Six friends travel to India, each searching for a different kind of fulfillment, and by the end of the trip, they all learn important lessons about life, love, and happiness.
A brief biography of Queen Victoria's great-grandson who was a well-known British naval leader in World War II, Viceroy of India, and subsequently an important statesman and educator before his death at the hands of Irish terrorists in 1979.
Two mischievious twin tiger cubs are born in the jungle but are soon seperated and taken into captivity. One is sold off to the circus and the other becomes the pampered pet of the governor's son. They are reunited years later by an explorer who trains them to be sport fighters and inadvertently forces them to fight each other.
growing up between cultures --a memoir of an Indian Jewish girl
Delman, Carmit
2003
The author, daughter of a Jewish Indian mother and a Jewish American father of Eastern European descent, describes what it was like to grow up in contrasting cultures--Midwestern America and an Israeli kibbutz--with a complex racial heritage.
In this ancient parable from India, a forest-dwelling hunter learns that cruelty has consequences and that compassion has rewards. When the hunter meets the wise man Narada, "Do unto others as they would do unto you" takes on a very concrete meaning as the sage leads the hunter on an imagined journey in which the hunter becomes the hunted. When the hunter realizes how his actions affect other living things, he has a change of heart and begins to live in peace with the animals he once pursued.
Arun Gandhi learns how to control his anger from his famous grandfather who shows him anger is like electricity that can strike with ferocity like lightning, or illuminate darkness like a lamp. Arun must choose which he wants to display if he wants peace.
