Sister India

Author : Peggy Payne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1573229105
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sister India written by Peggy Payne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exotic and suspenseful New York Times Notable Book that tells the story of an eccentric guest-house keeper in Varanasi, India, and the passions evoked by her sacred city along the Ganges The Lonely Planet recommends the Saraswati Guest House, and meeting Madame Natraja, "a one-woman blend of East and West," as well worth a side trip. Over the course of a weekend, several guests turn up, shocked to encounter a three-hundred-some-pound, surly white woman in a sari. Then a series of Hindu-Muslim murders leads to a citywide curfew, and they unwittingly become her captives. So begins a period of days blending into nights as Natraja and her Indian cook become entangled in a web of religious violence, and their guests fall under the spell of this ancient kingdom--at once enthralled and repelled by the begging children, the public funeral pyres, the holy men bathing in the Ganges at dawn. This is a traveler's tale, a story about the strange chemistry that develops from unexpected intimacies on foreign ground. And Peggy Payne's extraordinary talent vividly conjures up the smells of the perfume market, the rhythms of holy men chanting at dawn, the claustrophobic feel of this ancient city's tiny lanes, and the magic of the setting sun over the holy Ganges. For anyone who has harbored a secret desire to go to India and be transformed, Sister India, called "mesmerizing" by Gail Harris and "a modern version of E. M. Forster's classic A Passage to India" by Dan Wakefield, takes you on this journey without ever leaving home.

Author : Peggy Payne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101659963
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sister India written by Peggy Payne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exotic and suspenseful New York Times Notable Book that tells the story of an eccentric guest-house keeper in Varanasi, India, and the passions evoked by her sacred city along the Ganges The Lonely Planet recommends the Saraswati Guest House, and meeting Madame Natraja, "a one-woman blend of East and West," as well worth a side trip. Over the course of a weekend, several guests turn up, shocked to encounter a three-hundred-some-pound, surly white woman in a sari. Then a series of Hindu-Muslim murders leads to a citywide curfew, and they unwittingly become her captives. So begins a period of days blending into nights as Natraja and her Indian cook become entangled in a web of religious violence, and their guests fall under the spell of this ancient kingdom--at once enthralled and repelled by the begging children, the public funeral pyres, the holy men bathing in the Ganges at dawn. This is a traveler's tale, a story about the strange chemistry that develops from unexpected intimacies on foreign ground. And Peggy Payne's extraordinary talent vividly conjures up the smells of the perfume market, the rhythms of holy men chanting at dawn, the claustrophobic feel of this ancient city's tiny lanes, and the magic of the setting sun over the holy Ganges. For anyone who has harbored a secret desire to go to India and be transformed, Sister India, called "mesmerizing" by Gail Harris and "a modern version of E. M. Forster's classic A Passage to India" by Dan Wakefield, takes you on this journey without ever leaving home.

Author : Sukanya Ray
Publisher : Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)
ISBN 13 : 817505915X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sister Nivedita : The Fighter Extraordinary for India written by Sukanya Ray and published by Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math). This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sister Nivedita arrived in India in January 1898, in response to the call of her Guru, Swami Vivekananda. After initiating her, Swamiji gave her the name Nivedita, “the dedicated”. Later he brought out the significance of that name in the following lines he penned for her as his blessings: The mother’s heart, the hero’s will, The sweetness of the southern breeze, The sacred charm and strength that dwell On Aryan altars, flaming, free; All these be yours and many more No ancient soul could dream before— Be thou to India’s future son The mistress, servant, friend in one! Since then, Nivedita embraced her adopted country as her very own. She selflessly gave her all to her beloved country and waged a relentless fight for India and the causes dear to India. Of the numerous instances of Nivedita’s Indian struggles in the fields of thought and activity such as religion, education, art, and politics, a few that show 'The Extraordinary Fighter' that Nivedita was are analysed by the authors in this book published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math.

Author : Aglaja Stirn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Sisters of India written by Aglaja Stirn and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
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Download or read book India's Women written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Madelaine Healey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317560094
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Sisters written by Madelaine Healey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health and medicine cannot be understood without considering the role of nurses, both as professionals and as working women. In India, unlike other countries, nurses have suffered an exceptional degree of neglect at the hands of state, a situation that has been detrimental to the quality of both rural and urban health care. Charting the history of the development of nursing in India over 100 years, Indian Sisters examines the reasons why nurses have so consistently been sidelined and excluded from health care governance and policymaking. The book challenges the routine suggestion that nursing’s poor status is mainly attributable to socio-cultural factors, such as caste, limitations on female mobility and social taboos. It argues instead that many of its problems are due to an under-achieved relationship between a patriarchal state on the one hand, and weak professional nursing organisations shaped by their colonial roots on the other. It also explores how the recent phenomenon of large-scale emigration of nurses to the West (leading to better pay, working conditions and career prospects) has transformed the profession, lifting its status dramatically. At the same time, it raises questions about the implications of emigration for the fate of health care system in India. An important contribution to the growing academic genre of nursing history, the book is essential reading for scholars and students of health care, the history of medicine, gender and women’s studies, sociology, and migration studies. It will also be useful to policymakers and health professionals.

Author : Sister Nivedita
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Web of Indian Life written by Sister Nivedita and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Annie Besant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India, a Nation written by Annie Besant and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : T. V. Sanjiva Row
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1076 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The All India Digest, Section Ii (civil), 1811-1911 written by T. V. Sanjiva Row and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G.A. Natesan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1036 pages
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Download or read book The Indian Review written by G.A. Natesan and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: