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A traveler's guide of India. Includes beautiful pictures, information about popular food and drinks, religions, popular places to visit and an extensive look at the countries history.
Biographical reference articles alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images. Covering a vast array of people from historically significant figures to present-day newsmakers.
Analyze social, political, economic and other issues from a non-US perspective.
The End of Karma by Somini Sengupta
Call Number: 305.235 SEN
Somini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta to California as a young child in 1975. Returning thirty years later as the bureau chief for The New York Times, she found a vastly different country: one defined as much by aspiration and possibility--at least by the illusion of possibility--as it is by the structures of sex and caste.
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
Call Number: FIC MEH
With imaginative lushness and narrative elan, Mehta provides a novel that combines Indian storytelling with thoroughly modern perceptions into the nature of love--love both carnal and sublime, treacherous and redeeming.
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Call Number: FIC HES
Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, Siddhartha is the story of a soul's long quest for the answer to the enigma of man's role on earth.