When Jasmine Vijh is widowed in India at 17, she seems fated to a life of isolation in an Indian village. But she flees to America where she becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, resident of Iowa, married and adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. The author also wrote The Middleman and Other Stories .
Beigh Masters, descended from the Puritans, lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with an Indian computer scientist named Venn. She comes across the records of an ancestor, Hannah Easton, who was raised in Salem, married an Englishman, traveled with her husband to India, and became mistress to a Raja.
In these tales told by immigrants trying to make new lives in various American cities, their true search is for empowerment and dignity. Mukherjee's second collection was the winner of the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
Tara Chatterjee, one of three daughters in an upperclass Bengali family in Calcutta, has scandalized the community by divorcing her husband and moving to California. In telling her complex story, Bharati Mukherjee's novel surveys the various strata of Indian society, both at home and in the new world, with their rigid caste divisions and religious ...
VERY MUCH A CONTRAST TO MUKHERJEE'S FIRST NOVEL, HER SECOND DESCRIBES DIMPLE DASGUPTA'S ATTEMPTS TO COPE WITH HER LIFE IN AMERICA. HER MARRIAGE ARRANGED TO A RESPECTABLE ENGINEER, DIMPLE IMMIGRATES TO THE U.S., BUT CANNOT ADJUST TO THE FOREIGN AND VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT OF NEW YORK CITY. MORE AND MORE SHE RETREATS FROM REALITY, LIVING IN HER OWN ...
In piecing together her ancestor's transformation from a docile Bengali Brahmin girl-child into an impassioned organizer of resistance against the British Raj, the contemporary narrator discovers and lays claim to unacknowledged elements in her "American" identity.
An account of a yearlong sojourn in India that balances the viewpoint of a Bengali woman--Bharati Mukherjee--with that of her Western husband, Clark Blaise. Both are well-known writers living in America.
Drs. Bharati and Lev share the knowledge they've accumulated through the study of the pathology of congenital heart disease as seen in this century. Their detailed studies of over 6,300 congenitally malformed hearts give them a unique and comprehensive perspective on this topic. This monograph reports the results of their analyses and includes 2 ...
Tara, born in Calcutta, India, and educated in Poughkeepsie, New York, returns to her native land and discovers an India quite different from the country she remembered.
This epoch-making and monumental work on Vedic Mathematics unfolds a new method of mapproach, It relates to the truth of numbers and magnitudes equally applicable to all sciences and arts. The book brings to light how great and true knowledge is born of intuition.
This epich-making and monumental work on Vedic Mathematics unfolds a new method of approach. It relates to the truth of numbers and magnitudes equally applicable to all sciences and arts. The book brings to light how great and true knowledge is born of intuition, quite different from modern Western method. The ancient Indian method and its secret ...
Yoga Nidra means 'Yogic Sleep'. It is a deep relaxation in which you leave the waking state, go past the dreaming state, and enter into the deep sleep state, while remaining fully awake and alert. This state of awareness is extremely beneficial, both for releasing stress, and for experiencing the joy of subtler spiritual explorations or ...
An extraordinary rendering of an American's spiritual transformation, this book tells of a theologian's meeting, and life with a great saint. O'Brien reveals his doubts, learnings, devotion, and ability to apply all the teachings to a western lifestyle, and teaches us to achieve the same.
Storytelling and art are major themes of this collection. The stories center on the need for expression, the pain of failing in artistic expression, and the ways in which we construct imaginative representations of our lives, the "necessary fictions" that allow us to live. At the heart of the book is a series of three interconnected stories and a ...
This novel of rage and retribution, colonialism and responsibility is set against the multi-cultural backdrop of San Francisco, Vietnam and the Far East. Jess Strand's daughter, Ovidia attempts to exact revenge on her mother for her courtroom betrayal of her father.
Five writers who live in the U.S. but were born elsewhere give their views on being an exile: André Aciman, Eva Hoffman, Bharati Mukherjee, Edward Said, and Charles Simic.
Pathologists are often confronted with cases of sudden cardiac death. The role of anatomical abnormalities or pathological lesions of the cardiac conduction system in sudden unexplained death has previously received insufficient attention. This is due, to a large extent, to the elusive, often inocuous nature of such lesions, the ostensibly normal ...
Among the contributors to this volume of essays are fiction writers Jane Smiley and Bharati Mukherjee, social critic Bill McKibben, and film critic Molly Haskell.
This autobiography of an American yogi is the story of the training of a Western scholar by a unique Himalayan Master, one of the greatest yogis of the era, Shri Swami Rama.
This is a guide to the art and science of meditation. It is a manual for learning exactly who you are. This book is written with a simple, direct and yet enthralling elegance that discloses the heart of the matter with such aplomb and practicality that the reader wants to practice the reality: "Superconscious Meditation".
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The Trachtenberg Speed System of Basic Mathematics
