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The Hungry Tide
by Amitav Ghosh
From the author of the international bestseller The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide is a novel of adventure and romance set in the exotic Sundarbans -- treacherous islands in the Bay of Bengal where isolated inhabitants live in fear of drowning tides and man-eating tigers. A headstrong young American arrives in this lush landscape to study a rare species of river dolphin. She enlists the aid of a local fisherman and... (more)
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The Shadow Lines
A Novel
by Amitav Ghosh
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families -- one English, one Bengali -- as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political... (more)
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Chowringhee
by Sankar
Introduces the Shahjahan, one of Calcutta's oldest and most venerable hotels. This title tells the stories of the people who spend their days and nights within the Shahjahan's grand facade. It presents a vision of a lost metropolis, and an homage to an old Bengal of myth and memory.
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The Golden Fortress
by Satyajit Ray
前世の記憶をもつ少年と超心理学者、インド北西部ラージャスターンの砂漠に輝く黄金の城塞。探偵フェルダーの推理と追跡が始まる。小学上級から。
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Grain of Sand (Chokher Bali)
by Rabindranath Tagore
This novel is Rabindranath Tagores classic exposition of an extramarital affair that takes place within the confines of a joint family. This is the story of the rich, flambouyant Mahendra and jis simple demure wife Asha - a young couple who are befriended by the pragmatic Behari. Their cozy domestic scenario undergoes great upheaval with the introduction of the vivacious Binodini, a young, attractive widow. The... (more)
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Pather Panchali: Song of the Road
by BIBHUTIBHUSHAN translated by CLARK, T W & MUKHERJI, TARAPADA BANERJI
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Awara Masiha
Biography of Sharat Chandra Chatterjee
by Vishnu Prabhakar
It's a biography of the popular novelist Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, written by Vishnu Prabhakar. Sharat, who wrote a lot about the problems in Indian society, and mostly the situation of women in the society, never remained in much limelight. Here in the book, the author has tried to find out and explain more about his life.
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Srikanta
by Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
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A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir
by Bebi?. Ha?lada?ra
When she was very young, Baby Halder was abandoned by her mother and left with a cruel, abusive father. She was married off at twelve to a man twice her age who beat her. At fourteen, she was a mother herself. Her early life was marked by overwhelming challenges and heartbreak until, exhausted and desperate, she fled with her three children to Delhi, to work as a maid in some of the city's wealthiest homes.... (more)
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An Atlas of Impossible Longing
by Anuradha Roy
The story is of three generations of an Indian family, brilliantly told, in which a sensitive and intelligent foundling boy orphan who is casteless and without religion and Bakul, the motherless granddaughter of the house, grow up together. The boy, Mukunda, spends his time as a servant in the house or reading the books of Mrs Barnum, an Anglo-Englishwoman whose life was saved long ago by Bakul's grandmother, by... (more)
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Maitreyi
by Mircea Eliade
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Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an... (more)
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Final Question
by Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
Like Dickens, Saratchandra had a bag of wonderful tales The Hindu The Final Question (Shesh Prashna) is one of Saratchandra Chattopadhyay s last novels and perhaps his most radically innovative. The novel caused a sensation when it was first published in 1931, drawing censure from conservative critics but enthusiastic support from general readers, especially women. The heroine, Kamal, is exceptional for her... (more)
The Saratchandra Omnibus - Volume OneSarat Chandra Chattaopadhyay
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The Saratchandra Omnibus - Volume One
by Sarat Chandra Chattaopadhyay
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Bhookh
by Amritlal Nagar
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Calcutta exile : a novel
by Bunny Suraiya
Calcutta, 1959... a time when the city's social and cultural mosaic included Indians, the British and Anglo-Indians, who belonged to neither ommunity but claimed kinship with the English. The Ryans are a typical middle- class Anglo- Indian family. The head of the family, Robert, a senior executive with a managing agency, has dreams of going 'home' to England as soon as he can. His wife, the beautiful Grace,... (more)
Devi Chaudhurani;Bankim Chandra Chatterji
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Devi Chaudhurani;
by Bankim Chandra Chatterji
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Human Ontology Narratives
by Rakesh Biswas
The present trend in computer ontology is toward the development of artificial intelligence and human ontology is an intervention to positively support it with natural human intelligence such that it is infused with the pluralism that characterizes human social structures. This book utilizes a meta-narrative that examines the life of an academically failed physician and his relatively academically successful... (more)
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THE HUNGRY TIDE
by Amitav Ghosh
The Hungry Tide is a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the earth. Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. For settlers here, life is extremely precarious. Attacks by deadly tigers are common. Unrest and eviction are constant threats. Without... (more)
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Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence
by Jaswant Singh
The partition of India, 1947, some call it vivisection as Gandhi had, has without doubt been the most wounding trauma of the twentieth century. It has seared the psyche of four plus generations of this subcontinent. Why did this partition take place at all? Who was/is responsible -- Jinnah? The Congress party? Or the British? Jaswant Singh attempts to find an answer, his answer, for there can perhaps not be a... (more)