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"Discovering Brides" is a controversial but entertaining novel about an anthropologist's struggle. With a family history of polygamy, and himself a product of a prearranged marriage, he sets out to perpetuate Indian tradition and find the perfect bride for his U.S.-born lawyer son, and in doing so revives in himself bittersweet memories.
"Discovering Brides" is a bold, fearless story about the controversial cultural and ethical differences that exist in India's male dominated society. A father, and anthropologist, with a family history of polygamy, and himself a product of a prearranged marriage, sets out to perpetuate Indian tradition and find the perfect bride for his U.S. born lawyer son, and in so doing revives in himself memories, both pleasurable and painful.
Vivid depictions of abuse, greed, beating, rape, and unbridled cruelty, amid counter-cultural traditions, penetrate the pages of Chandola's novel. | |  | | IN THE HIMALAYAN NIGHTS
Two bright, beautiful, lesbian research
assistants accompany their Indian professor to a city near the tense Himalayan borders of China and Nepal to observe the "holy-war" dance of the Mahabharata and its link to polygamy and local heroes (or villains?).
Dehradun City, Himalayas, India 1977: Two bright, beautiful, lesbian research
assistants accompany their Indian professor to this city near the tense borders of China and Nepal to observe the "holy-war" dance of the Mahabharata and its link to polygamy and local heroes (or villains?). The girls begin to question the holiness of the Bhagavad Gita's two polygamist avatars while watching the dance, even as they fall in love with India and their friendly hosts. While gathering data on women's rights violations, caste discrimination, and animal cruelty, they discover more about their own cultur | |  | | The Dharma Videos of Lust and Bust: A Novel of Religious Mysteries
In a time when interfaith understanding is a virtue, this novel's protagonist, a radical professor-priest advises his clients to disbelieve all religions, his own in particular.
"For ages, we have been indoctrinating our children with false claims of seeing those non-existent gods, or goddesses, or One God, otherwise any deity would have come to rescue the Christians, Muslims, and Hndus who died in New York's World Trade Center on September, 11 of 2001."
| |  | | The Second Highest World War: The Rama Theater
An untold dramatic backside story of World War II from a remote Himalayan region of India that changed the course of history.
Why is it that the face of World War II has appeared in print or film so often, but very seldom the back, the larger part? Could Hitler's rise and fall be seen in India? The reader will find controversial answers in this backside story of WWII from a remote, spectacular Himalayan region. Chander, a U.S.-educated journalist, writes his memoirs at the request of his American wife, Kristi. The memoirs, which remained unpublished for decades due to the young couple's accidental death, reval that Chander as young boy lived with his mother, while his father was fighting in WWII. Chander recounts his |
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Footsteps
by Brendan O'Brien
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 Ireland 1967. The Summer of love. Or was it?
A holiday weekend. Amazing weather. American student Dakota Lacey is hiking around Kerry.
But there’s a sinister, dark side to the atmosphere. Lone female hikers are being brutally attacked. |
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