This is a clear and terse book regarding ethnic arts and crafts on India and Ceylon. It is infomrative and interesting, and it is a must for anyone who is engaged in Indian studie

Aruna's Story is more, much more than a mere story. It's a phenomena and author Pinki Virani deserves all credit for her investigation and her style of writing. You know about it, still you keep shut, you understand their plight still you keep shut, but you can never feel it, feel the pain and agony of someone who'd been raped. Aruna, the KEM Medical College nurse on whom the true accouts are based could even feel it... only her body was alive and her brain was dead. Virani explores and righfully dicovers how bitter truth can be and that it indeed is a very rare case where justice is done right... in this case justice itself was shamed. Aruna;s story is an eye-opener for people who wish to know about the callousness of the Indian Medical force and also serves as a very nice guide for writers who wish to go in for investigative work. Aruna's Story is REAL!

This book traces one of the origins of modern racism. Its analysis of the intellectual history of the 19th century and their innocent creation of a theory which gives the inspiration of modern racism is an excellent piece of scholarship. The profound knowldge of the author on Indology and Indo-European studies made his argument authorative. This book should be read by all history students, instead of only the students in South Asian studies.

This is an excellent resource on nephrological problems prevalent in the Asian countries. It provides an in-depth review of some specific diseases like acute renal failure in India, South Africa and Sri Lanka. The pattern of glomerulonephritis in Japan, Taiwan and other countries of the region has been reviewed in detail. I find the book very interesting and useful for rare tropical problems like snake-bite and leptospirosis and also for the problems of malnutrition and tuberculosis in relation to renal disease. The contributors are internationally renowned nephrologists who have in-depth knowledge of these specific problems. I would like to see more monographs on renal diseases relating to tropical countries.

iwould like to know about south indian ancient coins ,pictuers, period and values.

Imagine you took a journey to a place that appeared to be completely different from where you come from. What would happen when you reach there and actually experience the place? Will you be shocked? Will you fall in Love with it? How would you interact with the natives? How would they react to you? Would you look at the place with wide-eyed wonder or try and get away as soon as possible? Would you learn something from the place and then would you give something precious to the people who live there?

David Iglehart addresses these and similar questions in his delightful collection of short stories, 'An Atmosphere of Eternity', and arrives at answers that are often surprising and intriguing. The 'foreigner' in these stories is often an American who has somehow been cast into the cauldron of humanity that is India. In stories devoid of any non-Indian characters, it is the author who is the 'foreigner' regarding age-old customs and dilemmas of his Indian characters with wonder and understanding. Whether he is writing about Americans interacting with Indians or Indians dealing with Americans, Mr. Iglehart treats and develops his characters with love, care and a deep understanding of human nature. The stories give a glimpse of various facets of India and its own unique society. Often they are multilayered and embed within them, deep philosophical ideas that are universal. For example, 'An Indian Odyssey' is not just a story of an extraordinary encounter between a young American and an aged Indian vagabond, both sharing the same second-class compartment of a Bangalore bound-train, it is also an expression of what faith can do for you and how much one may be governed by ones own demands. In 'A Trip to Rampur', a lonely Indian boy of a royal family receives a knife as a gift from a Country musician he has put up for the night, and a even more valuable gift of friendship and companionship (if only for an evening), that changes his life. In 'The Best way to Play the Nagasvaram', a wife teaches her husband that true art comes from the heart. A similar theme underlies the story 'A dance among the ruins' where a hardworking American student of the Indian dance form of 'bharatnatyam' comes to recognize the value of putting ones 'heart in it'.

Delving into these stories the reader will find similar gems waiting for them. At the same time in the great story-telling traditions of India and America, Mr. Iglehart's style is flowing and deceptively simple. The stories are refreshingly devoid of 'middle class ennui' that has been a feature of several works of late. The reader who picks up 'An Atmosphere of Eternity' will be guaranteed not only a good read but also a thought provoking one.

This book has rightly been praised by the reviewers in India and the West. It is a modern classic that captures the pulse of Kashmir in the tumultuous years before and after independence together with all the heartaches and successes of a family man in the background of the political drama and tragedy of the valley. Strongly recommended, it is one of the remarkable autobiographies to come out of India in the past fifty years!

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For those who seek high adventure travel reading, Bunny Knott's "Backwards Into Delhi" is a must. From the first page to the last, her accounts of her Indian travels are memorable. Just when I was sure that I had read her quintessential Indian experience, several pages later she would top it with another. This continues throughout the book as she details her and her husband's travels in more than two dozen cities and towns throughout all the major regions of India. Their low budget travel style took them far off the usual tourist track and included rickshaw rides, bus rides, train rides, cheap hotels and local food vendors, all of which add to this highly entertaining book.

Before I read Baksheesh and Bramhan, all I knew of Campbell was that he was an author of formidable intellect and also engaging wit (if the print version of Moyers series is to be believed)with a deep understanding of Oriental faiths. Campbells' account of his encounter with the land of these faiths - India - is at once insightful of the man and India in the 1950s. Confronted by the actual India - ancient, prudish, theieving, an emerging nation seeking a semblance of pride, low on self esteem, spiritual - Campbell is all at once the fastidous Westerner at odds with a culture he has admired from afar, charmed by its exoticism and occasionally getting bang on and incisively the actual reality of India. This book is an easy read and essential for anyone who has ever admired Campbell's work. Also a must read for anyone who wants to hold up a mirror to the new Indian nation and how far and how less that nation has travelled in the 50 odd years since. Campbelll's acerbism on fellow American travellers make for marvelous diversions.

One small observation and this must stem from being an Indian - that India is a hospitable nation is clear from this book. I am sure a lot of Indians would attribute it to Campbell being white, but there is something in here of hearts and houses being thrown open to a stranger.