political mandate in almost three decades, did the NDA government succeed in gainfully transforming India's economic trajectory or did it squander a once-in-a-generation opportunity? The book conjectures it is the latter, and analyses why the Modi government's stewardship of the economy is a "great disappointment".

ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ್ ಅವರ ಈ ಹೊಸ ನಾಟಕವು ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಸಂಸ್ಥಾಪನೆಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಉಲ್ಲೇಖವನ್ನು ಹೊಂದಿದೆ, ಇದರಲ್ಲಿ 11 ನೇ ಶತಮಾನದ ರಾಜನನ್ನು ಒಬ್ಬ ವೃದ್ಧೆ ಬೇಯಿಸಿದ ಹುರುಳಿಕಾಳನ್ನು ಉಳಿಸಿದಳು. ಕೃತಜ್ಞರಾಗಿರುವ ರಾಜನು ಆ ಸ್ಥಳಕ್ಕೆ 'ಬೆಂದಕಾಳೂರು' ಎಂದು ಹೆಸರಿಸಲು ಬಯಸಿದನು, ಬೇಯಿಸಿದ ಬೀನ್ಸ್ ಸ್ಥಳ, ಇದು ಆತಿಥ್ಯವನ್ನು ಸಂಕೇತಿಸುತ್ತದೆ ಮತ್ತು ದಣಿದ ಪ್ರಯಾಣಿಕರನ್ನು ಸ್ವಾಗತಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಆದಾಗ್ಯೂ, ಕಾಲಾನಂತರದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಸ್ಥಳವು ಭಾರತದ 'ಸಿಲಿಕಾನ್ ವ್ಯಾಲಿ' ಆಗಿರುವ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಾಗಿ ಹೊರಹೊಮ್ಮಿದೆ. ನಾಟಕವು ಈ ನಿರಾಕಾರ ನಗರ ಮತ್ತು ಕಳೆದ ಎರಡು ದಶಕಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಅದರ ಅಪಾರ ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆಯನ್ನು ಅದರ ವಿಷಯವನ್ನಾಗಿಸಿದೆ.

Payal Mehta has had a crush on popular, athletic, all-around perfect Jonathan Slate ever since he smiled at her in freshman-year Spanish class. At a party during spring break of her junior year, Payal finally works up the courage to ask Jon to hang out. However, her romantic plans are derailed when he vomits on her Keds. Twice. But when Jon offers to take her out to lunch as an apology, Payal is convinced this is the start of their love story.

This Pueblo Indian myth explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.