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Auroville
For those who are satisfied with the world as it is, Auroville obviously has no reason to exist. - The Mother In March 1914, two people met in Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo, the Indian visionary and a leader of India's independence movement who had fled arrest by the British and sought refuge there, and Mirra Alfassa, who was the wife of a French politician, and who later came to be known as the Mother. This serendipitous meeting eventually led to the birth of Auroville, which was heralded as the City for the Future. For thousands of years, people have tried to develop better ways of living but, ironically, these have led to exploitation, divisions and turmoil. Auroville is an attempt to forge a...
HIBISCUS
As the pandemic shutdown looms over us, we are reminded of those things we took for granted: for instance, hibiscus flowers, the sea, the moon, or an elderly couple at home who are still in love. Hibiscus: poems that heal and empower seeks to convey the resonating touch of the flower itself. According to Ayurveda, the flower has many medicinal uses that include but are not limited to lowering blood pressure and preventing stroke. The anthology derives its healing power from reaching across continents. It was conceived in India by acclaimed poet, editor, and translator Kiriti Sengupta. Hibiscus houses 104 poets—luminaries like Keki N. Daruwalla, Mamang Dai, Sudeep Sen, Bina Sarkar Ellias, S...
Better to Have Gone
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, New Statesman, Air Mail, and more * Longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize * Recipient of a Whiting Grant* A “haunting and elegant” (The Wall Street Journal) story about love, faith, the search for utopia—and the often devastating cost of idealism. It’s the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in South India. John Walker is the handsome scion of a powerful East Coast American family. Diane Maes is a beautiful hippie from Belgium. They have come to build a new world—Auroville, an international utopian community for thousands of people. Their faith is strong, the future bright. So ho...
Refugees from Paradise
[Anuradha Majumdar Is] An Excellent Writer&Funny, Quirky, Poetic.'-Yann Martel, Author Of Life Of Pi Refugees From Paradise Addresses The Ultimate Mystery Of Our Times: Does Paradise Still Exist? In Casa Mira, An Unusual House Of Tenants In London, Jonathan Ferry, An Actor And Aspiring Film-Maker, Is Hunted By A Story (Like An Aircraft, It 'Tilts Inside His Head Every Morning As He Wakes Up'). Meanwhile, Anjali Mehra, A Television Journalist In New Delhi, Hunts After Another On Assignment. Their Separate Obsessions Lead Them To A Village Fair In Kenduli, Bengal, And To The Baul Singer Krishnagopal, 150 Years Old Or Perhaps Older, Who Once Sang To A Wounded Pilot Who Fell Out Of The Sky And Into A Jungle In Assam, Where The Mighty Brahmaputra Roars Like A Demon. Where, In All This, Is The Road To Paradise? Eventually It Falls Upon Milton, The Venerable Poet Reborn As A Cat, To Detect A Few Remarkable Things, And Give Us A Glimpse Of The Grand Design.
The Indianized States of Southeast Asia
Traces the story of India's expansion that is woven into the culture of Southeast Asia.
Emperor Chandragupta
Becoming an emperor is not easy, especially when there are enemies everywhere and no one you can trust. India, third century BCE. A land ruled by powerful dynasties, each fighting for supremacy over the other, unaware that a conqueror from Greece has arrived at the country’s doorstep in a bid to establish his dominion over the entire known world. In the east, the Magadhan empire is ruled by the Nandas, a clan driven by a limitless hunger for power and given to violence and abuse. From the embers of their lust and avarice a boy is born – a boy named Moriya, raised by a tribe of peacock-tamers and oblivious of the legacy that is rightfully his...until the day he is sought out by Chanakya, ...
Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar
In July 1765 Robert Clive, in a letter to Sir Francis Sykes, compared Gomorrah favourably to Calcutta, then capital of British India. He wrote: 'I will pronounce Calcutta to be one of the most wicked places in the Universe.' Drawing upon the letters, memoirs and journals of traders, travellers, bureaucrats, officials, officers and the occasional bishop, Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar is a chronicle of racial relations between Indians and their last foreign invaders, sometimes infuriating but always compelling. A multitude of vignettes, combined with insight and analysis, reveal the deeply ingrained conviction of 'white superiority' that shaped this history. How deep this conviction wa...
