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Notable Selections The Intimate Enemy - Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism by Ashis Nandy The Art of Living by Sharon Lebell The Great Indian Family - New Roles, Old Responsibilities by Gitanjali Prasad Intimate Relations by Sudhir Kakar   The Style Diary of a Bollywood Diva by Kareena Kapoor ,  Rochelle Pinto (ProductID: 32458 ~ ISBN: 9780143417279 ~ Pub Year: 2012 ~ Pages: 288 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Publisher: Penguin) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $54.50 USD Dress like a star, pose like a supermodel and pout like Bebo with her never-revealed-before beauty and fashion secrets and tips! In The Style Diary of a Bollywood Diva, the ultimate glamour girl lets you into her fabulous life. She reveals her best-kept secrets, tips and tricks.   (Explore Similar Items) Secrets of Sacred Sex - Essence of Tantric Sexuality by Mark A Michaels ,  Patricia Johnson (ProductID: 32054 ~ ISBN: 9788178223575 ~ Pub Year: 2011 ~ Pages: 207 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Publisher: New Age Books) Usually Ships in 1 to 2 Business Days          Our Price: $29.50 USD This modern and comprehensive guide to Tantra celebrates the sacredness of desire and the human body. Much more than an erotic sex manual, Secrets of Sacred Sex explains the Hindu Tantric tradition, its philosophy, and its principles.   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) Mastering Matrimony - Chinmaya Art of Home - Life by Jyothi S Mohan (ProductID: 32150 ~ ISBN: N/A ~ Pub Year: 2012 ~ Pages: 130 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Publisher: Chinmaya Mission Trust) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $9.95 USD Marriages are made in heaven. So goes the oft repeated adage. But a point to note : They have to be lived out and maintained on earth ! And that often becomes a real challenge. It is to fulfill this long felt need that this short and practical book mastering Matrimony – the chinmaya art of home life has been penned by Smt. Jyothi Sureshmohan.   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) The Shallows - How the Internet is Changing the Way we think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr (ProductID: 31209 ~ ISBN: 9781848872257 ~ Pub Year: 2011 ~ Pages: 384 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Penguin/Viking) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $57.00 USD This book is not a manifesto for luddites, nor does it seek to turn back the clock. Rather it is a revelatory reminder of how far the Internet has become enmeshed in our daily existence and is affecting the way we think.   (Explore Similar Items) Ritual Matters - Dynamic Dimensions in Practice by Christiane Brosius ,  Ute Husken (ProductID: 30716 ~ ISBN: 9780415553780 ~ Pub Year: 2009 ~ Pages: 403 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Routledge) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $75.00 USD There is a general perception that rituals are invariable, static and unchangeable, that they follow strict rules and norms, and are highly repetitive. In contrast to this prevalent view, this volume suggests that in fact change and transfer, invention and reinvention are the norm of rituals. This book explores the interaction of rituals and ritualised practices utilising a cross-cultural approach. It discusses whether and why rituals are important today, and why they are possibly even more relevant than before.   (Explore Similar Items) Yaarana - Gay Writing From South Asia by Hoshang Merchant (ProductID: 30729 ~ ISBN: 9780143064947 ~ Pub Year: 2010 ~ Pages: 296 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Publisher: Penguin) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $39.95 USD With wit, passion and courage, these writings bring to the fore the true meaning of yaraana or male friendship and bonding, an often ignored facet of South Asian life and sexuality.   (Explore Similar Items) Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television by Shoma Munshi (ProductID: 30841 ~ ISBN: 9780415553773 ~ Pub Year: 2009 ~ Pages: 328 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Routledge) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $54.95 USD This book focuses on ‘urban family soaps’ on television and analyses them as an important resource for anthropological insights into contemporary social issues and practices. .   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) Sexual and Gender Representations in Mughal India by Syed Mubin Zehra (ProductID: 30631 ~ ISBN: 9788178312118 ~ Pub Year: 2010 ~ Pages: 192 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Manak Publications) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $54.95 USD This book strikes representation of the gap between the Mughal's glorified historical body and the facts and representations of their private life. It initiates a debate for various untouched areas of social and familial gender representations of the Medieval Indian history.   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) Tales of Love, Sex, and Danger by Sudhir Kakar ,  J M Ross (ProductID: 30401 ~ ISBN: 9780198072560 ~ Pub Year: 2011 ~ Pages: 272 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Publisher: Oxford University Press) Usually Ships in 1 to 2 Business Days          Our Price: $29.95 USD This book discusses the complexities of love and the nature of erotic passion as these appear in the great love stories of the world. Revised and updated, this new edition, published after a gap of 25 years, includes an Epilogue which re-evaluates the authors’ assertions about romantic and erotic love in the context of contemporary psychoanalysis and modern literary theory.   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by John Gray (ProductID: 30478 ~ ISBN: 9788172235031 ~ Pub Year: 2010 ~ Pages: 384 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Publisher: HarperCollins) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $24.95 USD A lively and accessible guide to successful communication between the sexes that has already helped many millions of readers from across the globe understand why members of the opposite sex behave the way they do, this new edition contains all the text of the original.   (Explore Similar Items) Purifying Empire - Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in Britain, India and Australia by Deana Heath (ProductID: 29369 ~ ISBN: 9780521189200 ~ Pub Year: 2010 ~ Pages: 244 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Cambridge University Press) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $85.00 USD This volume explores the material, cultural and moral fragmentation of the boundaries of imperial and colonial rule in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It charts how a particular bio-political project, namely the drive to regulate the obscene in late nineteenth-century Britain, was transformed from a national into a global and imperial venture and then re-localized in two different colonial contexts, India and Australia, to serve decidedly different ends.   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) The Hour of the Goddess - Memories of Women, Food and Ritual in Bengal by Chitrita Banerji (ProductID: 29459 ~ ISBN: 9780144001422 ~ Pub Year: 2001 ~ Pages: 145 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Publisher: Penguin) Usually Ships in 1 to 2 Business Days          Our Price: $17.50 USD Beautifully written and meticulously researched, This book is a finely crafted masterpiece that is at once memoir, food guide and cultural history. Inthis work, she returns with an unbeatable combination of cultural insight, personal anecdote and mouthwatering recipes. Written in her inimitable style, the book takes the reader on a journey that spans Banerji’s personal growth from girlhood to womanhood in Calcutta.   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) Indian Women in the House of Fiction by Geetanjali Singh Chanda (ProductID: 28786 ~ ISBN: 9788189884109 ~ Pub Year: 2008 ~ Pages: 348 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Kali/Zubaan) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $49.95 USD This book maps Indian English women's literature in India and the Diaspora while situating it in the larger framework of world literatures.It is a quiet negotiation of women and the kinds of homes they wish to inhabit. The house is not merely a backdrop in Indian women's fiction but almost a character that bears witness to the changes taking place in the protagonists' lives.   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) Middle - Class Moralities - Everyday Struggle by Minna Saavala (ProductID: 28805 ~ ISBN: 9788125037897 ~ Pub Year: 2010 ~ Pages: 236 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Orient Blackswan) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $39.95 USD This book studies family relations, leisure, food, housing and religious practices of emerging and enterprising social classes.It also examines how the new middle classes of India create identities, practices and politics of the everyday in a dialogue that involves other social categories and an imaginary West.   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) History of Mental Illness in India - A Cultural Psychiatry Retrospective by Horacio Fabrega Jr (ProductID: 28974 ~ ISBN: 9788120833708 ~ Pub Year: 2009 ~ Pages: 723 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $135.00 USD Drawing upon the findings of Indian epidemiologists who have surveyed the prevalence and distribution of psychiatric disorders in modern and traditional settings of contemporary India, this book formulates and provides details about the system of healing of conditions of psychiatric interest that would have been found in ancient traditional and early modern period.   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) Top Sellers Indian Dress by Charles Fabri Feeding the Baniya by David Hardiman Family, Kinship and Marriage in India by Patricia Uberoi The Indians - : Portrait of a People by Sudhir Kakar The Indian Man - His True Colors by Sandhya Mulchandani Contemporary India - A Sociological View by Satish Deshpande A Comprehensive Indian Wedding Planner by Sarbjit K Gill Caste - Its twentieth Century Avatar by M N Srinivas The Vedic Hindu Marriage Ceremony (Sanskrit Text & Transcreation with English Translation) by P. Lal The Beauty Game by Anita Anand The Culture and Civilization of Ancient India in Historical Outline by D D Kosambi The Everyday State and Society in Modern India by C J Fuller The Inner World - A Psychoanalytic Study of Childhood and Society in India by Sudhir Kakar The Jews of India - Their Story by Rachael Rukmini Israel Myth & Reality - Studies in the Formation of Indian Culture by D D Kosambi Next Items >>

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