radha, krishna in A Case of Indian Marvels
'Jacob and I lived in Michigan. You had moved to California. The thread that had once bound us was severed, too frayed for repair. I had convinced myself that it was never meant to be...'
Forbidden love and the courtship of the twenty-first century animate ‘radha, krishna’ by Neel Patel, reproduced in #ACaseOfIndianMarvels
Rajaraja Chola, King of Kings, was one the greatest rulers of medieval India and during his reign, the Chola empire reached its zenith. Learn about the historical facts behind the highly successful book and movie #PonniyinSelvan
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'...Us ha, this diminutive girl from a Tamil family, was all Indian—in appearance and dress—but Anglo-Indian in her vocal style, genre of music, and diction. There was no clash, no choice to be made between Pam, in her perfectly cut, tight-fitting gown, and Usha, in her south Indian silk sari topped with a big bindi. They were both legends of their time—one, who symbolized the first half of this incredible transition, and the other, though not Anglo-Indian herself, who symbolized the second. Together, they symbolized the dignified fight against stereotyping by a large section of society that was so typical of t'...Usha, this diminutive girl from a Tamil family, was all Indian—in appearance and dress—but Anglo-Indian in her vocal style, genre of music, and diction. There was no clash, no choice to be made between Pam, in her perfectly cut, tight-fitting gown, and Usha, in her south Indian silk sari topped with a big bindi. They were both legends of their time—one, who symbolized the first half of this incredible transition, and the other, though not Anglo-Indian herself, who symbolized the second. Together, they symbolized the dignified fight against stereotyping by a large section of society that was so typical of the times.'
Barry O'Brien writes in #TheAngloIndians
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Deaths-Creamations-Ghats-Varanasi #ABeautifulDecay by Karan Madhok. 'It’s strange, but the ghats are a place of business, not of grief. People have this mistaken perception about cremations, you know? Death, they assume, must be a downer, hai ki nahi? But in Varanasi, the mood is different. Funerals aren’t entirely funereal. The rituals of death are a part of life.'
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At the moment of his death, Vishnu takes flight and traces the sequence of events that led to his life being extinguished. Speeding through the past, present, and future, his consciousness witnesses the hate and violence on two continents. #ABeautifulDecay by Karan Madhok makes for an engrossing read.
When Vishnu gets to America, he finds that the detestation and othering that targeted one set of people in his homeland is replaced by more of the same in the country he has landed in, except this time he doesn’t belong to the class of oppressors but that of the oppressed. #ABeautifulDecay by Karan Madhok
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'Lebu went to prison and I, to an Indian Institute of Technology. The story of how he ended up in jail is actually kind of funny.'
-‘After Half-Time’ by Shamik Ghosh, translated by Subha Prasad Sanyal in #ACaseofIndianMarvels
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Vishnu, a twenty-one-year-old Indian student out drinking in a bar in Washington D.C., is murdered in a hate crime. At the moment of his death, Vishnu takes flight and traces the sequence of events that led to his life being extinguished. Speeding through the past, present, and future, his consciousness witnesses the hate and violence on two continents. Intrigued? Find out what happens next in Karan Madhok's #ABeautifulDecay. Pre-order here: https://amzn.to/3RkBd7C
