An Indian Love Affair

Author : Gautam Sen
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9390914272
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Automobile written by Gautam Sen and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of people, the automobile has been, andyet remains an object of pleasure, pride, status, sports, excitement, emotion and passion. The automobile has been the most important invention of the twentieth century. Not only has it given the hoi polloi freedom, mobility and liberty, it has changed our lifestyle, the way we live and interact, the way we work, the kind of jobs that we do, and has led to an evolution of our cultures. It has changed the cities, the countryside, the way they are conceived, designed and constructed, the way our houses and apartment blocks are configured, as well as the technology involved therein. Post-independence, the automobile played a very important role in India's industrial growth, as well as a hero in many Bollywood movies. The automobile is yet transforming India, as it connects the remotest corners of our vast nation, providing mobility, freedom and jobs to millions. It has acted as an emancipator for women in many parts of the nation, allowing them to go to school and university, commute to work and to the marketplace. With the help of this book, Gautam Sen has traced the history of the automobile in India and the way it has shaped the economy and society here. He has also talked about the evolution of races and bikes in Asia. The riveting story told in the most fascinating anecdotal tone, this book is filled with well-researched facts and details for the lovers of automobiles. The pictures in the book, too, are gorgeous and rare.

Author : Sonali Dev
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 1617730149
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bollywood Affair written by Sonali Dev and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An impressive debut . . . Vibrant and exuberantly romantic, Affair is chock full of details that reflect India’s social and cultural flux.”—NPR.org Mili Rathod hasn’t seen her husband in twenty years—not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has allowed Mili a freedom rarely given to girls in her village. Her grandmother has even allowed her to leave India and study in America for eight months, all to make her the perfect modern wife. Which is exactly what Mili longs to be—if her husband would just come and claim her. Bollywood’s favorite director, Samir Rathod, has come to Michigan to secure a divorce for his older brother. Persuading a naïve village girl to sign the papers should be easy for someone with Samir’s tabloid-famous charm. But Mili is neither a fool nor a gold-digger. Open-hearted yet complex, she’s trying to reconcile her independence with cherished traditions. And before he can stop himself, Samir is immersed in Mili’s life—cooking her dal and rotis, escorting her to her roommate’s elaborate Indian wedding, and wondering where his loyalties and happiness lie. Heartfelt, witty, and thoroughly engaging, Sonali Dev’s debut is both a vivid exploration of modern India and a deeply honest story of love, in all its diversity. “Deeply-felt emotions that will keep readers turning the pages.”—Susan Elizabeth Phillips, New York Times-bestselling author “Debut author Sonali Dev writes a beautiful love story in A Bollywood Affair . . . One of the best romances I’ve read this year.”—USA Today

Author : Simon Gandolfi
Publisher : Arcadia Books
ISBN 13 : 1910050954
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Indian Love Affair written by Simon Gandolfi and published by Arcadia Books. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1960s, travel-writer Simon Gandolfi drove a VW from England to Goa where he rented a bungalow on the beach at Calangute. And it was on Calangute beach that Gandolfi met and loved Vanessa and explored with her much of the subcontinent. The 2008 terrorist attack on the Taj Hotel in Mumbai prompted Gandolfi to re-explore the subcontinent on a small motorcycle. Collecting a Honda 125 from the factory outside Delhi, he rode for six months and 12,000 kilometres. He rediscovers the rented bungalow become a beach bar, his and Vanessa's bedroom a bottle store - and he learns of Vanessa's death soon after their parting. Memories of his travels with Vanessa became his companions as he continued his ride and are the connecting link in this chronicle of two journeys in which Gandolfi explores both the changes in India and in himself.

Author : Archie Baron
Publisher : Boxtree
ISBN 13 : 9780752261607
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Indian Affair written by Archie Baron and published by Boxtree. This book was released on 2001 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh perspective on Britain`s relationship with India, this work suggest that far from being an imperialist objective, it seems the footholds on which india was established as a colony happened by accident rather than by design. This book examines India both before the Raj and throughout. It attempts to show that the British were actually more influenced by India and their traditions than the other way around.

Author : Sanjay Suri
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9353570816
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gandhian Affair written by Sanjay Suri and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindi cinema, ever since Independence, has revolved almost entirely around issues of sex and money. This may seem odd given the conservative taste of the times. But that we do not 'see' sex does not hide just how much sex there is in the cinema. As for money, a nagging theme is the impact of money - or the lack of it - on sex. Sanjay Suri argues that Hindi cinema was an unlikely offspring of the Father of the Nation - the product of Gandhi's celibacy and austerity. His heroic retreat from wealth and sexuality was written into the cinema and then elaborately filmed shot by shot. Suri draws on numerous examples - from Mother India to Do Bigha Zameen; Shree 420 to Pyaasa; Sahib, Bibi aur Ghulam to Guide; and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge to Lage Raho Munnabhai - to show how cinema was made within well-defined moral fences that were built with dos and don'ts about sex and money. A Gandhian Affair is a history of India through the preoccupations of its cinema.

Author : Sudhir Kakar
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 8174369457
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Love Stories written by Sudhir Kakar and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the many enduring fascinations of the love story, a vehicle for the vicarious satisfaction of our hidden desires and obscure longings, is the pleasure we take in its subversion of the conventions that govern the relationship between the sexes. At least, this is true of tales about young lovers who are believed to express the purest of romantic sentiments. This book is a compilation of classic Indian Love Stories.

Author : Ira Trivedi
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184751605
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Indian Love Story written by Ira Trivedi and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A darkly fascinating snapshot of the glittering and brittle lives of the rich and famous of Delhi, its glamourous page 3 swish-set The Great Indian Love Story is set in a world where appearances mean everything and nothing is as it seems. There’s no time for love in a world that revolves around the latest Ferraris, the hottest nightclubs, diamonds, single malts, cocaine and ecstasy. In this whirl of wild parties, sex and drugs we meet Serena Sharma who lives her life one debauched night at a time, always falling for the wrong men. Her life is a roller-coaster ride: her father’s death followed by her mother’s remarriage, a broken heart and a lost love. Adding to this is her torrid affair with Amar Khanna—a trophy husband, coke addict and serial adulterer. Riya, jaded by her unsuccessful attempt to find a job in America, returns to Delhi to find the city of her childhood changed beyond recognition. Striking an unlikely friendship with Serena, Riya finds her complacent torpor shattered. The Great Indian Love Story is also the story of Parmeet, Serena’s mother, who looks for passion outside her marriage with disastrous consequences, and S.P. Sharma, Parmeet’s husband, who is driven to violence by her infidelity. Ira Trivedi weaves together sex, revenge, glitz, friendship and a chilling murder to create a potent cocktail in this gripping novel on the perfidious nature of love and power.

Author : G. Anatol
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230119247
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bringing Light to Twilight written by G. Anatol and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection use the interpretative lens to interrogate the meanings of Meyer's books, making a compelling case for the cultural relevance of Twilight and providing insights on how we can "read" popular culture to our best advantage.

Author : Kathleen Schmitt Kline
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870205463
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People of the Sturgeon written by Kathleen Schmitt Kline and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People of the Sturgeon tells the poignant story of an ancient fish. Wanton harvest and habitat loss took a heavy toll on these prehistoric creatures until they teetered on the brink of extinction. But, in Wisconsin, lake sturgeon have flourished because of the dedicated work of Department of Natural Resources staff, university researchers and a determined group of spearers known as Sturgeon For Tomorrow. Thanks to these efforts, spearers can still flock by the thousands to frozen Lake Winnebago each winter to take part in a ritual rooted in the traditions of the Menominee and other Wisconsin Indians. A century of sturgeon management on Lake Winnebago has produced the world's largest and healthiest lake sturgeon population. Through a fascinating collection of images, stories and interviews, People of the Sturgeon chronicles the history of this remarkable fish and the cultural traditions it has spawned. The authors introduce a colorful cast of characters with a good fish tale to tell. Color photos by the late Bob Rashid and images from the Wisconsin Historical Society evoke both the magical and the mortal. Weaving together myriad voices and examining the sturgeon's profound cultural impact, the authors reveal how a diverse group of people are now joined together as "people of the sturgeon."

Author : Radha Chadha
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey International
ISBN 13 : 1904838294
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cult of the Luxury Brand written by Radha Chadha and published by Nicholas Brealey International. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to explore how and why an amazing "luxeplosion" is rocking Asia.