The Heart Of India

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Stories Of Depth And Eloquence That Take Us To The Very Heart Of The Indian Experience For More Than Twenty Years Mark Tully Was The Bbc Chief Of Bureau In Delhi And His Name And His Voice Became Synonymous With The Country He Had Made His Home. For Years He Sent Back Dispatches Interpreting The Subcontinent To The Outside World, But The 'Truth' Of India Is Remarkably Resistant To Reportage. Imbued With His Love For India And Informed By His Vast Experience, Mark Tully Has Woven Together A Series Of Extraordinary Stories. All The Stories Are Set In Uttar Pradesh And Tell Of Very Different Lives. Of A Barren Wife Who Visits A Holy Man And Subsequently Conceives-But Is It A Miracle Or Something More Worldly? Of A Son'S Carefully Laid Plot To Take Revenge Against His Father'S Murderer, With A Surprising Twist When His Case Comes To Court. Of A Daughter, Persuaded By Her Friends To Spurn An Arranged Marriage, Whose Romance Ends In Blackmail. Of A Man'S Inability To Overcome The Conventions Of Caste And Go Into Business, Which Leads To His Wife Breaking Purdah And Taking Control Of The Family. In These And In Other Stories, Mark Tully Delicately Probes The Nuances Of Life In India.

Madhya Pradesh is a state of love, war, tragedy and beauty that leaves people speechless. Witness the fascinating state through the eyes of a young girl. All the significant and insignificant places of this state have been penned to blend with the emotions that cascaded over the observer when seeing them. The art, architectural beauty and finesse of Madhya Pradesh leave people in awe. Besides all, Madhya Pradesh: the Heart of India tells all the people out there to pack their bags and journey to discover Madhya Pradesh.

Wild—untamed, hostile, remote. Yet, wild can be gentle, welcoming, and inspiring, too. This is the wild that preoccupies biologist Shankar Raman as he writes about trees and bamboos, hornbills and elephants, leopards and myriad other species. Species found not just out there in far wildernesses—from the Thar desert to the Kalakad rainforests, from Narcondam Island to Namdapha—but amid us, in gardens and cities, in farms, along roadsides. And he writes about the forces that gouge land and disfigure landscapes, rip trees and shred forests, pollute rivers and contaminate the air, slaughter animals along roads and rail tracks—impelling a motivation to care, and to conserve nature. Through this collection of essays, Shankar Raman attempts to blur, if not dispel, the sharp separation between humans and nature, to lead you to discover that the wild heart of India beats in your chest, too.

An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism.

a Normal Indian is a compilation of short stories of young men and women in India who have faced adversity and have sometimes come out strong and sometimes lost. Each story is unique and has been drawn from the lives of Indians. Some endings are full of hope and positivity, yet others are a little sad and despondent. These stories are meant to address social issues in India and also make you think about them. The young India of today is full of pride, beauty, and love, yet it is marred by social evils like female infanticide, dowry, and youth suicide. These stories revolve around these very realities. You may see a little bit of you in them, or someone close to you may be reflected in them. The aim is to highlight what went wrong and have a conversation among ourselves to make things right! I believe that true change in the social fabric of my India shall only come with these small conversations. These very conversations shall lead to a change of heart and mind#ChangeByTalking. Join me in my journey as a normal Indian, a normal Indian who is opinionated and has views on everything he/she sees and faces, a normal Indian who wants change but sometimes is shackled by that very society he/she lives in! Join me! Regards, Malavika Sharma A Normal Indian