Growing up with her family in Mumbai, India, sixteen-year-old Jeeta disagrees with much of her mother's traditional advice about how to live her life and tries to be more modern and independent.
Twenty-seven-year-old Jason Talley impulsively decides to travel to India to pay homage to his friends Sriram and Vidya who have died in what police are calling a murder/suicide, and to deliver a scarf Sriram had purchased for his mother, but Jason soon learns that Sriram had a secret life that apparently got him killed, and is now endangering Jason.
A biography of the life and career of Indira Gandhi, who rose to become prime minister of a troubled India and was assassinated by her bodyguards on October 31, 1984.
Examines the migration of Indian people who came to America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, their hardships and struggles to make a new life; and contains a timeline, charts and graphs, and profiles on important people and events.
Introduces the cooking and food habits of India, including such recipes as tomato and onion chutney and lamb curry, and provides brief information on the people, agriculture, and festivals of the country.
