The Divine Mother

The Divine Mother
Author: Premalatā Śrīvāstava
Publisher:
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1995
Genre: Hindus
ISBN:
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The Greatest Achievement Of My Life Was The Day I Met Sri Sri Ma Anandamayee. My Devotion And Feelings For Her Cannot Be Expressed In Worlds. It Is Only Through Her Grace And Blessings. That I Got The Strength And Determination To Write Some Of The Divine Lila?S Of Sri Ma. Being A Student Of Medicine I Am Not Able To Express My Thoughts Very Well. Sri Ma?S Lila Mentioned In This Book Are Either Have Been Heard Directly From The Eyewitnesses Or Been Taken From The Very Reliable Sources. The Great Saints And Seers Who Were Part Of Her Magnificent Lila Are Too Many. I Have Tried To Write About A Few Of Them In Short. It Was A Sight To See Ma Meeting The Great Saints And Seers With Full Respect, Humility, Love And Regards. The Words And Sayings Of Sri Ma Presented In This Book Are Mostly From The Question And Answer Sessions During Matri-Satsang Or In Reply To The Letters Of The Devotee. Infact, Her Whole Life Was A Teaching To Be Pursued By The Generations To Come. With All Humbleness I Present This Biography On Sri Ma To The Readers With The Hope They Will Enjoy Reading On Sri Ma And Forgive Me For The Lapses.

Celebrate Diwali

Celebrate Diwali
Author: Carol Plum-Ucci
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2007-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780766027787
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Describes the history of Divali, its symbols, and how it is celebrated today.

Dollar Bahu

Dollar Bahu
Author: Sudha Murty
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2007-12-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9351183386
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A story of how money corrupts the way people look at one another and how it can almost tear a family apart Vinuta marries Girish, a bank clerk, and starts living with his family in Bangalore. She adjusts to her new family well, looking after her husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law Gouramma, not taking to heart her mother-in-law's constant picking. But when Girish's elder brother Chandru, who is in the US, decides to get married, Vinuta has to listen to the constant comparisons made between her and Chandru's wife, the 'Dollar Bahu', whose husband earns the valuable dollars that has brought the family its recent affluence. Vinuta slowly loses her peace of mind and health. Then Gouramma decides to visit her US-based son and daughter-in-law. Once there, she sees how liberating life can be, away from the strict norms that govern Indian middle-class life. But she also begins to understand that mere dollars cannot buy the love and respect that she gets as her due back in India. Does Gouramma forge a new relationship with Vinuta and can Vinuta forgive and forget the past?

Beyond the Myth

Beyond the Myth
Author: Jayati Bhattacharya
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 981434527X
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This book is a macro-study of Indian business communities in Singapore through different phases of their growth since colonial times. It goes beyond the conventional labour-history approach to study Indian immigrants to Southeast Asia, both in terms of themselves and their connections with the peoples' movements. It looks at how Indian business communities negotiated with others in the environments in which they found themselves and adapted to them in novel ways. It especially brings into focus the patterns and integration of the Indian networks in the large-scale transnational flows of capital, one of the least-studied aspects of the diaspora history in this part of the world.

The Slave Master of Trinidad

The Slave Master of Trinidad
Author: Selwyn R. Cudjoe
Publisher: UMass + ORM
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2019-08-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1613766173
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William Hardin Burnley (1780–1850) was the largest slave owner in Trinidad during the nineteenth century. Born in the United States to English parents, he settled on the island in 1802 and became one of its most influential citizens and a prominent agent of the British Empire. A central figure among elite and moneyed transnational slave owners, Burnley moved easily through the Atlantic world of the Caribbean, the United States, Great Britain, and Europe, and counted among his friends Alexis de Tocqueville, British politician Joseph Hume, and prime minister William Gladstone. In this first full-length biography of Burnley, Selwyn R. Cudjoe chronicles the life of Trinidad's "founding father" and sketches the social and cultural milieu in which he lived. Reexamining the decades of transition from slavery to freedom through the lens of Burnley's life, The Slave Master of Trinidad demonstrates that the legacies of slavery persisted in the new post-emancipation society.

The Story of Our Food

The Story of Our Food
Author: K.T. Achaya
Publisher: Universities Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2003-11
Genre: Diet
ISBN: 9788173712937
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This Book Outlines The Variety Of Cuisines, Food Materials And Dishes That Collectively Form Indian Food . It Draws Upon A Range Of Sources Literature, Archeology, Epigraphic Records, Anthropology, Philology, Botanical And Genetical Studies To Trace The History Of Indian Food: Classification, Customs, Rituals And Beliefs, Including The Etymology Of Food Terms. It Shows How Our Wonderful Indian Cuisine, With All Its Regional Variants, Is The Outcome Of Food Plants Brought Into India From Numerous Directions Over Thousands Of Years. And Of A Social Ethic In Which Cleanliness Was Indeed Next To Godliness.