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Why I am a Hindu / by Tharoor, Shashi,1956-author.(CARDINAL)526948;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-289) and index.My Hinduism -- The Hindu way -- Questioning Hindu customs -- Great souls of Hinduism -- Hinduism and the politics of Hindutva -- Beyond holy cows: the uses and abuses of Hindu culture and history -- Taking back Hinduism."In Why I Am a Hindu, one of India's finest public intellectuals gives us a profound book about one of the world's oldest and greatest religions. Starting with a close examination of his own belief in Hinduism, he ranges far and wide in his study of the faith. He talks about the Great Souls of Hinduism, Adi Shankara, Patanjali, Ramanuja, Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and many others who made major contributions to the essence of Hinduism"--Amazon.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Tharoor, Shashi, 1956-; Hinduism.; Religion and politics; Authors, Indic;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 11
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Mother Mary comes to me / by Roy, Arundhati,author. (CARDINAL)341104;
"Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy's first work of memoir, is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as "my shelter and my storm." "Heart-smashed" by her mother Mary's death in September 2022 yet puzzled and "more than a little ashamed" by the intensity of her response, Roy began to write, to make sense of her feelings about the mother she ran from at age eighteen, "not because I didn't love her, but in order to be able to continue to love her." And so begins this astonishing, sometimes disturbing, and surprisingly funny memoir of the author's journey from her childhood in Kerala, India, where her single mother founded a school, to the writing of her prizewinning novels and essays, through today. With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels, The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, a tribute to thorny love and savage grace--a memoir like no other"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Roy, Arundhati; Women authors; Mothers and daughters.; Authors, Indic.; Political activists.; Mothers; Social justice;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 26
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Joseph Anton [sound recording] : a memoir by Rushdie, Salman.(CARDINAL)156461; Dastor, Sam.;
Read by Sam Dastor ; prologue read by the author.On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet and the Qur'an." So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names ; then it came to him : Conrad and Chekhov -- Joseph Anton. How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech.--Container
Subjects: Audiobooks; Rushdie, Salman.; Authors, English; Authors, Indic; Fatwas; Fugitives from justice; Protective custody;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Bookless in Baghdad : reflections on writing and writers / by Tharoor, Shashi,1956-(CARDINAL)526948;
Subjects: Biographies.; Tharoor, Shashi, 1956-; Tharoor, Shashi, 1956-; Authors, Indic; Books and reading; Literature; Books and reading.; Authorship.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Joseph Anton : a memoir / by Rushdie, Salman.(CARDINAL)156461;
On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist who told the author that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet, and the Quran." So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. Rushdie was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and various combinations of their names. Then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov: Joseph Anton. How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, and how does he learn to fight back? In this memoir, Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of the crucial battle for freedom of speech. He shares the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom.This book is important because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Rushdie, Salman; Rushdie, Salman.; Authors, English; Authors, Indic; Fatwas; Protective custody; Islam and literature; Blasphemy (Islam); Freedom of the press;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 19
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Two lives / by Seth, Vikram,1952-;
Shanti Behari Seth, brought up in India, was sent by his family in the 1930s to Berlin--though he could not speak a word of German--to study medicine and dentistry. Helga Gerda Caro, known to everyone as "Henny" was also born in 1908, in Berlin, to a Jewish family--cultured, patriotic, and intensely German. When the family decided to take Shanti as a lodger, Henny's first reaction was, "Don't take the black man!" But a friendship flowered, and when Henny fled Germany just one month before war broke out, she was met at Victoria Station by the only person in the country she knew: Shanti. Vikram Seth has woven together their story, which recounts the arrival into this childless couple's lives of their great-nephew from India--the teenage Vikram. The result is a tapestry of India, the Third Reich and the Second World War, Auschwitz and the Holocaust, Israel and Palestine, postwar Germany and 1970s Britain.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Seth, Vikram, 1952-; Seth, Vikram, 1952-; Seth, Vikram, 1952-; Authors, Indic; Authors, English; Interracial marriage; East Indians;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Midnight's children / by Rushdie, Salman.(CARDINAL)156461;
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Subjects: Authors, Indic.; Fiction.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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Indian food made easy / by Anand, Anjum,author.(DLC)nb2003021639; Courtier, Vanessaauthor.(DLC)no2007008759;
Subjects: Cooking, Indic.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Indian cuisine : authentic flavors from the world of spice for the modern cook / by Singh, Vivek,author.(CARDINAL)837973; Sreedharan, Das,author.(CARDINAL)837948; Mohideenh, G. Sultan,author.; Akbar, Mahmood,author.;
International ingredients. North India ; South India ; Pakistan -- Recipes. Vegetarian ; Fish ; Poultry ; Meat ; Rice and bread ; Prepped ingredients, sauces, and chutneys.
Subjects: Cooking, Indic.; Cooking, Pakistani.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Greek islands / by Amvrazi, Alexia,author.(CARDINAL)611063; Brewer, Stephen,author.(CARDINAL)425584; Giannousi-Varney, Natasha,author.(CARDINAL)678781; Paipeti, Hilary Whitton,author.(CARDINAL)420624; Tejada, Marissa,author.; Vrettos, Adrian,author.(CARDINAL)429652;
Presents detailed and timely information on accommodations, restaurants, and local attractions, with symbols to indicate budget options, multi-day itineraries, travel tips, bulleted maps, and guidelines for shopping excursions.
Subjects: Guidebooks.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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