In the river city of Varanasi, the bodies of the devout dead are cremated and their ashes scattered. But now a lethal chemical is swirling down the river. Attorney George Sansi suspects a rich and invincible magnate.

“Pashupatinath Temple Burning Ghats” Photo Book Offers Rare Glimpse of Hindu Culture Pashupatinath Temple Burning Ghats is a celebration of Impermanence, a core concept in Hinduism and Buddhism. Shot from a distance so as not to intrude on anyone's privacy, this 32 page photo essay chronicles a Hindu funeral ritual from a perspective of reverence. Travel photographer Tammy Winand spent 16 months between November 2009 and October 2011 living in the Himalayan regions of north India and Nepal. Her first book from this experience, Pashupatinath Temple Burning Ghats, provides an intimate glimpse into a foreign culture few westerners ever have the opportunity to experience. In April 2011, during a whirlwind one day tour of greater Kathmandu, Nepal, Ms. Winand was taken by a friend to the Hindu holy shrine of Pashupatinath. While there, she had the rare chance to observe local funerary rites. Shot from a distance on the opposite bank of a river so as not to intrude on anyone's privacy, the 32 images in this book chronicle one Hindu funeral ritual from start to finish. The images are intimate and speak of the core Hindu and Buddhist concepts of suffering and Impermanence. Ms. Winand chose to self-publish her first book with Blurb. It is available in both softcover and hardcover editions, from $22.95 USD. All images copyright 2011 by Tammy Winand.

There was another scream and another and then a terrible cry went up all along the ghats ... panic spread along the riverbank as people rushed to get out of the water. A lethal chemical spill kills thousands of pilgrims worshipping at a sacred Indian river. George Sansi is enticed by a dangerously seductive Government Minister to investigate the atrocity. An unscrupulous industrial tycoon will stop at nothing to cover his tracks ... The enigmatic George Sansi returns in a spellbinding novel of political intrigue, corporate greed and fierce passions.

Macabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.

Burning the Dead traces the evolution of cremation in India and the South Asian diaspora across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through interconnected histories of movement, space, identity, and affect, it examines how the so-called traditional practice of Hindu cremation on an open-air funeral pyre was culturally transformed and materially refashioned under British rule, following intense Western hostility, colonial sanitary acceptance, and Indian adaptation. David Arnold examines the critical reception of Hindu cremation abroad, particularly in Britain, where India formed a primary reference point for the cremation debates of the late nineteenth century, and explores the struggle for official recognition of cremation among Hindu and Sikh communities around the globe. Above all, Arnold foregrounds the growing public presence and assertive political use made of Hindu cremation, its increasing social inclusivity, and its close identification with Hindu reform movements and modern Indian nationhood.

This is the extraordinary true tale of a middle-class, gay American's path to encounters with the Great Mystery that is God/dess/Self. The way to the Great Unknown was intricately intertwined with his humanity with all its foibles, and with human relationships. Therefore this story has to include those relationships, revealing ultimately how a one's personal identity and relationships become vehicles for enlightenment. This inspiring account of struggle, travel to exotic lands, suffering, and transcendence holds out hope for anyone who has ever felt outcaste, broken, or unworthy, demonstrating for our modern times that enlightenment lies within reach of us all.

Everything seems ordinary in Kalki’s life. Working as a freelancer and living with her mother, the only thing that makes Kalki’s life extraordinary is her relationship with her high-profile, billionaire boyfriend. Until, one day, her world is tipped upside down and she starts to see ghosts, and discovers that she possesses the supernatural ability to heal the dead. In this thrilling paranormal romance novel, you are welcome to enter a world of ghosts, soothsayers, saints, and paranormal occurrences as Kalki journeys to unravel the truth about life and death. Is Kalki prepared to fulfill her destiny and discover her true purpose? Will she find the answers she so desperately seeks? In The Following, join Kalki as she travels to the mystic land of Kashi to find out how to uninstall her superpowers and live a common life.

Originally published in 1986, this work discusses the development in Dacca of western-style municipal organization and its financial and practical problems and also explores the economic transition of the city after 1840. It is one of the few urban studies which carries through from the ‘old order’ to the new administrative towns of British rule and attempts to show what happened to the communities of townsmen in the period of adaptation. It casts new light on the function and organization of Indian urban societies in the colonial period, on the transfer of western institutions and the organization and composition of Bengali trade outside Calcutta.

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