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Ghost in the Tamarind

Author: Subramanian Shankar

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2017-09-30

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0824867254

Who can you love? What do you owe to love and what to the world at large? Such are the questions that drive the story of Ramu, a Brahmin man, and Ponni, a woman of the Dalit “untouchable” caste. Set against the backdrop of twentieth-century South India, the novel takes readers from the 1890s village where Ramu’s grandmother grew up to the Emergency years of 1970s Madras. Against this sweeping canvas unfolds the drama of Ramu and Ponni’s forbidden love, inescapably intertwined with the great struggle against caste oppression. Caught up in the entanglements of love and politics, the couple risk everything to fight for a better society. Will they succeed? Steeped in history, this memorable inter-caste love story shows ordinary people moved to uncommon courage in their desire to make a difference in a ruthless world.

TAMARIND EMPIRE

Author: Pulak Kumar Chakraborti

Publisher: Booksclinic Publishing

Published: 2021-04-03

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 9390871484

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"Tamarind Empire is Sequel to Tamarind District ruled by Prime Minister Bobby Lewis. Development work of a vast wet land rendered many ghosts home less. They rushed to Tamarind District for shelter which could not be given due to paucity of space. Prime Minister tried with other ghost owners for sharing their space but they didn’t agree to co operate. Now the prime minister has no other way out but to declare a war and conquer vast areas. The story detailed how an exorcist and his assistants made a Brilliant plan and fought a war & annexed big ghost areas. This enabled Tamarind District to be an empire & the Bobby Lewis became emperor and gave good governance."

Tamarind and the Star of Ishta

Author: Jasbinder Bilan

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2022-06-28

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1338769456

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A powerful story of loss and identity, home and family, Tamarind and the Star of Ishta weaves a family mystery together with adventure and wonder from Costa Award-winning author, Jasbinder Bilan. Tamarind has never met her Indian mother, Chinty, who died shortly after she was born. But when her father remarries, Tamarind is sent to India to stay with the family she has never met, in their atmospheric ancestral home—a huge mansion high in the Himalaya mountains. Her arrival in India brings culture shock, secrets, and unanswered questions: What is the tension between her father and the family, and why will no one talk about her mother? Instead of answers, she is greeted with ominous silence. Taking refuge in the lush gardens one moon-lit night, she follows a friendly monkey to find an abandoned hut and a glowing star ring, and meets Ishta, a mysterious mountain girl. Tamarind unravels the mysteries of the house alongside the search for her own identity.

King Leopold's Ghost

Author: Adam Hochschild

Publisher: Picador

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 1760785202

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With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.

Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer

Author: Matthew Gavin Frank

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2014-07-07

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0871402890

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Memory, mythology, and obsession collide in this “slyly charming” (New York Times Book Review) account of the giant squid. In 1874, Moses Harvey—eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist—was the first person to photograph the near-mythic giant squid, draping it over his shower curtain rod to display its magnitude. In Preparing the Ghost, what begins as Harvey’s story becomes spectacularly “slippery and many-armed” (NewYorker.com) as Matthew Gavin Frank winds his narrative tentacles around history, creative nonfiction, science, memoir, and meditations about the interrelated nature of them all. In his full-hearted, lyrical style, Frank weaves in playful forays about his trip to Harvey’s Newfoundland home, his own childhood and family history, and a catalog of peculiar facts that recall Melville ’s story of obsession with another deep-sea dwelling leviathan. “Totally original and haunting” (Flavorwire), Preparing the Ghost is a delightfully unpredictable inquiry into the big, beautiful human impulse to obsess.

Tamarind Mem

Author: Anita Rau Badami

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2010-01-29

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0307375307

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A beautiful and brilliant portrait of two generations of women. Set in India’s railway colonies, this is the story of Kamini and her mother Saroja, nicknamed Tamarind Mem due to her sour tongue. While in Canada beginning her graduate studies, Kamini receives a postcard from her mother saying she has sold their home and is travelling through India. Both are forced into the past to confront their dreams and losses and to explore the love that binds mothers and daughters everywhere.

Famous Trees Of India

Author: London Swaminathan

Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media

Published: 2022-08-10

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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‘FAMOUS TREES OF INDIA’ is my first book in English. It is a collection of articles written by me in the past 11 years. I have covered the trees as described in the Vedas, Upanishads, classical Sanskrit and Tamil literature, folk tales and temple Sthala Puranas. I have got more articles in my blog which would be published as second part. I have lifted some parts from some books for adding my comments, particularly to compare them with the available materials in Tamil and Sanskrit. I thank those original contributors. Hindus considered plants as Gods or the divine representatives on earth. The emphasis is on optimum use of them without destroying them completely. It is also insisted that it is our duty to raise and preserve them for posterity.

GIFT OF A NOBLE SPIRIT

Author: Pulak Kumar Chakraborti

Publisher: Booksclinic Publishing

Published: 2020-10-03

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 9390192803

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"As regards clarification for the book , it is the story of a land lord turned into ghost after his death. Habits good or bad do not leave the person and it is believed it accompanies the soul in other world, which is why the land lord possesses the qualities of a nobleman and aristocratic soul. Landlord engaged Satya Mukherjee, the small time writer , to get hold of the hidden treasure and hand over to his grand son. The spirit of landlord was a kind soul with arrogance of Landlords and aristocratic attitude decided that Satya to get one fourth of the treasure. He is no longer in this world , living somewhere as ghost and that’s why it is Ghost Story and on the top of everything a Noble Spirit."

Midnight Hour

Author: Abby L. Vandiver

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1643857533

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A 2022 ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE for Best Anthology From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest voices of color. Edited by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Abby L. Vandiver, this thrilling anthology will keep you on the edge of your seat. Welcome to Midnight Hour... Jennifer Chow: "Midnight Escapade" After years of silence, two women decide to meet up in a unique escape room but get trapped in a deadly game from which there may be no escape. Tracy Clark: "Lucky Thirteen" A gun. A last meal. And only one survivor. Sometimes the stars align--but only for the lucky one--as predator and prey come face-to-face one fateful New Year's Eve. H. C. Chan: "Murderers' Feast" Techpreneur John Manley left a trail of duped investors and damaged women in his wake. What happens when two hundred of his closest enemies gather for a five-day gourmet retreat? Christopher Chambers: "In the Matter of Mabel and Bobby Jefferson" It's almost midnight, it's snowing, and a bored call center worker catches a customer inquiry that smells of murder. Is he a knight rescuing the intended victim or someone else's pawn? Plus, stories by Richie Narvaez, Frankie Bailey, E. A. Aymar, Faye Snowden, Tina Kashian, and many more.

Yellow Kite and Other Stories

Author: Sulabha Devpurkar

Publisher: Partridge Publishing

Published: 2016-01-12

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1482868997

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A collection of fascinating stories for children, a weird combination of fairy tales, folk tales and just some images from society of spirited children.