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Singam, a hungry but lazy lion, tries all day to figure out a way to get food without having to bother himself with hunting, but his prey outsmarts him every time and he ends the day tired and without a meal.

Virat and Latha are Untouchables, but when their young son, Ashish, becomes ill they are in need of a doctor, and with the help of a British nurse, Virat defies the caste system to save his son.

A fictionalized version of the author's experiences in 1946 when, at the age of sixteen, she was admitted to a San Francisco tuberculosis hospital and courted by a Maharajah's son.

The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.

Beigh Masters, tracking a legendary diamond in the mid-twentieth century, comes across a record of the travels of her ancestor Hannah Easton, an American woman who flaunted Puritan society to become the white lover of a Hindu raja, and is drawn into the story of that distant life.

Introduces cultures and faiths around the world with a personal and intimate glimpse of real families in India and the role that Sikhism plays in their everyday lives.

Reprint of a 1978 novel of adventure and romance in the Himalayas.